אין
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Aramaic
Etymology
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Adverb
אֵין • (ʾēn)
Antonyms
- לָא (lā)
Hebrew
Etymology
Compare Ugaritic 𐎛𐎐 (ỉn) and Arabic إِنْ (ʔin).
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(ʔ)en/
Audio: (file)
Particle
אֵין • (en)
- There is not, there are not: used in expressing non-existence in the present tense.
- אין אפשרות אחרת? ― en efsharút akhéret? ― Is there no other option?
- אין מקום בשביל זה. ― en makóm bishvíl zé. ― There's no room [or not enough room] for it.
- Popular Piyyut of unknown authorship:
- אֵין אַדִּיר כַּאדֹנָי / וְאֵין בָּרוּךְ כְּבֶן עַמְרָם / אֵין גְּדוֹלָה כַּתּוֹרָה / וְאֵין דּוֹרְשָׁהּ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל
- en adír kadonáy / v'én barúkh k'vén amrám / én g'dolá katorá / v'én dor'shá k'yisra'él
- There is no one powerful like the Lord / And there is no one blessed like the son of Amram / There is nothing great like the Torah / And there is no one professing it like Israel.
- Used in expressing non-possession in the present tense.
- אין לנו כרטיסים. ― en lánu kartisím. ― We don't have tickets. [literally There are not to us tickets.]
- (colloquial) With a definite object.
- אין לנו את הכרטיסים. ― en lánu et hakartisím. ― We don't have the tickets.
- (dated or formal) Not, is not, are not: a negative present-tense copula.
- Used uninflected, preceding the subject.
- a. 10 B.C.E., Hillel the Elder, quoted in Pirkei Avot 1:14:
- הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי. מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי. מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו. אֵימָתָי:
- hu hayá omér im en aní li, mí li, ukh'she'aní l'atsmí, má aní, v'ím lo akhsháv, ematáy.
- He [Hillel] used to say, “If I am not for me, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
- 1742, Chaim ibn Attar, אור החיים (or hakhayím), to Numbers 26:54, reprinted in, 1872, חמשה חומשי תורה, volume 4, Zhytomyr, [1]:
- לאלה תחלק הארץ שהם באי הארץ ועדיין אין אני יודע אם דוקא להבאים לכלל עשרים או לכלל באי הארץ ואפי׳ לאותם שלא הגיעו לכלל עשרים
- "To these shall the land be divided", which are those who enter the land; but I still am not knowing if specifically to those who have entered the sum [age] of twenty or to the totality of those who enter the land, even those who have not reached the sum [age] of twenty
- a. 10 B.C.E., Hillel the Elder, quoted in Pirkei Avot 1:14:
- With incorporated personal pronoun, preceding the predicate.
- 1994, Yoram Taharlev (יורם טהרלב, lyricist), Dana International (singer), “ישנן בנות” (yeshnán banót, “Some Girls”, song), in Dana International, “אומפטמפה” (Umpatampa, album):
- אבל אני איני כזאת \ אבל אני איני, איני כזאת \ עם מי שאין לי בטחון \ אנ'לא יוצאת גם לירקון.
- avál aní ení kazót / avál aní ení, ení kazót / im mi she'én li bitakhón / anló yotsét gam layarkón.
- But I am not like that / but I am not, am not like that / with someone I don't have security with / I don't even go to Hayarkon.
- 1994, Yoram Taharlev (יורם טהרלב, lyricist), Dana International (singer), “ישנן בנות” (yeshnán banót, “Some Girls”, song), in Dana International, “אומפטמפה” (Umpatampa, album):
- Used uninflected, preceding the subject.
Inflection
Inflection table
Non-personal-pronoun-including form | אֵין (en) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Personal-pronoun- including forms |
Singular | Plural | ||
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |
First person | אֵינֶנִּי (enéni), אֵינִי (ení) |
אֵינֶנּוּ (enénu) | ||
Second person | אֵינְךָ (enkhá) | אֵינֵךְ (enékh) | אֵינְכֶם (enkhém) | אֵינְכֶן (enkhén) |
Third person | אֵינֶנּוּ (enénu), אֵינוֹ (enó) |
ּאֵינֶנָּה (enéna), אֵינָהּ (ená) |
אֵינָם (enám) | אֵינָן (enán) |
Synonyms
- (there is not): לֹא הָיָה (lo hayá) (verb)
- (expressing non-possession): לֹא הָיָה (lo hayá) (verb)
- (not): לֹא (ló) (adverb), לֹא הָיָה (lo hayá) (verb)
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “there is not”): יֵשׁ (yesh) (particle), הָיָה (hayá) (verb)
- (antonym(s) of “expressing non-possession”): יֵשׁ (yesh) (particle), הָיָה (hayá) (verb)
- (antonym(s) of “is not”): הינה / הִנֵּה (hiné) (particle), הָיָה (hayá) (verb)
Derived terms
- אֵין בְּעַד מָה (én beád má)
- אֵין סוֹף (en sóf)
- אֵין קֵץ (en kets)
References
Noun
אַיִן • (áyin) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]
Derived terms
- יֵשׁ מֵאַיִן (yesh me'áyin)
Anagrams
Ladino
Preposition
אין (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling en)
- in
- 1910, Ben Yitzhak Saserdoti, Refael i Miriam, page 3:
- מילייארדאס די איסטרילייאס רילומבראבֿאן איינדה אין איל פירמאמינטו
- Milyardas de estrelyas relumbravan ainda en el firmamento
- Billions of stars were still shining in the firmament
Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.
Pronunciation
Preposition
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