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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

From English English.

[edit] Abbreviation

en

  1. The ISO 639-1 official language code of English

[edit] Synonyms

  • eng (ISO 639-3)

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

all pronunciations
Abbreviation
Noun
Preposition

[edit] Abbreviation

en

  1. English

[edit] Etymology 1

The name of the letter comes from Latin en. Typographic sense 1793.

[edit] Noun

Singular
en

Plural
ens

en (plural ens)

  1. The name of the letter N, n.
    The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
  2. (typography) A unit of measurement equal to half of an em (half of the height of the type in use).
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
name of the letter N, n
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[edit] Etymology 2

From French

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. Used in various phrases borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from en

[edit] Afrikaans

[edit] Conjunction

en

  1. and
  2. well
    Ek sit en drink koeldrank — I sit and drink a cold drink.
    En? — well?

[edit] Asturian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin in.

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. in

[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)

[edit] Derived terms

terms derived from en

English

[edit] Breton

[edit] Contraction

en

  1. e (preposition "in") + un (indefinite article "a(n)")
  2. 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)

  1. (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’”).

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. in

[edit] Etymology 3

From Latin inde (“‘there’”).

[edit] Pronoun

en (elided n', enclitic ne, reduced 'n)

  1. represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
  2. represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
  3. replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
  4. 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.

[edit] See also

[edit] Crimean Tatar

[edit] Noun

  • en
  1. width

[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ói-no- (“‘one’”).

[edit] Article

en (neuter et)

  1. a, an

[edit] Numeral

en (neuter et)

  1. (cardinal) one

[edit] Pronoun

en (or én, neuter et or ét, definite ene)

  1. one

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Conjunction

en

  1. and
    De oude man en de zee.
    The Old Man and the Sea.
  2. well, so
    En, hoe gaat het ermee?
    Well, how're you doing?
    En?
    Well?
    En, wat zou dat?
    So what?
  3. (mathematics) plus, and
    Drie en vier is zeven.
    Three plus four is seven.

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[edit] See also

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. in, within, inside
    Ĝi estas en la domo. It is in (within, inside) the house.
  2. 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

  1. The first-person singular form of the negation verb. The English translations include do not/don’t and not (with auxiliary verbs and be).

[edit] Conjugation

  • 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

[edit] Usage notes

  • 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.
  • Usage of en:
  • Indicative:
  • Minä näen. (I see.) -> Minä en näe. (I do not see.)
  • Minä näin. (I saw.) -> Minä en nähnyt. (I did not see.)
  • Minä olen nähnyt. (I have seen.) -> Minä en ole nähnyt. (I have not seen.)
  • Minä olin nähnyt. (I had seen.) -> Minä en ollut nähnyt. (I had not seen.)
  • Conditional:
  • 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.)
  • Potential:
  • 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

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

en

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
[edit] Related terms
    French personal pronouns
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

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. In (used mostly to indicate distance in time or space).
    Eg: En Pointe ( ballet ).

[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From Latin in.

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. in

[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

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French one, from Latin ūnus (“‘one’”).

[edit] Cardinal number

en

  1. one

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[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Adverb

en

  1. how

[edit] Conjunction

en

  1. but
    Bjóðum Önnu en ekki Björk.
    Let's invite Anna but not Björk.
    Ég ætla að fá brauð en ekki mjólk.
    I'll have bread but not milk.
  2. than (with an adjective in the comparative)
    Ég er betri en bróðir minn.
    I'm better than my brother.

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. in

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

en (hiragana えん)

  1. 円: circle or yen
  2. 縁: brim or fate
  3. 塩: salt (chemical)
  4. 園: garden

[edit] Kott

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔäń (˜x-) ("wave").

[edit] Noun

en (plural ēnaŋ)

  1. wave

[edit] Noun

en

  1. Plural form of ei. (pine trees)

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

en

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, ēn, én, ěn, or èn.

[edit] Usage notes

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

[edit] Alternative spellings

  • ein (Nynorsk)

[edit] Article

en

  1. a; masculine gender

[edit] Cardinal number

See én

  1. one

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[edit] Old Frisian

[edit] Numeral

en

  1. one

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

From Latin in.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Preposition

en

  1. in, at, on
    Estoy en casa - I am at home
    en esta página - on this page
  2. in (a time)
    en la antigüedad - in antiquity
    en 1999 - in 1999
  3. in (a language)
    No conozco esta palabra en francés - I don't know this word in French
    en todos los idiomas - in all languages
  4. (used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English)
    Pienso en tí - I think of you.
  5. in (used in various expressions)
    en el sentido - in the sense.
    en nuestro afán - in our eagerness

[edit] Sranan Tongo

[edit] Pronoun

en

  1. he
  2. him

[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

  1. One (personal: man, possessive: ens)
  2. (dialectal, strongly colloquial) him; accusative and dative of han
    Jo, ja' gav'en brevet.
    Yes, I gave him the letter.
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[edit] Usage notes

Dialect sense rarely found in written form unless supposed to imitate (dialectal) speech.

[edit] See also

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Norse einn.

[edit] Cardinal number

en (neuter ett)

  1. (cardinal) one

[edit] Article

en c. (neuter ett)

  1. the indefinite article: a, an.

[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.

  1. juniper


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[edit] Turkish

[edit] Noun

en

  1. width
  2. a cachet on an animal or bonded goods

[edit] Adverb

en

  1. An adverb which makes the adjective after it superlative. Example:

[edit] West Frisian

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Conjunction

en

  1. and
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