köken: Chiefly from haplology of Middle High German ērer, from Old High German ēriro, from Proto-Germanic *airizô. Compare Dutch eerder. Likely conflated with Middle High German ēr, a rarer byform of ē (whence modern eh, ehe), from Old High German ēr, from Proto-Germanic *airiz, adverbial form of the above. Cognate with Dutch eer, English ere, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐍃 (airis). The final /r/ was regularly lost in…
Es tut mir leid, aber ich konnte nicht eher kommen.
Es scheint eher unwahrscheinlich, dass sie je ins Ausland geht.
Eine Paketbombe, die Anfang vergangener Woche im Kanzleramt eintraf, war von eher geringer Sprengkraft.
köken: From Middle Dutch alse, an unstressed form of also (modern alzo). The sense “whether” is possibly a semantic loan from Sranan Tongo efu (“if, when; if, whether”).
Als je die knop indrukt, gaat de computer uit.
Als het regent worden alle daken nat.
Dinsdagochtend op een grindpad / Het weekend geweest / Men maakt zich op / Voor de wandeling / Als ging men naar een feest
köken: From Old Norse um, from Proto-Germanic *umbi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi. * As a conjunction, um superseded or blended with Old Norse ef and em, taking on their function as well. This is from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”), whence also English if and German ob. Doublet of jäv, direct descendant of ef (see that for more)
introduces an unreal conditional; if · used to introduce a polite suggestion; what if · expresses optative meaning; if only
eş: jeśli, jeżeli, reg. śl. dyby
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷodéh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *kadāˀn Proto-Slavic *kъda Proto-Slavic *kъdy Old Polish gdy Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei Proto-Slavic *byti Proto-Slavic *by Old Polish by Old Polish -by Old Polish gdyby Polish gdyby Inherited from Old Polish gdyby. By surface…
aile: jak gdyby nigdy nic, jak gdyby, gdybologia, gdyby nie, gdybać
Near-synonyms: jakby, jeśliby, jeżeliby, żeby
Gdybym miał więcej pieniędzy, kupiłbym nowy samochód.
if (supposing that) · When followed by mikä/mikään or kuka/kukaan, serves to emphasize the truth of a characterization; often preceded by a demonstrative or personal pronoun. · if, whether (used to introduce an indirect question)
köken: From Proto-Finnic *jos. Originally the lative singular of joka (relative pronoun); jo- + -s (lative suffix).
aile: entä jos, joskaan, joskin, josko, jospa, jossitella, mitä jos