no
Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibitionUsed to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
» That is no business of his.
Das ist nicht seine Sache.
Das geht ihn nichts an.
Это не его дело.
Это его не касается.
Це не його справа.
Meaning
5 sensesUsed to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
Used to express sadness or disappointment.
"We lost." "No!"
Used to express disbelief.
I got the job! / No! Really? That's fantastic!
Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No." (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
nein
(colloquial)Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
No, totally.
No, yeah, that's exactly right.
Examples
27417 sentencesThat is no business of his.
Це не його справа.
ruЭто не его дело.
deDas ist nicht seine Sache.
That makes no sense at all.
Це не має жодного сенсу.
ruЭто совершенно бессмысленно.
deDas ergibt überhaupt keinen Sinn.
It makes no difference to me.
Мені байдуже.
deDas ist mir egal.
There's no one but me here.
Тут немає нікого крім мене.
ruЗдесь кроме меня никого нет.
deEs gibt dort niemand außer mir hier.
We had no water to drink.
В нас не було питної води.
ruУ нас не было питьевой воды.
deWir hatten kein Wasser zum Trinken.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”)Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-West Germanic *naiwō, from Proto-Germanic *naiwô (“never”), from *ne (“not”) + *aiwō (“ever”), equivalent to ne + aye. Cognate with Scots na (“no”), Saterland Frisian noa (“no”), West Frisian né (“no”), nea (“never”), Dutch nee (“no”), Low German nee (“no”), German nie (“never”), dialectal German nö (“no”), Danish nej (“no”), Swedish nej (“no”), Icelandic nei (“no”). Doublet of nay.
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Synonyms
10 synonymsAntonyms
36 antonymsCollocations
12 patterns- had no idea
- no idea
- there was no
- no idea what
- had no choice
- no matter what
- no longer
- no matter
- there's no way
- no one knows
- no one was
- no choice but