conjunction

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Etymology

Via Old French from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən

Noun

conjunction (plural conjunctions)

1. The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
2. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 ch. 29:

     Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.

3. (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
5. (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
6. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ($\and$) operator.

Coordinate terms

• (in logic): disjunction

Hypernyms

• (in logic): logical connective

Meronyms

• (in logic): conjunct

Derived terms

• inferior conjunction
• superior conjunction
• conjunctive normal form

Related terms

• conjugate

Translations

act of joining or being joined

• Bulgarian: съединение (bg) (sǎedinénie) n, свързване (bg) (svǎ̀rzvane) n
• Catalan: conjunció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 結合 (git3 hap6), 連接 (lin4 zip3)

  Mandarin: 结合 (cmn), 結合 (cmn) (jié hé), 连接 (cmn), 連接 (cmn) (lián jiē)

• Finnish: liittäminen (fi), yhdistäminen (fi)
• Galician: conxunción (gl) f
• Greek: σύνδεση (el) (sýndesi) f
• Interlingua: conjunction (ia)
• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (ketsugō), 接合 (ja) (setsugō), 接続 (ja) (setsuzoku), 連接 (ja) (rensetsu)

• Macedonian: спој (mk) (spoj) m, врска (mk) (v'rska) f
• Malay: penggabungan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sammensetning (nb) m

• Polish: łączenie (pl) n, połączenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f
• Romanian: unire (ro) f, îmbinare (ro) f
• Russian: союз (ru) (sojúz) m, связь (ru) (svjazʹ) f
• Spanish: conjunción (es) f, unión (es) f

grammar: word used to join words or phrases

• Albanian: lidhëz (sq)
• Arabic: حرف عطف (ar) (ḥarf ʿaṭf) m
• Aragonese: conchunción (an) f
• Armenian: շաղկապ (hy) (šaġkap)
• Asturian: conxunción (ast) f
• Azeri: bağlayıcı (az)
• Bashkir: теркәүес (terkäwes)
• Belarusian: злучнік (be) (zlúčnik) m
• Breton: stagell (br) f
• Bulgarian: съюз (bg) (sǎjúz) m
• Catalan: conjunció (ca) f
• Chechen: хуттург
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 連接詞 (lin4 zip3 ci4), 連詞 (lin4 ci4)

  Mandarin: 連接詞 (cmn), 连接词 (cmn) (liánjiēcí), 連詞 (cmn), 连词 (cmn) (liáncí)

• Czech: spojka (cs) f
• Danish: bindeord (da)
• Dutch: voegwoord (nl) n
• Estonian: sidesõna (et)
• Faroese: sambindingarorð (fo) n
• Finnish: konjunktio (fi), sidesana (fi)
• French: conjonction (fr) f
• Galician: conxunción (gl) f
• Georgian: კავშირი (ka) (kavshiri)
• German: Konjunktion (de) f, Bindewort (de) n
• Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) (sýndesmos) m
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kötőszó (hu)
• Icelandic: samtenging (is) f
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: kata penghubung (id)
• Interlingua: conjunction (ia)
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cónasc (ga) m
• Italian: congiunzione (it) f

• Japanese: 接続詞 (ja) (せつぞくし, setsuzokushi)
• Khmer: ឈ្នាប់ (km) (chnuab)
• Korean: 접속사 (ko) (jeopsoksa) (接續詞 (ko))
• Latin: coniunctio (la) f
• Latvian: saiklis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: jungtukas (lt) m
• Macedonian: сврзник (mk) (sv'rznik) m
• Malay: kata penghubung (ms)
• Maltese: konġunzjoni (mt) f
• Norwegian: konjunksjon (no) m, bindeord (no) n
• Novial: konjunktione
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: حرف ربط (fa) (harf-e rabt)
• Polish: spójnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f
• Romanian: conjuncție (ro) f
• Russian: союз (ru) (sojúz) m
• Scottish Gaelic: naisgear (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: везник (sh) m

  Roman: veznik (sh) m

• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: spojka (sk) f
• Slovene: veznik (sl) m
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: conjunción (es) f
• Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c
• Telugu: సంయోజకము (te) (samyojakamu)
• Thai: สันธาน (th) (săn-taan)
• Turkish: bağlaç (tr)
• Ukrainian: сполучник (uk) (spolúčnyk) m
• Vietnamese: sự liên kết (vi)
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

astronomy: alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth

• Catalan: conjunció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 會合, 会合 (wui6 hap6)

  Mandarin: 會合 (cmn), 会合 (cmn) (huìhé)

• Czech: konjunkce (cs)
• Finnish: konjunktio (fi)
• German: Konjunktion (de) f
• Greek: σύνοδος (el) (sýnodos) f
• Hungarian: együttállás (hu)

• Interlingua: conjunction (ia)
• Irish: cónasc (ga) m
• Japanese: 会合 (ja) (kaigō), 合 (ja) (gō)
• Malay: kesebarisan (ms)
• Polish: koniunkcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f
• Romanian: conjuncție (ro) f
• Russian: конъюнкция (ru) (konʺjúnkcija) f
• Spanish: conjunción (es) f
• Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c

logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the and operator

• Bulgarian: съединение (bg) (sǎedinenie) n
• Czech: konjunkce (cs) f
• Esperanto: konjunkcio (eo)
• French: conjonction (fr) f
• German: Konjunktion (de) f
• Greek: σύζευξη (el) (sýzefxi) f
• Icelandic: ogun (is) f
• Interlingua: conjunction (ia)

• Japanese: 連接 (ja) (rensetsu)
• Macedonian: конјункција (mk) (konjúnkcija) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konjunksjon (nb) m

• Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f
• Russian: конъюнкция (ru) (konjúnkcija) f
• Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: konjunktsioon
• Ancient Greek: σύνδεσμος (sýndesmos) m
• Indonesian: kata sambung, kata penghubung
• Interlingua: conjunction
• Latin: coniunctio f
• Lithuanian: jungtukas m
• Romanian: conjuncție f

See also

• disjunction