G

See also: Appendix:Variations of "g" and Ⴚ

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Translingual

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G

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Letter

G (lower case g)

The seventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

G

(metrology) giga-.
gauss.
(biochemistry) glycine, a natural amino acid.
(biochemistry) Any of the nucleotides guanodine, nucleoside guanosine, or nucleobase guanine, which are components of DNA.
(physics) The gravitational constant in the formula F = Gm₁m₂/r²; sometimes called "big G" to distinguish from g for the acceleration of gravity.

Gallery

Letter styles
Capital and lowercase versions of G, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase G in Fraktur

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʒiː/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -iː

Letter

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G (upper case, lower case g, plural Gs or G's)

The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  
  On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

Number

G (upper case, lower case g)

The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Noun

G (countable and uncountable, plural Gs)

(sports, baseball) Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
(US, politics) Green.
(US, of a movie) General (suitable for a general audience).
(sports) Goals (a sports statistic).
Ground floor (of a building).
A galaxy.
gravity
(slang, chiefly US) Grand (thousand dollars).
- 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎^[1], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
  Just really want to smoke my weed, fuck these hoes, and stack my Gs.
(grammar) Abbreviation of genitive case.
(UK, education) The academic grade that comes next below F.

Alternative forms

G.

Derived terms

(gravity): 1-G
(astronomy): ClG
(sports): GF, GA

Noun

G (plural Gs)

(slang) A gangster, gangsta.
(economics) Abbreviation for Government Spending.
Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).

Afar

Letter

G

The fourteenth letter in the Afar alphabet.

American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe G)

The letter G

Azerbaijani

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

The ninth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /xeː/
Audio (file)

Letter

G (capital, lowercase g)

The seventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɡo/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The eighth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called go and written in the Latin script.

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^et

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Estonian alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used only in loanwords expect for ng [ŋː].

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡeː/

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the German alphabet.

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G (lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(name of letter) IPA^(key): /dʒi/
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɡ/
(phoneme, before e or i) IPA^(key): /dʒ/

Letter

G m or f (invariable, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Italian alphabet, called gi and written in the Latin script.

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^ja

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɡ]

(file)

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The tenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called gā and written in the Latin script.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

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Letter

G

The seventh letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

G

(pensions) Initialism of grunnbeløp.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

G

(pensions) Initialism of grunnbeløp.

Portuguese

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡe/, /dʒe/

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The ninth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phonemes /g/ and /dʒ/. Preceded by F and followed by H.

Usage notes

When followed by the letters i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /dʒ/, as in plângi /plɨndʒʲ/ (you cry) and înger /ɨn.dʒer/ (angel). When followed by "hi" or "he" (ghi & ghe) and in all other cases, it represents /g/.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G (lower case g)

The twelfth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

G

Wikipedia ^sl

Pronunciation

Letter

G (capital, lowercase g)

The 8th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by F and followed by H.

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɡ/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɡæ/

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called ga and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by C and followed by F.

Spanish

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣəː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣəː˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣəː˨˩]
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Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The tenth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called gờ or giê and written in the Latin script.

Welsh

Letter

G

The 10th letter of the alphabet, preceded by Ff and followed by Ng

Mutation

G at the beginning of words is omitted in a soft mutation, mutates to Ng in a nasal mutation and is unchanged in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word gorsaf (“station”):

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gorsaf	orsaf	ngorsaf	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zulu

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

The seventh letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.