às

See also: Appendix:Variations of "as"

Galician

Contraction

às f pl (masculine sg ao, feminine sg à, masculine plural aos)

1. reintegrationist spelling of ás

Further reading

• “às”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aas (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /as/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /as/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aʃ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Homophones: ás, hás, az, as (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: às

Contraction

às f pl

1. contraction of a as (“to the (feminine plural)”): feminine plural of ao

   Fui às cidades.

   I went to the cities.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ao.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish as. Cognate with Irish as and Manx ass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as̪/ (as if spelled as)
• (Bernera) IPA^(key): /æs̪/
• Hyphenation: às

Preposition

às (+ dative)

1. Form of à used before the definite article.
2. (dated) Form of à used in all contexts before a vowel or fh-.

Pronoun

às

1. third-person singular masculine of à: from him, from it

Inflection

Personal inflection of à

	Person:		simple	emphatic
singular	first		asam	asamsa
	second		asad	asadsa
	third	m	às	às-san
		f	aiste	aistese
plural	first		asainn	asainne
	second		asaibh	asaibhse
	third		asta	astasan

Further reading

• Mark, Colin (2003), “à”, in The Gaelic–English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 2