and
Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbsAs a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.: Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
» Take a book and read it.
Nimm ein Buch und lies es!
Возьми книгу и прочитай её!
Возьми книгу и читай её.
Возьмите книгу и почитайте!
Возьмите книгу и читайте!
Візьми книгу та прочитай її!
Meaning
15 sensesAs a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
und
иi
іi, йj, таta
Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
I'd been walking since sunrise, and I was hungry.
2007: Jimmy Carr, 8 out of 10 Cats, 13th day of July episode Romance is dead; men killed it, and made women clean up the mess.
Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
(colloquial, literary)Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
(colloquial, dialectal)Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.
Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; “as well as other”.
Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
Two and two is/are four.
Expressing a condition.
(US, dialectal)If; provided that.
Examples
151886 sentencesTake a book and read it.
Візьми книгу та прочитай її!
ruВозьми книгу и прочитай её!
deNimm ein Buch und lies es!
You and I are good friends.
Ми з тобою добрі друзі.
ruТы и я - хорошие друзья.
deDu und ich sind gute Freunde.
The drinks looked cool and delicious.
Напої виглядали прохолодними і смачними.
Let's shake hands and be friends.
Давай потиснемо руки і будемо друзями.
ruДавай пожмём руки и будем друзьями.
deLass uns die Hand reichen und Freunde sein.
I like both dogs and cats.
Мені подобаються і кішки, і собаки.
ruЯ и кошек, и собак люблю.
deIch mag sowohl Hunde als auch Katzen.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West GerInherited from Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West Germanic *andi, from Proto-Germanic *andi, *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“facing opposite, near, in front of, before”). Cognate with Scots an (“and”), North Frisian än (“and”), Saterland Frisian un (“and”), West Frisian en (“and”), Dutch en, ende (“and”), German und (“and”), German Low German on, un (“and”), Luxembourgish an (“and”), Vilamovian an, ana (“and”), Yiddish און (un), אונ (un), אונד (und), אונ׳ (un', “and”), Danish end (“still; ever; even”), Faroese enn (“still, yet”), Icelandic en (“and”), enn (“still, yet”), Norwegian Bokmål enn (“and”), Norwegian Nynorsk en, enn (“and”), Swedish än (“still, yet”), Albanian edhe (“and”) (dialectal ênde, ênne), ende (“still, yet, therefore”), Latin ante (“opposite, in front of”), Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”). Doublet of an ("if").
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