nich

• IPA^(key): [ˈɲɪx]

nich pl

1. genitive/locative plural of on
2. genitive/locative plural of ona
3. genitive/locative plural of ono

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nich

1. (informal) Northern Germany form of nicht

• nicht
• nig
• ni

From Middle Low German nicht, a contracted form of Old Saxon neowiht, from neo (“never”) + wiht (“being, creature”), derived from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”) + *aiw- (“ever”) + *wiht- (“thing”). Akin to German nicht, Dutch niet, West Frisian net, English not where similar developments took place.

• IPA^(key): /nɪç/, [nɪç], /nɪx/
• IPA^(key): /nɪ/, [nɪ]

nich

1. not

   Do dat nich!

   Do not do it!

   Dat is nich wohr.

   That is not true.

nich?

1. is it not? (a tag question)

• nich een
• noch nich

• IPA^(key): /nʲix/

nich (used only after prepositions)

1. genitive/locative/animate accusative of wóni

• jich

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɲix/

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• Rhymes: -ix
• Syllabification: nich

nich pl (used only after prepositions)

1. genitive/accusative/locative plural of oni
2. genitive/locative plural of one

• ich
• Appendix:Polish pronouns

• ich

• IPA^(key): [ɲix]

nich

1. genitive/accusative of oni
2. genitive of ony

Used after prepositions.

nich

1. alternative form of neeghe
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:

     Nich th' hie thoras o' Culpake.

     [Nigh to the high thorns of Colepeak.]

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 18