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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English < Old English and, ond (“‘thereupon, next’”) < Proto-Germanic *unda < Proto-Indo-European *anti (“‘facing opposite, near, in front of, before’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Conjunction

and

  1. Used to connect two homogeneous (similar) words or phrases.
  2. Used at the end of a list to indicate the last item.
    bread, butter, and cheese
  3. Used to join sentences or sentence fragments in chronological order.
  4. Used to indicate causation.
    Ask me the definition of “and” again and I’ll scream.

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[edit] Usage notes

Usage notes
  1. Beginning a sentence with and or any other conjunction is considered incorrect by classical grammarians, but use of the word in this way is very common. The practice will be found in literature from Anglo-Saxon times onwards, especially as an aid to continuity in narrative and dialogue. The OED provides examples from the 9th century to the 19th century, including one from Shakespeare’s King John: “Arthur. Must you with hot Irons, burne out both mine eyes? Hubert. Young boy, I must. Arthur. And will you? Hubert. And I will.” It is also used for other rhetorical purposes, especially to denote surprise

    (O John! and you have seen him! And are you really going?—1884

    in OED) and sometimes just to introduce an improvised afterthought

    (I’m going to swim. And don’t you dare watch—G. Butler, 1983)

    It is however poor style to separate short statements into separate sentences when no special effect is needed: I opened the door and I looked into the room (not I opened the door. And I looked into the room).

  2. And is often omitted for contextual effects of various kinds, especially between sequences of descriptive adjectives which can be separated by commas or simply by spaces

    (The teeming jerrybuilt dun-coloured traffic-ridden deafening city—Penelope Lively, 1987)

    And all is a well-established tag added to the end of a statement, as in

    Isn’t it amazing? He has a Ph.D. and all—J. Shute, 1992

    . With the nominal meaning “also, besides, in addition”, the use has origins in dialect, as can be seen from the material from many regions given in the English Dialect Dictionary (often written in special ways, e.g., ano’, an’-all, an’ a’). In many of the examples it seems to lack any perceptible lexical meaning and to be just a rhythmical device to eke out a sentence.

  3. And also has special uses: to show progression (faster and faster), cause and effect (do that and I’ll send you to bed)’ duration (they ran and ran), a large number or quantity (miles and miles), and addition (four and four are eight), purpose (where and replaces to: Try and come tomorrow).
  4. Another special use, recorded in the OED from the 16th century, is to express “a difference of quality between things of the same name or class”, as in W.S. Gilbert’s lines from the Gondoliers (1889): “Well, as to that, of course there are kings and kings. When I say I detest kings I mean I detest bad kings”. To this we may add some modern examples:

    There are ways to steal and there are ways to steal—New Yorker, 1988

    There is homelessness and homelessness. The word has become a shibboleth for opposition politicians and the ‘caring’ media … The sort of homelessness which means despair is quite different from the sort that means adventure—Times, 1991

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[edit] Translations

Used to connect two similar words, phrases, et cetera
Used at the end of a list to indicate the last item
Used to string together sentences or sentence fragments in chronological order
Used to show causation
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[edit] Amharic

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and

  1. (cardinal) one.

[edit] Danish

[edit] Noun

and

  1. duck

[edit] Estonian

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From the same Finno-Ugric root *amta as Finnish antaa and Hungarian ad

[edit] Noun

and

  1. gift

[edit] Norwegian

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and c. (definite singular [[anda/anden]]; indefinite plural [[ender]]; definite plural [[endene]])

  1. duck

[edit] Old English

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Common Germanic *andi

[edit] Conjunction

and

  1. and

[edit] Preposition

and

  1. with
  2. against

[edit] Swedish

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[edit] Noun

Inflection for and Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative and anden änder änderna
Genitive ands andens änders ändernas

and c.

  1. a wild duck

[edit] See also

  • anka (domesticated duck)
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