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• ŏv
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɒv/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /ɔv/
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• ŭv
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• rhymes with -ʌv
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• US: /ʌv/
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• US: [ɐv~ʌv~əv]
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• ŏf
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• homophone: off
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• South-Asia: /ɔf/
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• əv
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• Western: /əv/
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• Western: /ə/ before a consonant
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• homophone: 've (unstressed of only, postconsonantal 've only)
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• homophone: a stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
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• əf
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• South-Asia: /əf/
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• South-Asia: /ə/ before a consonant
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English of From Middle English of, from Old English of (“from, out of, off”), an unstressed form of æf, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away; away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2epó (“away”). Doublet of off, which is the stressed descendant of the same Old English word. More at off.

A spelling of /əv/ influenced by Etymology 1.

399 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مِنْ (min) — containing, comprising or made from
• Belizean Creole: a — containing, comprising or made from
• Bulgarian: от (ot) — containing, comprising or made from
• Catalan: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Chinese Mandarin: 的 — containing, comprising or made from
• Cornish: a — containing, comprising or made from
• Czech: z — containing, comprising or made from
• Dutch: van — containing, comprising or made from
• Esperanto: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Esperanto: da — containing, comprising or made from
• Esperanto: el — containing, comprising or made from
• French: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Friulian: di — containing, comprising or made from
• German: aus — containing, comprising or made from
• Greek: από (apó) — containing, comprising or made from
• Ido: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Ido: ek — containing, comprising or made from
• Interlingua: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Irish: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Italian: di — containing, comprising or made from
• Japanese: の中の (no naka no) — containing, comprising or made from
• Japanese: の (no) — containing, comprising or made from
• Kapampangan: king — containing, comprising or made from
• Kapampangan: ning — containing, comprising or made from
• Khmer: នៃ (ney) — containing, comprising or made from
• Ladin: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Latin: ex — containing, comprising or made from
• Latin: dē — containing, comprising or made from
• Maltese: ta’ — containing, comprising or made from
• Mirandese: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Norwegian Bokmål: av — containing, comprising or made from
• Norwegian Bokmål: med — containing, comprising or made from
• Norwegian Nynorsk: av — containing, comprising or made from
• Norwegian Nynorsk: med — containing, comprising or made from
• Occitan: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Pashto: د (də) — containing, comprising or made from
• Polish: z — containing, comprising or made from
• Portuguese: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Romanian: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Romansh: da — containing, comprising or made from
• Russian: из (iz) — containing, comprising or made from
• Scots: o — containing, comprising or made from
• Slovak: z — containing, comprising or made from
• Spanish: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Swahili: -a — containing, comprising or made from
• Swedish: av — containing, comprising or made from
• Tamil: N/A. Alternatives: நிறைய (niṟaiya) — containing, comprising or made from
• Tamil: கொண்ட (koṇṭa) — containing, comprising or made from
• Tamil: -ஆல் ஆன (-āl āṉa) — containing, comprising or made from
• Tok Pisin: bilong — containing, comprising or made from
• Ukrainian: з (z) — containing, comprising or made from
• Venetan: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Vietnamese: bằng — containing, comprising or made from
• Volapük: de — containing, comprising or made from
• Yiddish: פֿון (fun) — containing, comprising or made from
• Zazaki: ya (diq) — containing, comprising or made from
• Zazaki: yê — containing, comprising or made from
• Afrikaans: van — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: ل (li-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: لدى (ladā) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chadian Arabic: هنا (hana-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: بتاع (bitāʕ-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: مال (māl-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: حَقّ (hagg-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: ديال (dyāl-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: إلـ (ʔil-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: لإلـ (laʔil-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: تبع (tabaʕ-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: تاع (tāʕ-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: إلـ (ʔil-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: لإلـ (laʔil-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: تبع (tabaʕ) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Arabic: تاع (tāʕ) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tunisian Arabic: مْتاع (mtēʕ-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Aramaic: דְּ (də) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Assamese: ...ৰ (...r) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Bislama: blong — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Bulgarian: на (na) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Burmese: ရဲ့ (rai.) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Catalan: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Cebuano: sa — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chinese Cantonese: ...嘅 (...ge3) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chinese Cantonese: 個 /个 (go3) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chinese: ди (di) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Eastern Min Chinese: ...其 (...gì) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chinese: ...個 /...个 (zh-min-nan) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Literary Chinese: 之 (zhī) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chinese Mandarin: ...的 (...de) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Chinese Mandarin: ...之 (...zhī) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Czech: z — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Czech: ze — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Danish: af — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Dutch: van — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Egyptian: n (nj) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Esperanto: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• French: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• West-Frisian: fan — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Galician: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• German: von — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Hebrew: שֶׁל (shel) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Higaonon: sa — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Hindi: ... का (... kā) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Hindi: -ए- (-e-) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Ido: di — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Indonesian: rumah Andi — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Indonesian: Andi’s house — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Interlingua: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Italian: di — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Japanese: ...の — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kapampangan: naning — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kapampangan: nang — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kapampangan: ning — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kapampangan: a — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kapampangan: dareng — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kapampangan: dang — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Khmer: នៃ (ney) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Khmer: របស់ (raboh) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Kongo: ya — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Korean: ...의 (...ui) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Ladino: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Lao: ຂອງ (khǭng) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Latin: dē — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Lingala: ya — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Macedonian: на (na) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: ta’ — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tal- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: taċ- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tad- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tan- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tar- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tas- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tat- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: tax- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: taz- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Maltese: taż- — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Manchu: ᡳ (i) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Māori: o — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Māori: a — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Mirandese: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Mpade: sɨ — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Mpade: ɨl — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Mpade: i — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Neapolitan: 'e — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Norwegian Bokmål: av — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Norwegian Bokmål: til — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Norwegian Bokmål: -s — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: av — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: til — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: -s — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Occitan: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Pashto: د (də) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Portuguese: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Rapa Nui: o — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Rapa Nui: a — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Romanian: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Romansh: da — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Romansh: dad — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Russian: -ов (-ov) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Russian: -ев (-ev) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Russian: -ёв (-jóv) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Russian: -ин (-in) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Russian: -ын (-yn) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Scots: o — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Scottish Gaelic: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Serbo-Croatian: od — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Slovak: -ov — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Slovak: -in — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Slovene: z dne — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Spanish: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Swahili: -a — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Swedish: -s — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Swedish: av — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Sylheti: ...ꠞ (...r) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tagalog: ng — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tagalog: ni — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tamil: -இன் (-iṉ) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tamil: -உடைய (-uṭaiya) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Thai: ของ (kɔ̌ɔng) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tibetan: གི (gi) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Tok Pisin: bilong — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Turkish: -in — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Turkish: -ın — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Turkish: -ün — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Turkish: -un — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Urdu: ... کا (... kā) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Urdu: izāfa — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Venetan: de — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Vietnamese: của — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Yiddish: פֿון (fun) — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Zazaki: yê — possessive genitive: belonging to
• Armenian: մասին (masin) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Bulgarian: за (za) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Catalan: de — introducing topic or subject matter
• Dutch: over — introducing topic or subject matter
• Dutch: aan — introducing topic or subject matter
• Dutch: van — introducing topic or subject matter
• Esperanto: pri — introducing topic or subject matter
• French: de — introducing topic or subject matter
• French: quant à — introducing topic or subject matter
• German: von — introducing topic or subject matter
• German: über — introducing topic or subject matter
• Ido: pri — introducing topic or subject matter
• Italian: di — introducing topic or subject matter
• Kazakh: туралы (turaly) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Kazakh: жөнінде (jönınde) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Latin: dē — introducing topic or subject matter
• Polish: o — introducing topic or subject matter
• Polish: na temat — introducing topic or subject matter
• Portuguese: de — introducing topic or subject matter
• Portuguese: sobre — introducing topic or subject matter
• Portuguese: em — introducing topic or subject matter
• Portuguese: a respeito de — introducing topic or subject matter
• Romansh: da — introducing topic or subject matter
• Russian: о (o) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Russian: об (ob) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Russian: про (pro) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Russian: насчёт (nasčót) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Spanish: de — introducing topic or subject matter
• Spanish: en cuanto a — introducing topic or subject matter
• Spanish: acerca de — introducing topic or subject matter
• Swedish: på — introducing topic or subject matter
• Swedish: om — introducing topic or subject matter
• Tamil: varies. பற்றி (paṟṟi) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Tatar: турында (turında) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Tatar: хакында (xaqında) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Ukrainian: про (pro) — introducing topic or subject matter
• Venetan: de — introducing topic or subject matter
• Vietnamese: về — introducing topic or subject matter
• Volapük: dö — introducing topic or subject matter
