separately

English

Etymology

From separate +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.(ə.)ɹət.li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/, /ˈsɛp.ɚ.li/

• Audio (US):

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsep.(ə.)ɹət.li/
• Hyphenation: sep‧a‧rate‧ly

Adverb

separately (not comparable)

1. In a separate manner; not together; apart.

   We've been living separately for three years.

   Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.

   • 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:

     Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.

Synonyms

• sunderling

Translations

in a separate manner

Armenian: առանձին (hy) (aṙanjin) Belarusian: асобна (asóbna) Bulgarian: отделно (bg) (otdelno) Catalan: separadament (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 分別 / 分别 (zh) (fēnbié), 單獨 / 单独 (zh) (dāndú), 分開 / 分开 (zh) (fēnkāi) Crimean Tatar: ayrı Finnish: erillään (fi) French: séparément (fr) Galician: separadamente (gl) Georgian: ცალ-ცალკე (cal-calḳe), განცალკევებით (gancalḳevebit) German: getrennt (de) Greek: χωριστά (el) (choristá) Ancient: ἀμφίς (amphís) Hindi: अलग (hi) (alag), अलग अलग (alag alag) Hungarian: külön (hu) Irish: ar leith Italian: distintamente (it), separatemente, separatamente (it), singolarmente (it), disunitamente (it) Japanese: 別々に (ja) (べつべつに, betsubetsu ni) Latin: seorsum, sēparātim, sēiunctim Ngarrindjeri: kingung Norwegian: særskilt Ottoman Turkish: باشقه باشقه (başka başka) Polish: oddzielnie (pl), osobno (pl) Portuguese: separadamente (pt) Russian: отде́льно (ru) (otdélʹno), врознь (ru) (vroznʹ), врозь (ru) (vrozʹ), разде́льно (ru) (razdélʹno) Scottish Gaelic: air leth Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: посебно Roman: posebno (sh) Spanish: separadamente (es) Tocharian B: waiptār Turkish: ayrı ayrı (tr) Ukrainian: окремо (okremo) Urdu: الگ (alag), الگ الگ (alag alag) Welsh: ar wahân (cy)