never, never at all (referring to an indefinite period of time) · never, not once (referring to a defined period of time; see usage notes below)
eş: niemals, nimmer, nie und nimmer
köken: From Middle High German nie, from Old High German nio.
aile: nie und nimmer
🔊 Das ist nie passiert!
🔊 Wir werden die Wahrheit wohl nie erfahren.
🔊 Er hat sich in zwei Wochen nie die Haare gewaschen.
never · ever
eş: onques
köken: Inherited from Old French ja mais (“any more”, only in reference to the future), the two components deriving from Latin iam and magis. Compare Spanish jamás, Italian giammai, Occitan jamai and Portuguese jamais.
aile: à jamais, à tout jamais, au grand jamais, c'est le moment ou jamais, comme jamais, il ne faut jamais dire jamais, jamais de la vie, jamais deux sans trois, mieux vaut tard que jamais, ne jamais dire jamais
🔊 Je ne l’ai jamais vue.
🔊 Es-tu jamais allé en France ?
never · ever
eş: nunca, siempre
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish jamás, an early borrowing from Old Occitan ja mais. Compare Portuguese jamais and French jamais, Italian giammai.
aile: jamás de los jamases, nunca jamás, para siempre jamás, siempre jamás
🔊 No lo he visto jamás.
🔊 El mejor libro jamás escrito.
never · sometimes, at times
eş: mai, mai e poi mai, per nulla al mondo, ormai, talvolta
zıt: sempre
köken: Univerbation of già + mai. Compare French jamais, Spanish jamás and Portuguese jamais.
never
zıt: həmişə, hər vaxt, hər an
never
köken: From Classical Persian هیچ (hēč, “no”) + қашан (qaşan, “when”).
never
köken: From Persian هیچ + качан (kacan).
never
🔊 Өйрәнергә бер ҡасан да һуң түгел.
🔊 Был һыуҙы эскән һәр кем йәнә һыуһар, ә Мин биргән һыуҙы эскән кеше бер ҡасан да һыуһамаҫ.
never
eş: nooit
zıt: altijd, altoos, immer
köken: From Middle Dutch nemmer, from Old Dutch niemer. Equivalent to n- + immer.
aile: nooit en te nimmer, nimmermeer, nooit ofte nimmer
never
eş: jamé, jamé, já, nunca
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese jamais, from Old Occitan ja mais, from Latin iam magis. Cognate with Galician xamais, Spanish jamás, Occitan jamai, French jamais and Italian giammai.
🔊 Jamais estive na Inglaterra.
never, not even once, not even ever
köken: From Ancient Greek οὐδέποτε (oudépote).
🔊 Ουδέποτε έδωσα τη συγκατάθεσή μου.
at all
köken: From 결(決) (gyeol, “decision”, Sino-Korean morpheme) + -코 (-ko, adverb-deriving suffix).
never
zıt: alltid
köken: From Old Norse aldri, aldrigi. Cognate with Icelandic aldrei, Norwegian Bokmål aldri, Norwegian Nynorsk aldri and Danish aldrig.
🔊 Jag har aldrig sett det förr.
🔊 Malin ljuger aldrig.
🔊 Aldrig har det varit någon sadel uppå dem, […]
never
eş: ani razu, przenigdy, jak świat światem, jak rak świśnie a ryba piśnie, w życiu, na świętego Dygdy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ney Proto-Balto-Slavic *nei Proto-Slavic *ni Proto-Slavic *ni- Proto-Indo-European *kʷodéh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *kadāˀn Proto-Slavic *kъda Proto-Slavic *kъdy Proto-Slavic *nikъdy Old Polish nigdy Polish nigdy Inherited from Old Polish nigdy. By surface analysis, ni- + gdy.
never
eş: jakživ, jaktěživ
zıt: vždy, někdy
synonym of niciodată (“never”)
zıt: întotdeauna, mereu, pururea
köken: From nici (“not even”) + când (“when”), ultimately from Latin neque quando.
never · alternative form of sohasem (“never”)
köken: From soha + se.
Never, forever not.
🔊 לְעוֹלָם לֹא אֶהְיֶה עִם גֶבֶר עָנִי
never, at no time · not at all, by no means
zıt: semper
köken: From ne + umquam.
aile: nōnnumquam
🔊 Ōlla observāta numquam fervet
🔊 Numquam dicis have, sed reddis, Naevole, semper