English
[en] /en/
- The letter 'N'
- In typesetting the width of an average letter in a font.
- A prefix
- A suffix
- In various borrowed French phrases
- en ami
- en banc
- en bloc
- en brochette
- en clair
- en effet
- en famille
- en garçon
- en garde
- en masse
- en pantoufles
- en passant
- en regle
- en retard
- en retraite
- en revanche
- en route
- en secondes noces
- en suite
Dutch
[en] /en/
- and, conjunction, combining two sentences or parts of sentences or words.
Examples
De oude man en de zee: the old man and the sea. (Title of an Engl. language novel by Ernest Hemingway .)
Translations
- Finnish: ja
- French: et
- German: und
- Hebrew: ו (added as a prefix, as in ילד וילדה. i.e. "boy and-girl")
- Latin: et, -que (added as a suffix)
- Portuguese: e
- Spanish: y, e
- Swedish: och
- Yiddish: און
Finnish
Pronunciation
IPA: /en/
Negative verb
en
- Auxiliary verb for negation in the first person singular. Would be normally translated as no or don't in English.
Conjugation
See ei.
Examples
- En nyt osaa keksiä hyvää esimerkkiä. "I can't think of a good example right now."
French
Pronoun
- Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity. "of it"
Preposition
- In. Used mostly to indicate distance in time or space.
- in
Spanish
[en] /en/
Preposition
- expressing being contained
- Estoy en casa . I am at home
- en esta página
- used for time indication
- En la antigüedad
- En 1999, ...
- used before names of languages
- No conozco esta palabra en francés
- Traducir del inglés al español
- En todos los idiomas
- used after some verbs
- pensar en. Pienso en tí
- used in some expressions
- en el sentido
- en nuestro afan
Translations
- Dutch: in
- English: in
- Finnish: expressed by the case of the headword, usually inessive or adessive
- Portuguese: em
Swedish
En (1)
Number
en (in common gender)
- One.
Article
en (in common gender)
- Indefinite article, a, an.
See also
En (2)
Noun
en c (singular definite enen, plural indefinite enar, plural definite enarna)
- Juniper .
