first and foremost

English

Adverb

first and foremost

1. (set phrase) Primarily; most importantly.
   • Template:RQ:Bronte Wuthering

     "There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly," I said, sententiously. "First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?"

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 2:

     First and foremost, there is currently lacking any single text which comes close to cataloguing the great variety of terms in use.

Synonyms

• above all; see also Thesaurus:above all

Translations

primarily; most importantly

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 首先 (zh) (shǒuxiān)

• Danish: først og fremmest
• Dutch: op de allereerste plaats
• Faroese: fyrst og fremst
• Finnish: ennen kaikkea (fi)
• French: d’abord et avant tout (fr), avant tout (fr)
• German: vor allem (de), in erster Linie (de)
• Hebrew: בָּרֺאשׁ וּבָרִאשׁוֹנָה (he) (ba-rósh u-va-rishoná), קֺדֶם כָּל (kódem kol)
• Hungarian: elsősorban (hu), mindenekelőtt (hu)
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• Icelandic: fyrst og fremst, aðallega (is)
• Japanese: 何よりもまず (nani yori mo mazu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: først og fremst

  Nynorsk: først og fremst

• Portuguese: primeiramente e sobretudo
• Russian: в пе́рвую о́чередь (ru) (v pérvuju óčeredʹ), пре́жде всего́ (ru) (préžde vsevó)
• Spanish: antes que nada, sobretodo (es)
• Swedish: först och främst (sv), framförallt (sv), i första hand
• Vietnamese: trước hết (vi), trước nhất (vi)