ne, adv., no, not. Je — veux pas; I will not. Cela — vaut rien; that is worth nothing. Il — cesse de gronder; he does not cease scolding, is always on the scold. Je n’ose lui parler; I dare not speak to him. Je — peux me taire; I cannot remain silent. Je — saurais vous dire; I cannot tell you. Vous — devez pas; you must not. Je crains que cela — soit; I fear that it is so. Je — doute pas que cela ne soit; I do not doubt it. A moins que cela — soit; unless that is so. Il — fait que dormir; he does nothing but sleep. — ... que; only, nothing but. Il n’a a fait que cela; he only did that. Il — le fera plus; he will not do it again. [Ne is contracted into n’ before a vowel or a silent h.]
né, -e, part., born. — de la mer; sea-born. Bien —; of good birth, well-disposed. Nouveau-—, m., (—-—s), nouveau-—e, f., (—-—s) newly-born. Mort-—, m., (—-—s), mort-—e, f., (—-—s) still-born. Je suis — à Londres; I was born in London. Premier —; first-born.
néanmoins, adv., nevertheless, however, for all that, notwithstanding.
néant, n.m., nothing, naught, nothingness, emptiness, nonentity. C’est un homme de —; he is a man of nothing. Mettre au —; to annul, to set at naught.
nébride, n.f., fawn-skin (worn at the feast of Bacchus).
nébuleuse, n.f., (astron.) nebula.
nébuleu-x, -se, adj., nebulous, cloudy, misty, hazy; obscure, gloomy.
nébulosité, n.f., nebulosity, obscurity, gloom.
nécessaire, adj., necessary, requisite, needful, unavoidable, indispensable.
nécessaire, n.m., necessaries, needful; dressing-case; work-box; canteen. Se refuser le —; to refuse one’s self the necessaries of life.