che

See also: Appendix:Variations of "che"

Translingual

Symbol

che

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Chechen.

English

Etymology 1

English Wikipedia has an article on:

che (Cyrillic)

Wikipedia

Borrowed from Russian че (če).

Noun

che (plural ches)

1. The letter Ч, ч.

Derived terms

• Cheka

Translations

Ч

Russian: че (ru) n (če)

Etymology 2

A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy.

Pronoun

che

1. (personal, obsolete) I.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:

     Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor / ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be / the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.

Anagrams

• ECH, EHC

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin quod. Compare Romanian că.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Conjunction

che

1. alternative form of cã

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Hindi छः (chaḥ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕe/

Numeral

che (Bengali script চে)

1. six

Synonyms

• korok
• siks / sik

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈt͡ʃe]

Interjection

che

1. superseded spelling of xe

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: che

Preposition

che

1. H-system spelling of ĉe

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese che (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from an inflected form of Latin tū: the accusative te is from Latin tē, the dative ti from tibi, the dative che emerged by metanalysis from the contraction of te and the article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/

Pronoun

che

1. dative of ti

Usage notes

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interest" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the speaker is inserted into the action even when they don't have a direct intervention, so either to gain the interlocutor sympathy or to show personal interest:

1. • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I. E. O. P. F, page 126:

     Disse entõ o conde a el rey dom Garçia: -Rey, nõ as por que teer nẽhũu destes que comigo som presos, que por mj̃ soo aueras quantos y som, et nõ lles faças nẽhũu mal, ca elles nõ che am y culpa nẽhũa.

     Then the count said to king Don García: «King, you don't have to keep as prisoners none of the ones that are with me, because just by me you'll find out how many they are, and don't yo do them any harm, because they are not to blame [to you] on this»

   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     eche cousa de chorar

     It is [to you] a thing for crying

   Gustóucheme moito ese libro. ― I really liked that book [to you].

   Onte funche por Ourense. ― Yesterday I went [to you] to Ourense.

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “che”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “che”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “che”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “che”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “che”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN