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en

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for English.

Abbreviation.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn/, /ˈiː.ɛn/

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en

1. Abbreviation of English.

The name of the letter comes from Latin en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.

• (UK, US) enPR: ĕn, IPA^(key): /ˈɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ɪn/
  • Homophones: in, inn

en (plural ens)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

   The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.

   • 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, October

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170

     I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

2. (typography) A unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use).

• (typography): en dash
• (typography): en quad
• (typography): en space
• ennage

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

From French.

• (imitating the French pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ɑ̃], [õ]
• (anglicised) IPA^(key): /ɒn/, /ɑn/

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en

1. Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).

From Old English hine.

• IPA^(key): /ən/

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en

1. (dialectal, Newfoundland) him
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes‎, page 236:

     Such a strappen fine gentleman as he was, too. Yes, I rather like en sometimes.

2. (dialectal, Newfoundland) it (when the thing being referred to is masculine)

en (plural ens)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Н / н.

• -ne-, NE, Ne., ne, ne., né, nê

• IPA^(key): /en/

én

1. (intransitive) be, exist

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Dutch en.

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ən/

en

1. and

   Ek sit en drink koeldrank ― I sit and drink a cold drink.

2. well

   En? ― well?

From Middle High German ein, from Old High German ein, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos. Cognate with German ein, German Low German en, ein, Dutch een, English one, Icelandic einn, Swedish en.

• IPA^(key): /ən/

en

1. (indefinite) a, an
   • 1835, Jakob Stutz, Gemälde aus dem Volksleben nach der Natur aufgenommen und treu dargestellt in gereimten Gesprächen Zürcherischer Mundart, first part, 2nd ed., pp. 27, 49, 97, 109:
     • Ih wött dih jetz nu duße möge-n-
       Auh noh en einzigs Wörtli fröge.
     • [...] as en einzigs Mol, [...]
     • Denn ist er si Lebtig e stills Büebli gsi.
     • Aber es wot e chüels Windli goh.
   • 1864, J. C. Ott, Rosen und Dornen. Gedichte und Gerichte, gewachsen auf Bernerboden, 1st small volume, 2nd ed., pp. 53, 57:
     • „„Nu, wenn i öppis by d'r gilte,““
       Seit Franz, – „„so mach en End myr Qual!
       [...]““
     • „[...]
       O, schenk-mer, Herr, es gnädig's End,
       Nimm uf my Geist i dyni Händ!“
   • 1864, J. C. Ott, Rosen und Dornen. Gedichte und Gerichte, gewachsen auf Bernerboden, 1st small volume, 2nd ed., pp. 43, 76, 106, 186:
     • E Mezgerbursch i syne schönste Jahre
       Mit rothe Backe, schwarze, chruse Haare,
       Chunt spät am Aabe ganz allei
       Vom Erlebacher-Märit hei.
     • Im Berner Alpeg'länd sitzt vor sym chlyne Hüsi
       [...]
       En alte Veteran vom Cheiserrych
       Na Dörflerg'wohnheit i d'r Gartenlaube.
     • [...] Da villicht en alte Jud, [...]
     • En Ehrebrecher isch sy Kamerad, [...]
   • Joh. Schönauer, Beschreibung miner Heimat, in: 1876, Volksthümliches aus dem Kanton Bern. Localsagen und Satzungen des Aberglaubens. Gesammelt von Heinrich Grunholzer durch seine Seminarzöglinge. Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von J. E. Rothenbach. Separat-Abdruck aus der „Neuen Alpenpost“, p. 5:

     Vor zwei Jahra ist z' Höchstetta, das 20 Minuta vo Zäziwyl ist, emene Länder-Güterfuhrma der Waga verbrönnt worda.

Zürich:

Bern:

From Latin in, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

en

1. in

• The preposition en contracts to n' before a word beginning with a vowel or h-: n'Asturies (in Asturias), n'honor (in honor)

From English and.

en

1. and

From Proto-Turkic *ēn.[1]

• IPA^(key): [en]

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en (definite accusative eni, plural enlər)

1. width

   Synonym: genişlik

• en dairəsi (“latitude”)

• “en” in Obastan.com.

en

1. e (preposition "in") + un (indefinite article "a(n)")
2. e (preposition "in") + an (definite article "the")

• (Central) IPA^(key): /ən/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /en/

From the final syllable of Latin domine (“Mister”).

en m sg (elided n', feminine na)

1. (Eastern Catalan) Personal article used before masculine given names instead of the definite article el.

