não

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

Aromanian

Adjective

não

  1. Alternative form of nãu

Galician

Adverb

não

  1. reintegrationist spelling of non

Noun

não m (plural nãos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of non (“no”)

Further reading

  • “não” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • naõ (obsolete)
  • nam (obsolete)
  • nom (nonstandard or eye dialect)
  • num (nonstandard or eye dialect)
  • n, ñ (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (“no”), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈnɐ̃w̃/ [ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • (colloquial, only for the adverb when unstressed) IPA(key): /nũ/
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: não
  • (file)

Adverb

não (not comparable)

  1. (preceding verbs or adverbs) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
    Eu não li esse livro. ― I haven’t read that book.
    Por favor, não faça isso. ― Please, don’t do that.
    1. (preceding verbs) used in sentences containing a negative pronoun as the object; see double negative
      Eu não fiz nada. ― I didn’t do anything. (literally, “I didn’t do nothing.”)
    2. (Brazil, colloquial, following verb phrases) used to emphasise or reinforce (in the case that there is a previous unstressed adverb não, see above) sentences containing a negative pronoun as the subject or already containing não
      Ninguém vai ser preso não. ― Nobody is really going to be arrested.
      Não vi o João não. ― I haven’t seen John, no.
    3. (beginning questions) isn't (used to ask whether a person agrees with the proposition, rather than to ask for an unknown fact)
      Não está mau o chá? ― Isn’t the tea bad?
  2. (preceding adjectives, usually hyphenated) non- (forms antonyms of adjectives)
    O sistema é não-escalável. ― The system is non-scalable.
  3. (as a sentence-final parenthesis) isn't it? right? (tag question)
    Ela está aqui, não? ― She is here, right?

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:não.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Macanese: nâm

Interjection

não

  1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
    Synonym: negativo
    Antonyms: positivo, sim
  2. no (used to show agreement with a negative question)
    Synonym: positivo
    Antonym: negativo

Noun

não m (plural nãos)

  1. no (a negative answer)
    Synonym: negativo
    Antonyms: positivo, sim
    Hoje recebi duas respostas: um sim e um não. ― Today I received two answers: one yes and one no.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 腦 (“brain”).

Noun

(classifier bộ) não

  1. brain, cerebrum
    Synonym: óc
    Bộ não người có nhiều điều chưa lí giải được.
    There are still many unexplained things about the human brain.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 惱 (“unhappy”).

Adjective

não

  1. (chiefly in set phrases) sad, grieved
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