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Alternative forms
Etymology
Abbreviation of electronic mail
Pronunciation
Noun
e-mail (countable and uncountable; plural e-mails)
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via e-mail.
- The advent of e-mail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable, see Usage notes below) A message sent via an e-mail system.
- He sent me an e-mail last week to that effect.
- I am searching through my old e-mails.
- (uncountable, see Usage notes below) A quantity of e-mail messages.
- I am searching through my old e-mail.
- My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of e-mail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- (informal) An e-mail address.
- What's your e-mail?
Usage notes
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- The spellings e-mail and email are both in common use. The form email is now more widespread, probably due to one less character and the tendency to drop hyphens, making it easier to write or type, and this form is becoming a standardized usage for most businesses and Internet users. Those who follow strict orthographic rules may consider the hyphenated form to be proper; however, as a recently coined word, the issue remains an unsettled matter at this point.
- As a contraction of electronic mail, some feel that e-mail should follow the same pluralization rules and be uncountable, prohibiting the forms e-mails and an e-mail. Others feel that it is not necessary for e-mail to maintain grammatical similarity to mail, and prefer to pluralize the term as a countable noun. This issue is hotly debated, but it is seldom considered incorrect to use the uncountable form.
Derived terms
Translations
system
- Arabic: بريد إلكتروني (ar) (bariid iliktruuniy) m, إيميل (ar) (iimeil) m
- Belarusian: электронная пошта (be) (elektrónnaja póšta) f, iмэйл (be) (iméjl) m, мэйл (be) (mejl) m
- Bengali: ইমেইল (bn) (ime'il), ই-মেইল (bn) (i-me'il)
- Bulgarian: имейл (bg) (imejl) m
- Burmese: အီးမေးလ် (my) (ì-màyl)
- Catalan: correu electrònic (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電子郵件 (cmn), 电子邮件 (cmn) (diànzǐ yóujiàn), 電郵 (cmn), 电邮 (cmn) (diànyóu)
- Czech: e-mail (cs) m, email (cs) m
- Danish: e-mail (da) c, e-post (da) c
- Dutch: mail (nl) m, e-mail (nl) m
- Esperanto: retpoŝto (eo)
- Estonian: e-post (et)
- Faroese: teldupostur (fo) m
- Finnish: sähköposti (fi)
- French: courrier électronique m, courriel m, email m (colloquial), mél m
- German: E-Mail (de) f
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο (el) (ilektronikó tachydromeío) n, ηλ. ταχ. (el) (il. tach.) n
- Hebrew: דואר אלקטרוני (he) (do'ar elektroni)
- Hindi: वि-पत्र (hi) (vi-patra)
- Icelandic: tölvupóstur m, netpóstur m, e-mail n
- Irish: ríomhphost (ga) m
- Italian: posta elettronica (it) f, e-mail (it) f
- Japanese: 電子メール (ja) (でんしメール, denshi mēru), Eメール (ja) (ī mēru), イーメール (ja) (īmēru), メール (ja) (mēru)
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- Jèrriais: e-mail m
- Kannada: ಮಿಂಚೆ (kn) (miNche)
- Khmer: អ៊ីមែល (km) (’ii-mɛɛl), អសន្យាណូសារ (km) (’a’sɑnyaanou saa)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئی نامه (ku) (e-name), ئی پهیام (ku) (e-peyam)
- Lao: ອີແມລ (lo) (ii-máew)
- Lithuanian: el. paštas
- Macedonian: електронска пошта (mk) (eletrónska póšta) f
- Malay: surat elektronik, surel
- Mongolian: цахим шуудан (mn) (tsahim šuudan), и-мэйл (mn) (i-mejl)
- Norwegian: e-post (no) m, epost (no) m
- Persian: پست الکترونیکی (fa) (post-e elekteroniki), ایمیل (fa) (imeyl), رایانامه (fa) (râyânâme)
- Polish: e-mail (pl) m, (colloquial) mejl (pl) m
- Romanian: e-mail (ro) n, poștă electronică f, electronic curier m
- Russian: электронная почта (ru) (elektrónnaja póčta) f, имейл (ru) (iméjl) m, мейл (ru) (mejl) m
- Scottish Gaelic: post-dealain (gd) m
- Sinhalese: විද්යුත් තැපෑල (si) (vidyut tæpǣla)
- Spanish: correo electrónico (es) m, correo-e (es) m
