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English
Pronunciation
Adverb
all along
- (duration, idiomatic) For the entire time; always.
He thought he had me fooled, but I knew the truth all along.
Translations
for the entire time
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 始終／始终 (zh) (shǐzhōng), 一直 (zh) (yīzhí)
- Dutch: allang (nl)
- Esperanto: ekde la komenco
- Finnish: koko ajan (fi), kaiken aikaa
- French: dès le départ, depuis le début
- Georgian: თავიდანვე (tavidanve)
- German: die ganze Zeit, schon immer, von Anfang an (de)
- Greek: ανέκαθεν (el) (anékathen), εξ αρχής (ex archís), πάντα (el) (pánta)
- Indonesian: selama ini
- Italian: fin dall'inizio, da sempre
- Japanese: ずっと (ja) (zutto)
- Polish: od samego początku, przez cały czas
- Portuguese: desde o começo, o tempo todo
- Romanian: în tot acest timp
- Russian: всё вре́мя (vsjo vrémja), с са́мого нача́ла (s sámovo načála)
- Slovak: vždy, odvždy, odjakživa, od začiatku, po celý čas
- Spanish: todo el tiempo, desde el inicio
- Swedish: hela tiden (sv)
- Ukrainian: увесь цей час (uvesʹ cej čas), весь час (vesʹ čas)
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Preposition
all along
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, along.
All along the beach, people were lounging on orange chairs. Why orange?