At in Different Languages
Discover 'At' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
At
Afrikaans by | ||
Albanian në | ||
Amharic በ | ||
Arabic في | ||
Armenian ժամը | ||
Assamese at | ||
Aymara ukana | ||
Azerbaijani at | ||
Bambara fɛ | ||
Basque helbidean | ||
Belarusian у | ||
Bengali at | ||
Bhojpuri पर | ||
Bosnian u | ||
Bulgarian в | ||
Catalan a | ||
Cebuano sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 在 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 在 | ||
Corsican à | ||
Croatian na | ||
Czech v | ||
Danish på | ||
Dhivehi ގައި | ||
Dogri पर | ||
Dutch bij | ||
English at | ||
Esperanto ĉe | ||
Estonian kell | ||
Ewe le | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sa | ||
Finnish klo | ||
French à | ||
Frisian by | ||
Galician en | ||
Georgian საათზე | ||
German beim | ||
Greek στο | ||
Guarani pe | ||
Gujarati પર | ||
Haitian Creole nan | ||
Hausa a | ||
Hawaiian ma | ||
Hebrew בְּ- | ||
Hindi पर | ||
Hmong ntawm | ||
Hungarian nál nél | ||
Icelandic kl | ||
Igbo na | ||
Ilocano iti | ||
Indonesian di | ||
Irish ag | ||
Italian a | ||
Japanese で | ||
Javanese ing | ||
Kannada ನಲ್ಲಿ | ||
Kazakh кезінде | ||
Khmer នៅ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuri | ||
Konkani हाचेर | ||
Korean ...에서 | ||
Krio at | ||
Kurdish ba | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لە | ||
Kyrgyz at | ||
Lao ຢູ່ | ||
Latin apud | ||
Latvian plkst | ||
Lingala na | ||
Lithuanian prie | ||
Luganda ku | ||
Luxembourgish um | ||
Macedonian во | ||
Maithili पे | ||
Malagasy amin'ny | ||
Malay di | ||
Malayalam at | ||
Maltese fi | ||
Maori i | ||
Marathi येथे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯦꯠ | ||
Mizo hmunah | ||
Mongolian үед | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မှာ | ||
Nepali मा | ||
Norwegian på | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pa | ||
Odia (Oriya) at | ||
Oromo itti | ||
Pashto په | ||
Persian در | ||
Polish w | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) em | ||
Punjabi ਤੇ | ||
Quechua at | ||
Romanian la | ||
Russian в | ||
Samoan i le | ||
Sanskrit इत्युपरि | ||
Scots Gaelic aig | ||
Sepedi ga | ||
Serbian у | ||
Sesotho nakong | ||
Shona pa | ||
Sindhi تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හිදී | ||
Slovak o | ||
Slovenian ob | ||
Somali at | ||
Spanish a | ||
Sundanese di | ||
Swahili katika | ||
Swedish på | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sa | ||
Tajik дар | ||
Tamil இல் | ||
Tatar at | ||
Telugu వద్ద | ||
Thai ที่ | ||
Tigrinya ኣብ | ||
Tsonga e | ||
Turkish -de | ||
Turkmen at | ||
Twi (Akan) wɔ | ||
Ukrainian в | ||
Urdu پر | ||
Uyghur at | ||
Uzbek da | ||
Vietnamese tại | ||
Welsh yn | ||
Xhosa e | ||
Yiddish ביי | ||
Yoruba ni | ||
Zulu e |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, the word "by" can also mean "at", "to", "with", or "from". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "në" derives from the Proto-Indo-European preposition "*en" meaning "in" or "on". |
| Amharic | "በ" can also mean "under," "on," or "within." |
| Arabic | The word "في" can also mean "in", "on", or "during". |
| Armenian | The word "ժամը" in Armenian can also mean "an hour". |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "at" can also mean horse, the chess move "check" or the expression "on foot" |
| Basque | The word "helbidean" can also mean "address" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The word "у" also means "near" or "by" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "At" in Bengali is derived from the Sanskrit word "atra" meaning "here" or "in this place." |
| Bosnian | The word "u" ("at") in Bosnian can also be used as a preposition meaning "in" or "on", or as an adverb meaning "here". The preposition "u" with the genitive case can indicate "in" or "on" a specific place or object, like "u kući" ("in the house") or "u stolu" ("on the table"). The preposition "u" with the accusative case can indicate "into" or "onto" a specific place or object, like "u kuću" ("into the house") or "u stolice" ("onto the chair"). The adverb "u" can be used to indicate "here" or "over here", like "u je soba" ("here is the room") or "u dođi" ("come over here"). |
| Bulgarian | The preposition в can also mean 'on', 'to' or 'into', depending on the context. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "a" can also mean "in", "on", or "to", depending on the context. |
| Cebuano | Sa may also serve as a possessive pronoun meaning 'his', 'her', 'its', or 'their', similar to the Spanish 'su'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "在" can also mean "exist" or "be present". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "在" can also mean "to be present", "to exist", or "to stay". |
| Corsican | Corsican "à" comes from the Latin preposition "ad" that in Corsican has the additional meaning of "to" and "towards" |