- Swedish: e-post (sv) c, e-mail (sv) c, mejl (sv) c
- Ukrainian: електронна пошта (uk) (elektrónna póšta) f, iмейл (uk) (iméjl) m, мейл (uk) (mejl) m
- Urdu: ای میل (ur) (ī mel) f
- Vietnamese: thư điện tử (vi)
- Welsh: e-bost (cy) m
- Yiddish: בליצפּאָסט (yi) (blitspost) f
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message sent via e-mail
- Arabic: إيميل (ar) (iimeil) m
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: iмэйл (be) (iméjl) m, мэйл (be) (mejl) m
- Bengali: ইমেইল (bn) (ime'il), ই-মেইল (bn) (i-me'il)
- Bulgarian: имейл (bg) (imejl) m
- Burmese: အီးမေးလ် (my) (ì-màyl)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電子郵件 (cmn), 电子邮件 (cmn) (diànzǐ yóujiàn), 電郵 (cmn), 电邮 (cmn) (diànyóu)
- Czech: e-mail (cs) m
- Danish: e-mail (da), e-brev (da) n
- Dutch: mail m, e-mail m, e-mailbericht n
- Esperanto: retmesaĝo (eo), retletero (eo)
- Estonian: e-kiri
- Faroese: teldubræv (fo) n, teldupostur (fo) m
- Finnish: viesti (fi), sähköpostiviesti (fi), sähköposti (fi)
- French: courriel (fr) m, courriels (fr) m pl, courrier électronique (fr) m, (colloquial) email (fr) m, e-mail (fr) m
- Georgian: ელექტრონული ფოსტა (ka) (elek'tronuli p'osta), იმეილი (ka) (imeili), ელ (ka) (el)
- German: E-Mail (de) f, Mail (de) f
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο (el) (ilektronikó tachydromeío) n, ηλεκτρονικό μήνυμα (el) (ilektronikó mínyma) n
- Hebrew: דוא"ל (he) (do'al) m
- Hindi: ई-मेल (hi) (ī-mel) f, ईमेल (hi) (īmel) f, ई-पत्र (hi) (ī-patr) m
- Hungarian: e-mail (hu)
- Icelandic: tölvubréf n, tölvupóstur m
- Irish: ríomhphost (ga) m
- Italian: messaggio di posta elettronica (it), e-mail (it) f
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- Japanese: 電子メール (ja) (でんしメール, denshi mēru), Eメール (ja) (ī mēru), イーメール (ja) (īmēru), メール (ja) (mēru)
- Jèrriais: e-mail m
- Kannada: ಮಿಂಚೆ (kn) (min̄ce)
- Khmer: អ៊ីមែល (km) (’ii-mɛɛl), អ-សារ (km) (’a’-saa)
- Korean: 이메일 (ko) (imeil)
- Lao: ອີແມລ (lo) (ii-máew)
- Macedonian: електронска порака (mk) (eletrónska póraka) f, електронско писмо (mk) (eletrónsko písmo) n
- Malay: e-mel (ms)
- Mongolian: и-мэйл (mn) (i-mejl)
- Norwegian: e-post (no) m, e-brev (no) n
- Persian: ایمیل (fa)
- Polish: e-mail (pl) m, (colloquial) mejl (pl) m
- Portuguese: correio eletrônico (pt), e-mail (pt)
- Romanian: e-mail (ro) n, e-mail mesaj (ro) n
- Russian: имейл (ru) (iméjl) m, мейл (ru) (mejl) m, сообщение (ru) (soobščénije) n, письмо (ru) (pis’mó) n, электронное письмо (ru) (elektrónnoye pis'mó) n
- Scottish Gaelic: post-dealain (gd) m
- Spanish: correo electrónico (es) m, correo (es) m
- Swedish: e-post (sv) c, mail (sv) n, mejl (sv) n, e-brev (sv) n, brev (sv) n
- Tamil: மின்னஞ்சல் (ta) (minnanchal)
- Thai: อีเมล (th) (ee-mayn), อีเมล์ (th) (ee-may)
- Turkish: e-posta (tr), e-mail (tr), elektronik posta (tr)
- Ukrainian: iмейл (uk) (iméjl) m, мейл (uk) (mejl) m
- Urdu: ای میل (ur) (ī mel) f
- Vietnamese: thư điện tử (vi), email (vi)
- Welsh: e-bost (cy) m
- Yiddish: בליצבריוו (yi) (blitsbriv) m, בליצבריוול (yi) (blitsbrivl) m
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Verb
e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)
- (transitive) To send an e-mail or e-mails to.
- She e-mailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
- (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an e-mail or e-mails.
- Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day e-mailing and surfing the Web.
- (transitive, may take two objects) To send via e-mail.
- I'll e-mail you the link.
- He e-mailed the file out to everyone.
Translations
to send an e-mail or e-mails to
intransitive: to send an e-mail or e-mails
to send via e-mail
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- Portuguese: mandar por email (pt)
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Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
E-mail on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia