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CEFRB1

/nʌn/

pronoun · determiner

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In plain English

  1. 01

    pronoun

    Not any person or thing.

  2. 02

    pronoun

    Extra detail

    Not any of a given number or group.

Examples

  • She truly believes that none of this is her fault.

  • You look as if it were none of your business.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /noʊn/

Deep Dive

pronoun

Extra meanings

  1. No one, nobody.

  2. No person.

determiner

Extra meaning

  1. Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h)

More examples

In context

  • It's none of your business.

  • None of those is a good example. None are even acceptable.

  • There were many but now there are none.

Synonyms

Antonyms

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Origin

pronoun

From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.) Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).