en

Clipping of English English.

en

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of English terms

Abbreviation.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn/, /ˈiː.ɛn/

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en

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) 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.
   • 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     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, page 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).
   • 1808, C[aleb] Stower, “An Account of the Different Advances in Journeymen’s Wages, from the Year 1785 to 1805, with the Present Regulations and Scale of Prices”, in The Compositor’s and Pressman’s Guide to the Art of Printing; […], London: […] [T]he Editor, […] for B[enjamin] Crosby and Co. […], →OCLC, page 419:

     That the price of work, paid for by letters be advanced from fourpence to fourpence halfpenny per thousand, including English and brevier; and, in leaded matter, the ems and ens at the beginnings and ends of the lines not to be reckoned in the width.

• (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 en.

• (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^[2], 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.

• nê, né, Ne., ne, -ne-, NE, ne., -ne

• IPA^(key): /ˈen/ [ˈʔɛn]
• Hyphenation: en

én

1. (intransitive) be, exist
2. (auxiliary) With the perfective, used to form the present perfect.
3. (auxiliary) With the imperfective, used to form the present progressive.
4. (auxiliary) With the -k converb, used to form the past prospective.
   • 2006, “Ruut 1:1 [Ruth 1:1]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎^[3]:

     Makaabon Israayil baaxol dardaarak ten saaku, Israayil baaxol qulul rade.

     When the judges were ruling in the land of Israel, a famine fell upon the land of Israel.

Conjugation of en (highly irregular)
		1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular		1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
				m	f
perfective	V-affirmative	enéh	tenéh	yenéh	tenéh	nenéh	teneeníh	yeneeníh
	N-affirmative	én	tén	yén	tén	nén	tenén	yenén
	negative	mánanniyo	mánannito	mánanna	mánanna	mánannino	mánanniton	mánannon
imperfective (I)	V-affirmative	aníh	taníh	yaníh	taníh	naníh	taniiníh	yaniiníh
	N-affirmative	án	tán	yán	tán	nán	tanín	yanín
	negative	máan	mátan	máyan	mátan	mánan	mátanin	máyanin
imperfective (II)	V-affirmative	aniyóh	tanitóh	yaníh	taníh	naninóh	tanitoonúh	yaniiníh
	N-affirmative	aniyó	tanitó	yán	tán	naninó	tanitón	yanín

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 283
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[4], 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?

• IPA^(key): [e̞n]

en= (Kana spelling エン)

1. me (first-person singular object pronoun)

en^[1]

1. alternative form of enu

From Middle High German ein, from Old High German ein, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos. Cognate with German ein, 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:

	Singular
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	en	e	e (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)
Dative	eme	ene	eme
Accusative	en	e	e (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)

Bern:

	Singular
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	e (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)	e (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)	es (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)
Dative	emene
Accusative	e (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)	e (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)	es (before a consonant) en (before a vowel)

• in (Paḷḷuezu)

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

• IPA^(key): /en/ [ẽŋ]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: en

en

1. in
2. (+ gerund) after

   En comiendo, voi marchar

   After eating, I'll leave

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

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “en”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “en”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

From English and.

en

1. and

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")

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en]

en m sg (elided n', feminine na)

1. (Eastern) 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 form 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”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en]

en

1. in

   Va participar en la reunió ― He/She participated in the meeting.

2. when, upon, on (doing something)

   en arribar... ― when I arrived...

Unlike Spanish and like French, Catalan uses a with many toponyms, so en is a false friend:

a França, a París ― in France, in Paris, not *en França, *en París

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en]

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “en” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈen]

en f (plural ens)

1. (traditional) alternative form of ena (“the letter N”)

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^[5], 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. Revived Late Cornish form of yn (“in”)

en (triggers mixed mutation)

1. Revived Late Cornish form of yn (adverbial particle)

en

1. width

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]

en n (indeclinable)

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

• “en”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “en”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• in

From Latin in.

en

1. in

• nel, nei, nela

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		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: en, et     Ordinal: første
Danish Wikipedia article on 1

From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one, some”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“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
• (unstressed pronunciation) Homophone: een (“a(n)”)
• 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

   Synonym: plus

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

• ende (archaic)
• enne, enneh (informal, childish)

• 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 *né.

en

1. (colloquial or dialectal in Belgium, 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.'

