In in Different Languages
Discover 'In' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
In
Afrikaans in | ||
Albanian në | ||
Amharic ውስጥ | ||
Arabic في | ||
Armenian մեջ | ||
Assamese ভিতৰত | ||
Aymara ukana | ||
Azerbaijani in | ||
Bambara kɔnɔ | ||
Basque urtean | ||
Belarusian у | ||
Bengali ভিতরে | ||
Bhojpuri में | ||
Bosnian u | ||
Bulgarian в | ||
Catalan dins | ||
Cebuano sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 在 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 在 | ||
Corsican in | ||
Croatian u | ||
Czech v | ||
Danish i | ||
Dhivehi އެތެރެ | ||
Dogri च | ||
Dutch in | ||
English in | ||
Esperanto en | ||
Estonian aastal | ||
Ewe eme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sa | ||
Finnish sisään | ||
French dans | ||
Frisian yn | ||
Galician dentro | ||
Georgian წელს | ||
German im | ||
Greek σε | ||
Guarani pe | ||
Gujarati માં | ||
Haitian Creole nan | ||
Hausa a cikin | ||
Hawaiian i loko o | ||
Hebrew ב | ||
Hindi में | ||
Hmong hauv | ||
Hungarian ban ben | ||
Icelandic í | ||
Igbo n'ime | ||
Ilocano iti | ||
Indonesian di | ||
Irish in | ||
Italian in | ||
Japanese に | ||
Javanese ing | ||
Kannada ಸೈನ್ ಇನ್ | ||
Kazakh жылы | ||
Khmer ក្នុង | ||
Kinyarwanda in | ||
Konkani हातूंत | ||
Korean 에 | ||
Krio in | ||
Kurdish li | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لە | ||
Kyrgyz in | ||
Lao ໃນ | ||
Latin apud | ||
Latvian iekšā | ||
Lingala na | ||
Lithuanian į | ||
Luganda mu | ||
Luxembourgish an | ||
Macedonian во | ||
Maithili में | ||
Malagasy in | ||
Malay dalam | ||
Malayalam അകത്ത് | ||
Maltese fi | ||
Maori i roto i | ||
Marathi मध्ये | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯏꯟ | ||
Mizo chhung | ||
Mongolian онд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) in | ||
Nepali भित्र | ||
Norwegian i | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mkati | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭିତରେ | ||
Oromo keessa | ||
Pashto په | ||
Persian که در | ||
Polish w | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) dentro | ||
Punjabi ਵਿੱਚ | ||
Quechua in | ||
Romanian în | ||
Russian в | ||
Samoan i totonu | ||
Sanskrit इत्यस्मिन् | ||
Scots Gaelic a-steach | ||
Sepedi ka | ||
Serbian у | ||
Sesotho ka hare | ||
Shona mukati | ||
Sindhi اندر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තුල | ||
Slovak v | ||
Slovenian v | ||
Somali gudaha | ||
Spanish en | ||
Sundanese di | ||
Swahili ndani | ||
Swedish i | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sa | ||
Tajik дар | ||
Tamil இல் | ||
Tatar .әр сүзнең | ||
Telugu లో | ||
Thai ใน | ||
Tigrinya አብ ውሽጢ | ||
Tsonga endzeni | ||
Turkish içinde | ||
Turkmen içinde | ||
Twi (Akan) mu | ||
Ukrainian в | ||
Urdu میں | ||
Uyghur in | ||
Uzbek yilda | ||
Vietnamese trong | ||
Welsh yn | ||
Xhosa phakathi | ||
Yiddish אין | ||
Yoruba ninu | ||
Zulu phakathi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "in" can also mean "inside" or "within". |
| Albanian | The word "në" comes from the Proto-Albanian word "*në", cognate with the Latin "in" and the Greek "ἐν". |
| Amharic | "ውስጥ" can also mean "in" in a more metaphorical sense, such as "in the midst of" or "in the middle of." |
| Arabic | The Arabic preposition في ('fī') originates from the Proto-Semitic preposition b(i), which also means 'in'. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "մեջ" (in) can also mean "among", "inside", or "within". |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "in" can also mean "one of; within; into." |
| Basque | Basque urtean "in" is also used to express the agent or instrument in passive voice constructions. |
| Belarusian | The word "у" (in) in Belarusian can also mean "at" or "near". |
| Bengali | The word "ভিতরে" can also mean "inside" or "within" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | 'U', the Bosnian word that can either mean in or into. |
| Bulgarian | The preposition "в" can also mean "into", "at", "on", "to", or "over" depending on the context. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "dins" can also mean "inside" or "within". |
| Cebuano | The word “sa” is most probably derived from the Sanskrit word “saha,” which means “with” or “together with.” |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character '在' also means 'to exist' and 'to be present'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 在 originally means 'to come', which can be reflected by its use as a suffix on verbs of motion. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "in" can also mean "within" or "into". |
| Croatian | While "u" almost always means "in" in Croatian, it can also have the meaning of "near" or "at" and sometimes even implies possession. |
| Czech | The Czech word "v" can also mean "on" or "at", depending on the context. |
| Danish | The Danish word "i" can also mean "inside" or "within". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "in" can also mean "into" or "within". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto preposition 'en' can also mean 'at' or 'on', depending on the context. |
