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🙅 No (exclamation) 🚫 Not at all 🥖 Not any 👤 No one or none
nae

nae

9.9
A word before a noun that means not any
  • determiner
  • UK
translation icon : ningún
  • There was nae bread left in the kitchen when she opened the cupboard this morning.

Examples

  • He has nae money left.

  • There's nae reason to worry.

  • He has nae idea what happened after the party last night.

  • We found nae evidence to support the rumor in the village.

  • There was nae bread left in the kitchen when she opened the cupboard this morning.

  • He has nae idea what happened after the party last night.

  • We found nae evidence to support the rumor in the village.

Surface Forms

nae singular

Etymology

The word nae comes from an old English word nā meaning 'not one' and is the Scots form of English no and none. As a determiner it goes before a noun to mean 'not any'.