em

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Kurdish 2.1 Pronoun 3 Portuguese 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 3.3 Preposition 3.4 Usage notes 4 Scots 4.1 Verb 4.2 See also 5 Tok Pisin 5.1 Pronoun 6 Torres Strait Creole 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Pronoun 6.3 See also 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Pronoun 7.3 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

The typographic em is named after the metal type for the capital M in early printing, whose body was square (the printed letter M is almost never one em in width).

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕm, IPA: /ɛm/, SAMPA: /Em/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ɛm

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia

em (plural ems)

1. The name of the letter M, m. Found in compounds such as emcee.

   The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.

2. (typography) A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

[edit] Synonyms

• (typography): quad, em quad
• (typography): mutton, mut

[edit] Derived terms

• em dash

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: em
• me

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Pronoun

em

1. we; us (first person plural personal pronoun)

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[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Pronunciation

/ẽj̃/, /ĩ/

[edit] Etymology

Latin in

[edit] Preposition

em

1. in

[edit] Usage notes

When followed by an article, a demonstrative pronoun, or a dem. adjective, em is combined with the article to give the following combined forms:

Em + article	Combined form
em + o	no
em + a	na
em + os	nos
em + as	nas
em + um	num
em + uma	numa
em + uns	nuns
em + umas	numas

Em + dem. pronoun	Combined form
em + isso	nisso
em + isto	nisto

Em + dem. adjective	Combined form
em + esse	nesse
em + essa	nessa
em + esses	nesses
em + essas	nessas
em + este	neste
em + esta	nesta
em + estes	nestes
em + estas	nestas

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Verb

em

1. (South Scots) Emphatic first person singular simple present form of ti be

[edit] See also

• er
• es
• im

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[edit] Tok Pisin

[edit] Pronoun

em

1. The third person singular pronoun refers to a person or thing other than the speaker or the person being spoken to. Pronouns in Tok Pisin are not inflected for different cases.

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[edit] Torres Strait Creole

[edit] Etymology

Compare Tok Pisin ol, Bislama olgeta, Kriol olabat.

[edit] Pronoun

ol

1. they, them (more than three; indefinite)

[edit] See also

• dempla

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /eam/
• SAMPROSA: /-[eam]/
• IPA: /eam/
• Like the English "am"

[edit] Pronoun

em

1. Familial - to family members. you, when addressed to a younger sibling or to a wife.

[edit] Noun

em

1. younger sibling