on
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- (UK) enPR: ŏn, IPA: /ɒn/, SAMPA: /Qn/
- (US) IPA: /ɑn/, /ɔn/, SAMPA: /An/, /On/; southern US /əʊn/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -ɒn
[edit] Etymology
Old English on, originally an. From Germanic *ana. Related forms: Οld High German ana (German an, Οld Dutch an, ane (Dutch aan), Οld Frisian ana, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Οld Norse á, Icelandic á, Faeroese á; the Old Norse combination upp á gives Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på. Possibly related to Greek ἀνά (“‘upward’”).
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on (not comparable)
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Superlative |
- in the state of being active, functioning or operating
- performing according to schedule
- Are we still on for tonight?
- Is the show still on?
- (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
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on (not comparable)
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Positive |
Superlative |
- to an operating state
- turn the television on
- along, forwards (continuing an action)
- drive on, rock on
- (cricket) in, or towards the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman; leg
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on
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- on the table; on the couch
- covering
- At the date of.
- Born on the 4th of July.
- Some time during the day of.
- I'll see you on Monday.
- The bus leaves on Friday.
- Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy.
- Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something.
- A book on history.
- The World Summit on the Information Society.
- Touching; hanging from.
- The fruit ripened on the trees.
- The painting hangs on the wall.
- (informal) In the possession of.
- I haven't got any money on me.
- Because of, or due to something.
- To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery.
- To contact someone on a hunch.
- The stock price increased on news of a new product.
- Paid for by.
- The drinks are on me tonight, boys.
- The meal is on the house.
- I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company.
- Used to indicate a means or medium.
- I saw it on television.
- Can't you see I'm on the phone?
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- They lived on ten dollars a week.
- The dog suvived three weeks on rainwater.
- (of a drug) Regularly taking or dependent on.
- You've been on these antidepressants far too long.
- (mathematics, mapping both from and to, a function on "V") Having V as both domain and codomain.
- (mathematics, mapping both from and to, an operator on "V") Having Vn as domain and V as codomain.
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on
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on
- (cardinal) ten
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ȏn
[edit] Declension
| Declension of on | Singular | Plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ȏn | òna | òno | òni | òne | òna |
| Genitive | njȅga, ga | njȇ, je | njȅga, ga | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih |
| Dative | njȅmu, mu | njȏj, joj | njȅmu, mu | njȉma, im | njȉma, im | njȉma, im |
| Accusative | njȅga, ga, nj | njȗ, ju, je, nju | njȅga, ga, nj | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih |
| Vocative | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Locative | njȅm, njȅmu | njȏj | njȅm, njȅmu | njȉma | njȉma | njȉma |
| Instrumental | njȋm, njíme | njȏm, njóme | njȋm, njíme | njȉma | njȉma | njȉma |
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on
- he (third person personal, m. 'sg.)
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on
[edit] Estonian
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Inflected form of olema.
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- IPA: [on]
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on
- Third-person singular indicative present form of olema.
[edit] Finnish
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Inflected form of olla.
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- IPA: [on]
- Hyphenation: on
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on
- Third-person singular indicative present form of olla.
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From Old French hom, reduced form of Old French homme "man", used pronominally (a calque of the Frankish indefinite pronoun *man "one"; cf German man, reduced pronomial form of Mann "man"). The etymon itself stems from Latin hominem, accusative form of homō (“‘man’”), but its use as a pronoun is of Germanic origin. Confer Old English man "one, they, people" (reduced form of Old English mann "man, person"); German man "one, they, people"; Dutch men "one, they, people"
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| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (from) |
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 | |||||||
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on
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on (hiragana おん)
- 音: sound; note
- 恩: obligation
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on
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on
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Proto-Germanic *ana
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on
- on
[edit] Polish
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on (plural: personal only oni, all other one)
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on
- he (third person, personal, m. sg.)
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on m. (third-person masculine singular personal pronoun)
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on
- Plural form of letter o.
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on
- (cardinal) ten
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on (bal)
- (cardinal) one
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on