different between ers vs err

English

Verb

ers

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of er

Anagrams

• ESR, RSE, Res., SER, SRE, res, ser, ser.

Afrikaans

Noun

ers

1. plural of er

French

Etymology

From Occitan èrs, from Latin ervum (“vetch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Homophones: air, aire, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, haire, haires, hère, hères

Noun

ers m (plural ers)

1. (botany) bitter vetch, ervil (Vicia ervilia)
2. (botany) Lens ervoides

Further reading

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

German

Alternative forms

• er's

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e???s/
• Hyphenation: ers

Contraction

ers

1. Contraction of er es.

Middle English

Noun

ers

1. Alternative form of ars

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English ers, form of ars, from Old English ears, ærs, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz.

Noun

ers (plural erses)

1. arse, buttocks

References

• “ers” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “ers” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[2], 2016.

Swedish

Pronoun

ers

1. your (only in address); a contraction of the archaic eders, being a genitive form of er

   ers majestät = Your Majesty

   ers höghet = Your Highness

Anagrams

• res, ser

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rs/

Preposition

ers

1. since
2. for (a period of time)

Usage notes

• The present tense, rather than the perfect, is normally used with periods that extend to the present.

Conjunction

ers

1. since

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin err? (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??(?)/, (rare) /??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/, /?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)

Verb

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive) To make a mistake.

   • Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

Derived terms

Translations

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aur?ra, Lithuanian aušrà).

Noun

err m

1. dark, darkness

Synonyms

• terr

Derived terms

• irë

Estonian

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Faroese

Noun

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?]
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?/

  Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

Võro

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.