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ale

See also: Ale, alé, alè, alẽ, åle, āle, Alę, and -ale

ale - Translingual

Symbol

ale

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Aleut.

ale - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA: /eɪl/

Noun

ale (countable and uncountable, plural ales)

  1. (dated) A beer made without hops.
  2. A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
  3. A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Dutch: ale
  • → Finnish: ale
  • → French: ale

Translations

  • Afrikaans: aal (af)
  • Arabic: مِزْر‎ m (mizr)
  • Armenian: էլ (hy) (ēl)
  • Belarusian: эль m (elʹ)
  • Bulgarian: ейл m (ejl)
  • Chinese:
    • Cantonese: 麥芽啤酒／麦芽啤酒 (mak6 ngaa4 be1 zau2)
    • Mandarin: 強麥酒／强麦酒 (qiángmàijiǔ), 麥芽啤酒／麦芽啤酒 (màiyá píjiǔ), 麥芽酒／麦芽酒 (màiyá jiǔ), 愛爾啤酒／爱尔啤酒 (ài'ěr píjiǔ), 艾爾啤酒／艾尔啤酒 (ài'ěr píjiǔ)
  • Danish: lyst øl c
  • Dutch: donker bier n
  • Esperanto: elo (eo)
  • Estonian: õlu (et)
  • Faroese: øl
  • Finnish: pintahiivaolut (fi), ale (fi)
  • French: bière anglaise f, ale (fr) f
  • German: Ale (de) n
  • Greek: αγγλική μπίρα f (anglikí bíra), αγγλικός ζύθος m (anglikós zýthos), ζύθος (el) (zýthos), αγγλική μπύρα (anglikí býra)
  • Hungarian: ale (hu)
  • Icelandic: öl (is) n
  • Irish: leann m
  • Italian: birra inglese f
  • Japanese: エール (ēru)
  • Korean: 에일 (eil)
  • Limburgish: ale (li)
  • Lithuanian: elis
  • Manx: lhune m
  • Norwegian: ale (no), ale
  • Old English: ealu, bēor
  • Polish: ale (pl) n
  • Portuguese: cerveja inglesa f
  • Russian: эль (ru) m (elʹ)
  • Scottish Gaelic: leann m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: ел m
    • Roman: el (sh) m
  • Spanish: cerveza inglesa f, ale (es) f, cerveza ale f
  • Swedish: ale (sv)
  • Tamil: அளி (ta) (aḷi)
  • Turkish: ale (tr), İngiliz birası
  • Ukrainian: ель m (elʹ)
  • Welsh: cwrw m

Anagrams

ale - Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aˈle/, [ʔʌˈlɛ]
  • Hyphenation: a‧le

Interjection

alé

  1. signifies surprise; wow!

ale - Ambonese Malay

Pronoun

ale

  1. thou

ale - Bambara

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [àle]

Pronoun

ale

  1. him

ale - Basque

Noun

ale

  1. grain

Declension

indefinite singular plural
absolutive ale alea aleak
ergative alek aleak aleek
dative aleri aleari aleei
genitive aleren alearen aleen
comitative alerekin alearekin aleekin
causative alerengatik alearengatik aleengatik
benefactive alerentzat alearentzat aleentzat
instrumental alez aleaz aleez
inessive aletan alean aleetan
locative aletako aleko aleetako
allative aletara alera aleetara
terminative aletaraino aleraino aleetaraino
directive aletarantz alerantz aleetarantz
destinative aletarako alerako aleetarako
ablative aletatik aletik aleetatik
partitive alerik — —
prolative aletzat — —

ale - Buol

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [aɽe]

Noun

ale

  1. chin

ale - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈalɛ]

Conjunction

ale

  1. but

ale - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /eːl/
  • Hyphenation: ale

Noun

ale m or n (uncountable)

  1. ale

ale - Estonian

Noun

ale (genitive ale, partitive alet)

  1. slash-and-burn (the technique)
  2. the forest cut down to create new land in slash-and-burn
  3. the land created through slash-and-burn

Declension

singular plural
nominative ale aled
accusative ale aled
genitive ale alede
partitive alet alesid
illative alle alesse aledesse
inessive ales aledes
elative alest aledest
allative alele aledele
adessive alel aledel
ablative alelt aledelt
translative aleks aledeks
terminative aleni aledeni
essive alena aledena
abessive aleta aledeta
comitative alega aledega

ale - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɑle/, [ˈɑ̝le̞]
  • Syllabification: a‧le

Noun

ale

  1. (informal) sale (selling of goods at bargain prices)

Declension

Inflection of ale (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative ale alet
genitive alen alejen
partitive alea aleja
illative aleen aleihin
Possessive forms of ale (type nalle)

Compounds

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈei̯l/, [ˈe̞i̯l]
  • Syllabification: ale

Noun

ale

  1. ale (type of beer)

Declension

Inflection of ale (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative ale alet
genitive alen alejen
partitive alea aleja
illative aleen aleihin
Possessive forms of ale (type nalle)

In speech, type 5 (risti) is normally used, giving for instance nominative singular eil, genitive eilin, partitive eiliä, nominative plural eilit and genitive plural eilien.

