em
Sentences
Meaning
- in; inside; within (contained by)
- on; on top of (located just above the surface of)
- in; at (located in a location)
- in (part of; a member of)
- in; into; inside (towards the inside of)
- indicates the target of an action
- in (pertaining to the particular thing)
- in (immediately after a period of time)
- in; during (within a period of time)
- at; in (in a state of)
- in (indicates means, medium, format, genre or instrumentality)
- in (indicates a language, script, tone etc. of writing, speaking etc.)
- in (wearing)
- (slang) indicates that the object deserves a given punishment
- (formal, literary) used in a gerundial or participial clause to emphasize its conditional or temporal meaning
Concepts
at the rate of
in the case of
near to
skim over
Synonyms
junto de
no interior
na superfície de
acerca de
por cima de
a por
à razão de
no meio de
em companhia de
próximo a
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽj̃/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese en, from Latin in (“in”), from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”). Doublet of in.
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