Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see não, é. · isn't it (so); innit; right (used as a tag question to ask for someone's opinion) · duh; obviously (expresses that something is obvious)
köken: Literally, “isn’t it?”.
Você já comeu, não é?
De qualquer jeito, ainda vou rever minha mãe um dia, não é?
Do que é feito um anel de diamante? De diamantes, não é?!
köken: From Old Czech nenie, from a supposed earlier *nie, itself a contraction of ne- + je, by adding another negative prefix to make the negative more distinct.
is not; third-person singular present indicative of nebūt · are not; third-person plural present indicative of nebūt · let (him, her, it) not be; third-person singular imperative of nebūt
köken: Reduced form of navaid from nevaid (both still attested in Latvian dialects), originally the negative form of vaid (“to be located, to be”). (G. F. Stenders, in his 1774 grammar, mentions under nevaid the reduced forms neva, nava and even nav' with an apostrophe.) This form replaced an earlier neir, neira (from ir, ira); compare Lithuanian nėrà. Forms of vaid are occasionally attested in folk…