English[]
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1[]
From Chinese 里 (lǐ).
Noun[]
Singular |
Plural |
Li (li)
- A traditional Chinese unit of distance, now standardized to 500 metres.
Translations[]
Etymology 2[]
From Chinese 市厘 (lí).
Noun[]
Singular |
Plural |
Li (li)
- A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.
Etymology 3[]
From Chinese 禮 (lǐ).
Noun[]
Singular |
Plural |
Li (li)
- (Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.
Etymology 4[]
From Chinese 鬲 (lì).
Noun[]
Singular |
Plural |
Li (li)
- An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.
Anagrams[]
- IL,
Albanian[]
Noun[]
li f.
- smallpox.
Dutch[]
Noun[]
li
- li (Chinese unit of distance).
Esperanto[]
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /li/
Pronoun[]
Li (accusative lin)
- (personal pronoun) he, him.
French[]
Pronunciation[]
Noun[]
Li m. (plural Lis)
- li (Chinese unit of distance).
Anagrams[]
- il,
Haitian Creole[]
Pronoun[]
Li
Ido[]
Pronoun[]
Template:Io-pron
- they
Interlingue[]
Article[]
Li [[Category:Template:Ie articles|Li]]
- the
Italian[]
Pronunciation[]
- Homophones: lì
Pronoun[]
li
- them.
Related terms[]
Anagrams[]
- il,
Kurdish[]
Preposition[]
Li
Lojban[]
Cmavo[]
Template:Jbo-cmavo
- indicates that the next word is a number used as a sumti
Mandarin[]
Preposition[]
Template:Cmn-prep
- in; inside
- Simplified: 这间医院里有很多病人。
- Traditional: 這間醫院裡有很多病人。
- zhè jiān yīyuàn lǐ yǒu hěn duō bìngrén.
- There are many patients in this hospital.
Derived terms[]
- xin1li5
Pinyin[]
Template:Cmn-alt-pinyin
Pinyin syllable[]
li
- Nonstandard spelling of lī.
- Nonstandard spelling of lí.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǐ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lì.
Usage notes[]
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Miskito[]
Noun[]
Li [[Category:Template:Miq nouns|Li]]
- water
Norwegian[]
Etymology[]
From Old Norse hlíð
Pronunciation[]
Template:Rfap
Noun[]
Li
- A sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest.
Inflection[]
indefinite singular | definite singular | indefinite plural | definite plural | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bokmål m | Li | Lien | Lier | Liene |
Bokmål f | Li | Lia | Lier | Liene |
Nynorsk f | Li | Lia [Lii] | Lier | Liene |
References[]
- “Li” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
- Template:R:Ordnett
Old French[]
Etymology[]
From Latin ille (“‘that’”).
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /li/
Article[]
Li
- the (masculine nominative singular and plural definite article)
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Li rois respont: "N'est pas mançonge"
- The king replied "this is no lie"
- Li rois respont: "N'est pas mançonge"
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Inflection[]
Template:Fro-definite-article
Pronoun[]
Li
- third-person singular indirect object pronoun; to him, to her, to it
Descendants[]
- French: le, lui
Polish[]
Suffix[]
li
- (marks the past tense when added to the end of a verb).
Romanian[]
Pronoun[]
li (dative form of ele; form of le)
- to them
Usage notes[]
This word is used when le (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:
- îl (the accusative of el, contracted as li-l)
- îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as li-i)
- le (the accusative of ele)
- se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)
See also[]
Serbo-Croatian[]
Etymology[]
From Proto-Slavic *li.
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /li/
Particle[]
Template:Sh-particle
- question-forming interrogative particle
- da li me poznaješ? — do you know me?
- jesi li stigao na odredište? — did you reach the destination?
- jeste li ga vid(j)eli — have you seen him?
- gd(j)e li se samo nalazimo? — where could we be?
- kad li će doći? — when will they come?
- je li? — Is it? (Is that so? Isn't that so?)
- used as conjunction with da
- da li — whether
- nemam pojma da li je došao — I have no idea if he came
- (as a conjunction) if
- pokušaš li me napasti, ja ću ti uzvratiti — if you try to attack me, I'll retaliate
- used as an emphatic intensifier
- a sn(ijeg) pada li pada — the snow just keep falling on and on...
- d(ij)ete plače li plače — the child just keeps crying
Sicilian[]
Article[]
li m., f. pl.
- the
The Sicilian Definite Article | ||
Masculine | Feminine | |
Singular | lu, û | la, â |
Plural | li, î | li, î |
af:li br:li el:li es:li eo:li fo:li fr:li gl:li ko:li io:li ie:li it:li ku:li hu:li ja:li no:li oc:li pl:li pt:li ru:li scn:li sl:li fi:li sv:li tr:li vi:li vo:li wa:li zh:li