all

See also: Variations of "all"

all - English

Alternative forms

  • al (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôl IPA: /ɔːl/, [ɔːɫ]
  • Homophones: awl, I'll (some dialects)

Determiner

all

  1. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
    • All contestants must register at the scorer’s table.
    • All flesh is originally grass.
    • All my friends like classical music.
  2. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
    • The store is open all day and all night.
      (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
    • I’ve been working on this all year.
      (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
  3. Only; alone; nothing but.
    • He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
  4. (obsolete) Any.

Translations

Pronoun

all

  1. Everything.
    • Some gave all they had.
    • She knows all and sees all.
    • Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
  2. Everyone.
    • A good time was had by all.
    • We all enjoyed the movie.
  3. The only thing(s).
    • All that was left was a small pile of ash.
    • We ate potatoes and ziti .... that's all.
  4. (chiefly Southern US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland, India) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)

Translations

Adverb

all (not comparable)

  1. Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
    • She was sitting all alone. It suddenly went all quiet.
  2. Apiece; each.
    • The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
  3. (degree) So much.
    • Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
  4. (obsolete, poetic) Even; just.
  5. A quotative particle, compare like.
    • She was all, “Whatever.”

Synonyms

Translations

  • Finnish: sitä (fi)
  • Korean: 만큼 (ko) (mankeum), 그만큼 (ko) (geumankeum)
  • Serbo-Croatian: sve
  • Slovak: tým, tak
  • Zealandic: zòvees te (all the)

Noun

all (countable and uncountable, plural alls)

  1. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
    • She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
  2. (countable) The totality of one's possessions.

Translations

Conjunction

all

  1. (obsolete) Although.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adverb, determiner, pronoun or noun all

Adjective

all

  1. (Pennsylvania, dialect) All gone; dead.
    • The butter is all.

Derived terms

Anagrams

all - Albanian

Adjective

all m (feminine alle)

  1. of glowing, reddish color

all - Breton

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈalː/

Adjective

all

  1. other

Derived terms

all - Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈaʎ/

Noun

all m (plural alls)

  1. garlic
  2. garlic clove

Derived terms

all - Estonian

Postposition

all

  1. under, below (Governs the genitive)

Derived terms

all - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /al/

Determiner

all

  1. all
    • Alle Menschen sind gleich.
      • All people are equal.
    • Du musst doch nicht allen Unsinn nachmachen, den du hörst!
      • You needn't reproduce all nonsense that you hear!
  2. every (in time intervals, with plural noun)
    • Wir treffen uns alle zwei Wochen.
      • We meet up every two weeks.

Usage notes

  • The bare form all is used with articles and pronouns, which it precedes (as in English). For instance: all die Sachen (all the things); all dies[es] Gerede (all this chitchat); all[e] meine Freunde (all my friends) (more common with the e). Colloquial German often uses the adjective ganz instead: die ganzen Sachen; dies[es] ganze Gerede; meine ganzen Freunde.
  • If all is followed by an adjective, the adjective is declined weakly: alle guten Sachen (all good things), alles Gute (all the best)

Declension

Declension of aller
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative aller alle alles alle
genitive alles allen aller alles allen aller
dative allem aller allem allen
accusative allen alle alles alle

Derived terms

all - Gothic

Romanization

all

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌻

all - Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɑl]

Pronoun

all

  1. (with uncountable or plural nouns) all
  2. (with countable singular nouns) every; each
    • Et muss een net mat all Virschlag eens sinn.
      • One needn’t agree to every proposition.

Usage notes

  • The word is usually uninflected, except for the dative plural, which becomes allen.

Synonyms

  • (every, each): jidder, jiddwer

Derived terms

all - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /al/

Adverb

all

  1. all (entirely, completely)

Determiner

all

  1. all, every

Derived terms

Descendants

all - Norwegian Bokmål

Determiner

all (neuter singular alt, plural alle)

  1. all

Derived terms

all - Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • adl’u, add’e, all’e (dialectal)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /alː/, /adl/, /aʎː/

Adjective

all m or f (neuter alt, plural alle)

  1. all
  2. (in the plural) everybody
  3. over, at an end, finished
    • Sumaren er all.The summer is at an end.
  4. tired, exhausted, worn out; weak
    • Skorne er alleThe shoes are worn out.
  5. dead
    • Han er mest all.He’s almost dead.

Declension

singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative-accusative all oll1 alt
dative1 ollom ollo
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative-accusative alle alla2 alle, oll1
dative1 ollom
1: Rare or dialectal. 2: Unofficial today.

Derived terms

all - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɑll/, [ɑɫ]

Adjective

all (Anglian)

  1. Alternative form of eall

Declension

Adverb

all (Anglian)

  1. Alternative form of eall

all - Pennsylvania German

Adjective

all

  1. all

all - Swedish

Determiner

all (neuter allt, masculine alle, plural alla)

  1. all
    • Drack du upp all mjölk?
      • Did you drink all the milk?

Usage notes

All (with inflections) is used with mass nouns. The corresponding for nouns with ordinary plural is alla.

A masculine-looking form (alle) is virtually only retained in the fixed expressions alle man and allesamman (everyone).

all - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA: /aɬ/
  • (South Wales) IPA: /a(ː)ɬ/

Verb

all

  1. Soft mutation of gall.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
gall all ngall unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

all - Yola

Adverb

all

  1. Alternative form of aul
Meaning and Definition of all
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