er

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[edit] English

Most common English words: known « thee « hope « #317: er » children » English » sure

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Interjection

er

  1. Said when hesitating in speech.

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to er

Third person singular
ers

Simple past
erred

Past participle
erred

Present participle
erring

to er (third-person singular simple present ers, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

  1. (informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found almost exclusively in the phrase um and er.
    He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.

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[edit] Anagrams

[edit] Breton

[edit] Contraction

er

  1. e (preposition "in") + ur (indefinite article "a(n)")
  2. e (preposition "in") + ar (definite article "the")

[edit] Cornish

[edit] Noun

er

  1. eagle

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[edit] Adjective

er

  1. every

[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛr/, [æɐ̯]

[edit] Verb form

er

  1. Present of være.

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Adverb

er

  1. there

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[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. (personal pronoun) Er is an object pronoun used instead of hem, haar, het, or hen when such pronoun would be the complement of a preposition (which is not grammatically wrong), in which case er becomes the complement of a postposition. If er is followed immediately by its postposition, the two words can merge to form a pronominal adverb (see the following list of "derived terms").
    Ik heb ermee gewerkt. — I have worked with it.
    Je kunt er de bergen boven zien. — You can see the mountains above it.

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[edit] Faroese

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[edit] Verb form

er

  1. he, she, it is, 3rd person singular present form of vera (to be)


[edit] Conjugation

vera, v
number singular plural
person first second third all
Indicative eg tú hann / hon
tað		 vit, tit,
teir / tær / tey
tygum
Present eri ert er eru
Past var vart var vóru
Imperative tú tit
Present — ver ! — verið !
Infinitive vera
Pres. part. verandi
Past part. -
Supine verið

[edit] German

[edit] Etymology

Old High German er.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. (personal) he.
    Wo ist Klaus? Wo ist er? — Where is Klaus? Where is he?
  2. (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
    Dies ist mein Hund. Er heißt Waldi. — This is my dog. Its name is Waldi.
    Dort steht ein Baum. Er ist über 100 Jahre alt. — There stands a tree. It is more than 100 years old.

[edit] Inflection

The genitive case seiner is more and more rarely used in modern German.

  • The genitive case seiner does not express ownership, so one must not mix it up with the possessive pronoun sein, which is declined by gender, singular/plural and case.

[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Verb

er

  1. first person singular present tense indicative of vera
    Ég er skemmtilegur.
    I am fun ("I" being a man)
    Hver er ég?
    Who am I?
  2. third person singular present tense indicative of vera
    Veit einhver hvar pabbi minn er?
    Does anybody know where my dad is?
    Hver er hann?
    Who is he?

[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. (relative pronoun) which
    Maður er sá, er Jón heitir.
    There is a man whose name is John.
    Konan, er hann var að tala við.
    The woman to whom he was talking.
    Þetta er borgin, er hann kom frá.
    This is the city from which he originated.
    Bærinn, er hún ætlar til.
    The town to which she's heading.
  2. (archaic) in relations with a demonstrative pronoun (this, that, these) or personal pronoun (I, we, they), which represents the genitive of a relative pronoun.
    Það er sú bók, er menn þekkja eigi höfund hennar.
    There is a book whose author people know not.

[edit] Conjunction

er

  1. (with an "indexical"; ábendingarorð) of a place, of a time

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Number

er (Pinyin èr, traditional and simplified 二)

  1. two

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[edit] Pinyin

er (form of er0 or er5)

  1. 儳: obstinate; stupid; uneven; mix
  2. 兒: son, child, oneself

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er

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, ér, ěr, or èr.

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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] Manx

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish for.

[edit] Preposition

er

  1. on
  2. onto
  3. during
  4. for

[edit] Inflection

Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd m. 3rd f. 1st 2nd 3rd
Normal orrym ort er urree orrin erriu orroo
Emphatic orryms orts ersyn urreeish orrinyn erriuish orroosyn


[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. 3rd person singular of er.
    on him/it

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Verb

er

  1. Present tense of være.

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[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. he

[edit] Old High German

[edit] Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *airiz, whence also Old English ær.

[edit] Adjective

ēr

  1. earlier

[edit] Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *aiz, akin to Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

[edit] Noun

ēr

  1. ore

[edit] Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *is (“‘he’”), akin to Gothic 𐌹𐍃 (is), “‘he’”) Latin is (“‘he’”).

[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. he
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  • German: er

[edit] Polish

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[edit] Noun

er

  1. plural genitive of era

[edit] Scots

[edit] Verb

er

  1. (South Scots) Second-person simple present form of ti be
  2. (South Scots) Plural simple present form of ti be
  3. (South Scots) First-person singular simple present form of an obscure form of ti be
    A'm er so!

[edit] Usage notes

Used emphatically. See ir.

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronoun

er c. (neuter possessive only ert, plural era)

  1. (accusative), (dative) yee, you (plural)
  2. (possessive) your, yours; (speaking to more than one person, about one object)
  3. (reflexive) of ni; c.f. yourselves
    Skulle ni vilja lära er jonglera? = Would you guys like to learn how to juggle?

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[edit] Turkish

[edit] Adjective

er

  1. early

[edit] Noun

er

  1. man

[edit] Verb form

er

  1. reach (imperative)

[edit] West Frisian

[edit] Pronoun

er

  1. he

[edit] Usage notes

  • (he): Er is used before the object of the sentence or after the verb, if there is one. It is never the first word of a sentence.
    • Doe't er in swolch naam -- "When he took a swallow", (literally "When he a swallow took")

Especially in narrative, er is used in the past tense. In other cases, hy is used.

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