i.e.

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ie"

English

Alternative forms

• i. e.
• ie

Etymology

From Latin i. e., an abbreviation of id est (“that is”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪˈiː/

• Audio (US)

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• It is sometimes spoken as that is.

Abbreviation

i.e.

1. (initialism) That is; in other words; that is to say.

   The three U.S. states on the west coast (i.e., Washington, Oregon, and California) have mild seasonal variations in temperature (i.e., warm winters and cool summers).

Usage notes

• Often confused with e.g.: i.e. is used to explain, clarify or rephrase a statement; e.g. is used to list examples.
  i.e. differs from viz. in that what follows merely restates what was said in other words, rather than expanding upon what has already been said; and from e.g. in that completeness or near-completeness is suggested, rather than a small selection of examples.
• American English prefers a comma after i.e.; in British English a comma does not follow i.e.
• Opinion is mixed about whether the abbreviation should be italicized, or whether there should be a separating non-breaking space as in i. e., or whether this matters at all. However, the AMA manual of style recommends to forgo italic on terms long since naturalized into English and not to separate abbreviations (see "Abbreviation" on Wikipedia).

Translations

that is

• Afrikaans: d.w.s. (af)
• Arabic: أَيْ‎‎ (ar) (ʾay), يَعْنِي‎‎ (yaʿnī)
• Armenian: այսինքն (hy) (aysinkʿn)
• Bashkir: йәғни (yäğni)
• Bulgarian: т.е. (t.e.)
• Catalan: és a dir, això és (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 也就是 (zh)

• Czech: tj. (cs)
• Danish: dvs. (da)
• Dutch: d.w.z. (nl)
• Esperanto: t.e.
• Finnish: eli (fi) (not recommended, dated: l. (fi)), ts. (fi)
• French: c.-à-d. (fr), c'est-à-dire (fr)
• Galician: é dicir (gl), ou sexa
• Georgian: ესე იგი (ese igi), ე.ი. (e.i.)
• German: d. i. (de) (pl. d. s.), d. h. (de)
• Greek: δηλ. (el) (dil.), δηλαδή (el) (diladí)
• Hebrew: היינו‎‎ (háinu), כְּלוֹמַר‎‎ (he) (klomár), זאת אומרת‎‎ (zót oméret), קְרִי‎‎ (he) (qri)
• Hungarian: azaz (hu), ill. (hu)
• Icelandic: þ.e. (is) , þ.e.a.s. (is)
• Ido: t.e. (io)
• Irish: .i.

• Italian: cioè (it)
• Japanese: すなわち (ja) (sunawachi)
• Latin: i. e., sc., h. e. (hoc est)
• Lithuanian: t.y. (initialism)
• Malay: iaitu, yakni
• Malayalam: അതായത് (atāyatŭ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dvs. (no)

  Nynorsk: d.e., dvs.

• Old Irish: .i.
• Persian: یعنی‎‎ (fa) (ya'ni)
• Polish: tzn. (pl), tj. (pl), czyli (pl)
• Portuguese: isto é (pt), ou seja (pt)
• Russian: т. е. (ru) (t. je.), то́ есть (ru) (tó jestʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тј. (то јест)

  Roman: tj. (tȏ jȅst)

• Slovak: čiže
• Spanish: es decir (es), a saber, o sea
• Swedish: dvs (sv), d v s (sv), d.v.s. (sv)
• Turkish: yani (tr)
• Ukrainian: то́бто (uk) (tóbto)
• Urdu: يعني‎‎

Anagrams

• EI

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Interlingua

Abbreviation

i.e.

1. Abbreviation of isto es.

Usage notes

• Equivalent in meaning to English i.e..

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Latin

Phrase

i.e.

1. Alternative form of i. e.