ie

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ie"

Translingual

Symbol

ie

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

English

Adverb

ie

Alternative form of i.e.

Anagrams

EI

Acehnese

Etymology

Compare Indonesian air (“water”).

Noun

ie

water
ie bit — real water

References

Mark Durie, A Grammar of Acehnese: On the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh (1985)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

e

Etymology

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

Interjection

ie

yes

Antonyms

nu

Dutch

Etymology 1

Likely from earlier Middle Dutch hi. Doublet of hij.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i/
Audio (file)

Pronoun

ie

(Netherlands, colloquial) Third-person singular, masculine, subjective, mute form: he.
Hoe doet ie dat? ― How does he do that?

Alternative forms

'ie (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Likely from unstressed je.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i/
Audio (file)

Pronoun

ie

(Holland, colloquial) Second-person singular, mute form: you.
Heb ie de krant al gelezen? ― Have you already read the newspaper?

Inflection

Dutch personal pronouns

	subject		object		possessive			reflexive	genitive⁵
singular	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	ik	'k¹	mij	me	mijn	m'n¹	mijne	me	mijner, mijns
2nd person	jij	je	jou	je	jouw	je	jouwe	je	jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person masculine	hij	ie¹	hem	'm¹	zijn	z'n¹	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	h'r¹, 'r¹, d'r¹	haar	h'r¹, 'r¹, d'r¹	hare	zich	harer, haars
3rd person neuter	het	't¹	het	't¹	zijn	z'n¹	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
plural
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze²	–	onze	ons	onzer, onzes
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je	–
2nd person archaic or regiolectal⁶	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person	zij	ze	hen³, hun⁴	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns
¹⁾ Not as common in written language. ²⁾ Inflected as an adjective. ³⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). ⁴⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).				⁵⁾ Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. ⁶⁾ To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.

Alternative forms

'ie (obsolete)

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Old Dutch io.

Adverb

ie

(obsolete) always, every time, continuously
(obsolete) ever, sometime, at some point

Usage notes

Was entirely replaced by words like altijd ("always, every time") and ooit ("ever, sometime, at some point") by the late 16th century.

Related terms

eeuw
edoch
nie
ieder, iedereen, iederman
iegelijk
ergens, iemand, iewers, immer, ooit
nergens, niemand, niewers, nimmer, nooit

Anagrams

ei

Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -e (correlative suffix of place).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Adverb

ie (accusative ien)

somewhere (indeterminate correlative of place)

Derived terms

ie ajn (“anywhere”)

Japanese

Romanization

ie

Rōmaji transcription of いえ

Ladin

Verb

ie

(Val Gardena) third-person singular present indicative of ester - is

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪː/
IPA^(key): /ɛː/ (before vowelised għ/h + consonant)

Letter

ie (upper case Ie)

The thirteenth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Ie was made a letter in its own right only in the 1990s. In older dictionaries, lists, etc., it is treated as i + e.
Ie is used in stressed syllables only. When unstressed, it is reduced to e or i. In closed syllables, the reduction is generally e; in open syllables it is predominantly i, but both may be possible.
Before the letters għ, ħ, h, q, the long vowel phonemes i and ie merge. The orthographic distinction is based on etymology and morphological analogy, which causes rather frequent spelling errors even in edited texts.

Middle French

Alternative forms

je, i', j' (elided)

Pronoun

ie

I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants

French: je, j'

Old Occitan

Pronoun

ie

Alternative form of eu

Romanian

Alternative forms

iie (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈije/

Etymology 1

Woman wearing an ie

Inherited from Latin (vestis) līnea (“linen garment”). Doublet of linie (“line”), a later borrowing.

Noun

ie f (plural ii)

traditional Romanian embroidered blouse

Declension

Declension of ie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) ie	ia	(niște) ii	iile
genitive/dative	(unei) ii	iei	(unor) ii	iilor
vocative	ie, io		iilor

Related terms

in

Etymology 2

From Latin īlia, plural of īle.

Noun

ie f (plural ii) (rare, archaic)

the lower part of the abdomen or belly, especially in animals such as livestock
the skin that hangs down from the belly of an ox
the pastern on a horse
guts, bowels, or entrails

Declension

Declension of ie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) ie	ia	(niște) ii	iile
genitive/dative	(unei) ii	iei	(unor) ii	iilor
vocative	ie, io		iilor

Synonyms

(pastern): chișiță
(entrails): măruntaie, viscere

Etymology 3

From German ja (yes), or perhaps from Latin est ((it) is).

Adverb

ie

(regional, Transylvania) yes
Synonym: da

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh ief, ieu, from Proto-Brythonic *ī semos (“that is so”).

Adverb

ie

yes, yea, aye