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Also Portuguese, where "né?" is understood as a contraction of "não é?" ("isn't it?"). I don't mean to say that this is a coincidence as far as the European la
by schoen 3y ago
Also Portuguese, where "né?" is understood as a contraction of "não é?" ("isn't it?").
I don't mean to say that this is a coincidence as far as the European languages go; negation words with N are often a shared inheritance from Indo-European
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ne https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
- dormento 3y agoAlways felt funny to me how the common japanese immigrant stereotype in Brasil includes ending every question with "né?" Makes total sense now.