| Croatian | The word "na" in Croatian can also mean "on", "in", "to", or "towards" |
| Czech | The Czech word "v" can also mean "in" or "on" depending on the context. |
| Danish | The Danish word "på" can also mean "on" or "in". |
| Dutch | The word "Bij" in Dutch can also refer to a beehive or a gathering of people. |
| Esperanto | Ĉe can also mean "when" in Esperanto, and is similar to the Polish word "cze". |
| Estonian | The word "kell" in Estonian can also mean "time" or "clock". |
| Finnish | Klo is also a slang term for 'o'clock' or 'hour', as in 'hän tuli klo 10' ('he came at 10 o'clock'). |
| French | "À" derives from the Latin "ad," and can also indicate direction ("to"), purpose ("for"), or possession ("of, belonging to"). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "by" derives from the Proto-Germanic word "bi", meaning "near" or "beside". |
| Galician | Galician word "en" also means "in" (Latin "in") and "there" (Latin "inde"). |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "საათზე" ("at") shares an etymological root with the word for "hour" (საათი), implying a notion of time or appointed moment. |
| German | The word 'beim' can also mean 'with' and is a contraction of the archaic form 'bi deme' which is equivalent to the modern German expression 'bei dem'. |
| Greek | The word "στο" in Greek can also mean "in order to" or "for the purpose of." |
| Gujarati | The word "પર" can also mean "on", "over", or "upon" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | In French, 'nan' is used to describe the action of being somewhere, while in Haitian Creole it means 'at' or 'in'. |
| Hausa | "A" can be used as a pronoun, meaning "it", or as a locative, indicating a place or position. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "ma" can also mean "with" or "in the presence of". |
| Hebrew | The word "בְּ-" in Hebrew can also mean "in" or "by" depending on the context. |
| Hindi | The word "पर" can also mean "on" but only when in contact with something |
| Hmong | "Ntawv" means "leaf" in Hmong. "Ntawv" is also sometimes used for "book" because paper for writing used to be made of leaves |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "nál nél" is an archaic form of "nála" and "náluk," respectively meaning "by him" and "by them." |
| Icelandic | Kl's spelling in older Icelandic reflected its etymology by including a K as in the Norse word kløt |
| Igbo | The form “na” serves as a suffix in some words to indicate place or time. For example, ebeana (place of origin). |
| Indonesian | The word "di" in Indonesian can also mean "in" or "on", depending on the context. |
| Irish | The Irish word "ag" can also mean "in the process of" or "about to" and has given rise to the phrase "ag dul am" (approximately, "on the verge of fainting") |
| Italian | "A" in Italian also means "to" or "in" (location), "of", "on" (time), "during", "for", "by" (means), "with". |
| Japanese | The character "で" can also mean "by" or "with" in Japanese, depending on the context. |
| Javanese | The etymology of the Javanese word "ing" is uncertain, but it may be related to the Malay word "di" or the Thai word "ที่". In addition to its spatial meaning, "ing" can also be used to indicate possession, instrumentality, or time. |
| Kannada | In Kannada, "ನಲ್ಲಿ" can also mean "faucet" or "tap for water". |
| Kazakh | In modern Kazakh, кезінде also has the meanings "in due time" and "in season". |
| Khmer | នៅ is an ancient Mon-Khmer root that also means 'near to' or 'close to'. |
| Korean | The word "...에서" can also mean "from" or "in" depending on context. |
| Kurdish | The word 'ba' in Kurdish can also mean 'in the presence of' or 'with'. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, "at" is also used to indicate time, like "at 10 o'clock". |
| Lao | The word ຢູ່ "at" also means "to live in" in Lao, and shares etymology with the root for "house" (ເຮືອນ), suggesting a historical sense of place as "being-at-home". |
| Latin | In Latin, "apud" also means "in the presence of" or "at the house of." |
| Latvian | The word "plkst" in Latvian also means "about" or "approximately". |
| Lithuanian | The word "prie" (at) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*prei- (before)" |
| Luxembourgish | The word "um" in Luxembourgish can also be used to mean "on" or "in". |
| Macedonian | The word "во" (at) in Macedonian also means "about" or "concerning". |
| Malagasy | Amin'ny can also mean "in" or "on" in relation to a specific location, such as a room or a surface. |
| Malay | "Di" as a prefix also means to make / do something, e.g. "diminum" (to drink), "diduga" (it is alleged). |
| Malayalam | The Malayali word "at" means to give in addition to or in return of something else. |
| Maltese | The word "fi" in Maltese also means "inside" or "within", and can be used to indicate a location or a state of being. |
| Maori | I also means 'in' which is expressed in other Polynesian languages by the cognate kei |
