WordCodex

man

See also: Variations of "man", -man, and Man

man - Translingual

Symbol

man

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

man - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /mæn/
    • (/æ/ raising) IPA: [mɛən], [meən], [mẽə̃n]
  • (Jamaica) IPA: [mɑn]
  • (New Zealand, parts of South Africa) IPA: [mɛn]

Alternative forms

  • (singular): mang (dialectal rendering, suggesting a Spanish accent), mans (slang), mon (slang, used in the vocative, in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England), mxn (rare, feminist)
  • (plural): mans (Multicultural London English, Toronto, nonstandard, proscribed), mens, man, mandem (Multicultural London English), mens (nonstandard, African-American Vernacular), mxn (rare, feminist), myn (very rare, chiefly humorous)
  • (interjection): maaan (elongated)

Noun

man (plural men)

  1. An adult male human.
    • The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.
  2. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
  3. A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)
    • every man for himself
  4. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
  5. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
  6. A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
  7. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
  8. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
  9. A husband.
  10. A male lover; a boyfriend.
  11. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
    • Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.
  12. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
    • I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.
  13. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
  14. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
  15. An adult male servant.
  16. (historical) A vassal; a subject.
    • Like master, like man.
      (old proverb)
    • all the king's men
  17. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
  18. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
    • Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!
  19. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
    • Hey, man, how's it goin'?
  20. (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.

Usage notes

  • The use of "man" (compare Old English: mann, wer, wīf) to mean both "human (of any gender)" and "adult male", which developed after Old English's distinct term for the latter (wer) fell out of use, has been criticized since at least the second half of the twentieth century. Critics claim that the use of "man", both alone and in compounds, to denote a human or any gender "is now often regarded as sexist or at best old-fashioned", "flatly discriminatory in that it slights or ignores the membership of women in the human race". The American Heritage Dictionary wrote that in 2004 75–79% of their usage panel still accepted sentences with generic man, and 86–87% accepted sentences with man-made. Some style guides recommend against generic "man", and "although some editors and writers reject or disregard […] objections to man as a generic, many now choose instead to use" human, human being or person instead.
    • This generic usage is still preserved in certain dialects, pidgins, and creoles of English, as well as fixed expressions and certain religious documents and declarations such as the Nicene Creed (e.g. "...for us men and our salvation..."). Consideration of this has sometimes led to accusations of the critics of the generic man as enforcing linguistic prescriptivism.
  • See also the man

Synonyms

  • (adult male human): omi (Polari); see more at man
  • (person): human, person, see more at person
  • (board game piece): see board game piece

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

  • See also English terms suffixed with -man

Descendants

See also descendants of -man.

  • Tok Pisin: man
  • → Cantonese: man (men1)
  • → Chinook Jargon: man
  • → Korean: 맨 (maen)
  • → Mandarin: man (mān)
  • → Spanish: man
  • → Thai: แมน (mɛɛn)
  • → Volapük: man

Translations

Adjective

man (not comparable)

  1. Only used in man enough

Interjection

man

  1. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.
    • Man, that was a great catch!

Translations

Pronoun

man

  1. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
  2. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) You; construed in the third person.
  3. (MLE, slang, indefinite personal pronoun) Any person, one

Usage notes

The usage of man as pronoun originally died out in the 15th century. It has independently reappeared in Multicultural London English. There it is most commonly used as a first person pronoun or as an indefinite personal pronoun, but uses in the second and third person are also attested.

Verb

man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)

  1. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
    • The ship was manned with a small crew.
  2. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
    • Man the machine guns!
  3. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
  5. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

Derived terms

Translations

Proper noun

man

  1. (computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Derived terms

Anagrams

man - Abinomn

Noun

man

  1. moon

man - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/

Noun

man (plural mans or manne, diminutive mannetjie)

  1. man
  2. husband

Usage notes

  • The normal plural in contemporary Afrikaans is mans. The form manne now usually refers to the members of a male group, such as a group of friends or a team or unit. Compare:
    • Vroue en mans moet gelyke regte hê. ― Women and men must have equal rights.
    • Die manne het goed gespeel vandag. ― The men played well today.

