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Expressing distance or motionExpressing distance or motion.: Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
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» I want a piece of candy.
Ich will ein Bonbon. — MUIRIEL
Хочу конфету. — ae5s
Хочу конфетку. — nami
Я хочу цукерку. — zinova
Хочу цукерку. — aandrusiak
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9 languagesBy meaning 3
By meaning 3
By meaning 5
Examples
155455 sentencesI want a piece of candy.
Я хочу цукерку. — zinova
ruХочу конфету. — ae5s
deIch will ein Bonbon. — MUIRIEL
I'm tired of eating fast food.
Я втомився від фаст-фуду. — deniko
ruЯ устал от фаст-фуда. — afyodor
deIch habe es satt, Fastfood zu essen. — MUIRIEL
All of you did good work.
Ви всі чудово попрацювали. — deniko
ruВы все сделали хорошую работу. — Hellerick
deJeder von euch hat gute Arbeit geleistet. — al_ex_an_der
Meaning
40 sensesIntroducing subject matter.
Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
von, über
оo, обob, проpro
проpro
Expressing possession.
Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the “possessive genitive”. (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under “agency” senses.)
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
von
-ов-ov, -ев-ev, -ёв-jóv
Expressing origin.
Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
Jesus of Nazareth (after hometown)
Anselm of Canterbury (after diocese)
von
More meanings 37
Expressing distance or motion.
Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
He hasn't been well of late.
From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
Expressing separation.
Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
Expressing origin.
Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
I am tired of all this nonsense.
Expressing agency.
Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
Origin
From Middle English of, from Old English of (“from, out of, off”), an unstressed form of æFrom Middle English of, from Old English of (“from, out of, off”), an unstressed form of æf, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away; away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away”). Doublet of off, which is the stressed descendant of the same Old English word. More at off.
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Word family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- B1Weak forms and sentence stress — Because the lesson uses it
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.