already

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɔːlˈɹɛdi/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ɑlˈɹɛdi/
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• /ɔlˈɹɛdi/ without the cot–caught merger
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• rhymes with -ɛdi
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• CMU ARPABET: AO0 L R EH1 D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: AO0 R EH1 D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English alredy (“fully; already”), equivalent to al- (“all, completely”) + ready. Cognate with West Frisian alreeds (“already”), Dutch alreeds (“already”), Afrikaans alreeds (“already”), Middle Low German alreide, alreids ("already"; whence modern German Low German alreeds (“already”)), Danish allerede (“already”), Swedish allaredan (“already”), Norwegian Nynorsk allereie (“already”). More at all, ready. The use as an intensifier in American English is a semantic loan from Yiddish שוין (shoyn), attested from 1903. In Singapore English, the use of already as a marker of action completion and change of state is analogous to Hokkien 了 (liáu), Teochew 了 (liao2) and Mandarin 了 (le). Compare Malay (su)dah and Cantonese 咗 (zo2), 喇 (laa3).

192 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: tashmë — prior to some time
• Arabic: قَد (qad) — prior to some time
• Arabic: مِنْ قَبْلُ (min qablu) — prior to some time
• Arabic: خلاص (ḵalāṣ) — prior to some time
• Arabic: قبل كده (ʔabl keda) — prior to some time
• Arabic: أوردي (orridi) — prior to some time
• Arabic: قِد (gid) — prior to some time
• Arabic: قِيد (gīd) — prior to some time
• Arabic: مِن قبِل (min ʔábil) — prior to some time
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܒ݂ܲܪ (kḇar) — prior to some time
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܕܠܵܐ (ˁadlā) — prior to some time
• Armenian: արդեն (arden) — prior to some time
• Asturian: yá — prior to some time
• Azerbaijani: artıq — prior to some time
• Basque: dagoeneko — prior to some time
• Basque: jadanik — prior to some time
• Belarusian: ужо́ (užó) — prior to some time
• Belarusian: ўжо (wžo) — prior to some time
• Bengali: ইতোমধ্যে (itōmoddhe) — prior to some time
• Bulgarian: ве́че (véče) — prior to some time
• Burmese: ပြီးပြီ (pri:pri) — prior to some time
• Catalan: ja — prior to some time
• Cherokee: ᎦᏳᎳ (gayula) — prior to some time
• Chinese Cantonese: 已經 /已经 (ji5 ging1) — prior to some time
• Chinese: кәҗя (kəjia) — prior to some time
• Eastern Min Chinese: 捌曾 (báik-cèng) — prior to some time
• Chinese Mandarin: 已經 /已经 (yǐjīng) — prior to some time
• Chinese Mandarin: 已经 (yǐjing) — prior to some time
• Chinese Mandarin: 已 (yǐ) — prior to some time
• Chinese Mandarin: 都 (dōu) — prior to some time
• Chinese Mandarin: 早已 (zǎoyǐ) — prior to some time
• Cornish: seulabrys — prior to some time
• Czech: už — prior to some time
• Czech: již — prior to some time
• Danish: allerede — prior to some time
• Dutch: al — prior to some time
• Dutch: reeds — prior to some time
• Dutch: alreeds — prior to some time
• Esperanto: jam — prior to some time
• Estonian: juba — prior to some time
• Ewe: xoxo — prior to some time
• Faroese: longu — prior to some time
• Finnish: jo — prior to some time
• Finnish: valmiiksi — prior to some time
• French: déjà — prior to some time
• West-Frisian: al — prior to some time
• West-Frisian: alree — prior to some time
• Friulian: za — prior to some time
• Friulian: bielzà — prior to some time
• Friulian: dizà — prior to some time
• Galician: xa — prior to some time
• Georgian: უკვე (uḳve) — prior to some time
• German: bereits — prior to some time
• German: schon — prior to some time
• German: scho — prior to some time
• Greek: ήδη (ídi) — prior to some time
• Ancient Greek: ἤδη (ḗdē) — prior to some time
• Hebrew: כְּבָר (k'var) — prior to some time
• Hindi: पहले ही (pahle hī) — prior to some time
• Hindi: पहले से (pahle se) — prior to some time
• White Hmong: twb — prior to some time
• Hungarian: már — prior to some time
• Icelandic: þegar — prior to some time
• Ido: ja — prior to some time
• Indonesian: sudah — prior to some time
• Ingrian: jo — prior to some time
• Interlingua: jam — prior to some time
• Irish: cheana — prior to some time
• Italian: già — prior to some time
• Japanese: 既に (súde ni) — prior to some time
• Japanese: もう (mō) — prior to some time
• Japanese: もはや (mohaya) — prior to some time
• Japanese: とっくに (tokku ni) — prior to some time
• Kazakh: әлдеқашан (äldeqaşan) — prior to some time
• Khasi: lypa — prior to some time
• Khmer: ហើយ (haǝy) — prior to some time
• Khmer: រួចហើយ (ruəc haǝy) — prior to some time
• Korean: 벌써 (beolsseo) — prior to some time
• Lao: ແລ້ວ (lǣu) — prior to some time
• Latin: iam — prior to some time
• Latvian: jau — prior to some time
• Lithuanian: jau — prior to some time
• Lü: ᧟ (l̇aew) — prior to some time
• Macedonian: веќе (veḱe) — prior to some time
• Malay: sudah — prior to some time
