en
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en
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- eng (ISO 639-3)
[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Abbreviation
en
[edit] Etymology 1
The name of the letter comes from Latin en. Typographic sense 1793.
[edit] Noun
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en (plural ens)
- The name of the letter N, n.
- The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
- (typography) A unit of measurement equal to half of an em (half of the height of the type in use).
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[edit] Etymology 2
From French
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en
- Used in various phrases borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).
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en
[edit] Asturian
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[edit] Preposition
en
[edit] Usage notes
- The preposition en contracts to n' before a word beginning with a vowel or h-: n'Asturies (in Asturias), n'honor (in honor)
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English
[edit] Breton
[edit] Contraction
en
- e (preposition "in") + un (indefinite article "a(n)")
- e (preposition "in") + an (definite article "the")
[edit] Catalan
[edit] Etymology 1
From the final syllable of Latin domine (“‘Mister’”).
[edit] Article
en m. sg. (elided n', feminine na)
- (Eastern Catalan) Personal article used before masculine given names instead of the definite article el.
[edit] Derived terms
- can (contraction of ca and ne)
[edit] Usage notes
- While this article (and its feminine counterpart na) is standard in Baleric Catalan, in other Eastern Catalan dialects its use is waning, and the elided of the definite article, l', is used before names beginning with vowels. There is no plural personal article, so the plural definite article els is used in all dialects.
[edit] Etymology 2
From Latin in (“‘in, inside’”).
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en
[edit] Etymology 3
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en (elided n', enclitic ne, reduced 'n)
- represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
- represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
- replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
- replaces the object of a causative verb
[edit] Usage notes
- En cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
- While en is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the prepostion de, adverbial phrases (eg de pressa) are replaced with hi.
- En is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
- En is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.
- When en is used as a preposition to introduce the object of a verb, this object is replaced not by en but by hi:
- No crec en Déu → No hi crec.
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- en
[edit] Danish
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ói-no- (“‘one’”).
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en (neuter et)
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en (neuter et)
- (cardinal) one
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en (or én, neuter et or ét, definite ene)
[edit] Dutch
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en
- and
- De oude man en de zee.
- well, so
- En, hoe gaat het ermee?
- Well, how're you doing?
- En?
- Well?
- En, wat zou dat?
- So what?
- En, hoe gaat het ermee?
- (mathematics) plus, and
- Drie en vier is zeven.
- Three plus four is seven.
- Drie en vier is zeven.
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[edit] Esperanto
[edit] Preposition
en
- in, within, inside
- Ĝi estas en la domo. It is in (within, inside) the house.
- into (when followed by a noun or phrase in the accusative case)
- Ri iras en la domon. He goes into the house.
[edit] Finnish
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [en]
- Hyphenation: en
[edit] Verb
en
- The first-person singular form of the negation verb. The English translations include do not/don’t and not (with auxiliary verbs and be).
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- The negative verb has no infinitive form. The negative verb is the same with indicative, conditional and potential mood and, with those moods, it is conjugated only in person. (For the negative verb in the imperative mood, see älä/älköön/älkäämme/älkää/älkööt — the first person singular, naturally, does not have an imperative form. An archaic optative mood has a second-person singular form, ällös.)
| singular | plural | |
| first person | en | emme |
| second person | et | ette |
| third person | ei | eivät |
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- The negative verb is used with the connegative form of the main verb. That form is identical to the second-person singular imperative in the indicative present. The potential mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -ne-, and the conditional mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -isi-. In the indicative past, conditional past and potential past, the active past participle singular (ending -ut/-yt) is used. The connegative form of the main verb is always used without the personal suffix.
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- Usage of en:
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- Indicative:
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- Conditional:
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- Minä näkisin. (I would see.) -> Minä en näkisi. (I would not see.)
- Minä olisin nähnyt. (I would have seen.) -> Minä en olisi nähnyt. (I would not have seen.)
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- Potential:
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- Minä nähnen. (I probably see.) -> Minä en nähne. (I probably do not see.)
- Minä lienen nähnyt. (I have probably seen.) -> Minä en liene nähnyt. (I have probably not seen.)
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[edit] French
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en
- Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity.
- J'ai trois livres. J'en ai trois. — I have three books.
- Il y a beaucoup de chambres. Il y en a beaucoup. — There are many rooms.
- Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned. En replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.)
- Elle vient de Barcelone. Elle en vient. — She comes from Barcelona.
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| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j' | me, m' | — | — | moi | ||
| Second | — | tu, t' | te, t' | — | — | toi | |||
| Third | Masculine | il | se, s' | le, l' | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l' | elle | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s' | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | |||||||
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en
- In (used mostly to indicate distance in time or space).
- Eg: En Pointe ( ballet ).
[edit] Galician
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Preposition
en
[edit] Usage notes
The preposition en contracts to n- before articles, before third-person tonic pronouns, and before the determiners algún and outro.
[edit] Derived terms
- na, nas, no, nos
- nalgún, nalgunha, nalgunhas, nalgúns
- nel, nela, nelas, neles
- noutra, noutras, noutro, noutros
- nun, nunha, nunhas, nuns
[edit] Haitian Creole
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From French one, from Latin ūnus (“‘one’”).
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en
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[edit] Icelandic
[edit] Adverb
en
- how
- Nei, Elín? En gaman að sjá þig!
- Elín? How good to see you!
- Nei, Elín? En gaman að sjá þig!
[edit] Conjunction
en
- but
- than (with an adjective in the comparative)
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[edit] Usage notes
- In the sentence
- the word en ("than") one can omitted, and the subject (which is here the word "ég" or "I") can be put into the dative case.
- Now the sentence has the same meaning, only much more formal. In order to make the sentence more casual- one can reposition the subject (in the dative).
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en
[edit] Japanese
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en (hiragana えん)
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[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔäń (˜x-) ("wave").
[edit] Noun
en (plural ēnaŋ)
[edit] Noun
en
- Plural form of ei. (pine trees)
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en
- A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, ēn, én, ěn, or èn.
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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.
[edit] Norwegian Bokmål
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- ein (Nynorsk)
[edit] Article
en
- a; masculine gender
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See én
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en
[edit] Spanish
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en
- in, at, on
- Estoy en casa - I am at home
- en esta página - on this page
- in (a time)
- en la antigüedad - in antiquity
- en 1999 - in 1999
- in (a language)
- No conozco esta palabra en francés - I don't know this word in French
- en todos los idiomas - in all languages
- (used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English)
- Pienso en tí - I think of you.
- in (used in various expressions)
- en el sentido - in the sense.
- en nuestro afán - in our eagerness
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en
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Etymology 1
From Old Swedish han, accusative form of han, losing its initial h when unstressed. In standard Swedish the corresponding dative form honom (from Old Norse hánum) instead has taken its place.
[edit] Pronoun
en
- One (personal: man, possessive: ens)
- (dialectal, strongly colloquial) him; accusative and dative of han
- Jo, ja' gav'en brevet.
- Yes, I gave him the letter.
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Dialect sense rarely found in written form unless supposed to imitate (dialectal) speech.
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[edit] Etymology 2
[edit] Cardinal number
en (neuter ett)
- (cardinal) one
[edit] Article
en c. (neuter ett)
[edit] Etymology 3
From earlier ene (sometimes also ener), from Old Norse einir.
[edit] Noun
| Inflection for en | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Nominative | en | enen | enar | enarna |
| Genitive | ens | enens | enars | enarnas |
en c.
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[edit] Turkish
[edit] Noun
en
[edit] Adverb
en
- An adverb which makes the adjective after it superlative. Example:
[edit] West Frisian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɛn/
[edit] Conjunction
en