   En Pau i na Maria arribaran demà.

   Pau and Maria will be arriving tomorrow.

• While this article (and its feminine counterpart na) is standard in Balearic Catalan, in other Eastern Catalan dialects its use is waning, and the elided of the definite article, l', is used before names beginning with vowels. There is no plural personal article, so the plural definite article els is used in all dialects.

• can (contraction of ca and ne)

From Latin in (“in, inside”), from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

en

1. in

From Latin inde (“thence”). Compare French en, Italian ne.

en (proclitic, contracted n', enclitic ne, contracted enclitic 'n)

1. Represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun.
2. Represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de.
3. Replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de.
4. Replaces the object of a causative verb.

• en cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
• While en is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the preposition de, adverbial phrases (e.g., de pressa) are replaced with hi.
• en is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
• en is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.
• en is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs beginning with a consonant.

• hi
• ho

• “en” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “en” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old High German in.

• on, ön (Eifel)

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. (most dialects) in; into

en

1. (most dialects) in

From Old High German indi.

• on, un (predominant)

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. (some western dialects) and

From Old High German ein.

• e (neuter and in some dialects masculine, before non-dental consonants)

• IPA^(key): /ən/

en (indefinite)

1. (most dialects) feminine nominative and accusative
2. (most dialects) neuter nominative and accusative, used before vowels and alternatively before h and dental consonants
3. (some dialects) masculine nominative, used before vowels and alternatively before h and dental consonants
4. (some dialects) masculine accusative, used before vowels and alternatively before h and dental consonants

• IPA^(key): /ən/

en (personal, reduced)

1. (most dialects) him; masculine accusative
2. (some dialects) he; masculine nominative
3. (most dialects) them; plural dative

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. ye, you (plural)

• en is used as a subject of a transitive verb in realis mood, and as a subject with all verbs in irrealis mood. It is in complementary distribution with hamyo, which is generally used as an object of a transitive verb, and also as a subject of an intransitive verb in realis mood.

• Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

en

1. Second-person singular pronoun; you

en (plural ekkan)

1. this (not in possession of the speaker)

en

1. Alternative form of in (“him”)

• “en” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

en

1. width

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]

en n

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

• en in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• en in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• in

From Latin in.

en

1. in

• nel, nei, nela

From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one, some”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”).

• IPA^(key): /en/, [en], (stressed) [ˈeːˀn]

en (neuter et)

1. a, an

en (neuter et)

1. one

en or én (neuter et or ét, definite ene)

1. one

• Used as the oblique form of the generic pronoun man:[1]

  Hvis ens lærer behandler en uretfærdigt, kan man klage til skolens leder

  If one's teacher treats one unfairly, one can complain to the head of the school

• (stressed) IPA^(key): /ɛn/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ən/

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• Hyphenation: en
• Rhymes: -ɛn

From Middle Dutch ende, from Old Dutch ande, inde, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

en

1. and

   De oude man en de zee. ― The Old Man and the Sea.

2. well, so

   En, hoe gaat het ermee? ― Well, how're you doing?

   En? ― Well?

   En, wat zou dat? ― So what?

3. (mathematics) plus, and

   Drie en vier is zeven. ― Three plus four is seven.

• ende (archaic)

• Afrikaans: en
• Berbice Creole Dutch: an
• Jersey Dutch: en
• Negerhollands: en, an
• Petjo: en
• Sranan Tongo: èn

• dus
• maar
• of

From Middle Dutch ne, en, from Old Dutch ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

en

1. (now Belgium, colloquial, obsolete elsewhere) not (often with another negator, see usage notes)
   • 1544, "Van proper Janneken" (song 123), in Dieuwke E. van der Poel, Dirk Geirnaert, Hermina Joldersma, J.B. Oosterman & Louis Peter Grijp (eds.) Het Antwerps liedboek, vol. 1, Lannoo (publ. 2004), page 283.

     Schoon soete lief, waert u bequame / Dat ghi mi gaeft een troostelijc woort, / Ic en soude certeyn geen ander boelken kiesen, / Al sout mi oock aen mijn leven gaen.

     Beautiful sweet darling, if it were pleasing to you / that you gave me a word of consolation, / I would certainly choose no other girlfriend, / even if it were to put my life at risk.

