eks

See also: eks-, Eks, Eks., and əks

Danish

Etymology

From eks- (ekskæreste etc.).

Noun

eks

1. (informal) ex

Declension

Declension of eks

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eks	eksen	ekser	ekserne
genitive	ekss	eksens	eksers	eksernes

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeks/, [ˈe̞ks̠]
• Rhymes: -eks
• Syllabification^(key): eks
• Hyphenation^(key): eks

Verb

eks

1. (dialectal, colloquial) Reduced form of etkös

   Synonyms: (standard) etkö, (colloquial, dialectal) ekkö, et, etsä, eksää

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛks/, [ɛks]

Etymology 1

Noun

èks (plural eks-eks)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch ex-, from French ex-, from Latin ex-.

Adjective

èks (comparative lebih eks, superlative paling eks)

1. former; ex-

   Synonyms: bekas, mantan

Further reading

• “eks”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛks
• Syllabification: eks
• Homophone: eks-

Noun

eks m pers or f (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) ex (ex-partner)

   Synonyms: była f, były m

Further reading

• eks in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• eks in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Probably from Latin ex (“out of, from”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /êks/

Adverb

ȅks (Cyrillic spelling е̏кс)

1. (usually after the preposition na, as in na eks) in one gulp, bottoms up

References

• “eks”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “eks”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 1, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 836

Swedish

Noun

eks

1. indefinite genitive singular of ek

Anagrams

• ske

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English ex, the English name of the letter X / x.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔeks/ [ʔɛks]
• Rhymes: -eks
• Syllabification: eks

Noun

eks (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜃ᜔ᜐ᜔)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter X/x, in the Filipino alphabet

   Synonym: (in the Abecedario) equis

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

Volapük

Pronoun

eks

1. plural of ek