into

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Old English intō

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (stressed)
  • (unstressed, before consonants) IPA: /ˈɪn.tə/, SAMPA: /"Int@/
  • (unstressed, before vowels) IPA: /ˈɪn.tʊ/, SAMPA: /"IntU/
  • Audio (US)
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  • Hyphenation: in‧to

[edit] Preposition

into

  1. Going inside (of)
    Mary danced into the house.
    • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, BBC Sport:
      This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
  2. Going to a geographic region.
    We left the house and walked into the street.
    The plane flew into the open air.
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
    The car crashed into the tree.
    I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall.
  4. Producing, becoming
    I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.
    Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
  5. Of (when describing duration)
    About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
  6. (colloquial) Intensely interested in or attracted to.
    I'm really into Shakespeare right now.
    I'm so into you!
  7. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
    The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
  8. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) The operation of multiplication.[1]
    Five into three is fifteen.
  9. (mathematics) The operation of division, with the denominator expressed first.
    Three into two won't go.
  10. Investigation of a subject.
    Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees

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[edit] Translations

going inside
going to a geographic region
against, with force
producing, becoming
  • Russian: в (+ accusative case)
  • Swedish: till (sv)
intensely interested in
taking distinct arguments to distinct values
  • Russian: на (+ accusative case)
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[edit] References

  1. ^ “into” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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[edit] Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: in‧to
  • IPA: [ˈin̪t̪o̞]

[edit] Noun

into

  1. Eagerness, enthusiasm.
    odottaa innolla (+ partitive) = to look forward to
  2. Passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor.
  3. Zeal, fanaticism.

[edit] Declension

Declension of into (type valo)
singular plural
nominative into innot
genitive innon intojen
partitive intoa intoja
accusative into
innon		 innot
inessive innossa innoissa
elative innosta innoista
illative intoon intoihin
adessive innolla innoilla
ablative innolta innoilta
allative innolle innoille
essive intona intoina
translative innoksi innoiksi
instructive – innoin
abessive innotta innoitta
comitative – intoineen

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Compound of in and tō

[edit] Preposition

intō

  1. into
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