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Es
Es
Translingual
Symbol
Es
- (chemistry) Symbol for einsteinium.
- (metrology) Symbol for the exasecond, an SI unit of time equal to 1018 seconds.
English
Noun
Es
- plural of E
Usage notes
- There is some difference of opinion regarding the use of apostrophes in the pluralization of references to letters as symbols. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɛs]
Etymology 1
Used by Freud as a noun, from the pronoun es (“it”).
Noun
Es n (genitive Es, plural Es)
- (psychology) id
Declension
Descendants
- Czech: id (via loan-translation into Latin)
- Danish: id (via loan-translation into Latin)
- English: id (via loan-translation into Latin)
Etymology 2
Musical note.
Noun
Es n (genitive Es, plural Es)
es
es
Translingual
Symbol
es
- ISO abbreviation language code for Spanish language (ISO 639-1).
- ISO abbreviation country code for Spain (ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code).
- (radio slang) a synonym for "and"
- WX HR COLD ES RAINY
- The weather here is cold & rainy.
- WX HR COLD ES RAINY
English
Noun
es (plural esses)
- Alternative form of s (letter 's')
Etymology 2
Noun
es
- plural of e
Usage notes
- There is some difference of opinion regarding the use of apostrophes in the pluralization of references to letters as symbols. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.
Etymology 3
Verb
es (be)
- Eye dialect spelling of is.
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Pronunciation
- (Zurich) IPA(key): /əs/, /ɛs/
Article
es n
- (indefinite) a/an
- 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
- Das isch September vor eme Jar gsi.
- 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
Declension
Declension of en | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
nominative/accusative | en | e | es | - |
dative | emene | enere | emene | - |
Pronoun
es n
- (personal) it
Declension
nominative | accusative | dative | possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st person singular | ich, i | mich, mi | mir, mer | miin | |
2nd person singular | familiar | du | dich | dir | diin |
polite | Si | Ine, Ene | Ire | ||
3rd person singular | m | er | in | im | siin |
f | si | ire | |||
n | es | im | siin | ||
1st person plural | mir | öis | öise | ||
2nd person plural | ir | öi | öie | ||
3rd person plural | si | ine, ene | ire |
Arin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔes (“God, sky”). Compare - ēš, eš (“God, sky”), Assan aš-parán (“sky”); ös, eš (“God”); öš, eč (“God, sky”) and Pumpokol eč (“sky”).
Noun
es
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin exeō. Compare Daco-Romanian ieși, ies.
Verb
es (third-person singular present indicative easi/ease, past participle ishitã)
Related terms
- ishiri/ishire
- ishit
- ishitã
- ishitor
See also
Assan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔes (“God, sky”). Compare Kott ēš, eš (“God, sky”), Arin eš (“God, sky”) and Pumpokol eč (“sky”).
Noun
es
Synonyms
Catalan
Etymology 1
Pronoun
es (proclitic, contracted s', enclitic se, contracted enclitic 's)
- himself, herself, itself (direct or indirect object)
- oneself (direct or indirect object)
- themselves (direct or indirect object)
- each other (direct or indirect object)
Declension
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Article
es m sg (feminine sa, masculine plural es, masculine plural sos, feminine plural ses)
Usage notes
- In Balearic Catalan, es contrasts with el as an obviative article, but is often used in first instance.
Czech
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs/
Noun
es n
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) písmeno; á, bé, cé, dé, é, ef, gé, há, chá, í, jé, ká, el, em, en, ó, pé, kvé, er, es, té, ú, vé, dvojité vé, iks, ypsilon, zet (Category: cs:Latin letter names)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs/
Noun
es
Danish
Noun
es n (singular definite esset, plural indefinite esser)
- (card games) ace
- Jeg har alle esserne.
- I have all the aces.
- Jeg har alle esserne.
Declension
See also
- være i sit es
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (compare West Frisian esk, English ash, German Esche, Danish ask), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃osk- (compare Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian ясень (jasenʹ), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ὀξύα (oxúa, “beech”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʿi)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
es m (plural essen, diminutive esje n)
Etymology 2
Noun
es m (plural essen, diminutive esje n)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əs/
Adverb
es
- (informal, dialectal) Elision of eens
- Kom es hier — Kom eens hier — Come over here (for a second).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ/
Verb
es
- second-person singular present indicative of être
Anagrams
German
Alternative forms
- 's (chiefly informal or poetic)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əs] (generally)
- IPA(key): [əs], [ɛs], [eːs] (when stressed, which is rare)
Pronoun
es n
- it (referring to things)
- he (with reference to male creatures, people etc. that are grammatically neuter)
- she (with reference to female creatures, people etc. that are grammatically neuter)
-
1952, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, ‘Das Dicke Kind’:
- Das Kind sagte nichts und sah mich mit seinen kühlen Augen an. Dann war es fort.
- The child said nothing and looked at me with her cold eyes. Then she was gone.
- Das Kind sagte nichts und sah mich mit seinen kühlen Augen an. Dann war es fort.
-
1952, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, ‘Das Dicke Kind’:
- (for impersonal verbs) it
- Es regnet.
- It’s raining.
- Es regnet.
Inflection
nominative | accusative | genitive | dative | possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st person singular | ich | mich | meiner († mein) |
mir | mein | |
2nd person singular (familiar)1 | du | dich | deiner († dein) |
dir | dein | |
3rd person singular | m | er | ihn | seiner († sein) |
ihm | sein |
f | sie | ihrer | ihr | |||
n | es | seiner († sein) |
ihm | sein | ||
1st person plural | wir | uns | unser | uns | unser | |
2nd person plural (familiar) | ihr | euch | euer | euch | euer | |
3rd person plural | sie | ihrer | ihnen | ihr | ||
polite address | naturally: 2. person sg. or pl.; grammatically: 3. person pl. |
Sie | Ihrer | Ihnen | Ihr |
1Often capitalized, especially in letters
Usage notes
- In the colloquial speech of some areas, this pronoun is fully replaced with the demonstrative pronoun das, with which it shares the unstressed reduction /s/. This reflects a similar development for sie/die, but predates it.
