Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
eben
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
English
Adjective
eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)
- Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.
Adverb
eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)
- Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
eben m (plural ébens)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “eben”, 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
- “eben”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “eben” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “eben” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Remove ads
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
eben m inan
- ebony (tree, wood, color)
Declension
Declension of eben (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “eben”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “eben”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “eben”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz
- “eben”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Adjective
eben (strong nominative masculine singular ebener or ebner, comparative ebener or ebner, superlative am ebensten)
Declension
Positive forms of eben
Comparative forms of eben
Superlative forms of eben
Derived terms
Related terms
Adverb
eben
- (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.
- (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?
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
Derived terms
Interjection
eben
- 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 (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.
- [ES> Professional applications honestly hardly even care about the available computing power anymore, nowadays.]
Further reading
- “eben (flach, glatt)” in Duden online
- “eben (genau, gerade)” in Duden online
- “eben (soeben, vorhin, schnell)” in Duden online
- “eben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Remove ads
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
eben
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
eben n (uncountable)
Declension
Turkish
Noun
eben
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads