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[ English

[ Pronunciation

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[ Noun

Singular
o

Plural
o's

o (plural o's)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet.
  2. A blood type that lacks antigens. They can only receive blood from type O, and cannot receive blood from A, AB or B people. Their blood can be donated to any recipient. (Neglecting Rh factor) Synonym: the universal donor.
  3. A zero (used in reading out numbers).

[ Interjection

o

  1. (archaic) (always capitalized) The English vocative particle, used before a pronoun or the name of a person or persons to mark direct address.
    O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? -- Galatians 3:1 (King James version).
  2. Variant of oh.

[ Abbreviation

O

  1. (IRC) Operator
  2. Object, see SVO
  3. Over

[ See also

[ Aragonese

[ Etymology

From Latin illo.

[ Article

o m. (definite singular)

  1. the
    O río Ebro – "The Ebro River"

[ Usage notes

  • Becomes l' before many words beginning with a vowel.
  • The form lo, either pronounced as lo or ro, can be found after words ending with an -o.
  • Eastern dialects use the form el.

[ Bosnian

[ Preposition

o

  1. about
  2. against

[ Catalan

[ Conjunction

o

  1. or

[ Crimean Tatar

[ Pronoun

o (personal)

  1. he, she, it

[ Pronoun

o (demonstrative)

  1. that

[ Synonyms

[ Croatian

[ Preposition

o

  1. about

[ Czech

[ Pronunciation

[ Preposition

o

  1. about

[ Italian

[ Alternative spellings

  • od (used optionally before words beginning with a vowel)

[ Conjunction

o

  1. or

[ Verb

o

  1. Common misspelling of ho.

[ Japanese

See also ō

[ Noun

o (hiragana お)

  1. 尾: tail
  2. 苧: hemp, flax
  3. 緒: cord, strap
  4. お: hiragana character o
  5. オ: katakana character o

[ Particle

o (hiragana を)

  1. direct object particle

[ Prefix

o (hiragana お)

  1. 御, お: prefix indicating that the succeeding noun is honorific

[ Latin

[ Interjection

Ō!

  1. o! (vocative particle)
  2. oh!

[ Lithuanian

[ Conjunction

o

  1. and

[ Mandarin

[ Pinyin syllable

o

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, ō, ó, or ò.

[ Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

[ Portuguese

[ Etymology

From Latin ille.

[ Article

o m. (definite singular)

  1. the
    Lá vem o sol. — "Here comes the sun."
masculine feminine
singular o a
plural os as

[ Pronoun

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number Person Subject Objective case Prepositional case
Singular first eu me mim
second tu te ti
third ele, ela lhe, o, a, se ele, ela, si
Plural first nós nos nós
second vós vos vós
third eles, elas lhes, os, as, se eles, elas, si

o m. (personal)

  1. him, it (as a direct object; as an indirect object, see lhe; after prepositions, see ele).
    Encontrei-o na rua. – "I met him/it in the street."

[ Usage notes

  • Becomes -lo after verb forms ending in -r, -s, or -z, the pronouns nos and vos, and the adverb eis; the ending letter causing the change disappears.
    After ver: Posso vê-lo? = "May I see him/it?"
    After pôs: Quero pô-lo ali. = "I want to put him/it there."
    After fiz: Fi-lo ficar contente. = "I made him/it become happy."
    After nos: Deu-no-lo relutantemente. = "He gave him/it to us reluctantly."
    After eis: Ei-lo! = "Behold him/it!"
  • Becomes -na after a nasal diphthong: -ão, -am [ɐ̃w̃], -õe [õj̃], -em, -êm [ẽj̃].
    Detêm-no como prisioneiro. = "They detain him/it as a prisoner."
  • In Brazil it is being abandoned in favor of the nominative form ele.
    Eu o vi. → Eu vi ele. = "I saw him/it."

[ Romanian

[ Pronunciation

[ Letter

o (lowercase, capital O)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /o/. Preceded by n and followed by p.

[ Usage notes

See O.

[ Article

indefinite article singular plural
m. / n. f. all
nom/acc un o nişte
gen/dat unui unei unor

o f. (indefinite article)

  1. a/an
    o clădire mare
    a big building


[ Interjection

o!

  1. oh!

[ Pronoun

o (unstresed accusative form of ea)

  1. her
    o cunoşti?
    do you know her?

[ Verb

(el/ea) o (modal auxiliary; third-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

  1. (he/she) might

[ Scots

[ Preposition

o

  1. of

[ Scottish Gaelic

[ Preposition

o

  1. from

[ Derived terms

[ Serbian

[ Preposition

o

  1. about
  2. against

[ See also

[ Slovene

[ Preposition

o

  1. about

[ Spanish

[ Etymology

Latin aut.

[ Alternative spellings

  • ó (used near numbers to avoid confusion with a zero: 2 ó 3)
  • u (used before words beginning with an ‘o’ sound: u otros, u hombre)

[ Conjunction

o

  1. or

[ Tok Pisin

[ Conjunction

o

  1. or

[ Turkish

[ Pronoun

o (personal)

  1. he, she

[ Related terms

[ Pronoun

o (demonstrative)

  1. that

[ See also

[ Welsh

[ Pronoun

o

  1. he, him.

[ Usage notes

O is used predominantly in the south of Wales, while e is used in thee north. Fe and fo are variants of e and o respectively.

[ Preposition

o

  1. of
  2. from
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