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G

See also: Appendix:Variations of "g" and Ⴚ
LetterG.svg
G U+0047, G
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
← F
[U+0046] 		Basic Latin H →
[U+0048]
Ｇ U+FF27, Ｇ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
← Ｆ
[U+FF26] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｈ →
[U+FF28]

TranslingualEdit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
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LetterEdit

G (lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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SymbolEdit

G

  1. (metrology) giga-.
  2. gauss.
  3. (biochemistry) glycine, a natural amino acid.
  4. (biochemistry) Any of the nucleotides guanodine, nucleoside guanosine, or nucleobase guanine, which are components of DNA.
  5. (physics) The gravitational constant in the formula F = Gm1m2/r2; sometimes called "big G" to distinguish from g for the acceleration of gravity.

GalleryEdit

  • Letter styles

  • Capital and lowercase versions of G, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase G in Fraktur

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Other representations of G:

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /dʒiː/
  • Audio (UK)
    		(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

LetterEdit

G (upper case, lower case g, plural Gs or G's)

  1. The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
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NumberEdit

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

G (countable and uncountable, plural Gs)

  1. (sports, baseball) Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
  2. (US, politics) Green.
  3. (US, of a movie) General (suitable for a general audience).
  4. (sports) Goals (a sports statistic).
  5. Ground floor (of a building).
  6. A galaxy.
  7. gravity
  8. (slang, chiefly US) Grand (thousand dollars).
    • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎[1], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
      Just really want to smoke my weed, fuck these hoes, and stack my Gs.
  9. (grammar) Abbreviation of genitive case.
  10. (Britain, education) The academic grade that comes next below F.
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NounEdit

G (plural Gs)

  1. (slang) A gangster, gangsta.
  2. (economics) Abbreviation for Government Spending.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).

AfarEdit

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G

  1. The fourteenth letter in the Afar alphabet.

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American Sign LanguageEdit

LetterEdit

  (transliteration needed) (Stokoe G)

  1. The letter G

AzerbaijaniEdit

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G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The ninth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G (capital, lowercase g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The eighth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called go and written in the Latin script.

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FinnishEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

  • Used only in loanwords expect for ng [ŋː].

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GermanEdit

 
German Wikipedia has an article on:
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PronunciationEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the German alphabet.

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IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G (lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /dʒi/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/
  • (phoneme, before e or i) IPA(key): /dʒ/

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G m or f (invariable, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Italian alphabet, called gi and written in the Latin script.

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JapaneseEdit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1Edit

From English G.

NounEdit

G (katakana ジー, rōmaji jī)

  1. G, gravity

Etymology 2Edit

Initial of ゴキブリ.

NounEdit

G (katakana ジー, rōmaji jī)

  1. (slang, euphemistic) a cockroach

LatvianEdit

 
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

PronunciationEdit

(file)

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G

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The tenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called gā and written in the Latin script.

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MalayEdit

 
Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

PronunciationEdit

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [d͡ʒi]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [ɡ]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [k̚]

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G

  1. The seventh letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

G

  1. (pensions) Initialism of grunnbeløp.

Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

G

  1. (pensions) Initialism of grunnbeløp.

PortugueseEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The ninth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phonemes /g/ and /dʒ/. Preceded by F and followed by H.

Usage notesEdit

When followed by the letters i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /dʒ/, as in plângi /plɨndʒʲ/ (you cry) and înger /ɨn.dʒer/ (angel). When followed by "hi" or "he" (ghi & ghe) and in all other cases, it represents /g/.

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Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G (lower case g)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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SloveneEdit

 
Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sl

PronunciationEdit

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G (capital, lowercase g)

  1. The 8th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by F and followed by H.

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SomaliEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called ga and written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by C and followed by F.

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SpanishEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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TurkishEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script.

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VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The tenth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called gờ or giê and written in the Latin script.

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WelshEdit

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G

  1. The 10th letter of the alphabet, preceded by Ff and followed by Ng

MutationEdit

  • G at the beginning of words is omitted in a soft mutation, mutates to Ng in a nasal mutation and is unchanged in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word gorsaf (“station”):
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gorsaf orsaf ngorsaf unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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ZuluEdit

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G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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