ve

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ve"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Venda.

Symbol

ve

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Venda.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Venda terms

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).

Noun

ve (plural ves)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.

Etymology 2

First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /vi/
• Homophones: V, v, vee
• Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

1. (rare, epicene, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
   • [1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426:

     And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).]

   • 1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223:

     Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.

   • 1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52:

     Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.

Synonyms

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Etymology 3

Pronoun

ve

2. Pronunciation spelling of we.
   • 1872, Charles Camden, “The Travelling Menagerie”, in George Mac Donald, editor, Good Words for the Young, London: Strahan & Co., […], chapter V (A Tiger Hunt in England), page 208, column 1:

     Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?

   • 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Yule Ball”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 363:

     But ve have grounds larger even than these – though in vinter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them.

   • 2011, Roberta C. M. DeCaprio, chapter 9, in A Rose in Amber, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:

     “My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”

   • 2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103:

     In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

Derived terms

• ve haf vays of making you talk

Anagrams

• E.V., EV, Ev, eV, μeV

Äiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *poli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəli, from Proto-Austronesian *bəli.

Verb

ve

1. to buy

References

• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian vōe (still at Malagija), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Orel, citing Bopp, Camarda and Çabej, argues the Old Albanian word descends from a borrowing from Latin ōvum. The PIE etymology was earlier supported by Norbert Jokl.

Alternative forms

• vo — Gheg, vø — Shkodër
• vö — Arbëresh

Noun

ve f (plural ve, definite veja, definite plural vetë)

1. egg

   Synonym: vezë

Declension

Declension of ve

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	veja	ve	vetë
accusative		vejan
dative	veje	vejas	veve	veve
ablative			vesh

Hyponyms

• ve fërgesë (“fried egg”)
• ve peshku (“fish roe”)
• ve surbull (“soft-boiled egg”)
• ve llukë (“rotten egg”)

Derived terms

• vej
• vemje
• veth
• vezë

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

Alternative forms

• vejë

Adjective

i ve (feminine e ve, feminine plural të veja)

1. widowed

Noun

ve f (plural va)

1. widow, widower

   Synonyms: vejanë, vejushë

Derived terms

• vejan
• vejëri
• vejëroj
• vejme
• vejni
• vejnoj
• vejushë

Arigidi

Etymology

Possibly related to Yoruba rè

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vè/

Verb

vè

1. to go

Derived terms

• àvè (“the act of going”)

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)
• Boluwaji Oshodi (December 2011), A Reference Grammar of Arigidi, Montem Paperbacks, →ISBN

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈbe̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈve]
• IPA^(key): (Central, Northwestern) [ˈbe]
• Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

Usage notes

• In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).

Derived terms

• ve baixa
• ve doble

Etymology 2

Verb

ve

1. third-person singular present indicative of venir

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛ]

• Audio:

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Preposition

ve

1. alternative form of v (“in”)

Usage notes

• The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veːˀ/, [ˈʋeːˀ]
• Rhymes: -eːˀ

Noun

ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)

1. pain
2. contraction of labour, birth pang

Declension

Declension of ve

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	veen	veer	veerne
genitive	ves	veens	veers	veernes

Further reading

• “ve” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ve” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

East Masela

Noun

ve

1. water

References

• Taber, M. (1993). Toward a better understanding of the indigenous languages of southwestern Maluku. Oceanic Linguistics. 32:2. pp. 389-441. Cited in: "East Masela" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German weh, from Proto-Germanic *wai, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; woe!; alas!”). Compare Yiddish וויי (vey), Dutch wee, Latin vae, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Spanish guay, Italian guai, dialectal French vé, Welsh gwae, Latvian vai, Persian وای (vây), Arabic وَيْل (wayl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ve

Interjection

ve

1. alas, woe

Further reading

• “ve”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “ve”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

Declension

n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	veið	ve	veini
accusative	ve	veið	ve	veini
dative	vei	veinum	veum	veunum
genitive	ves	vesins	vea	veanna

Synonyms

• (archaic) vaff, vavv

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

French

Noun

v^e (plural v^es)

1. abbreviation of veuve

Galician

Verb

ve

1. inflection of ver:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French ver (“worm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/

Noun

ve

1. worm

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

Etymology 1

From Esperanto ve, from German weh. Compare also Latin vae.