| Estonian | The word "aastal" also means "years" or "duration" in Estonian, referring to the passing of time. |
| Finnish | The word "sisään" comes from the Proto-Uralic word "*sisään_", which also means "inside" or "interior". |
| French | From the Latin word "de intus," meaning "from within." |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "yn" can also mean 'within', 'in the presence of', or 'during'. |
| Galician | Galician "dentro" also means "inside", "within", "center", and "interior". |
| Georgian | "წელს" does not only mean "in" but also means "this year" in Georgian. |
| German | The German prefix "im" derives from the Middle High German "in dem", meaning "in the" and denotes location within something. |
| Greek | The Greek word 'σε' can also mean 'on' or 'at' depending on the context. |
| Gujarati | The word "માં" ("in" in Gujarati) can also refer to a mother's love or the goddess Amba. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "nan" is cognate with the French preposition "dans", which also means "in". |
| Hausa | The word "a cikin" derives from the Proto-West Chadic prefix *aː- for "place", which is also found in the word "gida" for "house". This prefix appears in many Chadic languages, including Hausa, Bole, and Tera. |
| Hawaiian | “I loko o” can also refer to “within, by means of, because of, or for the purpose of” in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The word "ב" in Hebrew may also mean "into" or "to" depending on context, and its use is similar to the Latin "in" and Ancient Greek "εις". |
| Hindi | में is also used as a question particle equivalent to the English 'is it?' or 'are they?' |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "hauv" can also mean "inside" or "within". |
| Hungarian | The word "ban ben" derives from the Proto-Uralic word *pen(e), meaning "inside", and is used in other Uralic languages, such as the Komi language where it means "in it". |
| Icelandic | "í" is not only used as "in" in Icelandic, but also as "inside" and "within", as seen in the phrase "í húsinu" (inside the house). |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "n'ime" can also refer to the interior or essence of something. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "di" is also the Indonesian pronunciation of the English word "the" |
| Irish | In Irish, "in" can refer to an island or a meadow. |
| Italian | The Italian word "in" can also mean "within" or "into" in English. |
| Japanese | The particle "に" is also an abbreviation for "日本に" (nihon ni), meaning "in Japan" or "to Japan." |
| Javanese | The morpheme "ing" ("in") can also mean "to" or "at" in the context of time or direction. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸೈನ್ ಇನ್" or "in" originated from the English word "sign in", meaning to enter a system or account. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жылы" ("in") can also be used to mean "in the course of" or "on the way to". |
| Khmer | The word "ក្នុង" can also mean "within" or "inside". |
| Korean | The word 에 can also mean 'to' or 'on' depending on the context. |
| Kurdish | Li in Kurdish can also mean 'to,' 'at,' 'with,' 'upon,' or 'from,' and in some contexts, 'as' or 'like'. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "in" also means "inside" and "within". |
| Lao | The word "ໃນ" can also mean "to be present" or "to have been there". |
| Latin | "Apud" is a Latin preposition that originally meant "at the home of" and can also be translated as "near" or "at the place of." |
| Latvian | The word "iekšā" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *(h)enǵh- "narrow" and is related to words like "inside" in English and "innen" in German. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "į" not only means "in" but also serves as a verbal prefix expressing movement toward something, resulting in word forms like įeiti (to enter), įlįsti (to crawl in), and įbėgti (to run in). |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "an" is borrowed from French and originally meant "into" or "towards" a place, but has since lost its directional connotation. |
| Macedonian | In addition to meaning "in," "во" can also mean "into," "at," or "on" depending on context. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "in" can also mean "to" or "at". |
| Malay | The word "dalam" also means "pregnant" and originates from the Proto-Austronesian word "*daləm" meaning "inside" or "interior". |
| Malayalam | The word "അകത്ത്" ultimately derives from the Proto-Dravidian root "*ak-, *ag-" meaning "inside, interior." |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "fi" can also mean "at" or "on" depending on context. |
| Maori | The word "i roto i" can also mean inside, within, or among |
| Marathi | मध्ये also has the meanings in between, inside and amongst |
| Mongolian | Although "онд" means "in" primarily, it also means "on top of" and "under". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "in" can also mean "within" or "inside" in Myanmar (Burmese). |