   • 1632, Jacob Cats, Spiegel van den ouden ende nieuwen tijt, bestaende uyt spreeckwoorden ende sinspreucken, "Een rotten appel in de mande, maeckt oock het gave fruyt te schande.", in J. van Vloten (ed.), Alle de werken, vol. 1, 1862, page 649.

     Daer magh geen rotte peer in onse manden wesen, / En wat'er niet en deught, dat dient'er uyt gelesen;

     There should not be any rotten pear in our baskets, / and what is not of decent quality, that ought be taken out of it;

   • "Herr Halewyn", A.H. Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Horae Belgicae, page 41.

     ‘Uw zoon heer Halewyn is gaen jagen, / g’ en ziet hem weêr uw levens dagen.’

     'Your son Lord Halewyn has gone hunting / you won't see him again for the rest of your life.'

   • circa 1860, Guido Gezelle, "Gij zegt dat 't vlaamsch te niet zal gaan".

     Gij zegt dat 't vlaamsch te niet zal gaan: / 't en zal! / dat 't waalsch gezwets zal boven slaan: / 't en zal!

     You say that Flemish will go extinct: / no, it won't! / That Walloon banter [i.e. Belgian French, not the Walloon language] will gain the upper hand: / No, it won't!

   ...dat aldaer binnen Utrecht niet meer geacht ende respecteert en wordt, ... ― that in Utrecht is no longer valued and respected...

2. (obsolete) only, merely, no other than, none other than (together with maar)

• In historical usage, en is always used directly before the finite verb. When used to negate it is commonly accompanied by another negator: gij en zult niet stelen (“thou shalt not steal”), en wat er niet en deugt (“and what is not of decent quality”), ik en zoude certein geen ander boelken kiezen (“I would certainly not choose another girlfriend”). Also when used as a stand-alone negator or when combined with maar, it still stands directly before the finite verb. Use of the particle does not trigger a change in the word order.
• In Belgian Dutch it is still sometimes used in certain regional lects and in the tussentaal (“informal registers influenced by both Standard Belgian Dutch and the regional lects”). Details and frequency of use depend on what regional language variety influences a given speaker's idiom, as well as on the speaker's preferences.
  • In West Flemish usage broadly conforms to historical use: the negation particle may be used along with other negators, independentely or it may be omitted. It is also used as a stand-alone negator to contradict a previous statement that was phrased with positive polarity: Gij zegt dat 't Vlaams te niet zal gaan: / 't en zal! (“You say that Flemish will go extinct: / no, it won't!”)
  • In Belgian Brabantian it is frequently omitted, but it may also be used directly before another negator rather than before the finite verb: en niet.
• In contemporary Netherlands Dutch the use of the particle is limited to old proverbs, such as wat baten kaars en bril als de uil niet zien en wil.

• ne

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• IPA^(key): [en]
• Hyphenation: en

en

1. in, within, inside

   Ĝi estas en la domo. ― It is in (within, inside) the house.

2. into (when followed by a noun or phrase in the accusative case)

   Li iras en la domon. ― He goes into the house.

• ene

• in (Valverdeñu)

From Old Portuguese en, from Latin in (“in”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.

en

1. in
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:

     Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu: […]

     As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign States with less territory than our three places, such as: […]

• When followed by the articles u/o, a, us/os, as; it contracts to nu/no, na, nus/nos, nas respectively.
• The form in is more common in Valverdeñu.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 124

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• IPA^(key): /ˈen/, [ˈe̞n]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: en

en

1. first-person singular indicative of ei

• -ne, -ne-, ne

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃/, (before a vowel) /ɑ̃.n‿/

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• Homophones: an, ans
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

From Middle French en, from Old French en, from Latin in, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

en

1. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes)

   J'habite en Angleterre. ― I live in England.

2. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes)

   Il est allé en France. ― He went to France.

3. by (used to indicate means)

   aller en bus ― go by bus

   partir en voiture ― leave by car

4. as

   Il me traite en ami. ― He treats me as a friend.

   habillé en père Noël ― dressed as Father Christmas

5. at (used to describe an ability)

   fort en histoire ― good at history

6. of, made of (used to describe composition)

   une chaise en hêtre ― a chair made of beech/a beech chair

   une fourchette en métal ― a fork made of metal/a metal fork

7. in (during the following time (used for months and years))

   en 1993 ― in 1993

   en janvier ― in January

   en septembre 2001 ― in September 2001

8. (followed by a gerund) while
9. (followed by a gerund) by, in (describing a way of getting something)

   C'est en trichant qu'il est devenu champion. ― It was by cheating that he became champion.