man - Albanian

Alternative forms

  • Tosk: mën
  • Gheg: mand, mandë

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/

Noun

man m (indefinite plural mana, definite singular mani, definite plural manat)

  1. mulberry, mulberry tree

Hyponyms

man - Aragonese

Noun

man f

  1. hand

man - Arigidi

Pronoun

man

  1. I, first person singular pronoun, as subject

man - Bagirmi

Noun

man

  1. water

man - Bariai

Noun

man

  1. bird

man - Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/

Adverb

man

  1. also

Particle

man

  1. used to abate or soften the impacts of negatives and commands
    • Dai man iyan ― It's nothing.

man - Bonggo

Noun

man

  1. bird

man - Caló

Pronoun

man

  1. Contraction of mangue (“I, me”).

man - Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈman/, [ˈman̪]

Particle

man

  1. gives information; could be omitted
    • (Person 1): Hain man si Pedro? (Person 2): Tua man 'to siya sa Carcar
      • (Person 1): Where is Pedro? (Person 2): He is/was there in Carcar
  2. contradicts a previous statement or presumption; usually with the particle ugod/gud
    • (Person 1): Hain man si Pedro? (Person 2): Tua siya sa Carcar (Person 3 responding to person 2): Tua man gud siya sa Cebu
      • (Person 1): Where is Pedro? (Person 2): He is in Carcar (Person 3): No, he's in Cebu
  3. makes a question not abrupt
    • Hain man si Pedro?
      • Where is Pedro? Could you tell me where Pedro is?

man - Chinese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): mān, mê̄n
    • (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢ, ㄇㄝㄣ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): men1

Adjective

man

  1. (informal) manly; masculine

man - Chinook Jargon

Noun

man

  1. man

Synonyms

Antonyms

Adjective

man

  1. male

Antonyms

man - Chuukese

Noun

man

  1. Alternative spelling of maan

man - Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Noun

man m (Tredici Comuni)

  1. man
  2. husband

man - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈman]
  • Hyphenation: man

Noun

man m anim (feminine manka)

  1. (historical) vassal, feoffee

Declension

singular plural
nominative man manové
genitive mana manů
dative manovi, manu manům
accusative mana many
vocative mane manové
locative manovi, manu manech
instrumental manem many

Derived terms

  • manský
  • manství

man - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maːˀn/, [mæˀn]

Noun

man c (singular definite manen, plural indefinite maner)

  1. (rare, used primarily by horse specialists) mane (longer hair growth on the back of the neck of a horse)

Declension

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative man manen maner manerne
genitive mans manens maners manernes

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/, [man]

Pronoun

man (accusative en or én, possessive ens or éns)

  1. you, one, they, people (a general, unspecified person)
  2. I (used modestly instead of the first-person pronoun)
  3. you (used derogatorily instead of the second-person pronoun)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maːˀn/, [ˈmæˀn]

Verb

man

  1. imperative of mane

man - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑn/ help
  • Hyphenation: man

Noun

man m (plural mannen or man or mans, diminutive mannetje n or manneke n or manneken n)

  1. man, human male, either adult or age-irrespective
    • De oude man en de zee.
      • The Old Man and the Sea
  2. husband, male spouse

Usage notes

  • The normal plural is mannen. The unchanged form man is used after numerals only; it refers to the size of a group rather than a number of individuals. For example: In totaal verloren er 5000 man hun leven in die slag. (“5000 men altogether lost their lives in that battle.”) The plural mans is dated, now mostly occurring in nautical contexts or in dialect.
  • Compound words with -man as their last component often take -lieden or -lui in the plural, rather than -mannen. For example: brandweerman (“firefighter”) → brandweerlieden (alongside brandweerlui and brandweermannen).
  • Various alternative diminutives exist, including manneke (used especially in Flanders) and the dialectal mannechie.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: man
  • Jersey Dutch: mān
  • Negerhollands: man
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: mani (dated)
  • → Caribbean Javanese: mang

Anagrams

man - Fala

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈman/

Noun

man f (plural mans or más)