   • c. 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

Borrowed from English, Italian, and German in, Catalan, French, Hungarian, and Occitan en.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /en/

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• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: en

en

1. in, within, inside

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

   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[6], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     La rezulto estas kiel poezio, en kiu ĉiu vorto signife kontribuas al la rakonto.

     The result is like poetry, in which each word meaningfully contributes to the story.

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

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

• ene

• “en”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “en”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
• Wells, John C. (1992), “en, at, in, into”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[7], →ISBN, pages 70, 180, 280, 286
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “aboard, at, board, in, into, per, under”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[8], →ISBN, pages 18, 49, 74-75, 267-268, 275, 377, 559
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “en”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[9], →OL, pages 111-112
• Motteau, Achille (1907), “en”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[10], →OCLC, page 32

• in (Valverdeñu)

From Old Galician-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 (web)‎^[11], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 124

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈen/, [ˈe̞n]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification^(key): en
• Hyphenation^(key): 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 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^[12], volume 35, →DOI, pages 215-230

Cyrillic		ен

• IPA^(key): /jen/

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اَكْ (eŋ), from Proto-Turkic *eŋ. Compare Turkish en, Azerbaijani ən.

en

1. used to make superlatives from the following adjective or adverb, most, -est.

   en ii ― the best

   en gözäl kız ― the prettiest girl

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یك (yẹŋ), from Proto-Turkic *yẹŋ. Compare Turkish yen, Azerbaijani yen.

en (definite accusative eni, plural ennär)

1. sleeve, cuff

• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 30
• Kopuşçu M. İ., Todorova S. A., Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 61
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “en”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 176

• em (reintegrationist)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈeŋ/ [ˈɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -eŋ
• Hyphenation: en

en

1. in
2. when preceding a verb or a complement of a verb it can denote an unfinished or continued 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

   • 1822, anonymous author, 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]

3. while; as soon as (used in a gerundial clause to emphasize its conditional or temporal meaning)

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

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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/after] 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/when] being a young boy and 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"

   • c 1850, anonymous author, folk song:

     Pasei pola túa porta;
     pedínch'auga, non ma deches;
     en pasando pola miña
     farei como ti fixeches.

     I passed by your door;
     I asked for water, you didn't give it to me.
     Whenever you pass by my door
     I'll do as yo did.

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “en”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “en”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “en”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “en”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃/

en

1. one

   Synonym: youn

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[13], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 58

• 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

From Old Norse en. The comparative superior conjunction and the hesitational conjunction have developed separately into the same form. The comparative conjunction is -an in the old language; -þan on runestone probably is related to -then, while the other form (hesitational) has formed from the augmentive.

• 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 funnier than I.

4. (formal written language) used to join closely linked sentences, similar in English to a semicolon and to then, which is etymologically the same as than
   • 2019 April 25 (last accessed), “Baldur ákærður fyrir innherjasvik og brot í opinberu starfi”, in Vísir‎^[14], archived from the original on 19 September 2016:

     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.

     The investigation of the office of a certain prosecutor of Baldur Guðlaugsson supposed insider trading lasted more than a year, then FME filed the case with a letter to the office on July 9th of last year.

5. conjunction similar to and

   Sonur hans hét Jón, en dóttir hans Ása.

   His son was named John, and his daughter, Ash.

   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

From Dutch en.