| Marathi | The word "येथे" can also mean "here" or "present" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | In addition to its primary meaning of "at," "үед" can also mean "time," "occasion," or "period of time." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In archaic usage, 'မှာ' (pronounced /hmɑ̀/) carries the additional meaning of 'because' or 'as long as'. |
| Nepali | मा can also mean 'mother' in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "på" can also mean "on", "upon", "to", or "onto". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Chichewa, the word 'pa' also means 'to' or 'for', indicating directionality or purpose. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "په" ("at") can also mean "in," "on," or "with." |
| Persian | "در" is a loanword from Middle Persian and can also mean "inside". |
| Polish | The Polish letter „w” can also be used with verbs of motion to refer to the destination. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "em" in Portuguese is derived from the Latin preposition "in" and can also mean "within" or "inside" |
| Punjabi | The word "ਤੇ" also means "on" or "upon" in Punjabi and is often used in contexts where something is located or positioned on top of something else. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "la" can also mean "to" or "for" depending on the context. |
| Russian | The word “в” can also mean “into” or “within” and is used to indicate a direction towards or a location inside something. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'i le' is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word *i te, meaning 'at' or 'on'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "aig" can also mean "with" or "on" |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "у" (at) also means "in" and can be used to indicate locations within a place. |
| Sesotho | The word "nakong" also means "with," "together with," or "simultaneously with." |
| Shona | The Shona word 'pa' can also mean 'to' or 'for' when used in conjunction with a verb. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi "تي" is etymologically the Persian word "در" which means 'inside'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word 'හිදී' (at) is also used as a suffix to mark the dative plural in Sinhala and also has a homophone හිදී (hidī) that means the same as English word 'pain'. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, the word 'o' ('at') derives from the Proto-Slavic preposition '*vъ', meaning 'in', 'on'. It also means 'about' or 'concerning', as in 'o čom píšeš?' ('what are you writing about?'). |
| Slovenian | Ob can also mean around, by, on, over, near, during, in, for, to, because, with, and against. |
| Somali | The word "at" comes from the Old English word "æt", which means "to" or "near". |
| Spanish | In pre-Classical Latin "at" was a full word, but it later became a prefix ("ad-") and finally just "a". The prefix "ad-" still survives in Spanish, for example in the word "adonde" (to where). |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "di" also means "in" or "on" and is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*di". |
| Swahili | "Katika" is a Swahili word that is also used in some Bantu languages and means "inside" or "within". |
| Swedish | "På" can also mean "on" or "upon", like in "på bordet" (on the table). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Tagalog 'sa' can mean 'in', 'on', or even 'with' (in a figurative sense). |
| Tajik | The word "дар" in Tajik can also mean "on" or "to". |
| Tamil | இல் can also mean 'with' or 'to'. |
| Telugu | The word "వద్ద" can also mean "near", "with", or "by". |
| Thai | "ที่" can also mean 'to', 'from', 'of', or 'by' (as an agent). |
| Turkish | '-De' is a Turkish suffix that can also mean 'of', 'from', 'about', 'by', or 'with'. |
| Ukrainian | In addition to its main meaning, "в" can also mean "into", "in", or "inside" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "پر" can also mean "on", "over", "by", "to", "for", "with", "as" or "according to". |
| Uzbek | The word "da" also means "then" and "after" when used as a conjunction in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Tại" (at) also means "because" or "by" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word "yn" in Welsh can also mean "of", "in" or "on", depending on the context. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "e" can also mean "in" or "on" depending on context. |
| Yiddish | The word "ביי" (bey) in Yiddish also means "near" or "beside". |
| Yoruba | "Ni" in Yoruba also means 'at' in the sense of 'at home' or 'at a place of work'. |
| Zulu | "e" can also mean "in order that" or "so that". |
| English | Preposition 'at' originates from the Old English word 'æt', meaning 'near', 'to', or 'on'. It can also mean 'being engaged in', as in 'at work'. |