ze

Usage notes

 * The genderqueer community are the primary proponents of . One refers to a person with ze and or  typically (a) when their gender is unknown, and one wishes to avoid assuming their gender, or (b) when they are neither male nor female in gender, making  and  (and also either/or terms like  or ) inappropriate and potentially hurtful.

Synonyms

 * see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Etymology
A Gheg dialect word, of unclear origin.

Noun

 * 1) soul

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) the sea, the ocean

Etymology 1
.

Conjunction

 * 1)  because
 * 2)  than
 * 3)  ; that
 * 4)  ; that
 * 1)  ; that
 * 2)  ; that
 * 1)  ; that
 * 1)  ; that
 * 1)  ; that

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬

Numeral

 * 1) one.

Etymology 1
From, merged from , , , from , , , the nominative plural forms of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  they

Usage notes

 * The more usual form is z, while ze is used before words starting with s, z and certain consonant clusters.

Pronoun

 * 1) Unstressed form of zij
 * 2) Unstressed form of zij
 * 3) Unstressed form of haar
 * 4) Unstressed form of hen, hun
 * 1) Unstressed form of haar
 * 2) Unstressed form of hen, hun
 * 1) Unstressed form of hen, hun

Usage notes

 * In the Netherlands, ze is used as a reduced form of haar chiefly when referring to feminine inanimate things:
 * It is often avoided by using the reduced form or the masculine form  or the neuter form  or, in formal style, the full form.
 * It is often avoided by using the reduced form or the masculine form  or the neuter form  or, in formal style, the full form.


 * In Belgium, ze is usual as a reduced form of haar even when referring to persons (as in the example further above).
 * Ze is used in certain short and idiomatic phrases in the imperative wishing one good luck, the most common by far being.

Verb

 * 1) to take

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) egg

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from , from , reduced form of , whence 🇨🇬 and.

Preposition

 * 1) to with a following infinitive

Adverb

 * 1) too more than enough, when unstressed

Etymology 1
.

Conjunction

 * 1) ; that

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
, from.

Usage notes
See.

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ز

Adjective

 * 1) near, close by, around

Relative

 * 1) naked

Adverb

 * 1) same

Relative

 * 1) empty
 * 2) naked

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  until
 * 2)  never
 * 3)  never
 * 1)  never
 * 2)  never
 * 1)  never
 * 2)  never
 * 1)  never