For in Different Languages
Discover 'For' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
For
Afrikaans vir | ||
Albanian për | ||
Amharic ለ | ||
Arabic إلى عن على | ||
Armenian համար | ||
Assamese বাবে | ||
Aymara taki | ||
Azerbaijani üçün | ||
Bambara kosɔn | ||
Basque for | ||
Belarusian для | ||
Bengali জন্য | ||
Bhojpuri खातिर | ||
Bosnian for | ||
Bulgarian за | ||
Catalan per | ||
Cebuano kay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 对于 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 對於 | ||
Corsican per | ||
Croatian za | ||
Czech pro | ||
Danish til | ||
Dhivehi އަށް | ||
Dogri लेई | ||
Dutch voor | ||
English for | ||
Esperanto por | ||
Estonian eest | ||
Ewe elabena | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) para sa | ||
Finnish varten | ||
French pour | ||
Frisian foar | ||
Galician para | ||
Georgian ამისთვის | ||
German zum | ||
Greek για | ||
Guarani g̃uarã | ||
Gujarati માટે | ||
Haitian Creole pou | ||
Hausa domin | ||
Hawaiian no ka mea | ||
Hebrew ל | ||
Hindi के लिये | ||
Hmong rau | ||
Hungarian mert | ||
Icelandic fyrir | ||
Igbo maka | ||
Ilocano para | ||
Indonesian untuk | ||
Irish le haghaidh | ||
Italian per | ||
Japanese にとって | ||
Javanese kanggo | ||
Kannada ಗಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh үшін | ||
Khmer សម្រាប់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuri | ||
Konkani खातीर | ||
Korean ...에 대한 | ||
Krio fɔ | ||
Kurdish bo | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بۆ | ||
Kyrgyz үчүн | ||
Lao ສຳ ລັບ | ||
Latin quia | ||
Latvian priekš | ||
Lingala mpo na | ||
Lithuanian dėl | ||
Luganda -a | ||
Luxembourgish fir | ||
Macedonian за | ||
Maithili क लेल | ||
Malagasy ho an'ny | ||
Malay untuk | ||
Malayalam വേണ്ടി | ||
Maltese għal | ||
Maori hoki | ||
Marathi च्या साठी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯐꯣꯔ | ||
Mizo tan | ||
Mongolian нь | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အဘို့ | ||
Nepali को लागी | ||
Norwegian til | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chifukwa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପାଇଁ | ||
Oromo -f | ||
Pashto لپاره | ||
Persian برای | ||
Polish dla | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) para | ||
Punjabi ਲਈ | ||
Quechua para | ||
Romanian pentru | ||
Russian за | ||
Samoan aua | ||
Sanskrit कृते | ||
Scots Gaelic airson | ||
Sepedi ya | ||
Serbian за | ||
Sesotho bakeng sa | ||
Shona nokuti | ||
Sindhi لاءِ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සදහා | ||
Slovak pre | ||
Slovenian za | ||
Somali loogu talagalay | ||
Spanish para | ||
Sundanese pikeun | ||
Swahili kwa | ||
Swedish för | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) para sa | ||
Tajik барои | ||
Tamil க்கு | ||
Tatar өчен | ||
Telugu కోసం | ||
Thai สำหรับ | ||
Tigrinya ን | ||
Tsonga swa | ||
Turkish için | ||
Turkmen üçin | ||
Twi (Akan) ma | ||
Ukrainian для | ||
Urdu کے لئے | ||
Uyghur for | ||
Uzbek uchun | ||
Vietnamese cho | ||
Welsh canys | ||
Xhosa ye | ||
Yiddish פֿאַר | ||
Yoruba fun | ||
Zulu ngoba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word 'vir' in Afrikaans originates from the Dutch word 'voor', meaning 'in front of' or 'for the benefit of', and has the same meaning in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | The word "për" in Albanian is also used in Albanian to refer to the idea of "by" or "through." |
| Amharic | "ለ" also means "to" and "of" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | إلى عن على means: (1) in the direction of; (2) until; (3) before; (4) after; (5) according to; (6) on the basis of; (7) for the sake of; (8) with regard to; (9) in order to; (10) in place of; (11) at the time of; (12) through the medium of; (13) on the occasion of; (14) as soon as. |
| Armenian | Derived from the Middle Persian word 𐭣𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫 (hamār) meaning "equally," "evenly" or "simultaneously" |
| Azerbaijani | "Üçün" also means "towards" or "in place of" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | In Basque, "for" can also mean "on behalf of" or "instead of" |
| Belarusian | The word "для" in Belarusian can also mean "because" or "in order to". |
| Bengali | The word "জন্য" in Bengali shares its etymology with the Sanskrit word "जन्य" meaning "born from" or "caused by". |
| Bosnian | The word "za" means "for" in Bosnian |
| Bulgarian | The word “за” is used to form the instrumental case in Bulgarian and means “with.” |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "per" not only means "for," but also "by" (meaning through), "due to," and "in exchange for." |
| Cebuano | Kay is derived from the Old Malay word |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 对于 (dùi yú) can also mean "in reference to" or "with regard to." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term '對於' can mean 'pertaining to' or 'in relation to'. |
| Corsican | Corsican "per" also means "by" or "through". |