Interjection

ve

1. alas, oh dear

   Ve! Me obliviis la furnelo acendite!

   Oh dear! I forgot the stove on!

Etymology 2

From v +‎ -e.

Noun

ve (plural ve-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

See also

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch vee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ/, [ˈfɛ]

Pronunciation notes

Although this letter is officially named and pronounced '/vɛ/' in Indonesian, but nowadays, it is more common to hear it pronounced as '/vi/' just like its English name, 'vee' rather than 'vè'. This might be because most regional languages in Indonesia do not have "/f/"-like sound naturally, which can lead into confusion between the names of the letters "p" and "v". In order to differentiate the name of both letters, the letter "v" gets colloquially renamed to its English name, 'vee'.

Noun

vè (plural ve-ve)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

Synonyms

• vi (Standard Malay)

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

Further reading

• “ve”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: ve

Pronoun

ve

1. alternative form of vi (“to you”)

   Ve lo consiglio ― I recommend it (to you)

   Ve ne ne sarei molto grato ― It would be nice of you

Usage notes

• Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

Italian personal pronouns

		singular						plural
		first	second	second formal / polite5	third			first	second	second formal / polite5	third
				m or f	m	f				m or f	m	f
nominative		io	tu	Lei, Ella8	lui, egli8, ello8, elli3, 8, esso8	lei, ella8, essa8		noi	voi, Voi7	Loro	loro
elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8	elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8
atonic (clitic)11	accusative / dative-reflexive	mi, m', -mi, me9	ti, t', -ti, te9	―	si6, s', -si, se9, ci13			ci, c', -ci, ce9	vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9	―	si, s', -si, se9
	accusative			La, -La, L'	lo, l', -lo, il4	la, l', -la				Le, -Le	li, -li	le, -le
	dative			Le, -Le	glie9					Loro10	loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9
					gli, -gli	le, -le, gli2, -gli2
	locative	―			ci, c', vi1, v'1			―			ci, c', vi1, v'1
	partitive	ne, n'		ne, n'
tonic12	prepositional-reflexive	―			sé			―			sé
	oblique	me	te	Lei	lui, esso8	lei, essa8		noi	voi, Voi7	Loro	loro,
											essi8	elle8, esse8
1	Formal.
2	Informal.
3	Archaic.
4	Obsolete.
5	Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
6	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
7	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
8	Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
9	Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
10	Used after verbs.
11	Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
12	Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.
13	Only in "ci si", replaces indefinite si (“one”) before reflexive si (“oneself”).

Japanese

Romanization

ve

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゔぇ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゑ゙
3. Rōmaji transcription of ヴェ
4. Rōmaji transcription of ヹ

Lahu

Particle

ve

1. particle used after a verb similar in function to English "to". E.g. "ha ve" = "to winnow"
2. Relativizer particle

Mandarin

Romanization

ve

1. nonstandard spelling of vê̄

Usage notes

• 《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. In the case of V, it is defined as ㄪㄝ, using the otherwise-obsolete initial ㄪ (vō /⁠v⁠/). This is one of the only instances of the letter being used in standard Pinyin.
• 《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. ㄝ (/⁠ɛ⁠/) typically only occurs in syllables with an initial glide (e.g. ㄧㄝ (-ie /⁠i̯ɛ⁠/)), where it is romanized as e. When it occurs in syllables without an initial glide, however, it is romanized as ê in order to distinguish it from ㄜ (-e /⁠ɤ⁠/). Such instances are rare, and are only found in interjections or neologisms.
• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish at·tá, cognate with Irish bí and Scottish Gaelic bi. The form ve is from Old Irish buith and is cognate with the verbal nouns Irish bheith and Scottish Gaelic bhith

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/

Verb

ve (past independent va, present independent ta, future independent bee, verbal noun ve)

1. to be

Conjugation

Conjugation of ve

		Independent	Dependent	Relative
Past		va	row
Present		ta	vel, nel
Future	Analytic	bee		vees
	1sg.	bee'm		vee'm
	1pl.	bee-mayd		vees-mayd
Conditional	Analytic	veagh	beagh
	1sg.	veign	beign
Imperative	Singular	bee
	Plural	bee-jee
Optative		(dy) row
Verbal noun		ve