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/, [ɛn]

èn (plural en-en)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

• “en”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈen/, [ˈe̞n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈen/, [ˈe̞n]
• (Hevaha) 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
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 24

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ʔen/ [ʔen]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: en

en

1. oblique argument
   1. a singular proper nominal marker
   2. a personal pronoun marker, wherein "en" is followed by a class III pronoun

• (oblique arguments) sin, si, sis, ed, en, en da

• Janet L. Allen (2014), Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎^[15] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 128

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *en (“wave”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

en (plural ênaŋ)

1. wave, specifically, a small wave

• Matthias Alexander Castrén, Versuch Einer Jenissei-Ostjakischen Und Kottischen Sprachlehre: Nebst Aus Den Genannten Sprachen, St. Petersburg: Leopold Voss Publisher, 1858, page 200
• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 267
• Werner, Heinrich K. (2003), Röhrborn, Klaus, Schellbach-Kopra, Ingrid, editors, M. A. Castrén und die Jenissejistik: Die Jennisej-Sprachen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Veröffentlichungen des Societas Uralo-Altaica; 62) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 175

en (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^[16]:

     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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]

ēn

1. look! behold! (presenting something in a lively or indignant manner)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.534:

     “Ēn, quid agō?”

     “Look, what am I doing?”
     (Sleepless Dido considers her limited options. Regarding “ēn” in this context, R.G. Austin (1963) comments: “‘See’, or ‘Lo!’ in English does not really bring out its force, which is a mixture of exasperation and despair.”)

2. really!? (surprise or anger in questions)
3. come on! (exhortation to action in imperatives)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn]

en (+ accusative, ablative)

1. (Old Latin) alternative form of in (“in, within”)

• IPA^(key): [ɛn]

• Audio:

  (file)

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)

Inherited from Latin in.

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]‎^[17] (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

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

en m inan

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

• (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

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

en m or n (indefinite article)

1. (in some dialects) alternative form of een (“a, an”)

en

1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) alternative form of een (“one (1)”)

en

1. first-person dual present of ij

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

• IPA^(key): [ən]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ən
• Homophone: Ënn

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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /en/

en

1. alternative form of ne (“not”)

en

1. alternative form of ende (“and”)

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 /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)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔen.

en

1. to look at

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “en”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

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

Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : en     Ordinal : første

From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one, some”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one”).

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

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

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

en m (feminine ei or (non-standard since 1938) 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.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /en/
• (classical, late) IPA^(key): /an/

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

• Middle French: en
  • French: en
• Norman: en

Old Frisian numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: ēn     Ordinal: ērest

• ān
• (Late Old Frisian) een

From Proto-West Germanic *ain. Cognates include Old English ān and Old Saxon ēn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːn/, [ˈɛːn]

ēn m or n

1. one

   ēn skilling ― one shilling

ēn m or n

1. a, an

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum:

  Föhr: een m, ian f or n

  Amrum: ään m, ian f or n

  Goesharde:

  Hoolmer: åån m, iin f or n

  Hoorninger: aan m, iin f or n

  Halligen: aon m, ian f or n

  Heligoland: iaan, jaan

  Mooring: ån m, iinj f or n

  Sylt: jen

  Wiedingharde: oan m, iin f or n

• Saterland Frisian: aan m, een f or n
• West Frisian: ien

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈẽ/

en

1. in
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 294 (facsimile):

     [C]omo hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſṫa maṙi[a] poꝛ q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtaua a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

• Fala: en
• Galician: en
• Portuguese: em

From Proto-Germanic *anþi, *andi. Unstressed doublet of enn (“yet, still”).

en

2. but
3. (as a copulative): and

   Synonym: ok

• Icelandic: en
• Norwegian Nynorsk: enn, en
• Norwegian Bokmål: enn
• Old Swedish: æn
  • Swedish: än
• Old Danish: æn
  • Danish: end

From earlier an (“than”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þan, possibly through *þannai, whence cognate with Old English þonne (“than”). For similar loss of þ- compare at from earlier Proto-Norse ᚦᚨᛏ (þat), ᚦᛡᛏ (þᴀt).

en

2. than

   Synonym: an

• Icelandic: en
• Norwegian Nynorsk: enn
• Norwegian Bokmål: enn
• Old Swedish: æn
  • Swedish: än
• Old Danish: æn
  • Danish: end

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “en”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

en

1. of it; of them
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Can vei la lauzeta mover

     Ailas! Tan cuidava saber
     D'amor, e tan petit en sai,

     Alas! I thought I knew so much
     about love, and I know so little [of it]!

