To in Different Languages
Discover 'To' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
To
Afrikaans aan | ||
Albanian te | ||
Amharic ወደ | ||
Arabic إلى | ||
Armenian դեպի | ||
Assamese লৈ | ||
Aymara a | ||
Azerbaijani üçün | ||
Bambara fɛ | ||
Basque ra | ||
Belarusian да | ||
Bengali প্রতি | ||
Bhojpuri खातिर | ||
Bosnian do | ||
Bulgarian да се | ||
Catalan a | ||
Cebuano sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 至 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 至 | ||
Corsican à | ||
Croatian do | ||
Czech na | ||
Danish til | ||
Dhivehi އަށް | ||
Dogri गी | ||
Dutch naar | ||
English to | ||
Esperanto al | ||
Estonian kuni | ||
Ewe yi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sa | ||
Finnish että | ||
French à | ||
Frisian nei | ||
Galician a | ||
Georgian რომ | ||
German zu | ||
Greek προς το | ||
Guarani g̃uarã-hag̃ua | ||
Gujarati પ્રતિ | ||
Haitian Creole a | ||
Hausa zuwa | ||
Hawaiian i | ||
Hebrew ל | ||
Hindi सेवा | ||
Hmong rau | ||
Hungarian nak nek | ||
Icelandic til | ||
Igbo ka | ||
Ilocano tapno | ||
Indonesian untuk | ||
Irish chun | ||
Italian per | ||
Japanese に | ||
Javanese kanggo | ||
Kannada ಗೆ | ||
Kazakh дейін | ||
Khmer ទៅ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuri | ||
Konkani प्रती | ||
Korean ...에 | ||
Krio to | ||
Kurdish ber | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بۆ | ||
Kyrgyz чейин | ||
Lao ເຖິງ | ||
Latin ut | ||
Latvian uz | ||
Lingala na | ||
Lithuanian į | ||
Luganda ku | ||
Luxembourgish an | ||
Macedonian до | ||
Maithili होए | ||
Malagasy ny | ||
Malay ke | ||
Malayalam ടു | ||
Maltese għal | ||
Maori ki | ||
Marathi करण्यासाठी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) to | ||
Mizo ah | ||
Mongolian руу | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရန် | ||
Nepali लाई | ||
Norwegian til | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuti | ||
Odia (Oriya) କୁ | ||
Oromo gara | ||
Pashto ته | ||
Persian به | ||
Polish do | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) para | ||
Punjabi ਨੂੰ | ||
Quechua to | ||
Romanian la | ||
Russian к | ||
Samoan i le | ||
Sanskrit इत्यस्मै | ||
Scots Gaelic gu | ||
Sepedi go | ||
Serbian до | ||
Sesotho ho | ||
Shona ku | ||
Sindhi جي طرف | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දක්වා | ||
Slovak do | ||
Slovenian do | ||
Somali ku | ||
Spanish a | ||
Sundanese ka | ||
Swahili kwa | ||
Swedish till | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sa | ||
Tajik ба | ||
Tamil க்கு | ||
Tatar to | ||
Telugu కు | ||
Thai ถึง | ||
Tigrinya ናብ | ||
Tsonga eka | ||
Turkish -e | ||
Turkmen to | ||
Twi (Akan) kɔ | ||
Ukrainian до | ||
Urdu کرنے کے لئے | ||
Uyghur to | ||
Uzbek ga | ||
Vietnamese đến | ||
Welsh i | ||
Xhosa ukuya | ||
Yiddish צו | ||
Yoruba si | ||
Zulu uku |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "aan" derives from the Dutch "aan" and can also mean "on", "at", or "in" |
| Albanian | The word "te" also means "with" or "about" in Albanian. |
| Amharic | The word "ወደ" (to) can also mean "towards" or "in the direction of". |
| Arabic | Historically, “إلى” meant “upon” or “towards,” and it’s still used this way in certain idiomatic expressions |
| Armenian | The Armenian word «դեպի» (depi) is derived from the Middle Persian word «dēpīh» or «dēpayh», meaning «direction». |
| Azerbaijani | "Üçün" can also mean "for" or "because". |
| Basque | Basque "ra" may come from Proto-Basque "ora" or "oraa" or Indo-European "*ar", meaning "toward, to". |
| Belarusian | The word "да" in Belarusian can also mean "so" or "well". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word 'প্রতি' can also mean 'for' or 'in honor of', as in 'আমার প্রতি আপনার ভালোবাসা আমাকে অভিভূত করে' (Your love for me overwhelms me). |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word 'do' can also mean 'to be' or 'to exist'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "да се" can also mean "in order to" or "so as to". It is similar in usage to the English word "to" in these contexts. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "a" may also mean "at" or "in" depending on context; it comes from the Latin word "ad" (meaning "to"). |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "sa" means "to" in English, but it can also refer to a place or location. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In addition to its primary meaning, 至 (zhì) can also mean "extreme" or "highest point" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 至 (zhì) also means 'extreme' or 'most' |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "à" can also mean "in" or "at". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "do" (meaning "to") is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *do, which also means "to make". |
