bi

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Symbol 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Adjective 2.2.1 Translations 2.3 Noun 3 Amuzgo 3.1 Adjective 4 Basque 4.1 Numeral 5 Danish 5.1 Noun 5.1.1 Inflection 5.1.2 See also 6 Isthmus Zapotec 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun 7 Kurdish 7.1 Preposition 8 Lojban 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Cmavo 9 Mandarin 9.1 Pinyin syllable 9.1.1 Usage notes 10 Old English 10.1 Alternative forms 10.2 Etymology 10.3 Preposition 10.3.1 Descendants 11 Scottish Gaelic 11.1 Verb 11.1.1 Inflection 12 Serbian 12.1 Adverb 13 Swedish 13.1 Noun 13.1.1 Usage notes 13.1.2 See also 13.2 Adjective 13.3 Adverb 13.3.1 Related terms 14 Volapük 14.1 Noun

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Symbol

Bi

1. see Bi

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /baɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: bye, buy, by

[edit] Adjective

bi (not comparable)

1. (informal) Bisexual.

[edit] Translations

• Italian: bisex it(it)

[edit] Noun

bi (plural bis)

1. (informal) A bisexual.

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[edit] Amuzgo

[edit] Adjective

bi

1. green

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[edit] Basque

[edit] Numeral

bi

1. two

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[edit] Danish

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[edit] Noun

bi c. (singular definite bien, plural indefinite bier)

1. (insect) bee

[edit] Inflection

[edit] See also

• hveps c.

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[edit] Isthmus Zapotec

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈbì]

[edit] Noun

bi

1. wind

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Preposition

bi

1. by

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bi/

[edit] Cmavo

bi (rafsi: biv)

1. eight
   • le bi gerku (the eight dogs)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

bi

1. Common misspelling of bī.
2. Common misspelling of bí.
3. Common misspelling of bǐ.
4. Common misspelling of bì.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Alternative forms

• be

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *bi (“‘near, by, around, about’”) from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“‘around’”) from Proto-Indo-European *ambhi (“‘around’”). Akin to Old High German bī "near, by" (German bei), Dutch bij, Gothic bi

[edit] Preposition

bī

1. by, near, around, to, in, at, about, with
2. beside

[edit] Descendants

• English by

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Verb

bi

1. To be

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Infinitive	a bhith
Imperative	bi
Present participle	a bhith
Past participle	air a bhith

	Present indicative	Past indicative	Future indicative	Conditional	Present subjunctive
First-person singular	tha	bha	bidh	bhithinn	gum bi
Second-person singular	tha	bha	bidh	bhitheadh	gum bi
Third-person singular	tha	bha	bidh	bhitheadh	gum bi
First-person plural	tha	bha	bidh	bhitheamaid	gum bi
Second-person plural	tha	bha	bidh	bhitheadh	gum bi
Third-person plural	tha	bha	bidh	bhitheadh	gum bi

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[edit] Serbian

[edit] Adverb

bi (Cyrillic spelling би)

1. would

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

Inflection for bi	Singular		Plural
neuter	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	bi	biet	bin	bina
Possessive form	bis	biets	bins	binas

bi n.

1. (insect) bee

[edit] Usage notes

More rare spellings of the defenite forms are bit/bits (singular) and bien/biens (plural). However, the spellings in the inflection box are the most common.

[edit] See also

• bålgeting c.
• geting c.

[edit] Adjective

bi

1. (informal) bisexual

[edit] Adverb

bi (not comparable)

1. (in some fixed expressions) by

[edit] Related terms

• stå någon bi

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[edit] Volapük

[edit] Noun

bi (plural: bis)

1. because