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# neve

«neve» in Mova's school dictionary: **Névé: old, grainy snow on a glacier or high mountain that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (névé, névés — usually uncountable); fragment

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x1)
- Névé is snow that is halfway to becoming ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x2)
- The climbers crossed the hard névé early in the morning. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/#x4)
- Névé feels crunchy and grainy under your boots. [tree →](https://md.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".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «neve» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neve/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.