10. in (used to describe color)

    une photo en noir et blanc ― a photo in black and white

11. in (used to describe feelings)

    en détresse ― in distress

12. in (as part of something)

    en équipe ― on a team

• En in the sense of while is often not translated into English.
• When referring to location in countries, provinces, or similar subdivisions in sense 1 and direction in sense 2, en must be used when the name for that very large location is either a feminine singular noun or a vowel-initial masculine singular noun. If the name for the very large location is a consonant-initial masculine singular noun, au is used, while if the name of the very large location is plural, aux is used.

• “en”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin inde (“thence”). Compare Catalan en, Italian ne.

en

1. Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.)

   Essaies-en !

   Try some (of it / them)!

   Tu as combien de livres ? J'en ai trois.

   How many books do you have? I have three (of them).

   Y a-t-il beaucoup de pièces ? Oui. Il y en a beaucoup.

   Are there many rooms? Yes, there are many (of them).

   Martin a trois sandwichs, mais j'en ai seulement deux.

   Martin has three sandwiches, but I have only two (of them).

   Il y en a combien ?

   How many of them are there?

   Je bois de l'alcool parce que j'en ai besoin

   I drink alcohol because I need (of) it.

   • 1654, Blaise Pascal, Traité du triangle arithmétique :

     J'en donnerai ici la méthode, que je poursuivrai seulement en deux ou trois exemples, qui seront si aisés à continuer qu'il ne sera pas nécessaire d'en donner davantage.

     I shall give (of it) here the method that I shall pursue only in two or three examples, which will be so easy to continue that it will not be necessary to give more of them.

2. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici.

   Est-ce qu'elle vient de Barcelone ? Oui, elle en vient.

   Does she come from Barcelona? Yes, she comes (from there).

• N.-É., NE, NÉ, ne, né

en

1. first person plural inclusive pronoun;short form we

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

• enen
• hiɗen
• eɗen
• min

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993), “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies‎, volume 35, DOI:10.15021/00003067, pages 215-230

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese en, from Latin in, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

• IPA^(key): /eŋ/

en

1. in
2. When preceding a verb or a complement of a verb it can denote a unfinished or continued action:
   • 1822, anonymous, A Parola Polêteca:

     En escoitalo, señor tio Calacú, xà o peléxo do meu corpo tembra. Sei que á tanta agua que acarrexóu amolentoulle os miolos, é por eso louquéa

     While listening to you, my sir uncle Pumpkin, my body's skin trembles. Perhaps the much water you have carried softened you brain, and therefore you are going insane

   • 1853, Xosé Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:

     xa morder ti ben non podes

     con tal podrico nos dentes,

     inda no pan teño mentes

     seique non podes chanchar

     you can no longer aptly eat

     with such rottenness in you teeth,

     even bread, I think,

     probably you cannot gnaw [chanchar means "bite", but en preceding pan, "bread", implies a repeated action]

   O Manuel vai na casa ― Manuel went home (implying that eventually he'll be back)

   María beberrica no licor ― María is sipping the liquor

• The preposition en contracts to n- before articles, before third-person tonic pronouns, and before the determiners algún and outro.

• nalgún, nalgunha, nalgunhas, nalgúns
• nel, nela, nelas, neles
• nese, nesa, neses, nesas, niso
• neste, nesta, nestes, nestas, nisto
• noutra, noutras, noutro, noutros
• nestoutro, nestoutra, nestoutros, nestoutras

• naquel, naquela, naqueles, naquelas

en

1. while; as soon as (followed by the gerund of a verb, expresses immediacy or simultaneity)

   En chegando mudas a roupa mollada ― As soon as you arrive change your wet clothes

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I. E. O. P. F., page 111:

     Et o conde, en chegando et ferindo logo ẽnos mouros, todo en hũu o fezo

     And the count, [just] arriving, and hurting promptly the Moors, all in one he did that

   • 1460, Rui Vasques, Corónica de Iria:

     en leendo perlos llibros algũus de canõicas antijgas, et preujlegios goticos dos santos catholicos et deuotos bispos de Yria et porla Escriptura, achey o fundamento para rreduzir aa memoria dos homes quanto durarõ çertas ydades

