different between between vs entre

English

Alternative forms

• betweene (archaic)
• betwene (archaic)
• b/w (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle English betwene, from Old English betw?onan, betw?onum (“between, among, amid, in the midst, meanwhile”, dative plural, literally “by the two, near both”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *tw?hnaz (“two each”), corresponding to be- +? twain. Cognate with Scots between (“between”), Scots atween (“between”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (tweihnai, “two each”), Old English betweohs (“between”), Old English twinn (“double, twofold”). More at betwixt, twin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??twi?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??twin/, /b??twin/, [b??t?win]
• Hyphenation: be?tween

Preposition

between

1. In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.)
2. Done together or reciprocally.
3. Shared in confidence.

4. In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).

5. Combined (by effort or ownership).

6. One of (representing a choice).

7. Taking together the combined effect of.

Usage notes

• Some groups of non-native speakers confuse between and among. It is sometimes said that between usually applies to two things, while among applies to more than two things. This is not correct; according to the Oxford English Dictionary: "In all senses, between has been, from its earliest appearance, extended to more than two. In OE and ME, it was so extended in sense 1, in which among is now considered better. It is still the only word available to express the relation of a thing to many surrounding things severally and individually, among expressing a relation to them collectively and vaguely: we should not say ‘the space lying among the three points,’ or ‘a treaty among three powers,’ or ‘the choice lies among the three candidates in the select list,’ or ‘to insert a needle among the closed petals of a flower’".

Synonyms

• atween (archaic)
• atwix (dialectal)
• atwixt (archaic)
• betwixt (archaic)

Derived terms

• Pages starting with “between”.

Translations

See also

• betwixt
• among

Noun

between (plural betweens)

1. A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.

References

Anagrams

• betwene

English

Verb

entre (third-person singular simple present entres, present participle entring, simple past and past participle entred)

1. Archaic spelling of enter.

Anagrams

• Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, rente, terne, treen

Asturian

Verb

entre

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of entrar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of entrar

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan entre, from Latin inter, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enter (“between”), attested from the 12th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?en.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?en.t?e/

Preposition

entre

1. between
2. among

References

Further reading

• “entre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “entre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “entre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

entre c (singular definite entreen, plural indefinite entreer)

1. Alternative form of entré

Inflection

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese entre, from Latin inter (“between”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?enter (“between”).

Preposition

entre

1. among (denotes a belonging to a group)
2. between (done together or reciprocally)
3. between (in the separating position or interval)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?/

Etymology 1

From Middle French entre, from Old French entre, inherited from Latin inter, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enter (“between”).

Doublet of inter-, a borrowing.

Preposition

entre

1. between
2. among

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

entre

1. first-person singular present indicative of entrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of entrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of entrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of entrer
5. second-person singular imperative of entrer

Anagrams

• enter
• rente, renté
• terne

Further reading

• “entre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• antre, ontre

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese entre, from Latin inter.

The alternative form ontre, rare in Old Portuguese proper but well attested in Old Galician (Cantigas de Santa Maria), and rendered as unter in local Medieval Latin, derives probably from Suevic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *under: confer Old High German unter (“among, between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?en.t??]

Preposition

entre

1. between, among

Derived terms

• entre tanto

Verb

entre

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of entrar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of entrar

References

• “entre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “entre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ontre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “entre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “entre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “entre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Verb

entre

1. inflection of entern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch entree, from French entrée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ntr?]
• Hyphenation: én?tré

Noun

éntré (first-person possessive entreku, second-person possessive entremu, third-person possessive entrenya)

1. entrance, way in
2. (colloquial) An admission, an entrance fee.

Further reading

• “entre” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

entre (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ???????)

1. between, among

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French entre.

Preposition

entre

1. between

Descendants

• French: entre

Norman

Alternative forms

• ente (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French entre, from Latin inter.

Preposition

entre

1. (Jersey) between, among

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From French entrée

Alternative forms

• entré

Noun

entre m (definite singular entreen, indefinite plural entreer, definite plural entreene)

1. entry, entrance

Etymology 2

From French entrer

Verb

entre (imperative entr or entre, present tense entrer, passive entres, simple past and past participle entra or entret, present participle entrende)

1. to enter
2. to board (a boat)
3. (nautical) to climb (e.g. a mast), go aloft

References

• “entre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From French entrée

Alternative forms

• entré

Noun

entre m (definite singular entreen, indefinite plural entrear, definite plural entreane)

1. entry, entrance

Etymology 2

From French entrer

Alternative forms

• entra

Verb

entre (present tense entrar, past tense entra, past participle entra, passive infinitive entrast, present participle entrande, imperative entr)

1. to enter
2. to board (a boat)
3. (nautical) to climb (e.g. a mast), go aloft

References

• “entre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan entre, from Latin inter.

Pronunciation

Preposition

entre

1. between

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin inter.

Preposition

entre

1. among; amongst

Descendants

• Middle French: entre
  • French: entre

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

entre

1. between

Descendants

• Catalan: entre
• Occitan: entre

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.t??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.t?i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.t?e/
• Hyphenation: en?tre

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese entre, from Latin inter (“between; among”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?enter (“between”).

Alternative forms

• antre (archaic)

Preposition

entre

1. among (denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects)
2. between (in the separating position or interval)
3. between (intermediate in quantity or degree)
4. between (shared in confidence)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:entre.

Etymology 2

Verb

entre

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of entrar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of entrar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of entrar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of entrar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:entrar.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ent?e/, [??n?.t??e]

Etymology 1

From Latin inter, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enter (“between”).

Preposition

entre

1. between

2. among, amongst, from

3. divided by

Usage notes

• Unlike most Spanish prepositions, entre governs the nominative and not the prepositional case when used with pronouns:
• :
• :
• Because se does not exist in the nominative, however, the normal prepositional form sí is used instead:
• :
• :

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

entre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of entrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of entrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of entrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of entrar.

Further reading

• “entre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.