  1. hand

man - Faroese

Verb

man

  1. first/third-person singular present of munna

Derived terms

  • tað man vera (so) - this may be (so)
  • tað man óivað vera beinari - this will doubtless be more correct

Pronoun

man

  1. (colloquial) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)

Synonyms

man - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑ̃/

Determiner

man n (singular, plural mes)

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) my
    • Man colocataire a fait son coming out non-binaire.
      • My roommate came out as non-binary.
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine
Possessor Singular First person mon1mames
Second person ton1tates
Third person son1sases
PluralFirst person notrenos
Second person votre2vos2
Third person leurleurs
  • 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
  • 2 Also used as the polite singular form.

man - Friulian

Noun

man m (plural mans)

  1. hand

man - Gaikundi

Noun

man

  1. foot

man - Galician

Alternative forms

  • mão (reintegrationist spelling, lusista)
  • mam (reintegrationist spelling)
  • mao (central and eastern Galicia)

Noun

man f (plural mans)

  1. hand
  2. (figurative) ownership; protection; power; grasp

Usage notes

  • Man is a false friend, and does not mean man. The Galician word for man is home.

Derived terms

man - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/
  • (Austria)
  • Homophone: Mann

Pronoun

man

  1. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)
    • Man kann nicht immer kriegen, was man will.
      • You can’t always get what you want.
    • Manchmal muss man Kompromisse machen.
      • Sometimes one must compromise.
  2. they, people (people in general)
    • Zumindest sagt man das so...
      • At least that’s what they say...
  3. someone, somebody (some unspecified person)
  4. they (some unspecified group of people)

Usage notes

  • Man is used in the nominative case only; for the oblique cases forms of the pronoun einer are used. For example: Man kann nicht immer tun, was einen glücklich macht. — One cannot always do what makes one happy.
  • Since man derives from the same source as Mann (“man; male”), its use is considered problematic by some feminists. They have proposed alternating man and the feminine neologism frau, or using the generic neologism mensch. This usage has gained some currency in feminist and left-wing publications, but remains rare otherwise.
  • In the sense of “someone,” man is often translated using the passive voice (“I was told that...” rather than “someone told me that...”).

Adverb

man

  1. (colloquial, regional, Northern Germany) just; only
    • Komm man hier rüber!
      • Just come over here!
    • Das sind man dreißig Stück oder so.
      • These are only thirty or so.

man - German Low German

Conjunction

man

  1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) only; but

Synonyms

  • (in various dialects) avers, awer (and many variations thereof; for which, see those entries)
  • (in some dialects) bloots

man - Gothic

Romanization

man

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌽

man - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/, [maːn]

Noun

man n (genitive singular mans, nominative plural mön)

  1. (obsolete, uncountable, collective) slaves
  2. (archaic, countable) a female slave
  3. (archaic or poetic, countable) maiden

Declension

n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative man manið mön mönin
accusative man manið mön mönin
dative mani maninu mönum mönunum
genitive mans mansins mana mananna

Synonyms

Derived terms

Noun

man n (genitive singular mans, no plural)

  1. the act of daring someone to do something; provocation, dare

Declension

n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative man manið
accusative man manið
dative mani maninu
genitive mans mansins

Noun

man n (indeclinable)

  1. (biblical, obsolete) manna

Synonyms

Verb

man

  1. first-person singular present indicative of muna; I remember
    • Ég man ekki.
      • I don't remember.
  2. third-person singular present indicative of muna; he/she/it remembers
    • Hann man hvað gerðist.
      • He remembers what happened.

man - Istriot

Noun

man m

  1. hand

man - Japanese

Romanization

man

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of マン

man - Kapampangan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈman/, [ˈmän]

Adverb

man

  1. although; even if; even though
    • Synonyms: mo, agyang pa
  2. also; too

Derived terms

  • nanuman
  • ninuman
  • sanuman
  • kaninuman
  • kapilanman
  • paman
  • nokarinman

man - Ladin

Noun

man f (plural mans)