| Czech | The Czech word "na" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *na, meaning "onto" or "upon". |
| Danish | The Danish word "til" can also mean "until" or "towards." |
| Dutch | The word "naar" can also mean "towards", "in the direction of", "for", "with the purpose of", or "on the way to". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto preposition "al" has a dual etymology, partly from the Latin "ad" and partly from the English "to". |
| Estonian | The word "kuni" is also used as a preposition meaning "until" or "as far as". |
| Finnish | "Että" is an ancient noun meaning "purpose" or "cause". |
| French | In addition to the standard meaning, "à" can also mean "at" or "in" in certain contexts. |
| Frisian | In Saterland Frisian, "nei" can also express "in the direction of" |
| Galician | The word "a" in Galician can also mean "at", "in", or "on" depending on context. |
| Georgian | Derived from Proto-Kartvelian 𑀬𑁕 (mw-) "to turn" and related to Armenian մոտ (mot) "near". The same word also means "until" in Georgian, an idea that could have developed from "to the point of"} |
| German | "Zu" can also mean "closed" or "towards": "Der Laden ist heute zu!" (The shop is closed today!), "Wir fahren zu dir!" (We're driving towards you!). |
| Greek | Προς το may also mean "in comparison to" or "in conformity with" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | "પ્રતિ" derives from the Sanskrit "prati" (towards), also meaning "about" or "against" in some contexts. |
| Haitian Creole | The Creole 'a' can also mean 'up to', 'until', 'towards', or 'according to'. |
| Hausa | In some dialects, zuwa can also mean 'to become'. |
| Hawaiian | Despite the brevity of "i" in Hawaiian, it denotes both the preposition and infinitive marker, akin to the multivalent "to" in English. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew letter "ל" also means "at" or "for" in some instances. |
| Hindi | The word 'सेवा' can also mean 'service', 'respect', or 'worship'. |
| Hmong | In some dialects of Hmong, 'rau' is a shortened form of 'tseem rau', 'rau' specifically referring to movement in one direction. |
| Hungarian | The word "nak nek" originally meant "to be like" or "to resemble", but it has since lost this meaning and now only means "to". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "til" (to, until) is cognate with the English word "till," a word with a broad range of meanings including "to, towards, until, as far as, as soon as, so as to." This broad range is also true of the Icelandic word. |
| Igbo | Igbo ka can also mean "and" and "but" and can be used when asking a question. |
| Indonesian | The word "untuk" can also mean "for" or "in order to". |
| Irish | "Chun" is cognate with Welsh "cyn" ("before"), originally cognate with English "when." |
| Italian | In Italian, "per" can also mean "through", "by", "for", and "during". |
| Japanese | "に" (ni) can also mean "in", "on", "at", or "for" depending on the context. |
| Javanese | The word "kanggo" in Javanese, besides meaning "to", can also mean "for" or "in order to" |
| Kannada | "ಗೆ" is not only used in the sense of "to" but also to mean "towards" or "in the direction of". |
| Kazakh | The word "дейін" also means "until" or "up to" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word “ទៅ” can also mean “towards” or “arrive at”. |
| Korean | In addition to its directional meaning, "...에" can also mean "at", "on", "in", or "inside" depending on the context. |
| Kurdish | The word "ber" can also mean "in front of" or "nearby". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "чейин" also means "towards" or "in the direction of" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | ເຖິງ also means 'until,' and is cognate with the Thai ถึง meaning 'to', 'until', or 'when'. |
| Latin | In ancient Latin, "ut" could also imply "as" when expressing equivalence or comparison. |
| Latvian | It's an ancient Balto-Slavic particle with diverse meanings and different spellings (in Old Prussian it was written as "us", in Lithuanian it was written as "uʒ", and in Latvian it was written as "uz". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word “į” (“to”) originally meant “in, into” and still has this meaning in certain contexts. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "an" in Luxembourgish can also mean "on" or "in", depending on the context. |
| Macedonian | The word "до" in Macedonian also has the meaning of "until" or "up to". |
| Malagasy | Malagasy "ny" may derive from Proto-Austronesian "*nu" or Proto-Malayo-Polynesian "*ni", both of which mean "(it/he/she) is." |
| Malay | The word "ke" in Malay can also mean "toward" or "in the direction of." |
| Malayalam | The word "ടു" ("to") in Malayalam can also mean "towards" or "in the direction of". |
| Maltese | `Għal` is originally derived from the Arabic preposition `ʿalá` („على”) meaning “up(on), over”, “against”, “to”, etc.; however, the latter has not survived and modern Maltese does not use `għal` in this same way. |
| Maori | The Maori word "ki" has its origins in the Proto-Polynesian word "*ki" meaning "to" or "towards". |
| Marathi | The word करण्यासाठी ("to") in Marathi has alternate meanings including "in order to" and "for the purpose of". |
| Mongolian | "Руу" means "towards", "in the direction of," "to a time or period," "by, with" and sometimes "in such a way"} |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ရန် is also used as an honorific prefix to the names of revered monks. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "लाई" can also be used to indicate the indirect object of a sentence. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "til" can also mean "until". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuti" in Nyanja also means "in order to" and "so that". |
| Pashto | In some Pashto dialects, "ته" can also mean "until" or "by the time that". |
| Persian | The word "به" can also mean "for" or "with" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "do" can also mean "to get" or "to make" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Although 'para' means 'to' or 'for' in Portuguese, it can also mean 'stop' in some expressions. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਨੂੰ" (to) in Punjabi can also be used to mean "for" or "in order to". |
| Romanian | "La" also means "by" (feminine), "at", "per", "on" (when referring to time), and "in" (when referring to a place). |
| Russian | "К" means "to" in Russian but can also refer to the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet or the abbreviation for километр (kilometer). |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "i le" can also mean "in" or "on". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "gu" can also mean "for the purpose of". |
| Serbian | The word "до" (**to**) in Serbian also means "until" in Russian and "up until" (**before**) in Polish. |
| Sesotho | 'Ho' can also refer to 'come here'. |
| Shona | In Shona, "ku" has cognates in other Bantu languages, including "ku" in Swahili, "uk" in Zulu, and "ko" in Luganda, indicating its widespread usage in Bantu languages. |
| Sindhi | جي طرف، Sindhi for "to" can also mean "from" in certain contexts. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | දක්වා (dakvā) can also mean "through" or "by way of". |
| Slovak | 'Do' also means 'until,' and when it appears before a verb it indicates completion of action. |
| Slovenian | "Delati" is the infinitive form of the verb "delati" in Slovenian, which means "to do" or "to make." |
| Somali | Somali "ku" is cognate with other Cushitic languages' "ku" or "ka," meaning "to" or "towards." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "a" derives from Latin ad (towards), and can also imply purpose, place, or motion. |
| Sundanese | As a prefix, “ka-” means “towards” or “into”, as in “kalebet” (“to prison”) or “kait” (“into”). |
| Swahili | In Old Swahili, _kwa_ was also a preposition meaning _with_. |
| Swedish | The word "till" in Swedish can also mean "in order to" or "in the direction of." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog "sa" can also be a contraction of the words "sa mga" or "sa mga ang" meaning "to the" and "to the ones the"} |
| Tajik | The word "ба" can also mean "but" or "however". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "க்கு" (to) has alternative meanings like "for" and "in the direction of". |
| Telugu | "కు" can also mean the letter 'క' in the Telugu alphabet. |
| Thai | The word "ถึง" also serves as the conjunction "until" (as in the "until" in "I was there until noon") |
| Turkish | The Turkish suffix "-e" derives from the Proto-Turkic directional suffix "-gA" denoting movement towards. |
| Ukrainian | The word "до" in Ukrainian can also mean "before", "until", or "towards". |
| Uzbek | The word "ga" can also mean "toward" or "in the direction of". |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "đến" can also mean "until" or "up to." |
| Welsh | 'I' is also used to make a noun into a verb, such as 'ei' (to give), or 'canu' (to sing). |
| Xhosa | The word "ukuya" also means "to go" or "to visit" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "צו" (tsu) can also mean "towards" or "for" (e.g. "I am going to the store" = "איך גיי צו דעם לאדן"). |
| Yoruba | While "si" is often translated as "to," it can also mean "for." |
| Zulu | The word "uku" in Zulu can also be used to create the infinitive form of verbs. |
| English | The word 'to' can also mean 'toward' or 'in the direction of', as in 'I'm going to the store'. |