Che in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Che

You can make 5 words from 'che' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'che'
• 2 letters words from 'che'

3 letters words from 'che'

CHE 8

ECH 8

2 letters words from 'che'

CH 7	EH 5
HE 5

Definitions and meaning of che

che

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian че (če).

Noun

che (plural ches)

1. The letter Ч, ч.

Translations

Etymology 2

A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy.

Pronoun

che

1. (personal, obsolete) I.

Anagrams

• ECH, EHC

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Esperanto

Preposition

che

1. H-system spelling of ĉe

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese che (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from an inflected form of Latin tū: the accusative te is from Latin tē, the dative ti from tibi, the dative che emerged by metanalysis from the contraction of te and the article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/

Pronoun

che

1. dative of ti

Usage notes

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interesse" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the emissor is inserted into the action even when they don't have a direct intervention, so either to gain the interlocutor sympathy of to show personal interest:

1. • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I. E. O. P. F., page 126:

     Disse entõ o conde a el rey dom Garçia: -Rey, nõ as por que teer nẽhũu destes que comigo som presos, que por mj̃ soo aueras quantos y som, et nõ lles faças nẽhũu mal, ca elles nõ che am y culpa nẽhũa.

     Thed the count said to king Don García: «King, you don't have to keep as prisoners none of the ones that are with me, because just by me you'll find out how many they are, and don't yo do them any harm, because they are not to blame [to you] on this»

References

• “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “che” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “che” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “che” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃe/

Pronoun

che

1. I, me

See also

Determiner

che

1. my

   che angirũ — "my friend"

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ĉe, from French chez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/, /t͡ʃɛ/

Preposition

che

1. at, in, to (someone in his or her house, home or place), with (a people, in respect of their customs)

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. that
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia

     I have not found a sword that would cut me

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈke/
• Hyphenation: che
• Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

From Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.

Pronoun

che

1. (interrogative) what; which
2. (relative) who; whom; which; nominative and accusative case

Synonyms

• (interrogative): cosa; che cosa
• (relative): il quale

See also

• cui (relative; dative and prepositional case)

Etymology 2

From Latin quod, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod-.

Conjunction

che

1. that
2. than
3. when

Determiner

che

1. some (a remarkable); what (intensifier to begin a sentence)

References

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Japanese

Romanization

che

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちぇ
2. Rōmaji transcription of チェ

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Ladin

Conjunction

che

1. that

Derived terms

• coche

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Mandarin

Romanization

che

1. Nonstandard spelling of chē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of chě.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Middle English

Pronoun

che

1. Alternative form of sche

References

• “she, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 May 2018.

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Picard

Determiner

che m

1. this

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Romagnol

Conjunction

che

1. that; which

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Romansch

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) that

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca, c'
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Pronoun

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) who, whom

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) tge
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Etymology 2

From Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

1. (Puter, Vallader) what

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tge
• (Sursilvan) tgei

Etymology 3

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) than

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter) cu
• (Vallader) co

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/

Etymology 1

Noun

che f (plural ches)

1. Name of the digraph Ch/ch, previously was considered a letter.

Derived terms

• che vaqueira

Etymology 2

Interjection

che

1. (Argentine, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, regional Spain) hey

Descendants

• Portuguese: tchê

Noun

che m or f (plural che)

1. (colloquial, Chile) Argentinian person

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [cɛ˧˧]

Verb

che • (枝, 𨑤, 𩂏, 𫑃)

1. to cover
2. (literally) to hide

Derived terms

Source: wiktionary.org

• (dialect) I.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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