Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)Nor.

Examples

19 sentences

  1. She has a certain je ne sais quoi.

    У неї є якийсь таємничий шарм. — deniko

    deSie hat das gewisse Etwas. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Hélène has just contacted me.

    ruЭлен только что со мной связалась. — marafon

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  3. I don't know what "je ne sais quoi" means.

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  4. Her glance had a certain inexplicable je ne sais quoi.

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  5. Foreign expressions can give speech a certain je ne sais quoi.

    deFremdsprachige Ausdrücke können einer Rede das gewisse Etwas verleihen. — Waldelfe · CC BY 2.0 FR

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Origin

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germ

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né.

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Word family

4 related words
RelatednoneB1naughtne exeatnill

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
naynearB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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