ve

plural ves

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.

accusative ver · adjective possessive vis · noun possessive vers · reflexive verself

1. epicenenominativenonstandardraresingularthird personGender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.

   Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.

   1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223

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   And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).

   [1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426

   Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.

   1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of we.

   Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?

   1872, Charles Camden, “The Travelling Menagerie”, in George Mac Donald, editor, Good Words for the Young, London: Strahan & Co., […], chapter V (A Tiger Hunt in England), page 208, column 1

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   But ve have grounds larger even than these – though in vinter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them.

   2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Yule Ball”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 363

   “My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”

   2011, Roberta C. M. DeCaprio, chapter 9, in A Rose in Amber, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN

   In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

   2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Victory in Europe; used especially in the term VE Day.