nestä

See also: nesta and Nesta

Gagauz

Cyrillic нестӓ

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish نسته (neste), نسنه (nesne), from Proto-Turkic *nē erse. Cognate with Turkish nesne and dialectal neste. Also compare nesä.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nesˈtæ/
  • Hyphenation: nes‧tä

Pronoun

nestä (definite accusative nesteyi)

  1. (indefinite pronoun) something
  2. used to refer to a thing speaker does not want to name

Interjection

nestä

  1. used when the speaker cannot remember something concrete or does not want to name a thing

Derived terms

  • nestetmää

Further reading

  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “nestä”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 484
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