nothing
eş: Leere, Nirvana, Niemand, Null, Paria, Underdog
köken: From Middle High German nihtes niht (“nothing of nothing”), a reenforcing construction with niht. Compare French rien de rien, Spanish nada de nada. See nicht. Cognate with Dutch niets, Low German nix, Hunsrik nichs.
🔊 Ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß.
a good-for-nothing person
çekim: çoğul bons à rien
a person of little or no consequence; a nobody; a nonentity
çekim: çoğul ceros a la izquierda
köken: Literally, “zero to the left”. The idiomatic meaning is presumably from the mathematical sense of the term, since any leading zeroes to the left of a number have no effect on the number's value. Compare Portuguese zero à esquerda.
good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well · a scoundrel, rogue, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person · a mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour/honor or virtue
çekim: çoğul buoni a nulla
eş: incapace, inetto
worthless, useless, good for nothing
çekim: karşılaştırma (по)никчёмнее
eş: негодный, никудышный, бестолковый, бесполезный
köken: Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj) in late 19th or early 20th century, from Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj), possibly from Old Polish nikczemny. By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj).
zero, nought
çekim: çoğul nullen
köken: From Middle Dutch nul, from Middle French nul, from Old French nul, nulle (modern French nul) or Italian nulla, from Latin nūlla, from Latin nūllus.
aile: nulbak, nulbelasting, nulcirkel, nulde, nulklem, nullast, nulleider, nulles, nullijn, nulmeridiaan
worthless; useless
çekim: karşılaştırma mais imprestável · üstünlük o mais imprestável
eş: inútil
köken: From im- + prestável (“helpful”).
🔊 Conserte isso, sua imprestável, conserte isso!
useless, unusable (thing) · ineffective (of a person) · useless (of a person, usually in the vocative)
zıt: χρήσιμος
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek ἄχρηστος (ákhrēstos). By surface analysis, ά- (privative a-) + χρηστός (christós, “ethical, ancient sense: good”).
🔊 Μα τι άχρηστος που είσαι! Ούτε ένα πρόβλημα δεν μπορείς να λύσεις;
🔊 Άντε ρε άχρηστε!
🔊 and its numerous synonyms
useless
köken: 무용(無用) (muyong) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).
hopeless
çekim: karşılaştırma hopplösare · üstünlük hopplösast
zıt: hoppfull
köken: hopp + -lös
🔊 Situationen kändes hopplös
🔊 en hopplös romantiker
useless
eş: bezwartościowy, nieużyteczny, nieprzydatny, zbędny, zbyteczny
zıt: płodny, użyteczny
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰe Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ǵʰs Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź Proto-Slavic *bez(ъ) Proto-Slavic *bez- Old Polish bez- Polish bez- Proto-Slavic *užitъkъ Old Polish użytek Polish użytek Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish użyteczny Polish bezużyteczny…
aile: bezużyteczność
çekim: çoğul अंडे
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-dró-s? Proto-Indo-Aryan *āndrám Sanskrit *आ॒न्द्र (*āndrá) Sanskrit आ॒ण्ड (āṇḍá) Sanskrit अ॒ण्ड (aṇḍá) Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀟 (aṃḍa) Hindi अंडा Inherited from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀟 (aṃḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-) without cluster simplification, from Sanskrit अ॒ण्ड (aṇḍá).
aile: अंडे का शहज़ादा
🔊 उबला हुआ अंडा
useless (unhelpful, not useful, without use or benefit)
çekim: karşılaştırma hyödyttömämpi · üstünlük hyödyttömin
zıt: hyödyllinen
köken: hyöty + -tön
aile: hyödyttömyys, hyödyttömästi
superfluous · futile, vain
çekim: karşılaştırma zbytečnější · üstünlük nejzbytečnější
eş: neužitečný, nadbytečný, nepotřebný, marný
zıt: nutný, nezbytný
köken: Inherited from Old Czech zbytečný. By surface analysis, zbytek + -ný.
aile: zbytečně, zbytečnost
useless; of no use or purpose · vain, unavailing
eş: nefolositor
zıt: util
köken: Borrowed from French inutile, from Latin inutilis. Equivalent to in- + util.
hollow, empty, devoid of something · lacking · useless, fruitless, vain, futile
köken: Verbal adjective of the same root as careō (“to lack”), castus (“pure”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).
aile: cassō, in cassum, nux cassa
meaningless
çekim: karşılaştırma mere meningsløs · üstünlük mest meningsløs
köken: From mening + -s- + -løs
aile: meningsløshed
useless · a douchebag (bad person) · fucking
çekim: karşılaştırma lebih brengsek · üstünlük paling brengsek
köken: Possibly from Javanese [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer [Term?].
useless
zıt: hữu dụng
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 無用.
meaningless · senseless, pointless · useless
çekim: karşılaştırma по́-безсми́слени · üstünlük на́й-безсми́слени
köken: без- (bez-) + сми́съл (smísǎl) + -ен (-en)