né

vb. “was”; see ná \#1. Also used as interjection “yes” when the meaning is “it was so, it was as you say/ask” VT49:31. Pl. nér “were”, dual nét VT49:30. Nésë “he was” VT49:29, though Tolkien elsewhere stated that né did not “take any inflection of person” VT49:31, pronominal endings rather being added to ane- the form anes *he was” is attested. Anda né “long ago” VT49:31. vb. in pa.t. “was”; see ná \#1.