also

See also alsó

English

Etymology

From Middle English also, alswo, alswa, (also alse, als, as > English as), from Old English ealswā, eallswā (“completely so, additionally, just as, just so, even as, even so, as, as if, so, so as, likewise, also; likewise, in just the same way”), equivalent to all +‎ so. Cognate with Scots alsa, alswa (“also, even so, in the same way, as, as well”), West Frisian alsa (“so, just so, even so, thus”), Old Saxon alsō (“similarly, as if, just as, when”), Dutch alzo (“so, thus”), German also (“so, thus”), Danish altså (“so”), Swedish alltså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus, then”). Compare also Swedish också (“also, too, as well”) and Albanian aq sa (“as much as”), compound of aq (“as much”) and sa (“how much, so, as”). See all, so, as.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɔːl.səʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"O:l.s@U/
• (US) IPA: /ˈal.soʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"al.soU/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: al‧so

Adverb

also (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. [from 14th c.]
2. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as. [14th-15th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     So in such maner they kepte Sir Launcelot foure and twenty dayes and also many nyghtis, that ever he lay stylle as a dede man.

Synonyms

• too
• eke
• as well

Translations

in addition; besides; as well; further; too

• Arabic: أيضًا (ar) ('áyDan), كذلك (ar) (ka-dhaalik(a))

  Egyptian Arabic: كمان (kaman - kman), بردو (bardo)

• Aragonese: tamien (an)
• Armenian: նաև (hy) (naev), նույնպես (hy) (nuynpes)
• Asturian: tamién (ast)
• Bavarian: aa
• Belarusian: таксама (be) (taksáma)
• Breton: ivez
• Bulgarian: също (bg) (sǎ̀što), също така (bg) (sǎšto taka)
• Catalan: també (ca)
• Cebuano: pud
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 也 (cmn) (yě), 並 (cmn), 并 (cmn) (bìng), 還 (cmn), 还 (cmn) (hái), 以及 (cmn) (yǐjí), 亦 (cmn) (yì) (rare; formal)

• Czech: také (cs)
• Dalmatian: anca
• Danish: også (da)
• Dutch: ook, eveneens (formal), tevens (formal)
• Eshtehardi: جی (ji)
• Esperanto: ankaŭ (eo)
• Estonian: samuti (et), ka (et), ühtlasi (et)
• Extremaduran: tamién
• Faroese: eisini (fo), við (fo)
• Finnish: myös (fi), -kin (fi)
• French: aussi (fr), également (fr)
• Galician: tamén (gl)
• Georgian: აგრეთვე (ka) (agret’ve), დამატებით (ka) (damatebit’), ასევე (ka) (aseve), -ც (ka) (-ts)
• German: auch (de)
• Greek: επίσης (el) (epísis)
• Guernésiais: étout
• Hebrew: גם (he) (gam)
• Hindi: भी (hi) (bhī)
• Hungarian: szintén (hu), is (hu), ugyancsak (hu)
• Icelandic: líka (is), einnig (is)
• Ido: anke
• Indonesian: juga (id)
• Interlingua: anque (ia), etiam (ia), tamben (ia)
• Irish: freisin (ga)
• Italian: anche (it)
• Japanese: も (ja) (mo), また (ja) (mata), さらに (ja) (sara-ni), にも (ja) (nimo)

• Korean: 또한 (ko) (ttohan), 또 (ko) (tto), 역시 (ko) (yeoksi)
• Latgalian: taipat, taipoš
• Latin: quoque (la)
• Latvian: arī (lv), tāpat (lv)
• Lithuanian: taip pat (lt)
• Macedonian: исто така (mk) (ísto táka), како и (mk) (káko i)
• Malay: juga (ms)
• Maltese: ukoll, anke
• Meänkieli: kansa
• Navajo: ałdóʼ
• Neapolitan: pure
• Nepali: पनि (ne) (puni)
• Norwegian: også (no)
• Persian: نیز (fa) (niz), هم (fa) (ham), همچنین (fa) (hamĉenin)
• Polish: też (pl), również (pl), także (pl)
• Portuguese: também (pt)
• Romanian: și (ro), de asemenea (ro), încă (ro)
• Russian: тоже (ru) (tóže), также (ru) (tákže)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: puru, fintzas

  Gallurese Sardinian: sina, puru

  Logudorese Sardinian: puru, finas

• Sassarese Sardinian: finamènta
• Scots: alswa, alsua
• Scottish Gaelic: cuideachd (gd), mar an ceudna (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: такође (sh), такођер (sh)

  Roman: takođe (sh), (Croatian) također (sh)

• Slovak: aj (sk), tiež (sk)
• Slovene: túdi (sl)
• Spanish: también (es), además (es)
• Swedish: också (sv)
• Tagalog: din (tl), rin (tl)
• Taos: hóbo
• Thai: ด้วย (th) (dûay)
• Ukrainian: так само (uk) (tak sámo), теж (uk) (tež), також (uk) (takóž)
• Urdu: بھی (ur) (bhī)
• Vietnamese: cũng (vi)
• Welsh: hefyd (cy)
• West Frisian: ek
• Yiddish: אויך (yi) (oykh)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: just · while · again · #145: also · away · against · though

Anagrams

• ASLO
• Laos, LAOS
• salo

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Interjection

also!

1. so!; all right!; used as a lead-in or to start a new topic.

Adverb

also

1. so
2. thus

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Luxembourgish

Adverb

also

1. so
2. thus, therefore

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch alsō, from al + sō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌalˈzoː/

Adverb

also

1. so, thus
2. also, to the same degree

Related terms

• alse

Descendants

• Dutch: alzo

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From al +‎ sō.

Preposition

alsō

1. as, like

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: also, alse
  • Dutch: alzo, als

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Volapük

Adverb

also

1. so
2. thus