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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
in the first place
- (sequence, idiomatic) to begin with; earlier; firstly; originally; at the start,
- The question is not whether I still enjoy the job, when I never enjoyed it in the first place.
- (idiomatic) at all, even (typically in non-negated statements)
- Why does this exist in the first place?
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Translations
to begin with
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: նախ (hy) (nax)
- Aromanian: ntãnj, ntãnjiu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 首先 (zh) (shǒuxiān), 本來／本来 (zh) (běnlái), 原本 (zh) (yuánběn), 起初 (zh) (qǐchū), 當初／当初 (zh) (dāngchū)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: allereerst (nl), in de eerste plaats
- Finnish: alkujaan (fi), alun perin (fi); aluksi (fi)
- French: en premier lieu (fr), pour commencer (fr), avant tout (fr)
- Galician: primeiramente, primeiro (gl), en primeiro lugar
- German: erstens (de), an erster Stelle, überhaupt erst
- Greek: πρώτα πρώτα (próta próta), κατά κύριο λόγο (katá kýrio lógo), καταρχήν (el) (katarchín)
- Hebrew: מלכתחילה (he) (mil’khatchíla)
- Hungarian: (to begin with) eleve (hu), (first of all) először is, (above all) elsősorban (hu)
- Irish: ó thús, ó thosach
- Italian: per prima cosa
- Japanese: そもそも (ja) (somosomo), 先ず以て (まずもって, mazumotte), 最初に (ja) (さいしょに, saisho-ni)
- Korean: 애초에 (aecho'e), 처음부터 (cheo'eumbuteo)
- Latin: prīmum (la)
- Navajo: łáaʼii góneʼ
- Polish: w pierwszej kolejności (pl)
- Portuguese: para começo de conversa
- Russian: в пе́рвую о́чередь (ru) (v pérvuju óčeredʹ), пре́жде всего́ (ru) (préžde vsevó), пе́рвым де́лом (pérvym délom), снача́ла (ru) (snačála), (informal) сперва́ (ru) (spervá), (informal) в пе́рвую го́лову (ru) (v pérvuju gólovu)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: v prvom rade, za prvé, po prvé, už vôbec nie, vonkoncom nie, a predovšetkým
- Spanish: en primer lugar, para empezar, de entrada (es), primero (es)
- Swedish: från (första) början
- Thai: ตั้งแต่แรก, ก่อนอื่น
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