Derived terms
Article
es n
- (regional, colloquial) Alternative form of das
- Soll ich es Fenster zumachen?
- Should I close the window?
- Soll ich es Fenster zumachen?
Usage notes
- The contracted form 's is more common, but es is also frequently heard.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛːs/
- Rhymes: -ɛːs
Noun
es n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural es)
- (music) E flat
Declension
Related terms
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /es/, [ɛs]
Noun
es (indeclinable)
- The name of the letter S.
Usage notes
- Multiple Latin names for the letter S, s have been suggested. The most common is es or a syllabic s, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, sē, sss, əs, sə, 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) ισσε (isse).
Coordinate terms
- (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ/ī graeca/ypsilon (Y), zēta (Z)
References
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “es”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
-
(ambiguous) what country do you come from: cuias es
-
(ambiguous) how old are you: quot annos natus es?
-
(ambiguous) how old are you: qua aetate es?
-
(ambiguous) are you in your right mind: satin (= satisne) sanus es?
-
(ambiguous) what country do you come from: cuias es
- 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
Etymology 2
Form of the verb sum (“am”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /es/, [ɛs]
Verb
es
- second-person singular present active indicative of sum
- second-person singular present active imperative of sum
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:es.
Etymology 3
Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eːs/
Verb
ēs
- second-person singular present active indicative of edō
- second-person singular present active imperative of edō
Synonyms
Latvian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Baltic *ež, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵ (from *éǵh₂). The non-nominative forms derive from Proto-Indo-European dependent stem *me- (the a instead of e in the Baltic languages appears to result from Iranian influence): reduplicated *me-me- → *mene → Proto-Baltic genitive/accusative *mane → *manen (by analogy with other accusatives) → *manens (by analogy with other genitives) → genitive manis, while *manen → accusative mani. Dative man comes from an older *mani. Instrumental variant manim imitates the nominal i-stem paradigm. Cognates include Lithuanian aš (archaic eš), Old Prussian es, as, Sudovian as, Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ (Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), Old East Slavic ꙗзъ (jazŭ), Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian я (ja), Bulgarian аз (az), Czech já (from jaz), Polish ja (from jaz)), Proto-Germanic *ekan, *ek (Gothic 𐌹𐌺 (ik), Old Norse ek, Old High German ih, German ich, Old English ic, English I), Hittite uk, Sanskrit अहम् (ahám), Avestan [script needed] (azəm), Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ), Latin ego, Ossetian æз (æz).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɛs]
Pronoun
es (personal, 1st person singular)
- I; first person pronoun, referring to the speaker
- Es te dzīvoju. ― I live here.
- Viņš mani sastapa ceļā. ― He met me on the road.
- Atnāc pie manis! ― Come to me (to my place)!
- Nāc ar mani dejot! ― Come dance with me!
- Man nav laiks. ― I don't have time. (lit. There is no time to me.)
Declension
Usage notes
The form mans is a possessive pronoun ('my'), while manis is a true genitive form ('of me'). The dative form manim is used only optionally, with prepositions.
Related terms
- manējs
See also
Noun
es m (invariable)
- I, ego (the essence of a person)
- mans es ― my I, my ego
- Runātājs izcēla savu es. ― The speaker highlighted his I, his ego.
- Briesmīgi nezināt nekā un just tikai sevi, savu es. ― It is terrible to know and feel nothing except oneself, one's I.
- Cilvēks var pierādīt savu vērtību, apliecināt savu “es” tikai darbā. ― A person can prove their worth, testify their “I”, only in (their) work.
Etymology 2
A cross-linguistically frequent way of naming this sound, and the respective letter.
Noun
es m (invariable)
See also
- Latvian letter names:
References
- ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “es”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7
Middle French
Etymology 1
Old French es ("[you] are").
Verb
es
- second-person singular present indicative of estre
Etymology 2
Old French es ("in the").
Contraction
es
Middle Irish
Noun
es f
Descendants
- Irish: eas
Mutation
Middle Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
es | unchanged | n-es |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Novial
Verb
es
- be/am/is/are
- (auxiliary) Used with a passive participle of a verb in order to denote that verb's passive voice, specifically the "passive of being" voice.
See also
Old French
Etymology
Preposition
es
- in the
- 1303, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 186 of this essay:
-
l'autre partie va es muscules
- the other part goes into the muscles
-
l'autre partie va es muscules
-
Descendants
- French: ès (archaic)
Old Irish
Etymology 1
Noun
es ?
- the letter s
Etymology 2
Conjunction
es
- (rare) Alternative form of is (“and”)
Etymology 3
Noun
es m
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: eas
Etymology 4
Noun
es n
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
Etymology 5
Noun
es ?
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
Etymology 6
Noun
es ?
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 7
Noun
es ?
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
Etymology 8
Non-lemma forms.
Pronoun
es
- third-person singular masculine of a
Alternative forms
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
es | unchanged | n-es |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Romagnol
Etymology
From Latin esse, present active infinitive of sum.
Verb
es
- to be
- (auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something).
Sawi
Interjection
es
- at once
- Uvur haramavimaken, du famud, es! — The tide is about to turn; cook the sago at once![1]
- enough
References
- ↑ Don Richardson, Peace Child.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin est, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es/, [e̞s]
Verb
es
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ser.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of ser; (he/she/it/one) is