User Contributed Dictionary
Conjunction
- because
- He lost his job for he got into trouble.
Translations
because
- Albanian: për
- Catalan: per
- Cornish:
- Czech: neboť
- Danish: for, fordi, thi
- Esperanto: ĉar
- Finnish: koska
- French: parce que
- German: denn, wegen
- Greek: διότι (ðióti), επειδή (epiðí), γιατί (yatí)
- Hebrew: בשביל (bishvil)
- Italian: perché, poiché
- Japanese: ～ため (~tame) (Note: after a noun, a の no is added before the "tame".)
- Norwegian: for, fordi
- Novial: pro, den
- Persian: (barâye), (barâye inke)
- Portuguese: porque
- Romanian: pentru că
- Russian: потому что (potomú čto), из-за того, что (iz-za tovó, što)
- Spanish: porque, como
- Swedish: eftersom, emedan (archaic)
- Thai: (pêua)
- Turkish: için
Preposition
- Towards.
- The astronauts headed for the moon.
- Directed at, intended to belong to.
- I have something for you.
- Supporting (opposite of against).
- All those for the motion raise your hands.
- Because of.
- He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
- Over a period of time.
- They fought for days over a silly pencil.
- On behalf of.
- I will stand in for him.
- With the purpose of.
- I am aiming for completion by end of business Thursday.
- Despite, in spite
of.
- 1892 August 6, Charles
Dickens, "The Unbidden Guest", in All the Year Round,]
[http://books.google.com/books?id=XNwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&dq=%22but+for%22
page 133,
- Mr. Joseph Blenkinshaw was perhaps not worth quite so much as was reported; but for all that he was a very wealthy man
- 1892 August 6, Charles
Dickens, "The Unbidden Guest", in All the Year Round,]
[http://books.google.com/books?id=XNwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&dq=%22but+for%22
page 133,
- Used to introduce a small clause.
- For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is
incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
- All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
- For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is
incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
- Used to construe various verbs.
- Don't wait for an answer.
- What did he ask you for?
- He was convicted for murder.
- I'm looking for my friend.
- What did he ask you for?
- Don't wait for an answer.
Antonyms
Translations
towards
- Catalan: per, per a
- Cornish:
- Czech: k
- Danish: til, mod
- Dutch: naar
- Finnish: kohti, -n (illative case)
- German: zu, nach
- Greek: για (yá), γι' (y') (when before words beginning with a consonant)
- trreq Hebrew
- Hungarian: felé
- Interlingua: por
- Italian: per
- Maltese: għal, għal-, għall-
- Norwegian: mot
- Occitan: per
- Polish: dla
- Portuguese: para
- Russian: к (k), на (na)
- Spanish: a, hacia
- Swedish: mot, åt
directed at, intended to belong to
- Catalan: per, per a
- Cornish:
- Czech: pro
- Danish: til, mod
- Dutch: voor
- Esperanto: por
- Finnish: -lle (allative case)
- French: pour
- German: für
- Greek: για (yá)
- trreq Hebrew
- Hungarian: -nak, -nek (dative)
- Interlingua: por
- Italian: per
- Maltese: għal
- Norwegian: til
- Polish: dla
- Portuguese: para
- Russian: для (dlja)
- Saterland Frisian: foar
- Spanish: para
- Swedish: för, åt
- West Frisian: foar
supporting
- Catalan: per
- Cornish:
- Kernewek Kemmyn: rag
- Czech: pro
- Danish: for
- Dutch: voor
- Esperanto: por
- Finnish: puoli
- French: pour
- German: für
- Greek: διότι (ðióti), επειδή (epiðí), γιατί (yatí)
- trreq Hebrew
- Hungarian: -ért
- Interlingua: por
- Norwegian: for
- Portuguese: por
- Russian: за (za)
- Saterland Frisian: foar
- Spanish: por
- Swedish: för
- West Frisian: foar
because of
- ttbc Guarani: ehe (t-)
- ttbc Ido: por
- ttbc Indonesian: untuk, buat, bagi, demi
- ttbc Novial: por
- ttbc Romanian: pentru
- Tupinambá: esé (t-), supé
Danish
Preposition
Esperanto
Particle
- distant (adverbial
particle of distance)
- for combines with demonstrative correlatives to indicate that the referrent is somehow distant from the speaker:
-
- tiu for: "that [distant] [one/person]"
- tio for: "that [distant] [thing]"
- tia for: "that [anomolous] kind of"
- ties for: "belonging to those [distant] people"
- tiel for: "that [extreme] manner or degree"
- tie for: "over there"
- tiam for: "then [long ago or in the distant future]"
- tiom for: "that much [of an extreme quantity]"
- tial for: "for that [unusual] reason"
Icelandic
Derived terms
Preposition
- far from
Latin
Verb
- To speak.
Synonyms
Norwegian
Conjunction
Synonyms
Preposition
Old English
Etymology
Common *fora.Preposition
Swedish
Extensive Definition
For may refer to:
in English language parts of speech
- for, a preposition
- for, a complementizer
- for, a coordinator
in other uses
- for loop, programming language statement
- FoR, Fellowship of Reconciliation
- For, Fornax constellation
See also
for in German: For
for in French: For
for in Polish: FOR
(ujednoznacznienie)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
against, all for, as, as long as, as proxy for, as
representing, as things go, because, being, being as how, cause, considering, forasmuch as,
from, in aid of, in behalf
of, in consideration of, in contemplation of, in favor of, in
furtherance of, in lieu of, in order to, in place of, in preference
to, in preparation for, in that, inasmuch as, insofar as, insomuch
as, now, on account of, on
behalf of, parce que, pro,
remedial of, replacing, seeing as how,
seeing that, since,
so, so as to, so that,
to, vice, whereas, with