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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Preposition 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Translations 2 Welsh 2.1 Preposition 2.1.1 Mutation

[ English

[ Etymology

In etymology, it represents Old English þanne, which was a variant of þonne, meaning "then". It is therefore cognate with German denn ("than") and dann ("then"); in Danish the same word dan serves for both "then" and "than." It represents the old dative or instrumental case of the pronoun that.

[ Pronunciation

• (stressed) enPR: thăn, IPA: /ðæn/, SAMPA: /D{n/
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  Rhymes: -æn

• (unstressed) enPR: th(ə)n, IPA: /ðən/, /ðn̩/, SAMPA: /D@n/, /Dn=/
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[ Preposition

Wikipedia

than

1. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.

   Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.

[ Usage notes

Usage prescriptionists have a number of rules concerning than. In formal grammar, than is not a preposition to govern the oblique case (although it has been used as such by writers such as William Shakespeare, whose 1600 play Julius Caesar contains the line A man no mightier than thyself or me. . ., and Samuel Johnson, who wrote No man had ever more discernment than him, in finding out the ridiculous.). Than functions as both conjunction and preposition; when it is used as a conjunction, it governs the nominative case, and when a preposition, the oblique case. To determine the case of a pronoun following "than", a writer can look to implied words and determine how they would relate to the pronoun.

Examples :

• You are a better swimmer than she.
  • represents You are a better swimmer than she is.
  • therefore You are a better swimmer than her is a solecism.

• They like you more than her.
  • represents They like you more than they like her.
  • therefore They like you more than she is a solecism, if it attempts to represent the previous sentence. It may be correct, however, if it represents They like you more than she likes you.

It must be noted that some prescriptionists insist that whom must follow than (not who); although according to the above rule, who would be the "correct" form. Critics of this often cite this mandatory exception as evidence that thee prescriptionist rule is logically erroneous, in addition to it being inconsistent with well-established usage.

[ Translations

Albanian: se, sesa Arabic: من (min) Basque: baino Breton: eget Chinese: 比 (bǐ) Czech: než Danish: end Dutch: dan Esperanto: ol Finnish: kuin French: que German: als Hungarian: mint

Ido: kam Italian: di, che Japanese: ...より (...yori) Korean: ~보다 (~boda) Latin: quam Norwegian: enn Polish: niż Portuguese: que, do que Romanian: ca, decat Russian: чем (čem) Spanish: que Swedish: än Telugu: కంటె (kaMTe)

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[ Welsh

[ Preposition

than

1. Aspirate mutation of tan

[ Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tan	dan	nhan	than