  1. (Gherdëina, Badiot, Fascian) hand
    • Auzé la man ciancia.
      • To lift the left hand.
    • L ie na lëtra scrita a man.
      • It's a letter written by hand.
    • Dé na man
      • To give a hand (to help)

man - Latvian

Pronoun

man

  1. to me; dative singular form of es

man - Ligurian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [maŋ]

Noun

man f (plural moæn)

  1. hand

man - Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [man]

Pronoun

mán

  1. (first-person singular) dative form of aš.

man - Lombard

Alternative forms

  • ma, mà (Eastern orthographies)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maːn/, [maːŋ] (Western)
  • IPA: /maː/, [ma(ː)] (Eastern)

Noun

man f (plural man)

  1. hand

man - Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maːn/

Verb

man (third-person singular present meet, past participle gemat or gemeet, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (regional, southern dialects) Alternative form of maachen

man - Mandarin

Romanization

man

  1. Nonstandard spelling of mān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of mán.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of mǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of màn.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

man - Middle Dutch

Noun

man m

  1. human
  2. person
  3. man, male
  4. husband
  5. subordinate

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

- general:

  • manachtich
  • manatich
  • manbaer
  • manboete
  • manbrief
  • manbrugge
  • mancamer
  • mancosten
  • mandeel
  • mandelijc
  • mandelike
  • mandiet
  • maneet
  • manesse
  • mangedinge
  • mangelt
  • manheit
  • manhovet
  • manhuus
  • manleen
  • manlijc
  • manlike
  • mannenclooster
  • manordeel
  • manpat
  • manpersone
  • mansc
  • manscap
  • manscracht
  • mansgeboorte
  • mansgelient
  • manshalven
  • manslacht
  • manslijf
  • mansoene
  • mansoor
  • mansstat
  • mansstoel
  • manssurcoot
  • manswerde
  • mantale
  • mantrouwe
  • manvolc
  • manwaerheit

- persons:

  • ackerman
  • ambachtsman
  • amman
  • amtman
  • arman
  • beierman
  • beleitsman
  • belleman
  • besetman
  • blindeman
  • boomgaertman
  • borchman
  • bouman
  • bovenman
  • buurman
  • clockenman
  • cloosterman
  • cokenman
  • condsman
  • coolman
  • coopman
  • cornman
  • dadingesman
  • deelman
  • dienstman
  • dorpman
  • druutsman
  • edelman
  • eigenman
  • gelagesman
  • geleitsman
  • gemeentman
  • goetman
  • grietman
  • hancman
  • hantwercman
  • hartman
  • heidman
  • hofman
  • houtman
  • hovetman
  • humpelman
  • huurman
  • huusman
  • huwelijxman
  • iserman
  • joncman
  • keersman
  • kercman
  • kerstijnman
  • lantman
  • lasersman
  • ledichman
  • leecman
  • leenman
  • leitsman
  • lijcman
  • lochtincman
  • loosman
  • lootsman
  • maecsman
  • maelman
  • manbode
  • manboort
  • mansman
  • mansname
  • manwijf
  • mateman
  • medeman
  • meesterman
  • merseman
  • metselman
  • meyerman
  • molenman
  • moorman
  • muurman
  • naerman
  • naman
  • norman
  • offerman
  • operman
  • orlogesman
  • ouderman
  • outman
  • overman
  • pachtman
  • panneman
  • parreman
  • partiësman
  • pensman
  • ploechman
  • raetman
  • ridderman
  • rijcman
  • sacman
  • schaecman
  • schimman
  • schipman
  • schotman
  • schuteman
  • seeman
  • segsman
  • sledeman
  • soutman
  • speelman
  • stalman
  • statman
  • sterfman
  • stuerman
  • susterman
  • swertman
  • taelman
  • talicman
  • teelman
  • tijnsman
  • timmerman
  • tolman
  • torfman
  • tugesman
  • turcman
  • uteman
  • vaerman
  • vedelman
  • veenman
  • veerman
  • veilichsman
  • velleman
  • veltman
  • vindman
  • voerman
  • voetman
  • vogelman
  • vogetman
  • voreman
  • vrachtman
  • vrecman
  • vremtman
  • vroetman
  • waerman
  • waernsman
  • waerstman
  • wagenman
  • wantcoopman
  • warmoesman
  • wechman
  • wederman
  • wedman
  • weduwenman
  • weetman
  • wercman
  • wertman
  • wijngaertman
  • wijnman
  • wijsman
  • wildeman
  • wouterman

Descendants

man - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronoun

man

  1. Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite).