Old Saxon cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ēn

From Proto-West Germanic *ain.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːn/

en m

1. one
   • 9th c. Heliand, verse 2637

     thoh uui hēr te meti habdin garu im te geƀanne sō uui mahtin fargelden mēst tueho uuāri is noh than that iro ēnig thar ēnes gināmi

     Though we had food that we should buy to give him. The most doubt is still there that anyone once felt

   • 9th c. Heliand, verse 3880

     ēn aftar ōđrumu...

     one after another...

en m

1. a, an (rarely used)
   • 9th c. Heliand, verse 2984-2985

     Thar imu tegėgnes quam ēn idis fan āðrom thiodun; siu was iru aðaligeburdeo...

     There towards him a woman came from another nation; she was of their noble-birth...

• Middle Low German: ên, ein
  • Low German: ein, en
    • Low German: een
    • Westphalian:

      Lippisch: eun

      Ravensbergisch: åine

      Sauerländisch: ên

      Westmünsterländisch: een, eene, ne

  • Plautdietsch: een

From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos.

ēn m or f

1. one

Compare German ein.

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

en

1. a, an

en

1. accusative of er: him

From Middle Low German in, from Old Saxon in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

• enn

en

1. in

• em

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

en

1. alternative form of un; and

Phonetic spelling of the letter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: en

en n (indeclinable)

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

• en in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovene numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: en     Nominalized cardinal: eden     Cardinal prefix: eno-     Ordinal: prvi     Fixed ordinal: prvoten     Latinate ordinal: primaren     Ordinal prefix: prvo-     Number: ena     Digit: enka     Digit place: enica     Adverbial: prvič     Krat adverbial: prvikrat     Multiplier: enojen     Krat multiplier: enkrat     Fixed multiplier: enkraten     Adverbial multiplier: enojno     Latinate multiplier: singleten     Multiplier verb: poeniti     Multiplier prefix: enojn-     Krat multiplier prefix: enkratn-     Krat adverbial multiplier: enkratno     Collective: enoje     Separable collective: enoj     Greek or Latinate collective: monada     Greek collective prefix: mono-     Latinate collective prefix: uni-     Fractional: enina     Greek prefix: proto-     Number of musicians: solo

Contraction of earlier êden, from Proto-Slavic *(j)edinъ.

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

ȅn

1. one

The form éden is used when the word does not modify a noun directly, but stands in predicate position. When counting or reciting numbers, the feminine form éna is normally used (see the number box).

First declension (hard), fixed accent
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom sg	ȅn	éna	éno
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	ȅn	éna	éno
genitive rodȋlnik	énega	éne	énega
dative dajȃlnik	énemu	éni	énemu
accusative tožȋlnik	nominanim genanim	éno	éno
locative mẹ̑stnik	énem	éni	énem
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énim	éno	énim
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȅn	ȇna	ȇno

Other forms
	positive	comparative	superlative
accusative singular masculine isolated form	énega	–	–
accusative singular neuter isolated form	éno, énega	–	–
adverb	–	–	–

• enóta

ȅn

1. (colloquial) some (someone/something – indefinite determiner)

   Synonyms: nekȁk, nekȁkšen

   Eni moški stojijo tam. ― Some men are standing there.