• Catalan: de — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Cornish: a — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Dutch: van — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Esperanto: de — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Esperanto: el — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• French: de — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• German: der — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Hebrew: מ־ (mi-) — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Interlingua: de — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Irish: de — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Japanese: ...の — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Korean: ...의 (...ui) — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Latin: ex — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Latin: dē — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Norwegian Bokmål: av — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Norwegian Nynorsk: av — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Pashto: د (də) — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Polish: z — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Russian: из (iz) — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Scots: o — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Spanish: de — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Swedish: -s — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Swedish: av — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Tok Pisin: pela — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Ukrainian: з (z) — connecting numeral or quantifier with quantified
• Chinese Mandarin: ...的 (...de) — subjective genitive: connecting action noun with subject
• French: de — subjective genitive: connecting action noun with subject
• Spanish: de — subjective genitive: connecting action noun with subject
• Tamil: -இன் (-iṉ) — subjective genitive: connecting action noun with subject
• Afrikaans: van — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Catalan: de — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Cimbrian: vo — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Dutch: van — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Egyptian: n — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Esperanto: de — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• French: de — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• German: von — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Hebrew: שֶׁל (shel) — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Ido: di — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Interlingua: de — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Interlingua: a — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Italian: di — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Italian: per — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Italian: verso — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Japanese: ...の — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Kapampangan: ning — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Kapampangan: a — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Korean: ...의 (...ui) — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Norwegian Bokmål: av — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Norwegian Nynorsk: av — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Portuguese: de — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Romansh: da — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Spanish: de — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Swedish: -s — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Swedish: av — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Swedish: av — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Tamil: varies. — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Tok Pisin: bilong — objective genitive: connecting action noun with object
• Afrikaans: van — introducing an epithet
• Aklanon: it — introducing an epithet
• Albanian: i — introducing an epithet
• Catalan: de — introducing an epithet
• Cebuano: sa — introducing an epithet
• Czech: z — introducing an epithet
• Danish: af — introducing an epithet
• Dutch: van — introducing an epithet
• Esperanto: de — introducing an epithet
• French: de — introducing an epithet
• West-Frisian: fan — introducing an epithet
• Galician: de — introducing an epithet
• German: von — introducing an epithet
• Central Franconian: von — introducing an epithet
• Hiligaynon: sang — introducing an epithet
• Ido: de — introducing an epithet
• Ilocano: ti — introducing an epithet
• Indonesian: dari — introducing an epithet
• Irish: an — introducing an epithet
• Italian: di — introducing an epithet
• Javanese: saka — introducing an epithet
• Kapampangan: naning — introducing an epithet
• Kashubian: z — introducing an epithet
• Luxembourgish: vun — introducing an epithet
• Malay: dari — introducing an epithet
• Norwegian: av — introducing an epithet
• Occitan: de — introducing an epithet
• Polish: z — introducing an epithet
• Portuguese: de — introducing an epithet
• Romanian: de — introducing an epithet
• Romansh: da — introducing an epithet
• Sardinian: de — introducing an epithet
• Slovak: z — introducing an epithet
• Spanish: de — introducing an epithet
• Swahili: wa — introducing an epithet
• Swedish: av — introducing an epithet
• Tagalog: ng — introducing an epithet
• Tamil: -இன் (-iṉ) — introducing an epithet
• Tamil: -ஐ சேர்ந்த (-ai cērnta) — introducing an epithet
• Thai: แห่ง (hɛ̀ng) — introducing an epithet
• Venetan: de — introducing an epithet
• Vietnamese: nước — introducing an epithet
• Vietnamese: thành — introducing an epithet
• Vietnamese: xứ — introducing an epithet
• Vietnamese: của — introducing an epithet
• Walloon: di — introducing an epithet
• Waray-Waray: han — introducing an epithet
• Welsh: o — introducing an epithet
• Dutch: -s--e--en- — linking class with example of class
• Esperanto: de — linking class with example of class
• French: de — linking class with example of class
• Ido: di — linking class with example of class
• Interlingua: de — linking class with example of class
• Irish: not expressed — linking class with example of class
• Italian: di — linking class with example of class
• Japanese: ...の — linking class with example of class
• Khmer: នៃ (ney) — linking class with example of class
• Korean: ...의 (...ui) — linking class with example of class
• Latin: in classical Latin — linking class with example of class
• Latin: in medieval Latin — linking class with example of class
• Pashto: د (də) — linking class with example of class
• Portuguese: de — linking class with example of class
• Romansh: da — linking class with example of class
• Slovak: z — linking class with example of class
• Spanish: de — linking class with example of class
• Swedish: på — linking class with example of class
• Tok Pisin: bilong — linking class with example of class
• Chinese Mandarin: 的 (de) — indicative of age
• Dutch: van — indicative of age
• Esperanto: de — indicative of age
• Estonian: -aastane — indicative of age
• Estonian: -kuune — indicative of age
• Estonian: -nädalane — indicative of age
• Estonian: -päevane — indicative of age
• Finnish: -vuotias — indicative of age
• Finnish: -kuinen — indicative of age
• Finnish: -viikkoinen — indicative of age
• Finnish: -päiväinen — indicative of age
• French: de — indicative of age
• Hebrew: בן (ben) — indicative of age
• Interlingua: de — indicative of age
• Japanese: 歳の (sai no) — indicative of age
• Latin: nātus — indicative of age
• Pashto: د (də) — indicative of age
• Portuguese: de — indicative of age
• Romansh: da — indicative of age
• Spanish: de — indicative of age
• Tamil: N — indicative of age
• Tamil: A — indicative of age
• Venetan: de — indicative of age
• Vietnamese: có — indicative of age
• Danish: i — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Dutch: voor — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Esperanto: antaŭ — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Estonian: enne — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Estonian: -st puudu — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Finnish: vaille — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• French: moins — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• German: vor — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Greek: παρά (pará) — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Hebrew: ל־ (l'-) — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Interlingua: ante — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Japanese: の前 (no mae) — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Kapampangan: a — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Kazakh: -ға/ге <ширек — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Kazakh: он минут ж.б.с.> қалды/бар — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Khmer: ដល់ (dɑl) — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Korean: 전 (jeon) — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Portuguese: para — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Spanish: menos — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Swedish: i — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)
• Ukrainian: до (do) — (to tell the time) before, to, e.g. a quarter of three (2:45)