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Etymology
From Middle English syns, sinnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after", "since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since", "after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
since (not comparable)
- From a specified time in the past.
- I had seen him previously, but hadn't seen him since.
Preposition
since
- From (time).
- I have known her since last year.
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, the Guardian:
- "Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"
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Translations
from (time)
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: منذ (ar) (múnḏu)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: з (be) (z)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: от (bg) (ot)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: des de (ca)
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自從 (cmn), 自从 (cmn) (zìcóng), 自 (cmn) (zì), 從 (cmn), 从 (cmn) (cóng)
- Czech: od (cs), od té doby (cs)
- Danish: siden (da)
- Dutch: sinds (nl), sedert (nl)
- Esperanto: ekde (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Ewe: tso
- Finnish: lähtien (fi)
- French: depuis (fr)
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- Georgian: -დან (ka) (-dan)
- German: seit (de)
- Guernésiais: dépis
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Haitian Creole: depi
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: mahope mai
- Hebrew: מאז (he) (me'áz)
- Hindi: ... से (hi) (... se)
- Hungarian: óta (hu)
- Icelandic: síðan (is)
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
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- Indonesian: sejak, dari, mulai, sejak dari, mulai dari
- Interlingua: de, desde, a partir de
- Italian: da (it)
- Japanese: …以来 (ja) (...irai), …から (ja) (...-kara), …より (ja) (...-yori)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 이후 (ko) (ihu)
- Latin: abhinc (la), ab (la), a (la)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: zënter (lb), zanter (lb)
- Malay: sejak (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: siden (no)
- Occitan: please add this translation if you can
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: از (fa) (az)
- Polish: od (pl)
- Portuguese: desde (pt), a partir de (pt)
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: с (ru) (s)
- Scots: syne
- Scottish Gaelic: o chionn (gd)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: od (sk)
- Slovene: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: desde (es)
- Swedish: sedan (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: з (uk) (z), від (uk) (vid)
- Urdu: ... سے (ur) (... se)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
- West Frisian: sûnt (fy)
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Conjunction
since
- from the time that
- I have loved you since I first met you.
- because
- Since you didn't call, we left without you.
- (obsolete) when or that
- Shakespeare
- Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field?
Translations
from the time that
- Arabic: منذ (ar) (múndhu)
- Catalan: des que (ca), des de que (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自從 (cmn), 自从 (cmn) (zìcóng), 自 (cmn) (zì), 從 (cmn), 从 (cmn) (cóng)
- Czech: od té doby (cs)
- Danish: siden (da)
- Dutch: sinds (nl), sedert (nl)
- Ewe: tso
- Finnish: siitä lähtien, kun (fi); sen jälkeen, kun (fi)
- French: dès que (fr), depuis (fr)
- German: seitdem (de)
- Guernésiais: dépis
- Interlingua: desde que, post que
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because
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- Irish: ó (ga)
- Italian: poiché (it), giacché (it), dacché (it)
- Japanese: …ので (ja) (…-node), …ため (ja) (…-tame), ……により (ja) (…-ni yori), …によって (ja) (…-ni yotte), …から (ja) (…-kara)
- Latin: quoniam (la)
- Macedonian: чунки (mk) (čúnki), бидејќи (mk) (bídejḱi)
- Norwegian: siden (no), fordi (no), da (no)
- Persian: از آنجایی که (fa)
- Polish: ponieważ (pl), skoro (pl)
- Portuguese: já que, porque, pois, visto que
- Russian: поскольку (ru) (poskól'ku), потому что (ru) (potomú što), так как (ru) (tak kak)
- Scottish Gaelic: oir (gd)
- Spanish: supuesto que (es), ya que (es), dado que (es), visto que (es), porque (es)
- Swedish: eftersom (sv)
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