che

che

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

Borrowed from Russian че (če).

che (plural ches)

1. The letter Ч, ч.

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

che

1. (personal, obsolete) I.
   • c. 1603–1606, Shakespeare, William, 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.

• ECH, EHC

From Latin quod. Compare Romanian că.

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che

1. Alternative form of cã

From Hindi छः (chaḥ).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕe/

che (Bengali script চে)

1. six

• korok
• siks / sik

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

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe]
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• Hyphenation: che

che

1. H-system spelling of ĉe

From Old Galician and Old 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.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/

che

1. dative of ti

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interesse" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the emissor 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. • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     eche cousa de chorar

     It is [to you] a thing for crying

   Gustoucheme moito ese libro. ― I liked very much that book [to you].

   Fillo, non che me sexas mentirán. ― Son, don't be a liar [to you] [to me].

• “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “che” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “che” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “che” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ʃe/, /ɕɛ/

che

1. I, me

che

1. my

   che angirũ — "my friend"

From Esperanto ĉe, from French chez.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/, /t͡ʃɛ/

che

1. at, in, to (someone in his or her house, home or place), with (a people, in respect of their customs)

   Partio che me! ― Party at my place!

   Me lojas che mea patro. ― I live with my dad.

   Irez che la mediko! ― Go to the doctor!

From Latin quod.

che

1. that
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia

     I have not found a sword that would cut me

From Latin quid[1] (but also usurping some roles of Latin quod), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈke/^*
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: ché

che

1. (interrogative) what; which

   Synonyms: cosa, che cosa

2. (archaic, relative) who; whom; which; nominative and accusative case

   Synonym: il quale

   • 14^th century, Petrarch, “Sonetto I — Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 5–8:

     […] del vario stile in ch’io piango e ragiono […] spero trovar pietà, nonché perdono.

     I hope to find not only forgiveness, but also pity for the variegated style in which I cry and reason.

• cui (relative; dative and prepositional case)

From Latin quod, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.

• IPA^(key): /ke/^* (unstressed)
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: che

che

1. that
2. than
3. when
4. let, may

   che la sfida abbia inizio! ― let the challenge begin!

   che Dio ti aiuti ― may God help you

che (invariable)

1. some (a remarkable); what (intensifier to begin a sentence)

   che festa! ― what a party!

che

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちぇ
2. Rōmaji transcription of チェ

che

1. that

• coche

Akin to Italian che, from Latin quid.

che

1. what

che

1. Nonstandard spelling of chē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of ché.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chě.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chè.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

che

1. Alternative form of sche

che m

1. this

che

1. that; which

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che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) that

• (Sutsilvan) ca, c'
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) who, whom

• (Sutsilvan) tge
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

From Latin quid.

che

1. (Puter, Vallader) what

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tge
• (Sursilvan) tgei

From Latin quod.

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) than

• (Sutsilvan) ca
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter) cu
• (Vallader) co

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰɛ/

che

1. Fort Liard form of tse

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 11

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe/ [ˈt͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: che

che f (plural ches)

1. Name of the digraph Ch/ch, previously was considered a letter

• che vaqueira

che

1. (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Valencia) hey

• Portuguese: tchê

che m or f (plural che)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) dude; bro; man; mate
2. (colloquial, Chile) Argentinian person
3. (Spain, soccer) a person connected with Valencia Club de Fútbol, as a player, fan, coach, etc.

• “che”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Clipping of letse, from Spanish leche (“milk; semen (euphemism)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe/, [ˈt͡ʃe]

che

1. (informal, slang) Exclamation of irritation, disgust, or rejection: darn

• The expression is typically used by women, and may sound effeminate when used by men.

• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 30

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 遮 (“to hide”, SV: già)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [cɛ˧˧]

che • (枝, 𨑤, 𩂏, 𫑃)

1. to cover; to take shelter
2. (literally) to hide