User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
tō.Pronunciation
Particle
- A particle used to mark the following verb as an infinitive.
Translations
infinitive-marker
- Albanian: të, për të
- Catalan: a
- Czech: Infinitive is marked by an extension, not a marker.
- Danish: at
- Dutch: te
- French: -er, -re, -ir
- German: zu, -en
- Greek: (extension) -σει
- Hungarian: (extension) -ni
- Icelandic: að
- Italian: -are, -ere, -ire
- Norwegian: å
- Persian: (-dæn), (-tæn)
- Romanian: a
- Russian: (suffix) -ать, -ять, -еть, -ить
- Scots: tae
- Spanish: -ar, -er, -ir
- Swedish: att
Preposition
- In the direction
of, and arriving at
(indicating destination).
- We are walking to the shop.
- Used after certain adjectives to indicate a relationship.
- similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her.
- Used to indicate ratios.
- one to one = 1:1
- ten to one = 10:1.
- one to one = 1:1
- Used to indicate the indirect
object.
- I gave the book to him.
- (time) Preceding
- ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
Translations
in the direction of, and arriving at
- Arabic: (íla), (ʕála)
- Catalan: a, cap a
- Chinese: 到 (dào)
- Cornish:
- Czech: k, ke, ku, do
- Dutch: naar
- Esperanto: al
- Finnish: expressed with the case of the headword, often allative case
- French: à
- German: nach, zu, in
- Greek: προς (pros), σε (se)
- Hebrew: אל (el), ...ל (le-), ...ב (bi-)
- Hungarian: -hoz/-höz/-hez (allative, arriving at), felé (postposition, in the direction of)
- Indonesian: ke, sampai, hingga, kepada
- Interlingua: a
- Irish: chuig, chun
- Italian: a, in, per
- Japanese: へ, まで
- Korean: 으로
- Latin: ad
- Lithuanian: į
- Maltese: lil, lejn, lill-, lil-
- Novial: a
- Persian: (be)
- Portuguese: a, para
- Romanian: la, către, spre
- Russian: на; в, к (k) (words consisting of a consonant)
- Slovene: k or h (if the next word begins with a "k" or "g"), proti
- Spanish: a hacia
- Swedish: till
- Turkish: -e, -a, -ye, -ya
used after certain adjectives to indicate a
relationship
used to indicate ratios
used to indicate the indirect object
- French: à
- German: zu, an ;
- Irish: do
- Latin: qualifier rendered by the bare dative case
See also
Adverb
- misspelling of too
- Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
- Please would you push the door to.
See also
Czech
Pronunciation
Pronoun
toDanish
Cardinal number
toEwe
Noun
toVerb
toFinnish
Japanese
Noun
Norwegian
Cardinal number
toPolish
Pronunciation
- /tɔ/
Pronoun
toSlovene
Pronoun
to- In the context of "demonstrative": this
Vietnamese
Adjective
toExtensive Definition
To or to may refer to:
- a grammatical particle used in forming the English verbal infinitive
- .to, the country code top-level domain for Tonga
- To, Burkina Faso, one of the 7 departments of the Sissili Province of Burkina Faso
- Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer
- Nihonto - Japanese word for "sword".
- Teraoctet, a unit of information or computer storage
TO may stand for:
- Toronto, "T" stands for Toronto, and "O" stands for Ontario, the province to which Toronto serves as its capital city.
- Thousand Oaks, California
- Tonga, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
- President Airlines, IATA airline designator
- Takeoff
- Telephone operator
- Internet Relay Chat slang for takeover
- A medieval T and O map (orbis terrae)
- Territorial Defense Forces (TO), part of the armed forces of the former SFR Yugoslavia
- In sports:
- Turnover (disambiguation)
- Time-out (sport)
- Terrell Owens, NFL wide receiver
- JEDEC transistor outline
- Talk.Origins, a Usenet discussion forum
- Tactics Ogre, a Japanese tactical role-playing video game series
- Tantra Online, an online computer game
- The Office, a TV show
- The Outsiders (novel), a novel by S.E. Hinton
- Thermal oxidizer
to in German: TO
to in Esperanto: To
to in French: TO
to in Korean: TO
to in Italian: TO
to in Japanese: TO
to in Kölsch: TO (Watt ėßß datt?)
to in Simple English: To
to in Slovenian: TO
to in Finnish: To
to in Swedish: TO (olika betydelser)