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See also: ében, ëben, and Eben

English

Adjective

eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)

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

Adverb

eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)

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

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ebenus. Doublet of banús.

Pronunciation

Noun

eben m (plural ébens)

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

Derived terms

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Czech

Etymology

From Latin ebenus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

eben m inan

  1. ebony (tree, wood, color)

Declension

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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

  • IPA(key): /eːbən/, [ˈeːbən], [ˈeːbm̩]
  • (nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈeːbənt/, [ˈeː(b)m̩t]
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːbən

Adjective

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

Adverb

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.

Derived terms

Interjection

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 (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

Etymology

eb (dog) + -en (on)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

eben

  1. superessive singular of eb

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ébène, from Latin ebenus.

Noun

eben n (uncountable)

  1. ebony

Declension

More information singular only, indefinite ...

Turkish

Noun

eben

  1. second-person singular possessive of ebe

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