men

From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.

A group of men sitting together.

• IPA^(key): /mɛn/,

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /mɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: min

men

1. plural of man
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0105:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

2. (collective) (The) people, humanity.
3. (collective, military) enlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:men.

• man among men
• menkind
• menfolk

• mennish

men

1. A command

men

1. softer form of fakkun (“very”)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). Compare Turkish ben (“I”).

men (plural biz, possessive adjective menim)

1. (personal) I (first-person singular)

From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą (“damage, hurt, injustice, sin”).

• IPA^(key): /meːn/, [meːˀn]

men or mén n or c (singular definite menet or menen, plural indefinite men, plural definite menene)

1. injury

Same origin as Old Norse meðan (“while”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛn/, [mɛn]

men

1. but
2. (as a noun) but, catch, hitch, snag

   Jeg kan høre, der er et men.

• IPA^(key): /mɛn/, /mə(n)/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

From Middle Dutch men, an unstressed variety of man (“man”). Accordingly, originally pronounced with [ə]; now predominantly with a full vowel [ɛ], especially in those areas where the word is chiefly literary. Compare German man, Middle English men (indefinite pronoun).

men

1. (indefinite, subject) One, you, they, everyone; humanity, (the) people, the public opinion

   Men zegt dat... ― People say that.... It is said that...

   Men weet nooit wat er gaat gebeuren. ― You never know what’s going to happen.

• When not used as a subject, men must be replaced with je (“you”) or sometimes ze (“them”).
• The word as such is very common in Limburg and some other areas, where it is part of the local dialects. Elsewhere it is not downright rare but perceived as formal and predominantly replaced with je and ze even as a subject (similarly to English one).

• iemand
• niemand

See the etymology of the main entry.

men

1. first-person singular present indicative of mennen
2. imperative of mennen

• IPA^(key): [meːn] (noun)
• IPA^(key): [mɛnː] (conjunction)

  Homophone: menn

men f (genitive singular menar, plural menir or menar)

1. (rare, Mykines) The spinal cord

• (common) møna

men

1. but

From French main (“hand”). 

• IPA^(key): /mɜ̃/

men

1. hand

From French mais (“but”).

• IPA^(key): /mɜ̃/

men

1. but

From Old Norse men, from Proto-Germanic *manją. Compare Old English mene.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːn/
• Rhymes: -ɛːn

men n (genitive singular mens, nominative plural men)

1. necklace, especially one with a pendant

• hálsmen (“pendant necklace”)

men

1. Apocopic form of meno

men

1. Rōmaji transcription of めん

From French main (“hand”)

men

1. hand

men

1. water
2. river

• Edgar Buenaventura, Observaciones preliminares acerca del idioma macaguán: Apuntes culturales, fonología, apuntes gramaticales, vocabulário macaguán – español (1993)

men (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄣ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 們, 们
2. Nonstandard spelling of mēn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mén.
4. Nonstandard spelling of měn.
5. Nonstandard spelling of mèn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

An unstressed variety of man.

men

1. someone
2. one, they, you, people; impersonal pronoun.

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: men
• Limburgish: me

• “men”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “men (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English man.

men

1. Alternative form of man

• “men (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

From Old English menn, plural of mann, from Proto-Germanic *manniz, plural of *mann-.

men

1. plural of mon

Via Swedish and Danish men, same origin as Old Norse meðan (“while”).

men

1. But, however; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
2. though
3. only

   Han er en fin kar, men han snakker litt for mye. – He is a nice guy, but he talks a bit too much.

From Old Norse mein.

• mein

men

1. damage; injury (also mén)
2. permanent disability
3. difficulty; drawback

men

1. imperative of mene

• IPA^(key): /mɛnː/
• Homophone: menn

Via Swedish and Danish men, same origin as Old Norse meðan (“while”).

men

1. but, however; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
2. though
3. only

From men.

men n (definite singular menet, uncountable)

1. difficulty

• “men” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

men

1. my

men

1. mine

• me

From Proto-Germanic *manją. Cognate with Old English mene.

men n (genitive mens, plural men)

1. necklace

• Brísingamen

men

1. to want

men (plural menti)

1. (chiefly in the plural) water

• James Frederick Schön, James Frederick Schön, Sherbro Vocabulary (1839), page 24

men m pl

1. plural of man

From Old Swedish men, from Middle Low German men, man (“but, only”), probably from Old Saxon niwan; possibly under the influence of Old Swedish men (“while, during”) (modern Swedish medan, medans, mens). Cognate with modern Low German man.

• IPA^(key): /mɛn/

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men

1. but; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
2. yet, but, however

   John har bott i staden i fem år, men aldrig besökt slottet.

   John has lived in the city for five years, yet never visited the castle.

From Old Norse mein, like Icelandic mein, Norwegian mein, Old Saxon mēn, Old English mān; cognate with Icelandic meinn (“which causes injury”), Old English mǣne (“evil, deceptive”, adj), Lithuanian maĭnas (“change”, noun), Proto-Slavic *měna (“change”, noun); from the Proto-Indo-European root *mei- (“to switch”).

• IPA^(key): /meːn/

men n

1. a handicap, long-time remnant of a physical or mental injury, which affects a person negatively

• menlös

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). Compare Turkish ben (“I”).

men

1. (personal) I

men

1. Latin (ULY) transcription of مەن‎ (men)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

men

1. (personal) I

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɛn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɛŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɛŋ˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *-mɛːn.

men (𥽔, 𥾃)

1. yeast
2. (biochemistry) enzyme
3. alcohol (in terms of its euphorigenic or intoxicating effects)

men

1. enamel

men

1. to approach, to go along

men

1. man (male or female), human, human being

• cil (“child”)
• himen (“male human”)
• jimen (“female human”)