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English[]

Pronunciation[]

  • IPA: /liː/
    Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1[]

From Chinese ().

Noun[]

Singular
Li

Plural
li

Li (li)

  1. A traditional Chinese unit of distance, now standardized to 500 metres.
Translations[]
  • Chinese:
  • Dutch: li nl(nl)
  • French: li fr(fr) m.

Etymology 2[]

From Chinese 市厘 ().

Noun[]

Singular
Li

Plural
li

Li (li)

  1. A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.

Etymology 3[]

From Chinese ().

Noun[]

Singular
Li

Plural
li

Li (li)

  1. (Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

Etymology 4[]

From Chinese ().

Noun[]

Singular
Li

Plural
li

Li (li)

  1. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.

Anagrams[]


Albanian[]

Noun[]

li f.

  1. smallpox.

Dutch[]

Noun[]

li

  1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

Esperanto[]

Pronunciation[]

Pronoun[]

Li (accusative lin)

  1. (personal pronoun) he, him.

French[]

Pronunciation[]

Noun[]

Li m. (plural Lis)

  1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

Anagrams[]


Haitian Creole[]

Pronoun[]

Li

  1. he
  2. him
  3. she
  4. her
  5. it

Ido[]

Pronoun[]

Template:Io-pron

  1. they

Interlingue[]

Article[]

Li [[Category:Template:Ie articles|Li]]

  1. the

Italian[]

Pronunciation[]

  • Homophones:

Pronoun[]

li

  1. them.

Related terms[]

Anagrams[]


Kurdish[]

Preposition[]

Li

  1. in:
    li Kurdistanê (in Kurdistan)
  2. li ser: on:
    li ser maseyê (on the table)



Lojban[]

Cmavo[]

Template:Jbo-cmavo

  1. indicates that the next word is a number used as a sumti

Mandarin[]

Preposition[]

Template:Cmn-prep

  1. in; inside
    Simplified: 医院病人
    Traditional: 醫院病人
    zhè jiān yīyuàn yǒu hěn duō bìngrén.
    There are many patients in this hospital.

Derived terms[]

  • xin1li5

Pinyin[]

Template:Cmn-alt-pinyin

  1. :
  2. : a black stone like jade; jet

Pinyin syllable[]

li

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

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]]

  1. water

Norwegian[]

Etymology[]

From Old Norse hlíð

Pronunciation[]

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Particularly: “Norwegian”

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Noun[]

Li

  1. A sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest.

Inflection[]

References[]

  • Li” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk DictionaryDokumentasjonsprosjektet.
  • Template:R:Ordnett

Old French[]

Etymology[]

From Latin ille (that).

Pronunciation[]

Article[]

Li

  1. 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"

Inflection[]

Template:Fro-definite-article

Pronoun[]

Li

  1. third-person singular indirect object pronoun; to him, to her, to it

Descendants[]

  • French: le, lui

Polish[]

Suffix[]

li

  1. (marks the past tense when added to the end of a verb).

Romanian[]

Pronoun[]

li (dative form of ele; form of le)

  1. 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[]

Particle[]

Template:Sh-particle

  1. 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?)
  2. used as conjunction with da
    da li — whether
    nemam pojma da li je došao — I have no idea if he came
  3. (as a conjunction) if
    pokušaš li me napasti, ja ću ti uzvratiti — if you try to attack me, I'll retaliate
  4. 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.

  1. 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