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no - English and others
non - French
ne - maybe Russian?
nein - German
geen - Dutch or Afrikaans
ingen - Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish
iie - Japanese
However, this list isn't entirely accurate, since these words don't all mean the same thing.
If ne is supposed to be Russian, then it's actually the negation particle, which is like n't in English don't; the actual word for no is net (pronounced like /njet/).
Additionally, both geen and ingen translate to something closer to "not any" in their respective languages. For Dutch and Afrikaans, no would be nee (apparently pronounced /ni/). For the Scandinavian languages, it's nej (various pronunciations, e.g. Danish /naj/).
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Alestra77: you seem to have glossed over the fact that you treat all women like prostitutes
Alestra77: "k, so, I bought you coffee... when do I get my handjob?"
Goddammit, I hate you so much. ~ Kenri to me (3 times)
Alestra77: who the fuck is porky
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EDIT: TFN apparently doesn't like Cyrillic.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Oh, and blame Google Translate.
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SIEG ZEON, dood!
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That's usually the case in most circumstances.
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Alestra77: you seem to have glossed over the fact that you treat all women like prostitutes
Alestra77: "k, so, I bought you coffee... when do I get my handjob?"
Goddammit, I hate you so much. ~ Kenri to me (3 times)
Alestra77: who the fuck is porky
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For instance, using "No, not that", we get the correct word in almost every example:
Russian - ?Net, ne to, chto
Dutch - Nee, dat niet
Afrikaans - Nee, nie dat
Danish - *Nej, ikke at
Swedish - *Nej, inte att
Norwegian - Nei, ikke det
This approach does have its problems, though. The Dutch and Afrikaans examples look grammatical although I don't know if they actually are; the Russian phrase, as noted, I can't evaluate, since I don't know what's going on there; and both the Danish and Swedish examples are ungrammatical: at and att are analogous to the that in a phrase like "the cat that meows" as opposed to the pronoun, which only shows up correctly in the Norwegian for some reason. Still, all of them produce the correct word for "no".
How do you know it's the correct word? You can't be sure. It's worth noting that some sentences which you would expect to be successful aren't: "I say no", for instance, fails in Russian. Usually your best bet is to isolate the word in an environment where it can only obtain the meaning you want it to, as in "no, not that", but that's not always easy to do. In order to be certain you have the right translation, you will of course need to use a dictionary or, in cases like this one where the word is fairly common, a phrasebook.
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