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into

See also: Into, INTO, intő, -into, and in-to

into - English

Pronunciation

  • (stressed)
    • (UK) IPA: /ˈɪn.tuː/
    • (US) IPA: /ˈɪn.tu/
  • (unstressed, before consonants) IPA: /ˈɪn.tə/
  • (unstressed, before vowels) IPA: /ˈɪn.tʊ/
  • Hyphenation: in‧to

Preposition

into

  1. To or towards the inside of.
    • Mary danced into the house.
    • Pour the wine into the decanter.
    • The nomads shave intricate designs into their camels' fur.
  2. To or towards the region of.
    • We left the house and walked into the street.
    • The eagle flew off into the wide blue sky.
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
    • The car crashed into the tree.
    • I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall.
  4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
    • I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.
    • Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
  5. Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
    • A cow's stomach is divided into four chambers.
  6. After the start of.
    • About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
  7. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
    • She's really into Shakespeare right now.
    • My date for tonight has black hair, and I'm into that.
  8. (Britain, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.
    • Five into three is fifteen.
  9. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
    • Three into two won't go.
    • 24 goes into 48 how many times?
  10. Investigating the subject (of).
    • There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Albanian: për në
  • Arabic: دَاخِل‎ (dāḵil)
    • Egyptian Arabic: جوا‎ (gówwa)
  • Belarusian: у (u), ў (ŭ), да (da)
  • Czech: do (cs)
  • Esperanto: en (eo) (+ accusative)
  • Estonian: sisse, -sse
  • Finnish: use illative case
  • French: dans (fr), à l'intérieur de, au milieu de (fr), parmi (fr)
  • German: in (de) (+ accusative)
  • Greek: σε (el) (se)
    • Ancient: εἰς (eis) (+ accusative), ἐς (es) (+ accusative; poetic, Ionic), εἴσω (eísō) (postposition + genitive, accusative)
  • Haitian Creole: nan
  • Hebrew: לתוך‎
  • Hungarian: -ba (hu), -be (hu)
  • Icelandic: inn í
  • Irish: isteach i
  • Italian: in (it), verso (it), andando verso
  • Kazakh: ішінге (ışıñe)
  • Khmer: ក្នុង (km) (knong)
  • Latin: in (la) (+ accusative)
  • Malagasy: ao anatin'ny
  • Malay: ke dalam
  • Maore Comorian: moni mwa
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: inn i
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: (please verify) inn i
  • Old English: on (+ accusative)
  • Polish: w (pl), w- (a verbal prefix)
  • Portuguese: para dentro de
  • Russian: в (ru) (v) (+ accusative case)
  • Scots: intil
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: do
  • Spanish: a dentro de, dentro (es)
  • Swedish: in i
  • Thai: เข้าไป (kâo bpai)
  • Tok Pisin: long
  • Turkish: içine (tr)
  • Tuvan: иштинче (iştinçe), иштинге (iştinge)
  • Ukrainian: в (uk) (v), у (uk) (u), до (uk) (do)
  • Vietnamese: vào (vi), vào trong
  • Võro: sisse
  • Welsh: i mewn i
  • Arabic: فِي‎ (ar) (fī)
    • Egyptian Arabic: في‎ (fe)
  • Finnish: use illative or sometimes allative case
  • French: dans (fr), en (fr)
  • German: in (de), gen (de)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Irish: isteach go
  • Italian: verso (it)
  • Malay: ke dalam
  • Norwegian:
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    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: do (pl)
  • Portuguese: até (pt)
  • Russian: в (ru) (v), на (ru) (na)
  • Arabic: فِي‎ (ar) (fī)
    • Egyptian Arabic: في‎ (fe)
  • Finnish: päin (fi), use illative case
  • French: dans (fr)
  • German: gegen (de), in (de) (if deformable)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Italian: contro (it)
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: w (pl)
  • Portuguese: em (pt)
  • Russian: в (ru) (v)
  • Swedish: in i
  • Turkish: karşı (tr)
  • Arabic: إِلَّى‎ (ar) (ʔillā)
    • Egyptian Arabic: لـ‎ (le)
  • Czech: v (cs)
  • Finnish: use illative or translative case
  • French: en (fr)
  • German: in (de)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Hungarian: -vá, -vé
  • Italian: in (it)
  • Maori: hei
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: w (pl), na (pl)
  • Portuguese: em (pt)
  • Russian: в (ru) (v) (+ accusative case)
  • Spanish: en (es)
  • Swedish: till (sv)
  • Finnish: (time, genitive +) alusta, (time, genitive +) alkamisesta
  • German: nach Beginn (or/and genitive)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Italian: di (it)
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: po rozpoczęciu (with genitive)
  • Swedish: in i
  • Czech: do (cs)
  • Finnish: use illative case
  • German: auf (de)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Italian: in (it)
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: razy (pl)
  • Russian: на (ru) (na) (+ accusative case)
  • Finnish: use illative case
  • German: in (de)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Italian: in (it)
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: dzielony przez
  • Finnish: -sta (fi), -stä (fi) (elative case)
  • French: à propos de (fr)
  • German: nach (de), hinsichtlich (de)
  • Greek: periphrastically
    • Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
  • Irish: faoi
  • Italian: di (it)
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
  • Polish: nad (pl) (in collocation with badanie)

Anagrams

into - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈinto/, [ˈin̪t̪o̞]
  • Syllabification: in‧to

Noun

into

  1. eagerness, enthusiasm
  2. passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
  3. zeal, fanaticism

Usage notes

  • "for X" = the illative, allative (general) or translative case (to emphasize the purpose or goal), "to (verb)" = the first infinitive (general) or the translative case of the -minen noun (to emphasize the purpose or goal).

Declension

Inflection of into (Kotus type 1*J/valo, nt-nn gradation)
nominative into innot
genitive innon intojen
partitive intoa intoja
illative intoon intoihin
Possessive forms of into (type valo)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

into - Ligurian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈiŋtu/

Contraction

into

  1. in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

into - Middle English

Preposition

into

  1. Alternative spelling of in-to

into - Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ind̪ɐ/

Preposition

into

  1. in (surrounded by)

into - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /inˈtoː/

Preposition

intō

  1. into

Descendants

into - Southern Ndebele

Noun

întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

  1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

into - Xhosa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [íːⁿtó]

Noun

íntó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

  1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

into - Yemsa

Noun

into

  1. mother

into - Zulu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /îːntó/

Noun

întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

  1. thing

Inflection

Class 9/10
Singular Plural
Full form into izinto
Locative entweni ezintweni
Meaning and Definition of into
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