ans

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ans"

Translingual

Symbol

ans

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Anserma terms

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈænz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ans

1. plural of an

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• ans.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːns/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

ans

1. Abbreviation of answer.

Verb

ans

1. Abbreviation of answer.
   • 1979 February 3, Billy Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 14:

     GWM, release July 79, would like to hear from sincere gays. I will ans all letters.

Anagrams

• -san, NAS, NAs, NSA, SAN, SAn, SNA, San, san

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• oans (West Central Bavarian)

Etymology

From the numeral aans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˑns/, [ɑːns]

Pronoun

ans n

1. one

See also

Declension of a

	m	n	f
nominative	a (determiner) ana (pronoun)	a (determiner) ans (pronoun)	a (determiner) ane (pronoun)
accusative	an
dative	am		ana

• a (“a”, article)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈans]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adverb

ans

1. (formal) before, in a previous time

   Synonym: abans

   Ans teníem terres i ens guanyàvem bé la vida. ― We used to have land and made a good living.

Conjunction

ans

1. (formal) but rather, but

   Synonym: sinó que

   No m'ho va explicar, ans jo era allà quan va succeir. ― He didn't explain it to me, since I was there when it happened.

   I no permeteu que nosaltres caiguem en la temptació, ans deslliureu-nos de qualsevol mal. ― And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

   ans el contrari ― on the contrary

Further reading

• “ans”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ans”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ans” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ans” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Noun

ans

1. plural of an