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[edit] Etymology
From electronic + mail.
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e-mail (countable and uncountable; plural e-mails)
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via e-mail.
- The advent of e-mail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable; see Usage notes below) A message sent via an e-mail system.
- I am searching through my old e-mails.
- He sent me several e-mails last week to that effect.
- (uncountable; see Usage notes below) A quantity of e-mail messages.
- I am searching through my old e-mail.
- My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of e-mail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- (informal) An e-mail address.
- What's your e-mail?
[edit] Usage notes
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- The spellings e-mail and email are both in common use. The use of “email” is now more widespread, likely due to one less character and thus making it easier to write or type, and is becoming a standardized usage for most businesses and Internet users. In general, the hyphenated form is more likely to be considered proper by those who follow strict grammatical rules; however, as a recently coined word, it remains an unsettled matter at this point.
- As a contraction of electronic mail, some feel that e-mail should follow the same pluralization rules and be uncountable, prohibiting the forms e-mails and an e-mail. Others feel that it is not necessary for e-mail to maintain grammatical similarity to mail, and prefer to pluralize the term as a countable noun. This issue is hotly debated, but it is seldom considered incorrect to use the uncountable form.
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system
- Arabic: بريد إلكتروني ar(ar) (barīd iliktrūnī) m., إيميل ar(ar) (īmeil) m.
- Belarusian: электронная пошта be(be) (elektrónnaja póšta) f., iмэйл be(be) (iméjl) m., мэйл be(be) (mejl) m.
- Bulgarian: имейл bg(bg) (imejl) m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電子郵件 cmn(cmn), 电子邮件 cmn(cmn) (diànzǐ yóujiàn), 伊妹兒 cmn(cmn), 伊妹儿 cmn(cmn) (yīmèi'er)
- Czech: e-mail cs(cs) m., email cs(cs) m.
- Danish: e-mail da(da) c., e-post da(da) c.
- Dutch: mail nl(nl) m., e-mail nl(nl) m.
- Esperanto: retpoŝto
- Estonian: e-post et(et)
- Faroese: teldupostur fo(fo) m.
- Finnish: sähköposti fi(fi)
- French: courrier électronique m., courriel m., email m. (colloquial), mél m.
- German: E-Mail de(de) f.
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο el(el) (ilektronikó taçiðromío) n., ηλ. ταχ. el(el) n.
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- Hebrew: דואר אלקטרוני (do'ar elektroni)
- Icelandic: tölvupóstur m., netpóstur m., e-mail n.
- Italian: posta elettronica it(it) f., e-mail it(it) f.
- Japanese: 電子メール ja(ja) (でんしメール, denshi mēru), Eメール ja(ja) (ī mēru), イーメール ja(ja) (īmēru), メール ja(ja) (mēru)
- Kurdish: ئی نامه ku(ku) (e-name), ئی پهیام ku(ku) (e-peyam)
- Lithuanian: el. paštas
- Macedonian: електронска пошта mk(mk) (eletrónska póšta) f.
- Malay: surat elektronik, surel
- Norwegian: e-post no(no) m., epost no(no) m.
- Polish: e-mail pl(pl) m.
- Russian: электронная почта ru(ru) (elektrónnaja póčta) f., имейл ru(ru) (iméjl) m., мейл ru(ru) (mejl) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: post-dealain gd(gd) m.
- Spanish: correo electrónico es(es) m., correo-e es(es) m.
- Swedish: e-post, e-mail n., email n., e-mejl n., mejl n.
- Ukrainian: електронна пошта uk(uk) (elektrónna póšta) f., iмейл uk(uk) (iméjl) m., мейл uk(uk) (mejl) m.
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message sent via e-mail
- Arabic: إيميل ar(ar) (īmeil) m.
- Belarusian: iмэйл be(be) (iméjl) m., мэйл be(be) (mejl) m.
- Bulgarian: имейл bg(bg) (imejl) m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電子郵件 cmn(cmn), 电子邮件 cmn(cmn) (diànzǐ yóujiàn), 伊妹兒 cmn(cmn), 伊妹儿 cmn(cmn) (yīmèi'er)
- Czech: e-mail cs(cs) m.
- Danish: e-mail da(da), e-brev da(da) n.
- Dutch: mail m., e-mail m., e-mailbericht n.
- Estonian: e-kiri
- Faroese: teldubræv fo(fo) n., teldupostur fo(fo) m.
- Finnish: viesti fi(fi), sähköpostiviesti fi(fi), sähköposti fi(fi)
- French: courriel fr(fr) m., courrier électronique fr(fr) m., (colloquial) email fr(fr) m.
- German: E-Mail de(de) f., Mail de(de) f.
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο el(el) (ilektronikó taçiðromío) n., ηλεκτρονικό μήνυμα el(el) (ilektronikó mínima) n.
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- Hebrew: דוא"ל he(he)
- Icelandic: tölvubréf n., tölvupóstur m.
- Italian: messaggio di posta elettronica it(it), e-mail it(it) f.
- Japanese: 電子メール ja(ja) (でんしメール, denshi mēru), Eメール ja(ja) (ī mēru), イーメール ja(ja) (īmēru), メール ja(ja) (mēru)
- Korean: 이메일 ko(ko) (imeil)
- Macedonian: електронска порака mk(mk) (eletrónska póraka) f., електронско писмо mk(mk) (eletrónsko písmo) n.
- Norwegian: e-post no(no) m., e-brev no(no) n.
- Polish: e-mail pl(pl) m.
- Russian: имейл ru(ru) (iméjl) m., мейл ru(ru) (mejl) m., сообщение ru(ru) (soobščénije) n., письмо ru(ru) (pis’mó) n.
- Scottish Gaelic: post-dealain gd(gd) m.
- Turkish: e-posta tr(tr), e-mail tr(tr), elektronik posta tr(tr)
- Ukrainian: iмейл uk(uk) (iméjl) m., мейл uk(uk) (mejl) m.
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to e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)
- To compose and send an e-mail
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to compose and send an e-mail
[edit] See also
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e-mail m.
- e-mail
[edit] Italian
e-mail f. and m. inv.
- e-mail (system, message)
- e-mail address
