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English
Etymology
From Middle English in-to, from Old English intō, equivalent to in + to. Cognate with Scots intae.
Pronunciation
- (stressed)
- (unstressed, before consonants) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.tə/
- (unstressed, before vowels) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.tʊ/
- Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɪntə
- Hyphenation: in‧to
Preposition
into
- 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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2:He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1-0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
- To or towards the region of.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The eagle flew off into the wide blue sky.
- Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree.
I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall.
- 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!
2002, Matt Cyr, Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Educa Vision, Inc., →ISBN, page 25:His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless.
- Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
A cow's stomach is divided into four chambers.
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:" […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably." And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- (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.
2021 August 13, Gayle, Sara Davis, David Pittenger, “abcdefu”, in A Study of the Human Experience Volume One, performed by Gayle:I was into you, but I'm over it now / And I was trying to be nice / But nothing's getting through, so let me spell it out […]
- (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?
- (Britain, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.
Five into three is fifteen.
- Investigating the subject (of).
There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.
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Translations
going inside
- Albanian: për në
- Arabic: دَاخِل (dāḵil)
- Egyptian Arabic: جوا (gówwa)
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- Belarusian: у (u), ў (ŭ), да (da)
- Catalan: en (ca)
- Czech: do (cs)
- Danish: ind i
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- Esperanto: en (eo) (+ accusative)
- Estonian: sisse, -sse
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: use illative case
- French: dans (fr), à l’intérieur de, au milieu de (fr), parmi (fr)
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- 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
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- Irish: isteach i
- Italian: in (it), verso (it), andando verso
- Kazakh: ішінге (ışıñe)
- Khmer: ក្នុង (km) (knong)
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- Latin: in (la) (+ accusative)
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- Malagasy: ao anatin'ny
- Malay: ke dalam
- Maore Comorian: moni mwa
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- 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, intae
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- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: do
- Spanish: a dentro de, dentro (es)
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- 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)
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- Vietnamese: vào (vi), vào trong
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- Võro: sisse
- Votic: illative case, süäme
- Welsh: i mewn i
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going to a geographic region
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- Arabic: فِي (ar) (fī)
- Egyptian Arabic: في (fe)
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- Finnish: use illative or sometimes allative case
- French: dans (fr), en (fr)
- German: in (de), gen (de)
- Greek: periphrastically
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- Irish: isteach go
- Italian: verso (it)
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- Malay: ke dalam
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- Polish: do (pl)
- Portuguese: até (pt)
- Russian: в (ru) (v), на (ru) (na)
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- Votic: illative case
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against, with force
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- Arabic: فِي (ar) (fī)
- Egyptian Arabic: في (fe)
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- Finnish: päin (fi), use illative case
- French: dans (fr)
- German: gegen (de), in (de) (if deformable)
- Greek: periphrastically
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- Irish: isteach i
- Italian: contro (it)
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- Polish: w (pl)
- Portuguese: em (pt)
- Russian: в (ru) (v)
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- Swedish: in i
- Turkish: karşı (tr)
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- Votic: illative case
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producing, becoming
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- Arabic: إِلَّى (ar) (ʔillā)
- Egyptian Arabic: لـ (le)
- Catalan: en (ca)
- Czech: v (cs)
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- Finnish: use illative or translative case
- French: en (fr)
- German: in (de)
- Greek: periphrastically
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- Hungarian: -vá (hu), -vé (hu)
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- Irish: i
- Italian: in (it)
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- Maori: hei
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- Polish: w (pl), na (pl)
- Portuguese: em (pt)
- Russian: в (ru) (v) (+ accusative case)
- Spanish: en (es)
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- Swedish: till (sv)
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- Votic: illative case
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after the start of
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- Finnish: (time, genitive +) alusta, (time, genitive +) alkamisesta
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- German: nach Beginn (or/and genitive)
- Greek: periphrastically
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- Irish: i rith
- Italian: di (it)
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- Polish: po rozpoczęciu (with genitive)
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- Swedish: in i
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colloquial: intensely interested in
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- Czech: do (cs)
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- Finnish: innostunut (fi) (+ elative), kiinnostunut (fi) (+ elative)
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- German: für (de)
- Greek: periphrastically
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- Hebrew: בעניין
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- Irish: tugtha do
- Italian: appassionato (it) m di (it), interessato (it) m a (it)
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- Polish: zainteresowany (pl)
- Portuguese: afim (pt)
- Russian: увлечён m (uvlečón)
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taking distinct arguments to distinct values
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- Czech: do (cs)
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- Finnish: use illative case
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- German: auf (de)
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- Italian: in (it)
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- Polish: razy (pl)
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- Russian: на (ru) (na) (+ accusative case)
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expressing the operation of division
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- Finnish: use illative case
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- German: in (de)
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- Polish: dzielony przez
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investigating the subject
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- Finnish: -sta (fi), -stä (fi) (elative case)
- French: à propos de (fr)
- German: nach (de), hinsichtlich (de)
- Greek: periphrastically
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- Irish: faoi
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References
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Proto-Finnic *inta + -o (compare dialectal inta, Estonian ind, Livonian ind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic (compare Old Swedish inna (“achievement, accomplishment”)).
Alternatively, a Uralic origin has been proposed. Compare Komi-Zyrian ӧд (öd, “speed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
into
- eagerness, enthusiasm
- odottaa innolla (+ partitive) ― to look forward to
- passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
- 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
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Ligurian
Etymology
Contraction of inte (“in”) + o m sg (“the”, definite article).
Pronunciation
Contraction
into
- in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)
1984, “Sinàn Capudàn Pascià”, in Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), Crêuza de mä [Muletrack by the sea], performed by Fabrizio De André:Into mêzo do mâ gh'è 'n péscio tondo / che, quando o vedde e brutte, o va 'nscio fondo- In the middle of the sea is a round fish, that goes to the bottom when things turn ugly
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Middle English
Preposition
into
- Alternative spelling of in-to
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin intus.
Pronunciation
Preposition
into
- in (surrounded by)
Old English
Etymology
in + tō
Pronunciation
Preposition
intō
- into
Descendants
Southern Ndebele
Noun
întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)
- thing
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Xhosa
Pronunciation
Noun
íntó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)
- thing
Inflection
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Yemsa
Noun
into
- mother
References
- David Appleyard, Beja as a Cushitic language, in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl (Yem into "mother")
Zulu
Etymology
From in- + -tha (“to name, to choose”) + -o. Compare with a similar derivation in Swahili jambo.
Pronunciation
Noun
întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)
- thing
Inflection
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