| Nepali | The word 'भित्र' also means 'interior' or 'inside' in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The word "i" also means "inside" or "within" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'mkati' is also used to mean 'inside' or 'within' when referring to a three-dimensional space. |
| Pashto | The word "په" also means "under" or "below" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "که در" ("in") in Persian also means "that in" or "which is in" in some contexts. |
| Polish | The Polish letter "w" can also mean "into", "inside", "during", or "at". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The term "dentro" can also refer to internal parts, hidden aspects, or concealed information. |
| Punjabi | ਵਿੱਚ's primary meaning is 'in' but it can also mean 'into', 'within', 'by', 'among', 'during', 'at', 'on', 'over' |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "în" is derived from the Latin preposition "in" and, in addition to its primary meaning of "in", can also mean "into", "within", "on", "at", or "during". |
| Russian | The Russian preposition “в” (in) can be used figuratively to mean a state or circumstance, such as “в беде” (in trouble). |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "i totonu" can also be translated as "within", "inside", or "at the center". |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic 'a-steach' is derived from Old Irish 'astech' meaning 'into, within', from Proto-Celtic *ad-steg-, also found in Welsh 'ystwyth', Old Cornish 'steth' and Breton 'ez-dre'. |
| Serbian | The word "у" (in) in Serbian finds similar usage and carries the meaning of an object's position in the context of another object's existence. |
| Sesotho | The word 'ka hare' has an extended meaning of 'within', and is commonly used to indicate movement and location inside a specified area. |
| Shona | "Mukati" can also refer to the inner side, or the area within something. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "اندر" ("in") is derived from the Sanskrit word "अंदर" ("inside"), which is also the origin of the Hindi word "अंदर" ("inside"). |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "තුල" also means "inside" or "within". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "v" also means "into" and "at". |
| Slovenian | V in Slovenian can also mean 'into' (as in 'going into a room'), 'at' (as in 'being at home'), or 'on' (as in 'living on a street'). |
| Somali | The word 'gudaha' is related to the word 'gude', meaning 'inside' or 'the inner part of something', and is also used as a postposition to denote the location of something within a container or enclosed space. |
| Spanish | The word "en" in Spanish can also mean "on" or "at" depending on the context, and its plural form is "enes". |
| Sundanese | Sundanese has a unique way of using the preposition "di" which can indicate location or ownership |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "ndani" also refers to internal organs or personal space. |
| Swedish | Although 'i' can also mean 'he' or 'she' in the third person singular and 'they' in the third person plural, when used as a preposition, it means 'in'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word 'sa' originated from the Proto-Austronesian *saŋ which also means 'at' or 'towards'. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "дар" can also mean "inside", "within", or "in the midst of". |
| Tamil | The word "இல்" ("in") in Tamil may also refer to "house" or "home", as in the compound word "வீடு இல்" (house). |
| Telugu | లో ('in') can also connote 'during' or 'pertaining to'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ใน" can also refer to the "insides" or "interior" of something. |
| Turkish | "İçinde" also means "inside" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "в" in Ukrainian, derived from Proto-Slavic *vъ, can also mean "into" or "on". |
| Urdu | The word 'میں' also means 'within' and in the context of time, 'during'. |
| Uzbek | The word "yilda" can also refer to "during" or "throughout" a period of time. |
| Vietnamese | The word "trong" is derived from the Old Vietnamese word "trỏng" meaning "inside" or "interior". |
| Welsh | Derived from Proto-Celtic *en "in, within" or possibly from *eni "inwards" or *en- "near to". |
| Xhosa | The term 'phakathi' can be translated to 'in the middle', 'among', 'within' or 'at the centre'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish " אין " can mean "without" and is the origin of the English word "enough". |
| Yoruba | Ninu' also means 'in charge of' hence the phrase 'eni ti n'inu owo' meaning 'the person in charge of money'. |
| Zulu | "Phakathi" is a noun which also means "depth" in Zulu, and comes from the verb "-phakatha," which means "to pierce" or "to enter deeply." |
| English | "In" also means "inside" or "within" in general, referring to anything that is enclosed by something else. |