nádi

Hungarian

Etymology

nád (reed) + -i (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnaːdi]
  • Hyphenation: ná‧di
  • Rhymes: -di

Adjective

nádi (not comparable)

  1. (of animals and plants) reed, reedy (living in a place where reeds grow)
    nádi sármánycommon reed bunting

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions
  • nádi acsa (Aeshna mixta)
  • nádi állaspók (Tetragnatha striata)
  • nádi boglárka (Ranunculus lingua)
  • nádi papagájcinege (Paradoxornis heudei)
  • nádi sármány (Emberiza schoeniclus)
  • nádi szövőlepke (Laelia coenosa)
  • nádi tücsökmadár (Locustella luscinioides)
  • nádi varangy (Epidalea calamita)

Further reading

  • nádi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Macanese

Alternative forms

  • n'há-de

Etymology

Univerbation of Portuguese não há-de (there won't be)[1].

Particle

nádi

  1. particle expressing negative future tense[2]; will not, won't
    Antonym: lôgo
    Êle nádi vaiHe will not go
    Nôs nádi falâWe won't speak

See also

Interjection

nádi

  1. no way! not happening! (expression of refusal to an upcoming event)
    Chomâ iou vai tambâ tacho? Nádi!
    Invite me to fill in for somebody who can't go? No way!

Usage notes

  • nôm is not used in Macanese as a negative response to a question. For questions pertaining to the past and present, nunca is used; for questions pertaining to the future, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) is used.

References

  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 491
  2. https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
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