Derived terms

Noun

man

  1. Alternative form of mon (“man”)

Verb

man

  1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of mone (“shall”)

man - Miskito

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/

Pronoun

man

  1. (in the singular) you

man - Norman

Alternative forms

Noun

man f (plural mans)

  1. (France, anatomy) hand

Adjective

man (feminine ma)

  1. my (belonging to me)

Coordinate terms

  • tan (“your”)
  • san (“hers, his, its”)

man - North Frisian

Pronoun

man m (feminine min, neuter min, plural min)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) my

man - Northern Kurdish

Verb

man

  1. to stay
  2. to remain

man - Northern Sami

Pronoun

man

  1. accusative/genitive singular of mii

man - Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑn/
  • Homophone: mann

Pronoun

man

  1. you
  2. one
  3. they
  4. people

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑːn/

Noun

man f or m (definite singular mana or manen, indefinite plural maner, definite plural manene)

  1. a mane (of a horse)

man - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

man f (definite singular mana, indefinite plural maner, definite plural manene)

  1. mane (of a horse)

man - Occitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ma]

Noun

man f (plural mans)

  1. hand

man - Old Dutch

Noun

man m

  1. human, person
  2. man, male

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ambahtman
  • hōvitman
  • kōpman
  • kuriman
  • mālman
  • *manahēt
  • manawerk
  • manlīk
  • mertsiman
  • northman
  • seliman
  • skaraman
  • spilman
  • thienestman
  • werkman

Descendants

man - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑn/

Pronoun

man

  1. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)
  2. they, people (people in general)
  3. someone, somebody (some unspecified person)
  4. they (some unspecified group of people)
  5. often used where modern English would use the passive voice

Descendants

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑnn/, [mɑn]

Noun

man m

  1. Alternative form of mann

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑːn/

Noun

mān n

  1. crime, sin, wickedness

Derived terms

man - Old High German

Noun

man m

  1. man

Descendants

man - Old Norse

Noun

man n (genitive mans, plural mǫn)

  1. household, house-folk, bondslaves
  2. bondwoman, female slave
  3. woman, maid

Declension

neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative man manit mǫn mǫnin
accusative man manit mǫn mǫnin
dative mani maninu mǫnum mǫnunum
genitive mans mansins mana mananna

Derived terms

  • mankynni n pl
  • mansal n
  • mansmaðr m

Descendants

man - Old Occitan

Noun

man f (oblique plural mans, nominative singular man, nominative plural mans)

  1. hand (anatomy)

Descendants

man - Old Saxon

Noun

man m

  1. Alternative form of mann

man - Old Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈman/

Noun

man f (plural manes)

  1. morning

Synonyms

man - Papiamentu

Noun

man

  1. hand

man - Romani

Pronoun

man

  1. accusative of me

man - Sambali

Adverb

man

  1. also

man - Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/
  • Hyphenation: man

Conjunction

man

  1. but

Adverb

man

  1. but, just

Pronoun

man

  1. one, they
  • Mon (“man, husband”)

man - Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

man

  1. (Lewis) Alternative form of mar

Usage notes

  • Unlike mar, man does not lenite the following word.

man - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈman/ [ˈmãn]
  • Syllabification: man

Noun

man m (plural men)

  1. (Latin America, colloquial) man, guy, dude

man - Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/, /maŋ/

Noun

man

  1. man, male human
    • A man no ben man taki. ― The man could not speak.

Derived terms

Verb

man

  1. to be able to
    • A man no ben man taki. ― The man could not speak.

