ve
/vi/noun, pronoun
ve is a noun meaning “The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E and has one syllable, and it appears 36 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ve is ves.
What does ve mean?
noun
- 1
The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
pronoun
- 1
nonstandardrareGender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
- 2
Pronunciation spelling of we.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ve?
- /v/
- /əv/
- /ə/
- US /vi/
Ve has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-'ve.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ve
- of
- ves plural
- ver
- vis
- vers
- verself
- −ve
- ⭐ves present, singular, he/she/it
- ⭐ving participle, present
- ⭐ved participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ve?
Ve appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does ve come from?
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).