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, page 220:

     Something I et?

Anagrams

• te

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• etje

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *i̯et 'to set out for; to strive'. Compare Old Irish ītu (“thirst”), Irish ēt (“eagerness, jealousy”), Latin sitis (“thirst”), Tocharian A yat (“reach, get”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *eus-ti-, cognate to Greek αἰτέω (aἰtéo, “to demand, to beg”).

Noun

et f (indefinite plural etje, definite singular etja, definite plural etjet)

1. thirst

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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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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːʰt]

Verb

et

1. singular Imperative of eta.

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [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^(key): [e]

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: ai

Conjunction

et

1. and

Anagrams

• te

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin et (“and; plus”).

Conjunction

et

1. (archaic, poetic) Alternative form of e.

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Old French et, from Latin et.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Conjunction

et

1. and

Noun

et m (plural ets)

1. ampersand

Synonyms

• ampèrsand

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Latin

Alternative forms

• &

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognate with Old English prefix ed- (“anew, again”). More at ed-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /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 usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• (and): -que
• (and): atque

Derived terms

• carpere et colligere
• de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum
• et al, et al.
• etcetera, et cetera
• et hoc genus omne
• etiam

• et tu, Brute
• et ux, et ux., et uxor
• ex aequo et bono
• lux et veritas
• urbi et orbi
• vox et praeterea nihil

Descendants

• Aragonese: y
• Aromanian: e
• Asturian: y
• Catalan: i
• Corsican: e
• Dalmatian: e
• French: et
• Friulian: e
• Galician: e
• Ido: e,ed
• Istriot: e
• Italian: e, ed, et
• Jèrriais: et
• Ladino: i, אי

• Middle French: et
• Occitan: e
• Old French: e, et
• Old Provençal: e
• Old Spanish: e
• Picard: et
• Portuguese: e
• Romanian: e
• Romansch: e, ed
• Sardinian: e
• Sicilian: e
• Spanish: e, y
• Volapük: e, ed
• Walloon: et

See also

• ampersand

Adverb

et (not comparable)

1. Also, too, besides, or 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 Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /et/, /ət/

Pronoun

et

1. Alternative form of het.

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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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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

et

1. present tense of eta and ete
2. imperative of eta and ete

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Novial

Conjunction

et ... e

1. (coordinating) both ... and

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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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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English eight.

Numeral

et

1. eight

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also etpela.

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Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/

Noun

et (definite accusative eti, plural etler)

1. meat

Declension

declension of et

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	et	etler
definite accusative (belirtme)	eti	etleri
dative (yönelme)	ete	etlere
locative (bulunma)	ette	etlerde
ablative (çıkma)	etten	etlerden
genitive (tamlayan)	etin	etlerin

possessive forms of et

benim (my)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	etim	etlerim
definite accusative (belirtme)	etimi	etlerimi
dative (yönelme)	etime	etlerime
locative (bulunma)	etimde	etlerimde
ablative (çıkma)	etimden	etlerimden
genitive (tamlayan)	etimin	etlerimin
senin (your)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	etin	etlerin
definite accusative (belirtme)	etini	etlerini
dative (yönelme)	etine	etlerine
locative (bulunma)	etinde	etlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	etinden	etlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	etinin	etlerinin
onun (his/her/its)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	eti	etleri
definite accusative (belirtme)	etini	etlerini
dative (yönelme)	etine	etlerine
locative (bulunma)	etinde	etlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	etinden	etlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	etinin	etlerinin
bizim (our)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	etimiz	etlerimiz
definite accusative (belirtme)	etimizi	etlerimizi
dative (yönelme)	etimize	etlerimize
locative (bulunma)	etimizde	etlerimizde
ablative (çıkma)	etimizden	etlerimizden
genitive (tamlayan)	etimizin	etlerimizin
sizin (your)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	etiniz	etleriniz
definite accusative (belirtme)	etinizi	etlerinizi
dative (yönelme)	etinize	etlerinize
locative (bulunma)	etinizde	etlerinizde
ablative (çıkma)	etinizden	etlerinizden
genitive (tamlayan)	etinizin	etlerinizin
onların (their)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	etleri	etleri
definite accusative (belirtme)	etlerini	etlerini
dative (yönelme)	etlerine	etlerine
locative (bulunma)	etlerinde	etlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	etlerinden	etlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	etlerinin	etlerinin

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Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *et

Noun

et (plural etlar)

1. flesh
2. meat

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Walloon

Alternative forms

• eyet

Etymology

From Latin et.

Conjunction

et

1. and