ab

Meaning

Prep

beginning at that time or location; from

Adj

1. (colloquial,indeclinable,predicative) off; not attached to anything anymore
2. (attributive,indeclinable,nonstandard,predicative) off; not attached to anything anymore

Concepts

from

off

since

for

forward

as from

afar

away

far

forth

yonder

ex

as of

hereafter

on and after

thereafter

now

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ap/

Etymology

From Middle High German abe, ab, from Old High German ab, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab.

Sentences

Ab diesem Jahr lebte er erneut in London .

From this year on, he lived in London again.

Sie wissen wie ich ganz genau , dass ab Frühjahr nächsten Jahres nichts mehr passiert .

You know as well as I do that nothing will happen after spring next year.

Kurz vor Ende der Aufnahmen brannte das Studio ab .

Shortly before the end of the recording, the studio burned down.

Aber ab Mitternacht ist Schicht im Schacht .

But from midnight onwards, there is a shift in the shaft.

Und ab dieser Stelle habe ich wieder eine Erinnerungslücke .

And from this point on, I have a memory gap again.

Ab ins Trainingslager!

To go training.

Den Rechtspositivismus lehnte er ab .

He rejected legal positivism.

Alfred Rosenberg und sein Kreis lehnten ihn ab .

Alfred Rosenberg and his circle rejected him.