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eben

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See also: ében, ëben, and Eben

English

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Adjective

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eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.

Adverb

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eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin ebenus. Doublet of banús.

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    Noun

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    eben m (plural ébens)

    1. ebony (tree, wood, color)
      Synonym: banús

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    Czech

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    Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Borrowed from Latin ebenus.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): [ˈɛbɛn]
      • Hyphenation: e‧ben

      Noun

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      eben m inan

      1. ebony (tree, wood, color)

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      German

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      Etymology

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      The adjective is from Middle High German eben, from Old High German eban, the adverb from ebano; from Proto-West Germanic *ebn, from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz and its adverb equivalent. Cognate with Low German even, Dutch even, effen, English even, Danish jævn.

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      eben (strong nominative masculine singular ebener or ebner, comparative ebener or ebner, superlative am ebensten)

      1. flat, smooth, even (of a surface)

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      Adverb

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      eben

      1. (modal particle) just, simply, indicating that something is generally known or cannot be changed, and is therefore to be accepted; often equivalent to a shrug
        Synonym: halt
        Er ist eben ein Idiot...
        He's an idiot, that's just how he is...
        Dann müssen wir eben härter arbeiten.
        Then we'll just have to work harder.
      2. (modal particle) just, quickly, indicating that something is done fast or without much complication
        Synonym: kurz
        Ich geh mal eben zur Theke.
        I'll just go to the bar.
        Könnten Sie mir vielleicht eben helfen?
        Could you maybe help me out really quickly?
      3. just; a moment ago
        Wo ist denn dein Mann? Der saß doch eben noch hier.
        Where's your husband? He was sitting here just a minute ago.
      4. (rare) even
        Und du kannst mir sagen, wie gut (oder schlecht eben...) es ist.
        And you can tell me how good (or even how bad...) it is.
      5. (literary, with a demonstrative determiner or pronoun) exactly, very
        Synonym: genau
        Es sollte eben diese Entscheidung sein, die ihn in den Bankrott treiben würde.
        It would be this very decision that drove him into bankruptcy.

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      Interjection

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      eben

      1. exactly; used to express agreement with an argument while not having needed convincing
        • 1996 August 3, Steffen Offermann, “gcc /LINUX-Problem”, in maus.lang.c[1] (Usenet):
          [ES> Professionelle Anwendungen interessieren sich heute eigentlich kaum noch fuer die zur Verfuegung stehende Rechenleistung.]
          Eben. Und das ist es, was ich allem voran bemaengele.
          [ES> Professional applications honestly hardly even care about the available computing power anymore, nowadays.]
          Exactly. And that is what I criticize most of all.

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      Hungarian

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      Etymology

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      eb (dog) +‎ -en (on)

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      • IPA(key): [ˈɛbɛn]
      • Hyphenation: eben

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      eben

      1. superessive singular of eb

      Romanian

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from French ébène, from Latin ebenus.

      Noun

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      eben n (uncountable)

      1. ebony

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      singular only indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative eben ebenul
      genitive-dative eben ebenului
      vocative ebenule

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      Etymology

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      From Latin ebenum, from ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj,

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      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /eben/, [ˈeben]
      • Rhymes: -eben
      • Hyphenation: e‧ben

      Noun

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      eben m inan (relational adjective ebenový)

      1. ebony (tree, wood, color)
        Synonym: čerň

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      Declension of eben
      (pattern dub)
      singularplural
      nominativeebenebeny
      genitiveebenuebenov
      dativeebenuebenom
      accusativeebenebeny
      locativeebeneebenoch
      instrumentalebenomebenmi

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      Turkish

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      Noun

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      eben

      1. second-person singular possessive of ebe
      eben
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