als

Abbreviation of English Albanian Tosk.

als

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tosk Albanian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tosk Albanian terms

als

1. plural of al

From Middle English als, variant of alse, alsa, also, from Old English eallswā, from Proto-West Germanic *allswā. More at also.

als (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of also.

• -sal, -sal-, ASL, LAs, LSA, SAL, SLA, Sal, a/s/l, asl, las, sal, sal-

Contraction of a (“to, at”) els (“the (masculine plural)”)

als

1. to the, at the, toward the (masculine plural)

• (Standard Cornish) âls

From Proto-Brythonic *alt, from Proto-Celtic *altos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el-.

Cognate with Welsh allt, Breton aod, Irish alt, Latin altus, Old High German alt.

• IPA^(key): /ɒlz/, /ælz/

als f (plural alsyow)

1. (Standard Written Form) cliff

• (colloquial form in the Netherlands) as

From Middle Dutch alse, an unstressed form of also (modern alzo). The sense “whether” is possibly a semantic loan from Sranan Tongo efu (“if, when; if, whether”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ(l)s/, [ɑ(ɫ)s]

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• Hyphenation: als
• Rhymes: -ɑls

als

1. (subordinating) if, when

   Synonym: indien

   Als je die knop indrukt, gaat de computer uit. ― If you push that button, the computer will turn off.

2. when, as soon as

   Synonym: wanneer

   Als het regent worden alle daken nat. ― When it rains all the roofs get wet.

3. as though, as if
   • 1997, Acda en De Munnik, “Als het vuur gedoofd is”, in Acda en De Munnik:

     Dinsdagochtend op een grindpad / Het weekend geweest / Men maakt zich op / Voor de wandeling / Als ging men naar een feest

     Tuesday morning on a gravel path / The weekend is gone / The people are getting ready / For the walk / As though they were going to a party

   • 2002 October 3, “Yin & Yang”, in Algemeen Dagblad‎^[1], Rotterdam:

     Met een glimlach bedankte de moeder nogmaals hun redder, die onbevreesd en ijzig kalm, als was hij de Dalai Lama zelve, in de metro zat die weer langzaam in beweging kwam.

     With a smile, the mother once again thanked their rescuer, who sat fearlessly and calmly, as though he were the Dalai Lama himself, in the metro that slowly started moving again.

4. (Suriname, proscribed in the Netherlands) if, whether

   Synonym: of

   • 1978 November 4, “"CRUDEN IS EEN SLECHT ADVISEUR" ZEGT EENDRACHT ["CRUDEN IS A BAD ADVISOR" SAYS EENDRACHT]”, in Vrije Stem: onafhankelijk weekblad voor Suriname‎^[2], page 6:

     Ik weet niet als de heer Ramon Cruden de Minister van Arbeid werkelijk zal kunnen adviseren

     I don't know whether Mr Ramon Cruden will be truly able to advise the Minister of Labour

   • 2021 April 29, Wilfred Leeuwin, “Einde in zicht in geruchtmakende strafzaak Centrale Bank [End in sight in controversial Central Bank criminal case]”, in De Ware Tijd‎^[3], retrieved 2 May 2021:

     Het document is in opdracht van het OM samengesteld om aan te tonen als de gesloten contracten tussen de CBvS en het Belgische bedrijf Clairfield rechtmatig zijn, als de bedragen die contractueel zijn afgedwongen gangbaar zijn naar internationale maatstaven en als de verdachten wel of geen financieel voordeel hebben gehad aan deze deals.

     The document was commissioned by the prosecution to determine whether the contracts concluded between the Central Bank of Suriname and the Belgian company Clairfield were lawful, whether the sums enforced in the contracts were customary by international standards and whether or not the suspects benefited financially from these deals.

als

1. like, as [with nominative]

   Hij huilde als een kind. ― He cried like a baby.

2. even ... als: as ... as [with nominative]

   Hij is even groot als ik. ― He is as tall as me.

3. (nonstandard) than [with nominative]

   Synonym: dan

   Hij is groter als jij. ― He is bigger than you.

• Afrikaans: as, als
• Berbice Creole Dutch: asi
• Javindo: als
• Jersey Dutch: ās
• Negerhollands: a, es, as
• Petjo: als
• Skepi Creole Dutch: as

"Als" must be followed by S-O-V word order. For if/then statements, V-S-O word inversion must be used in the following clause whether the superfluous "dan" is included or not.

• la's, las, sla

From Middle High German alles, from Old High German also, alsō (“as, like”); equivalent to all + so. Compare English as.