Synonyms

man - Sumerian

Romanization

man

  1. Romanization of 𒎙 (man)

man - Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/

Noun

man m

  1. man (adult male human)
    • En man går på gatan.
      • A man walks on the street.
    • Ungefär hundra män deltog i loppet.
      • Around one hundred men took part in the race.
    • I äldre tider sa man att björnen ägde sju mans styrka men en mans vett.
      • In older times, they said the bear has the strength of seven men but the sense of one man.
  2. husband
    • Vi går till caféet med våra män.
      • We go to the café with our husbands.
  3. a member of a crew, workforce or (military) troop
    • Vi var sjuttio man som slet i gruvan.
      • We were seventy men who toiled in the mine.
  4. (slang, in the definite "mannen") man (usually friendly term of address)
    • Jalla, mannen! ― Hurry up, man!

Usage notes

(adult male human): The unchanged plural man is sometimes used after numerals. It means "men" as a measure for size or strength of a group rather than individuals:

    • Med tre man kan vi lyfta byrån ― With three people we can lift the cupboard
  • Military or police personnel, team members, demonstrators and the like are often counted using this unchanged plural. The same goes with German and Dutch where Mann and man can have an unchanged plural form in this particular case.

(husband): Not used in other contexts, where it could be confused with a man in general.

Declension

Declension of man 1, 2, 3
Declension of man 3

Derived terms

Pronoun

man c

  1. (indefinite) one, they; people in general
    • Vad man kan se
      • What one can see

Usage notes

Does not sound formal the way English one might when substituted for you. Usually the only option in cases where both you and one might be used in English, as Swedish du (“you”) and ni (“you (plural)”) read more like "you, specifically."

Declension

See sv-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmɑːn/

Noun

man c

  1. mane (of a horse or lion)

Declension

Declension of man 

Anagrams

man - Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈman/, [ˈman]

Adverb

man

  1. although; even if; even though
  2. also

Derived terms

man - Tarpia

Noun

man

  1. bird

man - Tok Pisin

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Noun

man

  1. man (adult male human)

Adjective

man

  1. male

Antonyms

Derived terms

man - Torres Strait Creole

Noun

man

  1. husband
  2. a married man
  3. any man

man - Venetian

Noun

man f (invariable)

  1. hand

man - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Adjective

man

  1. (only in compounds) dishonest; false; untruthful

Derived terms

Noun

man

  1. (derogatory, chiefly in compounds) a savage; barbarian

Derived terms

Numeral

man

  1. (archaic) ten thousand; myriad
    • một man ― ten thousand

Derived terms

Anagrams

man - Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [man]

Noun

man (nominative plural mans)

  1. man (adult male human)

Declension

singular plural
nominative man mans
genitive mana manas
dative mane manes
accusative mani manis
vocative 1 o man! o mans!
predicative 2 manu manus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

  • dolafulaman
  • lüodaman
  • manadigöf
  • manafied
  • manageilot
  • manageilotik
  • manajit
  • manaklot
  • manaklotem
  • manalien (tribütabima)
  • manalunot
  • manamod
  • manamodo
  • mananam
  • mananäm
  • manapenät
  • manapörträt
  • mandragoramanil
  • manef
  • manik
  • manil
  • manisasen
  • man maleditilik
  • manüp
  • man vönädaleguda
  • miligaman
  • pödaman
  • pösod manik
  • visoman
  • vöd manik

man - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /man/

Noun

man m or f (plural mannau or mannoedd)

  1. place; location

Noun

man m (plural mannau or mannoedd, diminutive mannyn or mennyn)

  1. speck; blemish
  2. stain
  3. distinguishing mark
  4. birthmark; mole
  5. pimple; spot
  6. (heraldry) mascle

Noun

man m

  1. (uncommon) manna

Mutation

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

man - West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɔn/

Noun

man c (plural manlju or mannen, diminutive mantsje)

  1. man
    • Coordinate term: frou
  2. husband
    • Coordinate term: frou

man - Wik-Mungkan

Noun

man

  1. neck

Derived terms

  • man awal
  • man ngaat
  • man poonchal

man - Wolof

Pronoun

man

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

man - Yola

Noun

man (plural mannes)

  1. man
  2. husband

man - Zealandic

Noun

man m (plural mannen)

  1. man
  2. husband
Meaning and Definition of man
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