Anagrams

ale - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛl/

Noun

ale f (plural ales)

  1. ale

ale - Friulian

Noun

ale f (plural alis)

  1. wing

ale - Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /a.le/

Verb

ale

  1. to go
    • Synonym: al

ale - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈa.le/
  • Hyphenation: à‧le

Noun

ale f

  1. (poetic) plural of ala; wings.

ale - Latin

Verb

ale

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of alō

ale - Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈalɛ/, [ˈalə]

Conjunction

ale

  1. but

ale - Lule Sami

Verb

ale

  1. second-person singular imperative of ij

ale - Mauritian Creole

Verb

ale (medial form al)

  1. To go

ale - Middle Dutch

Noun

āle n

  1. ale

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

ale - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈaːl(ə)/

Noun

ale (plural ales)

  1. ale (beverage)

Descendants

ale - Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈale/

Verb

ale

  1. second-person singular imperative of ii

ale - Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ale (present tense el or aler, past tense ol or alte, supine ale or alt, past participle alen or alt, present participle alande, imperative al)

  1. Alternative form of ala

Anagrams

ale - Old Polish

Conjunction

ale

  1. but

Derived terms

conjunction
conjunction/particle
conjunctions

Particle

ale

  1. at least

Descendants

ale - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈa.lɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈɒ.lɛ/
  • Syllabification: a‧le
  • Homophones: Ale, alę, Alę

Conjunction

ale

  1. but (contrastive conjunction)
  2. (with nie tylko) not only … but also
    • Synonym: nie tylko … lecz …
    • Jesteś nie tylko głupi, ale też naiwny! ― You're not only stupid, but also naive!

Particle

ale

  1. (colloquial) used at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis
    • Synonyms: ależ, ale to
    • Ale masz piękną sukienkę! ― You have such a beautiful dress!
    • Ale ta zupa jest dobra! ― This soup is so good!
  2. used at the beginning of a sentence; similar in meaning to the English "hey, not so fast", especially when used multiple times
    • Ale, ale! Jeszcze z tobą nie skończyłem! ― Hey, not so fast! I'm not quite done with you yet!
  3. (with bo) may very well, but, even though, despite
    • Stary, bo stary, ale mocny. ― He very well may be old, but he's still strong.
    • Trudno bo trudno, ale robi się łatwiej. ― It may very well be hard, but it's getting easier.

Derived terms

particles

Noun

ale n

  1. (colloquial) but
    • żadnych ale! ― No buts!

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛjl/
  • Syllabification: ale

Noun

ale n or m (indeclinable)

  1. ale
    • Hypernym: piwo
    • angielskie ale ― English ale

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ale is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 187 times in scientific texts, 66 times in news, 330 times in essays, 552 times in fiction, and 828 times in plays, totaling 1963 times, making it the 20th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

ale - Portuguese

Verb

ale

  1. inflection of alar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

ale - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈa.le/

Article

ale

  1. of (feminine/neuter plural possessive article)

ale - Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /âle/
  • Hyphenation: a‧le

Conjunction

ȁle (Cyrillic spelling а̏ле)

  1. (Kajkavian) but
  2. (Kajkavian) however

Synonyms

ale - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈeil/ [ˈei̯l]

Noun

ale f (plural ales)

  1. ale (intoxicating liquor)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

ale - Tagalog

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧le
  • IPA: /ˈʔale/, [ˈʔa.lɛ]

Noun

ale (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒ)

  1. (colloquial) term of address for a woman
  2. aunt
  3. stepmother

Derived terms

ale - Tarantino

Noun

ale

  1. wing (of a bird etc)

ale - Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈa.le]

Verb

ale

  1. (transitive) to coil

Conjugation

Conjugation of ale

ale - Upper Sorbian

Conjunction

ale

  1. but

ale - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈa.l̪e/

Noun

ale

  1. bait

ale - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /à.lè/

Noun

àlè

  1. concubine, side chick
    • Synonym: wáhàrì

Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /à.lè/

Noun

àlè

  1. (Ondo) in-law
Meaning and Definition of ale
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