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English

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Preposition

to

  1. indicates direction that something goes to(wards)
  2. used after certain adjectives to indicate a relationship (similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her).
  3. used as an infinitive-marker (I want to leave, he asked me what to do, I don't know how to say it, To err is human).
  4. used to indicate ratios (one to one, ten to one).

Translations

  • Arabic: عَلی (ʕalaː) (1)
  • Dutch: naar
  • Esperanto: al
  • Finnish: expressed with the case of the headword, often allative case
  • French: à
  • German: nach, zu, in (1); -en (3)
  • Indonesian: ke, sampai , hingga , kepada
  • Italian: a, da, in, per
  • Japanese: (e), まで (made)
  • Persian: بِه (be) (1); دَن (-dæn), تَن (-tæn) (3)
  • Portuguese: a
  • Spanish: a (1)(2); -ar, -er, -ir (3)
    till (1,4), med (2 protagonistic relation), mot (2 antagonistic relation)
  • Turkish: -e, -a, -ye , -ya (1); -mek , -mak (3)

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Polish

Demonstrative pronoun

to

this

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