aber
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“hold, have”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aber
- to have
Conjugation edit
infinitive | aber | ||||||
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gerund | abendo | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | abiu, abito | abida, abita | |||||
plural | abius, abitos | abidas, abitas | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | yo | tú | él | nusatros nusatras |
busatros busatras |
ellos/els ellas | |
present | he | has | ha | emos | ez | han | |
imperfect | eba | ebas | eba | ebanos | ebaz | eban | |
preterite | abié | abiés | abió | abiemos | abiez | abioron, abión | |
future | abré | abrás | abrá | abremos | abrez | abrán | |
conditional | abría | abrías | abría | abríanos | abríaz | abrían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú | él | nusatros nusatras |
busatros busatras |
ellos/els ellas | |
present | aiga, aya | aigas, ayas | aiga, aya | aigamos, ayamos | aigaz, ayaz | aigan, ayan | |
imperfect | ese | eses | ese | esenos | esez | esen | |
imperative | — | tú | — | — | busatros busatras |
— | |
— | he | — | — | ez | — |
Breton edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Brythonic *aber.
Noun edit
aber m or f (plural aberioù)
Descendants edit
- → French: aber
Verb edit
aber
Further reading edit
- Henry, Victor (1900) “aber”, in Lexique étymologique des termes les plus usuels du breton moderne (Bibliothèque bretonne armoricaine; III) (in French), Rennes: J. Plihon et L. Hervé
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish a ver, short form of the phrase vamos a ver (“let's see”).
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
abér (Badlit spelling ᜀᜊᜒᜇ᜔)
Cornish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Brythonic *aber.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aber m (plural aberyow)
Danish edit
Noun edit
aber c
- indefinite plural of abe
Verb edit
aber
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aber m (plural abers)
Further reading edit
- “aber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German aber, aver, from Old High German aber, abur, aver, avur, afur, from Proto-Germanic *aferą (“behind”). Compare Bavarian owa (“but”), Luxembourgish awer (“but”), Saterland Frisian oaber (“but”), Middle Low German āver, German Low German aver (“but”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈaːbɐ/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈabɐ/ (colloquial; when unstressed by regular shortening, but also used when stressed)
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Conjunction edit
aber (coordinating)
- but; however; though
- Ich mag keine Orangen, aber ich mag Äpfel. ― I don't like oranges, but I like apples.
Usage notes edit
- Unlike most other conjunctions, aber doesn't need to be the first word of a clause and can thereby emphasize the preceding word(s): Ich bin dafür, er aber lehnt es ab. — “I’m in favour, but he has rejected it.” In such a construction, aber can be considered an adverb, though the usual interpretation is that it is still a conjunction.
- After a negative, sondern is used to express a contrast, while aber expresses a gradation or nuance. Compare:
- Wir haben keine Pizza gekauft, sondern Zutaten, um eine selbst zu machen. ― We didn't buy a pizza but ingredients to make one ourselves.
- Wir haben die Pizza nicht selbst gemacht, aber haben auch Zutaten gekauft, um sie zu verbessern. ― We didn't make the pizza ourselves but also bought ingredients to improve it.
- It's usually better or less dated English to not translate sondern with but:
- Er ist nicht genial, sondern dumm. ― He isn’t brilliant; in fact he's stupid. / He isn’t brilliant, he's stupid.
- Er ist nicht genial, aber ziemlich klug. ― He isn’t brilliant but quite intelligent.
Derived terms edit
Adverb edit
aber
- (obsolete, except in compounds) again
- (qualifier) rather; quite; unusually; used with adjectives to express a surprising degree, whether this surprise be real or for effect
- Das ist aber teuer. ― That's rather expensive. ≈ That's more expensive than I would’ve thought.
- Du bist aber groß geworden! ― Look how tall you’ve become! (said to a child)
- (conjunctive) nonetheless, nevertheless
- Die Wohnung ist zwar klein, ich würde sie aber gerne nehmen.
- The apartment is small, nevertheless I would like to take it.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “aber” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “aber”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Javanese ꦲꦧꦼꦂ (aber), from Old Javanese abĕr (“to slow”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
aber
- lost or run out of strength and superiority
Further reading edit
- “aber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Kholosi edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
aber ?
Further reading edit
- Arora, Aryaman (2020) “aber”, in Kholosi Dictionary[2]
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From German Aber (“objection”), a substantivization of German aber (“but, however, though”) (as in "no buts and no ifs"), from Middle High German aber, aver, from Old High German aber, abur, aver, avur, afur (“however, but”), either from Proto-Germanic *afar, *abar, *abur (“after, following”), from Proto-Indo-European *apo- (“away, from”), or from Proto-Germanic *aferą (“behind”), from pre-Germanic *h₂ép-erom, accusative/allative to an adjective *h₂ép-eros.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aber n (definite singular aberet, indefinite plural aber or abere, definite plural abera or aberne)
- a problem, an obstacle, a difficulty
- Det er et aber med det.
- There is a problem with it.
- 1908, Kristian F. Biller, Lys og Skygge:
- – Nei, virkelig, har De ikke spist. Det var et aber: vi kunde jo ha stukket indom en restaurant
- - No, really, you have not eaten. It was a difficulty: we could have stopped by a restaurant
- 1927, Tidens Tegn:
- det er bare den aber at staten eier den
- it is only the catch that the state owns it
- 1921, Jonas Lie, Samlede Digterverker VII, page 87:
- [det] kunde være enkelte abere at notere
- [it] could be individual difficulties to note
- 1907, Alexander L. Kielland, Samlede værker I (Mindeutgave), page 78:
- [hun hadde] været forlovet – riktignok bare ni uger – men det var dog et lidet aber
- [she had] been engaged - admittedly only nine weeks - but it was still a suffering difficulty
- 1879-1895, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev I, page 238:
- det har vel sine aber det ogsaa
- it probably has its difficulties too
- 2010, Lars Saabye Christensen, Bernhard Hvals forsnakkelser:
- det eneste som måtte være et aber er at når jeg biter kjevene sammen og knusper, kjenner jeg bare de bløte gommene gli mot hverandre
- the only thing that may be a difficulty is that when I bite my jaws together and crush, I only feel the soft palates slide against each other
Synonyms edit
- hake (“catch”), ulempe (“disadvantage”), vanskelighet (“difficulty”), men (“damage, injury”)
Further reading edit
- “aber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “aber” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “aber” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams edit
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse apr (“sharp, hard, bad”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
aber (Shetland)
Verb edit
aber (Shetland)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “aber” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “aber” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[3], 2016.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خبر (haber), from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
àber m (Cyrillic spelling а̀бер)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German aber (“but”), turned into a noun (as in "no buts and no ifs").
Noun edit
aber n
- a problem, an obstacle, a difficulty
Declension edit
The plural is the same, but definite forms do not apply.
Further reading edit
- aber in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- aber in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- aber in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaˈbeɾ/, [ʔɐˈbɛɾ]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: a‧ber
Interjection edit
abér (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜒᜇ᜔)
Related terms edit
Tarifit edit
Noun edit
aber m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴱⴻⵔ, plural abriwen, diminutive tabert)
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Brythonic *aber, from Proto-Celtic *adberos.
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈabɛr/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈa(ː)bɛr/
- Rhymes: -abɛr
Noun edit
aber m or f (plural aberoedd or ebyr)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
aber | unchanged | unchanged | haber |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology[1] (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN, page 1
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “aber”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Zipser German edit
Conjunction edit
aber
- Alternative form of åber