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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch ander Middle Dutch ander, from Old Dutch andar, from Proto-West Germanic *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ander (attributive andere, not comparable)
- other
Het die ander kok dit ook gemaak?- Did the other cook also make that?
As ek hierdie speelding maak, sal ek nie die ander een kan maak nie.- If I make this toy I won't be able to make the other one.
Ons kan dit in 'n ander manier doen.- We can do this another way.
- different
Ons het vir haar gevra hoekom sy nie hierdie kat wou hê nie, maar sy was doodstil op 'n ander een.- We asked her why she didn't want this cat, but she was dead-set on a different one.
Aristoteles het anders gesterf as wat die meeste mense dink.- Aristotle died differently than most people think.
Ek respekteer nie mense wat anders as ek dink nie.- I don't respect people who think differently to me.
- (archaic) second
Derived terms
Pronoun
ander
- another, another person, someone else
Behandel ander soos jy behandel wil word.- Treat others as you want to be treated.
Cebuano
Etymology
From English under, from Old English under, from Proto-Germanic *under (whence also German unter, Dutch onder, Danish and Norwegian under), from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *n̥dʰér (“under”) and *n̥tér (“inside”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ander
- henpecked
- uxorious
- submissive
Verb
ander
- to domineer
- to intimidate
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- anger (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects)
- anner (chiefly Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Middle High German ander, from Old High German andar.
The form is non-native in Central Franconian and borrowed from standard German anderer in those eastern and central Ripuarian dialects that often replace their inherited -ng- with -nd-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ander (masculine andere, feminine ander)
- (some dialects of Ripuarian) other
- (some dialects of Ripuarian) different
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ander, from Old Dutch andar, from Proto-West Germanic *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ander (not comparable)
- other
Kun je me een ander boek aanraden?- Can you recommend me another book?
De kat speelde met het ene speeltje en negeerde het andere speeltje.- The cat played with one toy and ignored the other toy.
Er zijn veel manieren om dit probleem op een andere manier op te lossen.- There are many ways to solve this problem in a different manner.
- different
Ze koos een ander restaurant voor het diner.- She chose a different restaurant for dinner.
De twee schilderijen zijn van dezelfde kunstenaar, maar ze hebben een andere stijl.- The two paintings are by the same artist, but they have a different style.
Het nieuwe ontwerp ziet er anders uit dan het vorige.- The new design looks different from the previous one.
- (archaic) second
Inflection
Note: The predicative/adverbial form is anders, identical to the partitive form.
Derived terms
Descendants
Pronoun
ander m (plural anderen)
- another, another person, someone else
Wat gij niet wilt dat u geschiedt, doe dat ook een ander niet.- What you don't want to happen to you, don't do it to another either.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
See anderer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔandər/, , (most of Germany, some of Austria)
- IPA(key): /ˈʔandər/, , , (Switzerland, some of Austria)
Adjective
ander (strong nominative masculine singular anderer, not comparable)
- See anderer.
- (obsolete) the second
- 1581, Ein new Kochbuch / Das ist Ein grundtliche beschreibung (printed in Frankfurt am Main):
Nun folgen vier Bancket der Edel-leut […] der erste Gang […] Der ander Gang […] der dritt Gang […] Ende deß ersten Banckets der Edelleut / zum Frümahl / am Fleischtag.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
This form is no longer used outside of compounds such as anderweitig and fixed expressions such as ein ander Mal ("another time").
Declension
Positive forms of ander (uncomparable)
Related terms
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch andar, from Proto-West Germanic *anþar.
Adjective
ander
- second
- other
- (nominalised) another, someone else, others
- further, more
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Armenian անտեր (anter).
Adjective
ander
- (dialectal) ownerless; unattended
References
- “ander”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տէր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 403a
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 706, page 141
Vilamovian
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German andar.
Adjective
ander
- other, different
- second