| Croatian | The word "za" also means "protection" or "safeguard" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The Czech word "pro" can also mean "through" or "in exchange for". |
| Danish | The word "til" in Danish can also mean "to" or "until". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "voor" can also mean "before" or "in front of". |
| Esperanto | "Por" can also mean "by" as in "pro" in Latin, but it is not used as much as "por" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The word “eest” also means “in front of” and “instead of” in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The word "varten" is related to the Proto-Uralic words "*warti" and "*warta", which mean "in the direction of". |
| French | In French, the word "pour" can also mean "in order to". |
| Frisian | The word "foar" in Frisian has a similar origin to the English word "for", dating back to Proto-Germanic and meaning "before" or "in front of". |
| Galician | Galician "para" derives from the Greek "para" meaning "beside". |
| German | “Zum” and “an dem” are two German prepositions that mean “at” when used with a noun referring to a place; the choice between the two is based on the definiteness of the noun. |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, "Για" was also used to denote possession or origin, like the Latin "pro" |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "માટે" (mate) can also mean "in order to", "for the purpose of", or "with a view to". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "pou" in Haitian Creole can also mean "to" or "in order to". |
| Hausa | Hausa "domin" could mean "to" instead of "for" when followed by a pronoun that starts with a vowel like "ta" (to). |
| Hawaiian | No ka mea is derived from the Polynesian root *mea*, meaning "thing", and was originally used to indicate possession or ownership. |
| Hebrew | The letter ל is the prefix form of the Hebrew word "le" when adding motion to a word and means "to, toward." |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "के लिये" can refer to purpose, objective, benefit, direction, destination, time, reason, or cause. |
| Hmong | The word "rau" in Hmong can also mean "because" or "instead of." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "mert" (for) is historically identical to "miért" (why) and cognate to the Finnish word "mistä" (whence, why). |
| Icelandic | The word "fyrir" can also mean "in front of" or "because of". |
| Igbo | Maka, meaning "because of" in Igbo, can also indicate ownership, "maka m" translating to "mine". |
| Indonesian | The word 'untuk' can also mean 'in order to' or 'so that' in Indonesian. |
| Irish | Le haghaidh, originally meaning 'to go on a journey for,' still carries that connotation in the word 'pilgrimage.' |
| Italian | The Italian word "per" can also mean "through" or "by". |
| Japanese | 'にとって' (for) is also a form of the verb '取る' (to take), suggesting a sense of 'taking' something for someone. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "kanggo" (for) is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*kaŋgo", which also means "with" or "as". |
| Kannada | The word "ಗಾಗಿ" in Kannada can also mean "in order to achieve something", "as a reason for something," or "with the intention of doing something". |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "үшін" can also mean "on behalf of" as seen in the phrase "отбасым үшін" or "on behalf of my family." |
| Khmer | Besides its usage as 'for', “៕ៃធ្ងៅ” (sbap) can also mean 'with' or 'in exchange for'. |
| Korean | The word "...에 대한" can also mean "about" or "concerning". |
| Kurdish | The word "bo" in Kurdish has roots in the Indo-European language family and shares common origins with the English word "for," meaning "on behalf of" or "in place of." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "үчүн" can also mean "for the sake of" or "on behalf of". |
| Lao | The Lao word ສຳ ລັບ can also mean 'in order to' or 'so as to', and is cognate with the Thai word 'เพื่อ' (pronounced peu). |
| Latin | "Quia" is the ablative form of "quis" (who, what) and means "on account of what". |
| Latvian | Latvian word "priekš" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*preks", meaning "in front of, against" |
| Lithuanian | The word "dėl" can also mean "because of" or "due to" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | Luxembourgish 'fir' has the additional meanings of 'in order to', 'because' and 'in place of'. |
| Macedonian | The word "за" in Macedonian can also mean "about" or "because of" |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word HO AN'NY ("for") can also mean "because of" or "on behalf of". |
| Malay | The word "untuk" derives from the Proto-Austronesian word "*tuŋkul". It cognate with the Javanese word "ingkang". |
| Malayalam | വേണ്ടി (vēṇṭi) can also mean "because" or "in order to" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | "Għal" can also mean "with" or "as" in Maltese. |
