befo

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See also: befo'

English

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Preposition

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befo

  1. (chiefly in representations of African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of before.
    • 1941, Work Projects Administration, “Arkansas Narratives: Volume 7”, in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States[1]:
      She carried me to a young woman to nurse for her what she nursed at Mostor Wilks befo freedom.
    • 1993 October 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bunuel's Neglected Masterpiece”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      I use t'know when Mom was alive, befo Gramps brot me out here," Meersman replies in a delivery so flat as to make her seem not so much a bad actress as a nonactress.

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Verb

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befo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of befar

Old English

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Verb

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befō

  1. inflection of befōn:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin bifidus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbefo/ [ˈbe.fo]
  • Rhymes: -efo
  • Syllabification: be‧fo

Adjective

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befo (feminine befa, masculine plural befos, feminine plural befas)

  1. Alternative form of belfo

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