2. (colloquial, also unstressed) some (someone/something arbitrary – unspecified determiner)

   Synonyms: kāk, kākšen

First declension (hard), fixed accent
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom sg	én	éna	éno
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	én	éna	éno
genitive rodȋlnik	énega	éne	énega
dative dajȃlnik	énemu	éni	énemu
accusative tožȋlnik	nominanim genanim	éno	éno
locative mẹ̑stnik	énem, énemu	éni	énem, énemu
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énim	éno	énim
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȇn	ȇna	ȇno
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	éna	éni	éni
genitive rodȋlnik	énih	énih	énih
dative dajȃlnik	énima	énima	énima
accusative tožȋlnik	éna	éni	éni
locative mẹ̑stnik	énih	énih	énih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énima	énima	énima
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȇna	éni	éni
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	éni	éne	éna
genitive rodȋlnik	énih	énih	énih
dative dajȃlnik	énim	énim	énim
accusative tožȋlnik	éne	éne	éna
locative mẹ̑stnik	énih	énih	énih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énimi	énimi	énimi
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȇni	ȇne	ȇna

Positive definite forms
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	éni	éna	éno
genitive rodȋlnik	énega	éne	énega
dative dajȃlnik	énemu	éni	énemu
accusative tožȋlnik	nominanim genanim	éno	éno
locative mẹ̑stnik	énem, énemu	éni	énem, énemu
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énim	éno	énim
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȇni	ȇna	ȇno
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	éna	éni	éni
genitive rodȋlnik	énih	énih	énih
dative dajȃlnik	énima	énima	énima
accusative tožȋlnik	éna	éni	éni
locative mẹ̑stnik	énih	énih	énih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énima	énima	énima
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȇna	ȇni	ȇni
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative imenovȃlnik	éni	éne	éna
genitive rodȋlnik	énih	énih	énih
dative dajȃlnik	énim	énim	énim
accusative tožȋlnik	éne	éne	éna
locative mẹ̑stnik	énih	énih	énih
instrumental orọ̑dnik	énimi	énimi	énimi
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	ȇni	ȇne	ȇna

Other forms
	positive	comparative	superlative
accusative singular masculine isolated form	énega	–	–
accusative singular neuter isolated form	éno, énega	–	–
adverb	–	–	–

ȅn m anim

1. (regional) alternative form of éden

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

en

1. (colloquial, regional) a

   To je ena velika izmišljotina! ― This is a big made-up story.

• “en”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “en”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

en

1. he/she/it

• A Grammar Sketch of Sougb, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)

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

• IPA^(key): /en/ [ẽn]

  • Audio:

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -en
  • Syllabification: en
• IPA^(key): /ˈem/ [ˈẽm] (before b, v, p)

en

1. in, at, on

   Estoy en casa. ― I'm at home./I'm home.

   estar sentado en una mesa/un escritorio/una computadora ― to (be) sit(ting) at a table/a desk/a computer

   en esta página ― on this page

   en la caja que está en la mesa ― in the box that's on the table

   • 2024 November 8, Kaitlan Collins, “Batallas desde el patio de Mar-a-Lago: cómo el equipo de Trump compite por los puestos”, in CNN en Español‎^[18]:

     Esas conversaciones en voz baja se convirtieron ahora en una auténtica batalla que se desarrolla directamente desde el patio del club Mar-a-Lago de Trump en Palm Beach, Florida.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. in (a time)

   en la antigüedad ― in antiquity

   en 1999 ― in 1999

   en cinco minutos ― in five minutes

3. in (a language)

   hablar en español ― to speak in Spanish

   Este libro está en español.

   This book is in Spanish.

   No conozco esta palabra en francés.

   I don't know this word in French.

   en todos los idiomas ― in all languages

4. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English

   Pienso en ti. ― I'm thinking of you.

5. in (in various expressions)

   en el sentido ― in the sense

   en nuestro afán ― in our eagerness

• “en”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “en”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

• hem (obsolete)

From older hem, from English him.

en

1. Third-person singular possessive determiner/pronoun; his, her, its

en

1. Third-person singular object pronoun; him, her, it
2. Contrastive variant of a; he, she, it.

en

1. romanization of 𒂗 (en)

From Old Swedish ēn, æn, from Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one, some”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛnː/; /ɛŋː/ (numeral and article when used before g in close syntactic connection)

• Audio (Gotland):

  (file)

• Homophones: än, N, n
• Rhymes: -ɛnː

en (genitive ens)

1. object form of the indefinite pronoun man ("one," "you")

   Det man inte vet skadar en inte

   What one doesn’t know doesn’t hurt one.