     [while] reading books, some of them of ancient canons, and Gothic privileges of the saint Catholic and devout bishops of Iria, and through the Bible, I found the foundation for reducing to the mind of men for how long some ages lasted

   • 1461, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 141:

     dito testigo en seendo moço pequeno con seu tyo Afonso Dominges, guardando o gaando en Curro do Moyño, que le dixera o dito Afonso Domingees "bees, por aquy se parte ho término do conde do de Juan d'Estúñiga

     said witness [while] being a young boy together with his uncle Afonso Domínguez, watching the cattle in Curro do Muíño, he was told by said Afonso Domínguez: "you see, here the term of the count limits with that of Xoán de Estúñiga

• “en” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “en” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “en” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “en” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• 'n, -'n
• (in other dialects, including Low Prussian) een
• (in some dialects) ein
• (East Pomeranian) ain

From Middle Low German ên, from Old Saxon ēn. Compare Dutch een, German ein, West Frisian ien, English one.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɪ̯n/, /ˈeːn/, /ˈæɪ̯n/, /ˈeːɪ̯n/

en m or n (indefinite article)

1. (in some dialects) a, an

en

1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) one (1)

• Dutch Low Saxon: een
• Plautdietsch een, (cardinal number) eent

From French un (“one”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

en

1. one

• youn

• zewo 0
• de 2
• twa 3
• kat 4
• senk 5
• sis 6
• sèt 7
• uit 8
• nèf 9
• dis 10
• san 100

• IPA^(key): /n̩/, /eːn/

en (indefinite)

1. a, an

   Sie sitze aan em runde Disch.

   They are sitting at a round table.

en

1. unstressed accusative of er: him.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːn/

en

1. how

   Nei, Elín? En gaman að sjá þig! ― Elín? How good to see you!

en

1. but

   Ég drekk kaffi en ég drekk ekki te. ― I drink coffee but I don't drink tea.

   Ég ætla að fá brauð en ekki mjólk. ― I'll have bread but not milk.

2. than (with an adjective in the comparative)

   Ég er betri en bróðir minn. ― I'm better than my brother.

   Hún er skemmtilegri en ég. ― She is more fun than I am.

3. (formal written language) used to join closely linked sentences, similar to a semicolon in English

   Rannsókn embættis sérstaks saksóknara á meintum innherjasvikum Baldurs Guðlaugssonar stóð yfir í rúmlega ár, en FME kærði málið með bréfi til embættisins hinn 9. júlí á síðasta ári.[1]

4. conjunction similar to and

   Sonur hans hét Jón, en dóttir hans Ása. ― His son was named John and his daughter was named Ása.

   Veðrið var ekki gott framan af: rigning á fjallinu, en þoka í byggð. ― The weather was not good to begin with: rain in the mountains, and fog in the countryside.

From French en, Spanish en, from Latin in, inde from Proto-Indo-European *én (“in”).

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. in

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈen/, [ˈe̞n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈen/, [ˈe̞n]
• Rhymes: -en
• Hyphenation: en

en

1. first-person singular indicative of ei

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 29

• ne

en

1. Rōmaji transcription of えん

From Dutch een (“a”). Cognates include Afrikaans 'n.

• ên

• IPA^(key): /en/, /ən/

en

1. (indefinite article) Placed before a singular noun, indicating a general case of a person or thing: a, an.

From Dutch en. Cognates include Afrikaans en.

• IPA^(key): /ən/

en

1. and
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     Hai waz nît tevrêde täus en […]

     He was not content at home and […]

From Portuguese em.

en

1. in

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔäń (˜x-) ("wave").

en (plural ēnaŋ)

1. wave

en

1. plural of ei

From English and.

en

1. and

en (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אין‎)

1. in
   • 2000, David Altabé, “Ay koza triste en ser Sefaradi”, in Esther Benbassa, editor, Les Sépharades en littérature, page 164:

     En todas partes del mundo bivi,
     i pedasos de mi alma abandoni

     I've lived in all parts of the world,
     and abandoned pieces of my soul

   • 2014, Şeli GAON, “La solidaridad”, in Şalom Gazetesi‎:

     Deke la solidaridad es emportante? Porke la solidaridad es lo djusto. Porke; todos bivimos en una sosyetad...

     Why is solidarity important? Because solidarity is what is right. Because we all live in a society...

