nunca

• ñunca

From Latin numquam (“never”).

nunca

1. never

   Synonym: enxamás

From Old Portuguese nunca, from Latin numquam (“never”).

nunca

1. never

   Synonyms: endexamais, xamais

From Old Portuguese nunca, from Latin numquam (“never”).

• Hyphenation: nun‧ca

nunca (not comparable)

1. never (at no time; not ever)
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 139:

     Você nunca me deu a impressão de gostar tanto assim da matéria.

     You never gave me the impression of liking that subject so much.

   Nunca vi esse filme.

   I have never seen this film.

   Nunca tenha certeza do sucesso.

   Never be sure of success.

   Synonym: jamais

For quotations using this term, see Citations:nunca.

• Kabuverdianu: nunca

nunca m (plural nuncas)

1. (poetic) neverness (the quality of not ever being extant or present)

From Old Spanish nunqua, from Latin numquam, from ne + umquam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnunka/ [ˈnũŋ.ka]

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• Rhymes: -unka
• Syllabification: nun‧ca

nunca

1. never

   Nunca he probado la langosta.

   I've never tasted lobster.

   • 2008, Fausto Ponce, Fuera de lugar, Lulu.com, page 7:

     Nunca te va a hacer una chingadera.

     He will never screw you over.

   Synonyms: jamás, en su vida

2. ever

   Estamos mejor que nunca.

   We're better than ever.

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