• Maltese: diġà — prior to some time
• Manchu: ᡝᠮᡤᡝᡵᡳ (emgeri) — prior to some time
• Manchu: ᠠᡳᡶᡳᠨᡳ (aifini) — prior to some time
• Mongolian: хэдийнээ (xediinee) — prior to some time
• Mongolian: аль хэдийн (alʹ xediin) — prior to some time
• Mongolian: хэзээний (xezeenii) — prior to some time
• Nahuatl: ye — prior to some time
• Norwegian: allerede — prior to some time
• Nupe: aní — prior to some time
• Occitan: ja — prior to some time
• Old English: ǣr — prior to some time
• Persian: قبلاً (qablan) — prior to some time
• Persian: اینک (inak) — prior to some time
• Pipil: -ya — prior to some time
• Pipil: -a — prior to some time
• Polabian: al — prior to some time
• Polish: już — prior to some time
• Portuguese: já — prior to some time
• Quechua: ña — prior to some time
• Romanian: deja — prior to some time
• Russian: уже́ (užé) — prior to some time
• Russian: ра́ньше (ránʹše) — prior to some time
• Russian: ра́нее (ráneje) — prior to some time
• Northern Sami: juo — prior to some time
• Sardinian: ge — prior to some time
• Sardinian: za — prior to some time
• Scots: a'ready — prior to some time
• Scottish Gaelic: cheana — prior to some time
• Scottish Gaelic: mu thràth — prior to some time
• Scottish Gaelic: mar thà — prior to some time
• Serbo-Croatian: већ — prior to some time
• Serbo-Croatian: već — prior to some time
• Sicilian: già — prior to some time
• Slovak: už — prior to some time
• Slovene: žé — prior to some time
• Lower Sorbian: južo — prior to some time
• Spanish: ya — prior to some time
• Swedish: redan — prior to some time
• Swedish: allaredan — prior to some time
• Tajik: аллакай (allakay) — prior to some time
• Tajik: кайҳо (kayho) — prior to some time
• Tajik: қаблан (qablan) — prior to some time
• Thai: แล้ว (lɛ́ɛo) — prior to some time
• Tinrin: wai — prior to some time
• Turkish: zaten — prior to some time
• Turkish: çoktan — prior to some time
• Turkmen: eýýäm — prior to some time
• Ukrainian: уже́ (užé) — prior to some time
• Ukrainian: вже́ (vžé) — prior to some time
• Ukrainian: раніше (raniše) — prior to some time
• Uzbek: allaqachon — prior to some time
• Uzbek: zotan — prior to some time
• Venetan: xà — prior to some time
• Venetan: zà — prior to some time
• Vietnamese: rồi — prior to some time
• Vietnamese: đã — prior to some time
• Welsh: eisoes — prior to some time
• Yiddish: שוין (shoyn) — prior to some time
• Zhuang: gaenq — prior to some time
• Arabic: لقد — so soon
• Catalan: ja — so soon
• Dutch: al — so soon
• Dutch: nu al — so soon
• Finnish: jo — so soon
• French: déjà — so soon
• Galician: xa — so soon
• German: schon — so soon
• Greek: κιόλας (kiólas) — so soon
• Greek: ήδη (ídi) — so soon
• Hungarian: már — so soon
• Italian: già — so soon
• Italian: di già — so soon
• Japanese: こんなに早く (konnani hayaku) — so soon
• Persian: به این زودی (be in zudi) — so soon
• Portuguese: já — so soon
• Russian: уже (uže) — so soon
• Northern Sami: juo — so soon
• Slovak: už — so soon
• Spanish: ya — so soon
• Catalan: ja — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Finnish: jo — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• French: à la fin — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• French: enfin — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Galician: xa — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• German: schon — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• German: endlich — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Greek: επιτέλους (epitélous) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Greek: πιά (piá) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Hebrew: כְּבָר (kvár) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Hungarian: már — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Ingrian: jo — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Italian: una buona volta — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Japanese: もう (mō) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Khmer: ហើយ (haəy) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Pannonian Rusyn: уж раз (už raz) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Persian: دیگه (dige) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Persian: دیگر (digar) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Portuguese: de uma vez — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Romanian: odată — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Slovak: okamžite — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Slovak: hneď — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Slovak: už — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Spanish: ya — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Tagalog: na — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Turkish: artık — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Vietnamese: rồi — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation
• Yiddish: שוין (shoyn) — intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation