once upon a time
köken: Literally, “once there was”.
there was once…; once upon a time, there was… (traditional beginning of children’s stories, especially fairy tales)
eş: il y avait une fois
alternative form of érase una vez
once upon a time
köken: Literally, “there was once”.
once upon a time
köken: Literally, “one was, one wasn't”. Compare the similar semantics of Turkish bir varmış, bir yokmuş, Persian یکی بود یکی نبود (yeki bud yeki nabud, “once upon a time/there was, there was not”), Armenian լինում է, չի լինում (linum ē, čʻi linum) and կար-չկար (kar-čʻkar, “once upon a time/there was, there was not”), Georgian იყო და არა იყო რა (iq̇o da ara iq̇o ra, “once upon a time/there was, there…
🔊 Biri var idi, bir yox idi, bir dənə qız var idi. Günlərin bir günündə, o...
The traditional beginning of fairy tales; once upon a time
🔊 Борон-борон заманда йәшәгән ти ҡарт менән ҡарсыҡ.
once upon a time there was
köken: Literally, “there was once”.
once upon a time
köken: Compare Spanish érase una vez.
long ago, long before
köken: 오래 (orae) + 전(前) (jeon).
once upon a time, there was ...
köken: det (“there”) + var (“was”) + en gång (“once [one time]”)
a long time ago · for a long time
zıt: niedawno
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dweh₂-der.? Proto-Slavic *davě Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Proto-Slavic *dãvьnъ Old Polish dawny Proto-Slavic *-o Old Polish -o Old Polish dawno Polish dawno Inherited from Old Polish dawno. By surface analysis, dawny + -o. Compare Czech dávno, Kashubian dôwno, and Russian давно́ (davnó).
aile: dawniej, dawno i nieprawda, dawno temu
🔊 Dawno tu nie byłam.
once upon a time (traditional beginning of children’s stories, especially fairy tales)
köken: Literally, “there was, there was not”.
🔊 bylo nebylo v jednom dalekém městě
long time ago, long ago
köken: From rég (“long ago”) + -en (adverb-forming suffix). First attested in c. 1456.
🔊 Ez régen történt.
formerly, in time past, some time ago · once upon a time · one day, once, at some (future) time
köken: For ōle, olle, ōlus, ollus, archaic forms of ille, with locative ending -im, = illō tempore.
🔊 Dixerat 'O mores! O tempora!' Tullius olim, sacrilegum strueret cum Catilina nefas,
🔊 Princeps quoque et locum incunabulorum assidue frequentavit, manente villa qualis fuerat olim
🔊 Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
in the past
çekim: çoğul dahulu-dahulu kala
köken: Compound of dahulu + kala.
formerly; in the past
köken: ngày + xưa.
long ago
köken: Formed from the ancestor of от (ot) + the genitive of Proto-Slavic *davьnъ (“ancient, past”).
aile: отдавнашен