Middle English

Pronoun

ve

1. alternative form of we (“we”)

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

1. you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)

Coordinate terms

Neapolitan personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	reflexive	possessive	prepositional
singular	first person		io	me			mìo, mìa, miéje, mèje	me, méne
	second person	familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tója, tuóje, tòje	te, téne
		formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third person	n	ésso	'o (lo)	lle	se	sùjo, sója, suóje, sòje	ésso
		m	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	lle, lli			ìsso
		f	éssa	'a (la)	lle			éssa
plural	first person		nuje	nce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second person		vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third person	n	éssa (llòro)	'a (la)	lle (llòro)	se	llòro (invariable)	éssa (llòro)
		m	ìsse (llòro)	'e, 'i (le, li)	lle, lli (llòro)			ìsse (llòro)
		f	ésse (llòro)	'e (le)	lle (llòro)			ésse (llòro)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą.

Noun

ve n (definite singular veet, indefinite plural ve, definite plural vea)

1. (historical, in Norse times) holy place, place of offering

Derived terms

• varg i veum

Related terms

Male given names:

• Veald
• Vebjørn
• Vebode
• Vebrand
• Vee (Vée)
• Vefast
• Vefrød
• Vefus
• Vegard
• Vegaut
• Vegeir
• Vegisl, Vegils
• Vegjest
• Vegrim
• Vekjell, Vekjetil
• Veleiv
• Vemund
• Venjot
• Veor
• Veord
• Veorm
• Vesete
• Vestein
• Vetorm
• Veulv
• Veurd

Female given names:

• Vebjørg
• Vedis
• Veelv
• Vefrid
• Vefrøya
• Vegjerd
• Vegunn
• Velaug
• Veny
• Veråd

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Interjection

ve

1. woe!

Related terms

• våla

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vé, from Low German. Compare the interjection above.

Noun

ve m (definite singular veen, indefinite plural vear, definite plural veane)

1. birth pang

   Synonym: (føde)ri

2. pain, longing

   ve og vel ― welfare (literally, “pain and wellness”)

Derived terms

• fødselsve

References

• “ve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

1. vee (the letter v, V)

Derived terms

• ve dobla

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀯𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• वे (Devanagari script)
• ৰে (Bengali script)
• වෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဝေ (Burmese script)
• เว (Thai script)
• ᩅᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເວ (Lao script)
• វេ (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄬 (Chakma script)

Etymology

See va.

Noun

ve

1. locative singular of va (“letter 'v'”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Adverb

ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)

1. (Kajkavian) now

   Synonym: sada

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vàsъ. Cognates include Macedonian ве (ve) and Bulgarian ви (vi).

Alternative forms

• vas (standard)

Pronoun

ve ? (Cyrillic spelling ве)

1. (Torlakian) you (short accusative plural of ti (“I”))

Usage notes

• Not all forms of Torlakian use the pronoun ve, some instead use vi.

References

• Radmila Žugić, Rečnik govora jablaničkog kraja, Institut za srpski jezik SANU, Beograd, 2005. page 34
• Ljubisav Ćirić, Govori Ponišavlja, Institut za srpski jezik SANU, Beograd, 1999. page 127

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋéː/

Pronoun

vẹ̑

1. you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
2. (formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

Declension

Slovene personal pronouns

singular
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	jàz	tí	—
accusative	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
genitive	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
dative	méni, mi	tébi, ti	sébi, si
locative	méni	tébi	sébi
instrumental	menój, máno	tebój, tábo	sebój, sábo
possessive	mój	tvój	svój
dual
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mídva m, médve/mídve f or n	vídva m, védve/vídve f or n	—
accusative	náju	váju	sébe, se
genitive	náju	váju	sébe, se
dative	náma	váma	sébi, si
locative	náju	váju	sébi
instrumental	náma	váma	sebój, sábo
possessive	nájin	vájin	svój
plural
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mí m, mé f or n	ví m, vé f or n	—
accusative	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
genitive	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
dative	nàm	vàm	sébi, si
locative	nàs	vàs	sébi
instrumental	nàmi	vàmi	sebój, sábo
possessive	nàš	vàš	svój