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːn/, [eːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /en/, [ɛn]

ēn

1. lookǃ beholdǃ (presenting something in a lively or indignant manner)
2. reallyǃ? (surprise or anger in questions)
3. come onǃ (exhortation to action in imperatives)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /en/, [ɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /en/, [ɛn]

en f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter N.

• Multiple Latin names for the letter N, n have been suggested. The most common is en or a syllabic n, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, nē, ən, nə, and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters) ιννε (inne).

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

• en in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• en in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63

en

1. Early Latin form of in (“in”)

• IPA^(key): [ɛn]

en m (invariable)

1. The Latvian name of the Latin script letter N/n.

• Latvian letter names:

  a (A), garais ā (Ā), bē (B), cē (C), čē (Č), dē (D), e (E), garais ē (Ē), ef (F), gā (G), ģē (Ģ), hā (H), i (I), garais ī (Ī), jē (J), kā (K), ķē (Ķ), el (L), eļ (Ļ), em (M), en (N), eņ (Ņ), o (O), pē (P), er (R), es (S), eš (Š), tē (T), u (U), garais ū (Ū), vē (V), zē (Z), žē (Ž)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

en

1. in

When followed by an article, en is combined with the next word to give the following combined forms:

• AEDLL

• IPA^(key): /ˈen/
• Hyphenation: en
• Rhymes: -en

en

1. first-person singular indicative of ei

• N. Gilojeva; S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 20
• Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 142
• Tatjana Boiko (2019), “ei”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 38

en

1. first-person dual present of ij

From Old High German ein, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz.

• IPA^(key): /en/, [ən]
• Rhymes: -ən

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en m or n

1. Indefinite article; a, an

   Ech droen en Hutt wann et reent. ― I wear a hat when it rains.

   Hues du e bloe Stëft? ― Do you have a blue pen?

en

1. unstressed form of hien

   Hues de n e gefrot? ― Have you asked him?

2. unstressed form of hinnen

   Ech hunn et e gesot. ― I told it them

• Due to the Eifel Rule, the final -n is lost when the following word begins with a consonant other than <d>, <h>, <n>, <t> or <z>.

en (en⁵ / en⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄣ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗯.

en

1. Nonstandard spelling of ēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of én.
3. Nonstandard spelling of ěn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of èn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. Alternative form of ende

en

1. Alternative form of in (“in”)

From Old French en, from Latin in.

en

1. on; on to

• French: en

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”).

Unknown, possibly IPA^(key): /ɛn/ or IPA^(key): /ən/.

en m

1. not; negates a verb, usage is facultative if it leads to a double negative

   Idt en sal nümant syn Erve vryg verkopenn dar ander lüde wat anne hebbet. he en segget den kop to varenn.

   Nobody shall [not] sell his inheritance, to which other people have rights attached, freely, unless he tell this to the buyer beforehand...

2. unless

   Idt en sal nümant syn Erve vryg verkopenn dar ander lüde wat anne hebbet. he en segget den kop to varenn.

   Nobody shall sell his inheritance, to which other people have rights attached, freely, unless he tell this to the buyer beforehand...

• ne (older, Eastphalian)

en

1. to stand

• http://webdoc.ubn.ru.nl/mono/h/haude_k/gramofmo.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170516185108/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2007-indiv-prob.en.pdf

From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one, some”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”).

• IPA^(key): /eːn/ (stressed)
• IPA^(key): /ən/ (unstressed)

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• Rhymes: -eːn, -ən
• Hyphenation: en
• Homophone: -en

en m (feminine ei or e, neuter et)

1. a, an (indefinite article)

en m (feminine ei, neuter ett, stressed én)

1. one

• ein (Nynorsk)

• “en” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

en

1. (pre-1901) alternative form of enn

en

1. (dialectal, nonstandard) Alternative form of ein

en

1. Used as part of set phrases from French

en

1. Used as part of the expression stopp en hal

• in (10th century)

From Latin in.

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. in; inside
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):

     Et pour ce qu’il se complaint moult de froit et horipilacion, pour ce au commencement on luy doit mettre les piés et les mains en eaue chaulde

     And if he complains about cold and shivers, to start with one must put his feet and is hands in hot water

2. on; upon
   • 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     qi en la crois fu mis

     [He] who was put on the cross

3. in (experiencing an emotion, a feeling, etc.)

   en paine ― in pain

4. in (indicates a language)

   en latin ― in Latin