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ve

US/vi/

ve noun: the name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в. Also the pronunciation spelling of we.

Noun

ve (plural ves)

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.

Pronoun

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

  1. (epicene, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person) Gender-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).[1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426
    • Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223

Proper noun capitalized: VE

VE

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Victory in Europe; used especially in the term VE Day.

Also used as

ve is also the pronunciation spelling of we.

Forms of ve

Noun
pluralves
Pronoun
accusativever
adjective possessivevis
noun possessivevers
reflexiveverself

Origin of ve

Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).

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).

Words formed from ve

Phrases with ve

Words that rhyme with ve

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Questions about ve

What does ve mean?
Ve means the name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
What part of speech is ve?
Ve can be a noun, a pronoun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ve?
Ve is pronounced /vi/ (US).
What is the plural of ve?
The plural of ve is ves.

Words near ve in the dictionary

  1. VDUs
  2. VDV
  3. VDW
  4. VDWS
  5. VDX
  6. ve
  7. VE Day
  8. ve haf vays of making you talk
  9. Vea
  10. Veach
  11. Veaches

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