אין
Aramaic
Etymology
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Antonyms
- לָא (lā)
Hebrew
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(ʔ)en/
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Particle
אֵין • (ʾên)
- There is not, there are not: used in expressing non-existence in the present tense.
- אין אפשרות אחרת? ― ʾên efšarút aḥéret? ― Is there no other option?
- אין מקום בשביל זה. ― ʾên maqóm bišĭḇíl-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
- 'ēn 'adír kadonái / v'éin barúkh k'vén 'amrám / 'ēn g'dolá katorá / v'ēn dor'sháh 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. ― ēn lánu kartisím. ― We don't have tickets. [literally There are not to us tickets.]
- (colloquial) With a definite object.
- אין לנו את הכרטיסים. ― ēn 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 haya omer im ein ani li, mi li, ukh'she'ani l'atzmi, ma ani, v'im lo akhshav, eimatai.
- 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, :
- 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 einí kazót / avál aní einí, einí kazót / im mi she'éin 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 ('ến) | |||
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Personal-pronoun- including forms |
Singular | Plural | ||
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |
First person | אֵינֶנִּי ('ênénnî), אֵינִי ('ênî́) |
אֵינֶנּוּ ('ênénnû) | ||
Second person | אֵינְךָ ('ênăḵā́) | אֵינֵךְ ('ênḗḵ) | אֵינְכֶם ('êněḵém) | אֵינְכֶן ('êněḵén) |
Third person | אֵינֶנּוּ ('ênénnû), אֵינוֹ ('ênố) |
ּאֵינֶנָּה ('ênénnāh), אֵינָהּ ('ênā́h) |
אֵינָם ('ênám) | אֵינָן ('ênā́n) |
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- אֵין בְּעַד מָה (éin beád má)
- אֵין סוֹף (ʾēn sṓp̄)
- אֵין קֵץ (ʾēn kḗṣ)
References
Derived terms
- יֵשׁ מֵאַיִן (yēš meʾáyin)
Anagrams
Ladino
Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [in]
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