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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Abbreviation of electronic mail
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
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.
- He sent me an e-mail last week to that effect.
- I am searching through my old e-mails.
- (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?
Usage notes [edit]
- 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 orthographic 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.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
system
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message sent via e-mail
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an e-mail address
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Verb [edit]
e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)
- (transitive) To send an e-mail or e-mails to.
- She e-mailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
- (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an e-mail or e-mails.
- Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day e-mailing and surfing the Web.
- (transitive, may take two objects) To send via e-mail.
- I'll e-mail you the link.
- He e-mailed the file out to everyone.
Translations [edit]
to send an e-mail or e-mails to
intransitive: to send an e-mail or e-mails
to send via e-mail
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Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Czech [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Noun [edit]
e-mail m
Danish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English e-mail.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /iːmɛjl/, [ˈiːˌmɛjl]
Noun [edit]
e-mail c (singular definite e-mailen, plural indefinite e-mail or e-mails)
- e-mail [from 1992]
Inflection [edit]
Inflection of e-mail
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | e-mailen | e-mail e-mails |
e-mailene | |
| genitive | e-mails | e-mailens | e-mails e-mails' |
e-mailenes |
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
External links [edit]
E-mail on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
e-mail m (plural e-mails, diminutive e-mailtje)
Derived terms [edit]
Verb [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
Noun [edit]
e-mail f and m (invariable)
Anagrams [edit]
Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English e-mail.
Noun [edit]
e-mail m (plural e-mails)
Related terms [edit]
- e-mailer (“to e-mail”)
Polish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈimɛjl/
Noun [edit]
e-mail m
Declension [edit]
declension of e-mail
Synonyms [edit]
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- English abbreviations
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English informal terms
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- Czech masculine nouns
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- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish nouns
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch verb forms
- Italian nouns
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