niks
See also: Niks
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch niks, probably from German nix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nəks/
Audio: (file)
Pronoun
niks
Danish
Etymology
From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nix, nichts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /neɡs/, [neɡ̊s]
Interjection
niks
Alternative forms
Pronoun
niks
Related terms
- nul og niks
References
- “niks” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Probably from colloquial and dialectal German nix.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɪks/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: niks
- Rhymes: -ɪks
Pronoun
niks
Alternative forms
- nix (slang, deliberate misspelling)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
niks (used only predicatively, comparative meer niks, superlative meest niks)
- disagreeable, distasteful, not liking
- Ik vind het niks dat ze hier huizen gaan bouwen.
- I don't like that they're going to build houses here.
- uninteresting
- Jij mag deze schilderijen geweldig vinden, maar voor mij is het niks.
- You may think these paintings are great, but they're not interesting for me.
Derived terms
References
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “niets”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Anagrams
Low German
Etymology
Compare to German nichts (“nothing”).
Pronoun
niks
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /niks/, [nɪks]
Interjection
niks
Pronoun
niks
References
- “niks” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɪks/
Adverb
niks
Determiner
niks
- (colloquial) no
Interjection
niks
Pronoun
niks
References
- “niks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “niks”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016