| Maori | Hoki is a Polynesian word that is also used in Hawaiian and Tahitian, where it means "to return" or "to bring back". |
| Marathi | The word "च्या साठी" can also mean "on behalf of" or "in the name of". |
| Mongolian | The word "нь" can also mean "in order to" or "in place of" |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အဘို့" can also mean "on behalf of" or "in order to," indicating the purpose or reason for an action or event. |
| Nepali | The word "को लागी" can also mean "benefit" or "use". |
| Norwegian | "Til" (for) originated in Old Norse as "til", meaning "to" or "towards". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nyanja 'chifukwa' may have been borrowed from the Proto-Bantu root ŋa-, meaning 'because' |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "لپاره" can also carry the meaning of "for the purpose of" or "in order to" |
| Persian | The Persian word "برای" can also mean 'in order to', 'on behalf of', or 'as a result of' |
| Polish | While 'dla' mostly means 'for,' it also means 'thanks to,' 'in favor of,' 'in order to,' 'to achieve,' and 'to protect someone from something'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "para" also means "towards", "in order to" and "in front of". |
| Punjabi | "ਲਈ" can also mean 'reason' or 'cause' in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The word "pentru" in Romanian is derived from the Latin "propter" (near) and can also mean "because of" or "on behalf of". |
| Russian | In Old Russian, the word "за" meant "protection" or "barrier," and this meaning is still preserved in some expressions, such as "забор" (fence) or "замок" (lock). |
| Samoan | The word "aua" can also mean "to fetch" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word 'airson' can also mean 'on behalf of'. |
| Serbian | Serbian 'за' also means 'due to' or 'against' when used with an instrumental case. |
| Sesotho | The word "bakeng sa" can also mean "on behalf of" or "in place of". |
| Shona | In addition to meaning "for," "nokuti" can also mean "because". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi term "لاءِ" also means "in spite of". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | සදහා (sadahā) can also mean 'in order to', 'on account of', or 'because of'. |
| Slovak | "Pre" is thought to derive either from Proto-Slavic "prěti", meaning "to resist" or Proto-Indo-European "per" meaning "forward". |
| Slovenian | The word "za" can also mean "behind" or "after" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "loogu talagalay" can also mean "intended for" or "designed for" in English. |
| Spanish | "Para" can also mean "towards" or "in order to". |
| Sundanese | The word "pikeun" also means "because" and "as" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | In addition to "for", "kwa" can also mean "with" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | Besides being a preposition that means 'for', 'för' can also indicate something lost, or be a prefix meaning 'to do something before'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Para sa' derives from the Spanish 'para' and can also mean 'for the purpose of' or 'in order to'. |
| Tajik | The word "барои" can also mean "to" or "because of" depending on the context. |
| Tamil | Historically derived from the Proto-Dravidian *ku, 'க்கு' can also mean 'in order to'. |
| Telugu | The word "కోసం" ("kosam") in Telugu has multiple meanings, including "for the sake of", "in order to", "to" and "on behalf of". It also has historical roots in the Sanskrit word "kṛte". |
| Thai | "สำหรับ" also means "suitable for" or "with regard to" |
| Turkish | The word "için" in Turkish can also mean "inside" or "within". |
| Ukrainian | The preposition "для" also means "to" and "about" in Ukrainian, depending on context. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "کے لئے" is derived from the Arabic word "ل", which has a wide range of meanings including "for", "to", and "by". |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "uchun" can also mean "in order to" or "with the purpose of". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "cho" also means "to wait". |
| Welsh | The word "canys" can also mean "although" or "because" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The word "ye" ('for') in Xhosa is an archaic form that is no longer widely used, having been replaced by the more modern "ngokuba." |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "פֿאַר" can mean "in front of," "for (a period of time),"" "in favor of," or "in order to." |
| Yoruba | The word "fun" in Yoruba can also refer to a place or object that is used for a specific purpose. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ngoba" also means "because" and can indicate purpose or reason. |
| English | "For" can also mean the distance required to travel or be sent somewhere |