en route

See also: enroute

English

Alternative forms

• enroute (misspelling)
• on route (misspelling)

Etymology

From French en route, from en (“in”) + route (“route”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒn ɹu(ː)t/, /ɑ(ː)n ɹu(ː)t/, /ɛn ɹu(ː)t/, /ɑ̃ ɹu(ː)t/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Prepositional phrase

en route

1. On the way.

   The shipment is en route to the buyer.

   • 2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Italy's potential opponents in Sunday's final might hope this game has taken a lot out of Mancini's men but you would not bank on it from a side who have simply got better and better, now adding Spain to Belgium as they claim victims of the highest class en route to the showpiece.

2. Along the way.

   The army advanced, capturing several cities en route.

Translations

on the way

• Afrikaans: op pad
• Arabic: فِي طَرِيق (fī ṭarīq), فِي مَسِيرَة (fī masīra)
• Catalan: en ruta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在路上 (zh) (zài lùshàng), 在途中

• Danish: på vej
• Dutch: onderweg (nl)
• Esperanto: survoje
• Faroese: á veg
• Finnish: matkalla (fi)
• French: en route (fr)
• German: unterwegs (de), en Route
• Greek: καθ' οδόν (kath' odón)
• Hebrew: בדרך (badèrekh)
• Hindi: रास्ते पर (rāste par)
• Hungarian: úton (hu), útban
• Icelandic: á leiðinni, á flugleið (en-route flying), á veg, á leið
• Italian: in arrivo
• Japanese: 途中で (ja) (とちゅうで, tochū de)
• Korean: 도중에 (ko) (dojung'e)
• Latin: in itinere
• Persian: در راه (dar râh) (formal), تو راه (tu râh) (informal)
• Polish: w drodze
• Portuguese: a caminho
• Russian: в пути́ (v putí), на пути́ (na putí), в доро́ге (v doróge)
• Sindhi: [script needed] (raste me ahe)
• Slovene: na poti
• Spanish: en ruta, en camino
• Swedish: på väg (sv)

along the way

• Afrikaans: op pad
• Catalan: de camí
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在途中 (zài túzhōng)

• Esperanto: survoje
• Finnish: matkan varrella
• French: sur la route, sur le chemin
• German: unterwegs (de)
• Greek: στην πορεία (stin poreía)
• Hungarian: útközben (hu), menet közben
• Japanese: 途中で (ja) (とちゅうで, tochū de)
• Korean: 도중에 (ko) (dojung'e)
• Polish: po drodze (pl)
• Portuguese: no caminho
• Russian: по пути́ (po putí), по доро́ге (po doróge)
• Slovene: spotoma
• Spanish: en ruta, en camino
• Swedish: på vägen

Anagrams

• outener

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ ʁut/

• Audio

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Prepositional phrase

en route

1. on the way, on one's way, en route

   être en route ― to be on the way

   se mettre en route ― to set off, to set oneself on the way

Derived terms

• en route mauvaise troupe

See also

• en chemin

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from French en route.

Phrase

en route

1. en route

Further reading

• “en route” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.