ve
nounpronounpronouncommon in dialogue
- United States//vi//
The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
noun
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The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
pronoun
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rareGender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).
Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.
Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.
Etymology
First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).
pronoun
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Variant of wePronunciation spelling of we.
Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?
But ve have grounds larger even than these – though in vinter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them.
“My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”
In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”
Forms
- plural
- ves
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