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na

adverbinterjectionnounadverbadverbcommon in dialogue

  • //nɑː//

No.

adverb

  1. 1

    obsoleteNot.

  2. 2

    obsoleteNo.

Etymology

From Middle English na, from Old English nā, from Old English ne (“not”) + ā (“ever”). More at no.

interjection

  1. 1

    No.

    Na, yor wrang.

    Na, ye cannet watch telly.

    “Divn’t yee like milk?” “Na.”

Etymology

Development of Etymology 1, above; compare nah.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of noun animateAbbreviation of noun animate.

adverb

  1. 1

    slangNow; already.

    You need to sleep na.

    I have to go na.

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog na.

adverb

  1. 1

    slangIsn't it?

    It is far na?

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ना (nā).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).