• IPA^(key): /als/, [als]

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• Rhymes: -als, -alts
• Homophone: Alls

als

1. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment, when, while, as

   Synonyms: (now rare in isolation) da, (obsolete) weil

   Near-synonyms: während, dieweil, (now rare) indem

   Als er ankam, öffnete sie die Tür. ― When he arrived, she opened the door.

   Als wir jung waren, spielten wir im Wald. ― We played in the forest when we were young.

2. (used with a comparison or as an exception) than

   Synonyms: denn, weder, (proscribed) wie

   Zwei ist größer als eins. ― Two is greater than one.

   Die Kopie sieht anders aus als das Original. ― The copy looks different from the original.

   Er sagt nichts anderes als die Wahrheit. ― He tells nothing other than the truth.

3. (nonstandard after the 19th century) To the same degree that, as (distinguished from the aforementioned use in that comparison was between equals)

   Synonym: (standard) wie

   • 1837 January 7, Friedrich Hebbel, Tagebücher, An Emil Rousseau in Heidelberg – München:

     Wir sind immer so klein, als unser Glück, aber auch so groß, als unser Schmerz.

     We are always as small as our luck but so great as our pain is.

4. as; like; in the function of; in the form of

   Als Polizist muss ich es tun. ― As a policeman, I must do it.

   Wir sind Feinde, aber im Moment müssen wir uns als Freunde verhalten. ― We are enemies, but for now we must act like friends.

   Sie verkleidete sich als Krankenschwester, um das Krankenhaus zu betreten. ― She disguised herself as a nurse to enter the hospital.

5. as if

   Synonyms: als wenn, wie wenn, als ob (but these all have opposite verb position)

   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 100:

     Es war als rängen beständig zwei Mächte um sie, als würde sie wehrlos von ihnen hin und her gerissen.

     It was as if two powers struggled over her continuously, as if she were torn to and fro by them defenselessly.

6. (after negative pronoun) but, other than

   Synonyms: es sei denn, außer, mit Ausnahme (von), wie

   • 1918, Meinrad Lienert, Zürcher Sagen:

     Doch die zwei Königstöchter Hildegard und Berta gewahrten nichts als den weissen Hirsch […].

     But the two princesses Hildegard and Berta saw nothing but the white hart.

• Als in the sense of “than” does not govern case. The case of the standard of comparison depends on its syntactic function:

Sie liebt das Kind mehr als ihr Mann. (nominative)

She loves the child more than her husband does.

Sie liebt das Kind mehr als ihren Mann. (accusative)

She loves the child more than she loves her husband.

• Als in the sense of “as, like” is claimed by some traditional grammars to require the nominative case: Er verkleidet sich als spanischer Stierkämpfer. (“He dresses himself up as a Spanish bullfighter.”) This may indeed be the most common usage in reflexive constructions, such as in the example given (although als spanischen Stierkämpfer is acceptable). The mechanical use of the nominative, however, is often ungrammatical by any standards of common usage: Sie kannte ihn schon als jungen Mann (“She knew him already as a young man”; the nominative als *junger Mann would be odd and indeed would suggest the meaning that she knew him when she was a young man). Thus, the same general rule applies as given above.
• Als in the sense of “as” vs. “than” is retained in derived constructions other than the simile: You see the conjunctions als ob, als wenn, and with inverted syntax als, and als following after sowohl, much commoner than wie though this be impeccable. By the same token, als referring to time of occurrence can be replaced by wie at least in the colloquials. This means that probably all senses can be replaced by wie, save the meaning “in the function of”, in which wie would be incomprehensible.

• “als” in Duden online
• “als” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

als

1. romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐍃

From Middle High German alles, from Old High German also, alsō (“as, like”). Compare German als.

• IPA^(key): /als/

als

1. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment; when; while; as

   Alst-du dort geschaff host

   When you worked there

2. as; like

   Schwarzebeere sin aach als Schabutikaave gekennd.

   Jaboticabas are also known as jaboticabas.

• wie

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

als

1. indefinite genitive singular of alur

From Middle High German als, from Old High German alsō, equivalent to all + esou.

• IPA^(key): [ɑl(t)s]

als

1. as

   Hatt schafft als Polizistin an engem klengen Duerf.

   She works as a policewoman in a little village.

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als

1. contraction of a los

• as, aulx, aus, aux

• IPA^(key): /als/

als

1. contraction of a les (“to the”)

als

1. indefinite genitive singular of al

• sal