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Pronunciation
Conjunction
as long as
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, long.
- These meetings can last as long as three hours.
- It took three times as long as I expected (= three times longer than I did).
- (idiomatic) Provided that, if, assuming (depending upon some condition or requirement).
I don't mind if he stays there, as long as he cleans up after himself when he's done.
- (idiomatic) While, Since
As long as you're here, you may as well help me with the garden.
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Translations
if, assuming
- Afrikaans: solank (af)
- Arabic: مَا دَامَ (mā dāma), مَا (ar) (mā)
- Catalan: sempre que
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 只要 (zh) (zhǐyào)
- Czech: jestliže (cs), pokud (cs)
- Dutch: mits (nl)
- Finnish: kunhan
- French: pour peu que (fr), du moment que (fr), pourvu que (fr)
- Georgian: მანამ (manam)
- German: solange (de)
- Greek: εφόσον (el) (efóson)
- Ancient Greek: ἐὰν μόνον (eàn mónon)
- Hebrew: כל עוד (kol 'od)
- Hungarian: ha (hu), hogyha (hu), amennyiben (hu)
- Icelandic: að því tilskildu að
- Indonesian: selama (id)
- Irish: chomh fada is
- Italian: purché (it), ammesso che, a patto che, a condizione che (it)
- Japanese: ...限り (ja) (...かぎり, ...kagiri)
- Kankanaey: basta, mo ket
- Latin: tamdiū quam
- Low German:
- German Low German: solang
- Macedonian: сѐ додека (sè dodeka), доколку (dokolku)
- Polish: o ile (pl)
- Portuguese: se (pt), contanto que (pt), desde que
- Russian: е́сли (ru) (jésli), е́сли то́лько (jésli tólʹko)
- Slovak: pokiaľ
- Spanish: siempre y cuando (es), con tal que, con tal de que, siempre que
- Swedish: förutsatt att
- Tagalog: basta
- Thai: ตราบใดที่
- Vietnamese: miễn (vi)
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while
- Afrikaans: solank (af)
- Belarusian: паку́ль (pakúlʹ)
- Catalan: mentre (ca), tant que
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: ...的時候 / ...的时候 (zh) (...de shíhou), 當 / 当 (zh) (dāng)
- Czech: zatímco (cs), dokud (cs)
- Dutch: zolang (nl)
- Esperanto: tiel longe kiel
- Finnish: niin kauan kuin
- French: pendant que (fr), tant que (fr), tandis que (fr)
- Georgian: სადამდეც (sadamdec)
- German: solange (de), während (de)
- Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴 (þandē)
- Greek: όσο (el) (óso)
- Hebrew: כל עוד (kol od)
- Hungarian: amíg (hu), ameddig (hu), míg (hu)
- Icelandic: á meðan (is)
- Irish: chomh fada is
- Italian: mentre (it)
- Japanese: ...間に (ja) (...あいだに, ...aida ni), ...時に (ja) (...ときに, ...toki ni)
- Korean: 하는 동안 (haneun dong'an)
- Latin: dōnec (la), quamdiū, quoad (la)
- Low German:
- German Low German: solang, wieldes, wielt, dewiel, wieldat, wiel dat, amangs, indes, wiel, inwiel, indem
- Norwegian: medan (no) (Nynorsk), mens (no) (Bokmål)
- Old English: swa lange swa
- Polish: dopóki (pl), skoro (pl)
- Portuguese: enquanto (pt)
- Romanian: în timp ce
- Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), поку́да (ru) (pokúda), до тех по́р пока́ (do tex pór poká), в то вре́мя как (ru) (v to vrémja kak)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: док
- Roman: dok (sh)
- Slovak: keďže
- Spanish: mientras (es)
- Swedish: medan (sv)
- Ukrainian: по́ки (póky)
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