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# neve

noun (névé, névés — usually uncountable); fragment

«neve» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (science) Névé: old, grainy snow on a glacier or high mountain that has partly melted and refrozen, on its way to becoming glacier ice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#m1)
2. It may also be a typing error for "never" or "nerve", or part of a name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#m2)

### In the lessons

A geography word about glaciers: fresh snow → névé (also called firn) → glacier ice. In English texts it is often written with an accent, névé, because it comes from French.

### Examples

- High on the mountain, the snow had turned to névé. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x1)
- Névé is snow that is halfway to becoming ice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x2)
- The climbers crossed the hard névé early in the morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x3)
- In geography we learned how snow becomes névé and then glacier ice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x4)
- Névé feels crunchy and grainy under your boots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x5)

### Note

A borrowed French word, pronounced "nay-VAY". Also called "firn". If you see "neve" in a text, check whether it is a typo for "never".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «neve» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«neve» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neve.html) on Mova free.