2. (dialectal, colloquial) one, you

   Det en inte vet har en inte ont av.

   What you don't know can't hurt you.

• Besides being the subject form in some dialects and vernaculars, en is sometimes deliberately used as an alternative subject form of the indefinite pronoun man, which is a homonymous derivative of the noun man ("man"). This development is in some ways parallel to the gender-neutral pronoun hen.

Swedish numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: ett, en     Ordinal: första     Ordinal abbreviation: 1:a     Fractional: hel

en (neuter ett)

1. one

   Vill du ha en eller två?

   Would you like one or two?

   (literally, “Do you want one or two? ["Would you like ..." is a better match for tone]”)

en c (neuter ett)

2. the indefinite article: a, an.

   Jag såg en björn i skogen

   I saw a bear in the forest

• en and ett are invariable in the singular, as nominative en konung (a king) and genitive en konungs (a king's).
• Generally, Swedish tends to be a bit more lenient about dropping the indefinite article compared to English. As an example, "Taxar har långsträckt kropp" (Dachshunds have elongated body) reads well in Swedish, whereas you might rephrase it as "have elongated bodies" in English. This is especially prominent with roles, where you would say "Hon är läkare" (She is doctor), for example – see vara (“be”). "Taxar har en långsträckt kropp" also works, and is something native speakers would say. It just feels slightly less polished in some contexts.
• A rule of thumb for simple cases like "has property" ("Han har stor näsa" – "He has a big nose") and "is role" ("Hon är läkare" – "She is a doctor") might be that the indefinite article can be dropped if someone might quip, "Oh, as opposed to two big noses, doctors, etc.?" (though it doesn't sound that bad). In "Jag såg en bil" (I saw a car), the en is essential information and would never be dropped, though "Jag har bil" (I have car) is idiomatic for owning a car (or several) – perhaps because a single car would normally be implied and the exact number is usually irrelevant.
• The genitive enes and the dative enom are dated.

From earlier ene (sometimes also ener), from Old Norse einir.

• IPA^(key): /eːn/

en c

1. juniper

• en in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• en in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• en in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• han in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• Brüch, Josef (1922), “Lateinische Etymologien”, in Indogermanische Forschungen. Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft‎^[19] (in German), volume 40, Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co., pages 225–226

• -ne

Borrowed from English en, the English name of the letter N / n.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔen/ [ʔɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: en

en (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈ᜔)

1. the name of the Latin script letter N/n, in the Filipino alphabet

   Synonyms: (in the Abakada alphabet) na, (in the Abecedario) ene

• (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

• “en”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• ne

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔen, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ken (“to see, to know”).

en

1. to look

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

• IPA^(key): /en/, [en], [æn]

From Ottoman Turkish ان (en), from Proto-Turkic *ēn (“breadth, width”).

en (definite accusative eni, plural enler)

1. width
2. a cachet on an animal or bonded goods

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “en2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Ottoman Turkish اڭ (eŋ), from Proto-Turkic *eŋ. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰭 (ŋ /⁠eŋ⁠/), Azerbaijani ən, Kyrgyz эң (eŋ), Tuvan эң (eñ), Uzbek eng.

en

1. the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of any or most adjectives)

   büyük, en büyük

   big, (the) biggest

   en küçük

   the smallest

   en acayip

   the most interesting

en

1. first-person singular present of ei

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

en f (plural eniau)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd

From Old Frisian and, ende, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/, /ɪn/

en

1. and

• “en”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔen, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ken. Cognates include Chinese [Term?] 見／见 (jiàn) and Tibetan མཁྱེན་པ (mkhyen pa).

• IPA^(key): /en˧˥/

én

1. (intransitive) to look

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔan (“vegetables”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *h(y)an.

• IPA^(key): /ən˧˥/

én

1. food
2. meal

• Chungkham Yashawanta Singh; Lukram Himmat (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41