neger

Etymology
Perhaps from, from ; or perhaps a variant of.

Noun

 * 1) * c. 1700, ‘The Saint Turn'd Sinner’ (ballad):
 * The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text.
 * The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  a dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent
 * 2) a ghostwriter

Usage notes
The term neger is not quite as offensive as 🇨🇬, but is now generally considered offensive by most people; in its place, the term  is preferred.

Declension
or

Etymology
From earlier or from, from , from , of uncertain origin but possibly from. .

Noun

 * 1)  a black person, a Negro

Usage notes

 * The word is not to be confused with the (etymologically related) Dutch word, which is a term similar in meaning and offensiveness to English.
 * For many speakers in Belgium and the Netherlands it is a neutral albeit mainly colloquial way to refer to someone with a dark skin colour. Historically, the word was also used in formal registers, including in newspapers and literary works, but such use had become rare by the early 21st century.
 * In Suriname, the word is a derogatory term, except when used in the compounds ' and '.
 * In the Benelux, since about 2010, neger is increasingly considered to be hurtful, condescending and/or discriminatory, especially by black people, due to the offensiveness of the etymologically related English and .   Prescriptivists may equate its offensiveness with that of nigger.
 * There is evidence that at least some black speakers have reappropriated the word.
 * The synonyms , zwarte persoon/man/vrouw, or persoon/man/vrouw met Afrikaanse roots can be used as neutral alternatives in all geographies and circumstances. There is also some use of the neologistic prefix, which is used similarly to English . It can be added as a prefix to any nationality or ethnicity to indicate African roots; for example:  (African-Dutchman),  (African-Belgian) and  (African-Fleming). These are neutral alternatives in all circumstances.

Adjective

 * 1)  broke, bankrupt

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a Negro

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a Negro

Noun

 * 1)  nigger

Etymology
From, from , from. The offensive connotation is calqued from the corresponding use of 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  a negro, a nigger, a black person

Usage notes

 * Has undergone a similar development to English negro. Newspapers abandoned the word in the 1970s, in favor of terms like, (now often considered derogatory), and . Sometimes used in a more-or-less neutral way by old people.
 * The pluralization with, although attested as early as 1756, is less common and omitted from several dictionaries.