et

See also Appendix:Variations of "et"

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From French et, in turn from Latin et

Conjunction

et

1. (obsolete) and

See also

• et al., et alia, et aliae, et alii, et alios
• et alibi
• et seq.

Etymology 2

Verb

et

1. (colloquial or dialectal) Simple past tense and past participle of eat.
   • 1896: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective [1]

     Well, the man was astonished, of course; and first off he looked like he didn't know whether to be scared, or glad, or both, or which, but finally he settled down to being glad; and then his color come back, though at first his face had turned pretty white. So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast.

   • 1907: O. Henry, Seats of the Haughty [2]

     'Boss,' says the cabby, 'I et a steak in that restaurant once. If you're real hungry, I advise you to try the saddle-shops first.'

   • 1919: Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Long-Distance Call From Jim

     Well, I don't care if he does! I can remember the time when he et a good old-fashioned supper. And it's awful silly to call it dinner. 'Breakfast, dinner and supper, created He them.' I believe I could find them very words in the Bible if I set out to hunt.

   • 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

     Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert.

   • 18 February 1946: Life magazine

     It must have been somethin’ I et!

   • 1996: Dana Lyons, "Cows with Guns"

     They eat to grow, grow to die / Die to be et at the hamburger fry

   • 2001: Richard Williams, The Animator's Survival Kit (p. 220)

     Something I et?

Anagrams

• te

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Catalan

Pronoun

et (proclitic, contracted t', enclitic te, contracted enclitic 't)

1. you, thee (singular, direct or indirect object)

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi2	em, m'	-me, 'm	em, m'	-me, 'm	meu
2nd person	tu	et, t'	-te, 't	et, t'	-te, 't	teu
2nd person formal4	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person  very formal1	vostè	el, l'	-lo, 'l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l'	-lo, 'l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l'3	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s'	-se, 's	es, s'	-se, 's	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, 'ns	ens	-nos, 'ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal1	vostès	els	-los, 'ls	els	-los, 'ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, 'ls	els	-los, 'ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, 'ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s'	-se, 's	es, s'	-se, 's	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n'	-ne, 'n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person. 2) Only as object of a preposition.			3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-. 4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

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Estonian

Etymology

From the same Uralic root *e as Finnish että and Hungarian ez

Conjunction

et

1. that

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [et]
• Hyphenation: et

Etymology 1

Verb

et

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

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 et:

• Indicative:

• Sinä näet. (You see.) -> Sinä et näe. (You do not see.)
• Sinä näit. (You saw.) -> Sinä et nähnyt. (You did not see.)
• Sinä olet nähnyt. (You have seen.) -> Sinä et ole nähnyt. (You have not seen.)
• Sinä olit nähnyt. (You had seen.) -> Sinä et ollut nähnyt. (You had not seen.)

• Conditional:

• Sinä näkisit. (You would see.) -> Sinä et näkisi. (You would not see.)
• Sinä olisit nähnyt. (You would have seen.) -> Sinä et olisi nähnyt. (You would not have seen.)

• Potential:

• Sinä nähnet. (You probably see.) -> Sinä et nähne. (You probably do not see.)
• Sinä lienet nähnyt. (You have probably seen.) -> Sinä et liene nähnyt. (You have probably not seen.)

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 second-person singular of the negative verb in the imperative mood, see älä. An archaic optative mood has also a second-person singular form, ällös.)

	singular	plural
first person	en	emme
second person	et	ette
third person	ei	eivät

Etymology 2

Shortened form of että.

Conjunction

et

1. (subordinating, colloquial) That.

Synonyms

• että (standard Finnish)

Anagrams

• te

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French

Etymology

From Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA: [e], SAMPA: [e]

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: ai

Conjunction

et

1. and

Anagrams

• te

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /et/

• Audio (Classical)

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Conjunction

et

1. and
2. (mathematics) plus

   Duo et duo sunt quattuor.

   Two plus two equals four.

Usage notes

• When used in pairs, et...et may function like English both...and

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Synonyms

• &
• (and): -que

Derived terms

et cetera etcetera etiam

et al et tu, Brute et uxor, et ux

Descendants

Anglo-Norman: e Aragonese: y Asturian: y Catalan: i French: et Friulian: e Galician: e Italian: e and ed Ladino: i and אי Middle French: et

Occitan: e Old French: e and et Old Provençal: e Old Spanish: e Picard: et Portuguese: e Romansch: e, ed Sicilian: e Spanish: y Walloon: et

See also

• ampersand

Adverb

et (not comparable)

1. also, too, besides, likewise

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Luxembourgish

Pronoun

et

1. third-person neuter singular, nominative: it
2. third-person neuter singular, dative: it, to it

Declension

Luxembourgish personal pronouns

	nominative		accusative		dative		reflexive
	str.	unstr.	str.	unstr.	str.	unstr.
1st person singular	ech	—	mech	—	mir	mer	mech
2nd person singular (informal)	du	de	dech	—	dir	der	dech
2nd person singular (formal)	Dir	—	Iech	—	Iech	—	Iech
3rd person singular (m)	hien	en	en	—	him	em	sech
3rd person singular (f)	si / hatt	se / et	si / hatt	se / et	hir / him	— / em	sech
3rd person singular (n)	et	't	et	't	him	em	sech
1st person plural	mir	mer	eis / ons	—	eis / ons	—	eis / ons
2nd person plural	dir	der	iech	—	iech	—	iech
3rd person plural	si	—	si	—	hinnen	–	sech

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Middle French

Etymology

From Latin et

Conjunction

et

1. and

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Article

et n.

1. an (indefinite article)

This Norwegian entry was created from the translations listed at an. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see et in the Norwegian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008

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Old French

Alternative forms

• e

Etymology

Latin et

Conjunction

et

1. and

   circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

   Blanches et verz, bloes et jaunes

   Whites and greens, blues and yellows.

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Saterland Frisian

Pronoun

et n.

1. it

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Spanish

Noun

et f.

1. ampersand

See also

• y comercial f.

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic et (“meat”), from Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛt/

Noun

et (plural etler)

1. meat

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Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *et

Noun

et

1. flesh
2. meat