See also

Slovene personal pronouns

			singular	dual	plural
1st person		m	jaz	midva	mi
		f or n		medve, midve	me
2nd person familiar (tikanje)		m	ti	vidva	vi
		f or n		vedve, vidve	ve
3rd person		m	on	onadva	oni
		f	ona	onedve, onidve	one
		n	ono	onedve, onidve	ona
Polite forms			singular (not differentiated in dual and plural)
polite (vikanje)			vi, Vi + 2nd person plural masculine
very polite (onikanje)			oni + 3rd person plural masculine (archaic)
hyper polite (onokanje)			ono + 3rd person singular neuter (obsolete)
patriarchal (onkanje)			on + 3rd person singular masculine (obsolete)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe/ [ˈbe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ve
• Homophone: be

Etymology 1

See v.

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

   Synonyms: uve, ve corta

Derived terms

• doble ve
• ve baja
• ve chica
• ve de vaca
• ve doble

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin videt and vidē, respectively the third person singular present active indicative and second person singular present active imperative of videō.

Verb

ve

1. inflection of ver:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular voseo imperative

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin vāde, second person singular present active imperative of vādō.

Verb

ve

1. second-person singular imperative of ir

Usage notes

• The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, which is andá.

Further reading

• “ve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai), German weh, Dutch wee, English woe. The noun sense is likely a semantic loan from Middle Low German wê.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Homophone: V (the letter)

Interjection

ve

1. woe! (cursed be)

   Ve dig! ― Woe to you!

   Ve mig! ― Woe is me!

   • 1891, Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berlings saga [The Saga of Gösta Berling]‎^[3], Frithiof Hellbergs förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 10 February 2026:

     Men ve den, för [vars] skull skogen suckar och bergen [gråter]!

     But woe to him for whose sake the forest sighs and the mountains weep!

   • 2000, 1973 års bibelkommission [The Swedish Bible Commission of 1973], “Lukasevangeliet [Luke] 6:26”, in Bibel 2000‎^[4], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 10 February 2026:

     Ve er när alla berömmer er.

     Woe to you when everyone praises you.

Noun

ve n (indeclinable)

1. woe, misery

   Ve och fasa!

   Horror of horrors!

   (literally, “Woe and horror!”)

Derived terms

• veklaga
• vemod
• verop

Related terms

• ack och ve
• väl och ve

References

• “ve”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• ev.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ve, the Spanish name of the letter V / v.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈve/ [ˈvɛ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈbe/ [ˈbɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ve

Noun

ve (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin script letter V/v, in the Abecedario

   Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) vi

Talysh

Etymology

Related to Persian بسیار (“many, very”), Zazaki vêşêr (“more”).

Adjective

ve

1. many

Adverb

ve

1. very

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/

Etymology 1

Noun

ve

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish و (ve), from Arabic وَ (wa).

Conjunction

ve

1. and

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧]
• Homophone: de

Etymology 1

Attested as ue in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Probably onomatopoeic, from the cry of the cicada.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “do the "cicada" and "tick" senses have a common etymology?”)

Noun

(classifier con) ve • (蟡, 爲, 為) (phonemic reduplicative ve ve)

1. cicada

   Synonym: ve sầu

2. tick

Derived terms

• ve bét
• ve chó

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French revers.

Noun

(classifier cái) ve

1. lapel

   vuốt thẳng cái ve áo ― to get one's lapel fixed

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French vert.

Noun

ve

1. green

   tường quét ve ― a green-painted wall

Derived terms

• đậu ve
• vôi ve

Etymology 4

Attested and glossed in Latin as lagena ~ vasculum in Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine's Dictionarium anamitico-latinum. Often considered to be from French verre (“glass (substance); objects made of glass”).

Unclear relationship to ue in đạn ue, which is attested and glossed in Portuguese as munição (“ammunition”) ~ perdigotos (“pellet”), in Alexandre de Rhodes's Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, and seemingly became tangled with verre in later period.

Noun

ve • (䃣, 𡐮)

1. small bottle or jar
2. (only in compounds) glass (substance)

Derived terms

• bi ve
• ve chai

Etymology 5

Verb

ve • (𢠿)

1. (chiefly in compounds) to flirt

Derived terms

• ve vãn