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Van die wêreld se beste wyne kom van hierdie streek af.

Some of the world’s best wines are from this region.

Ons het met van die belangrikste politieke leiers gespreek.

We have spoken to some of the most important political leaders.

(used with a following definite article) some of (the)


van

Van al cinema.

Van anar al cinema.

(auxiliary, with infinitive) third-person plural present indicative of anar


van

ngo⁵ gin³ gaa³ gaa³ wen¹ dou¹ hai⁶ ji⁵ 9.9 miu⁵ lok⁶ fo³, zi¹ hau⁶ tou⁴ heoi³ mou⁴ zung¹ ge³.

我見架架van都係以9.9秒落貨，之後逃去無蹤嘅。

我见架架van都系以9.9秒落货，之后逃去无踪嘅。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, often in compounds) van; minibus; vehicle (Classifier: 架 c)


van

(archaic, poetic) breeze (light, gentle wind)

van (nominative singular)
vany (nominative plural)
vanu (genitive singular)
vanů (genitive plural)
vanu (dative singular)
vanům (dative plural)
van (accusative singular)
vany (accusative plural)
vane (singular vocative)
vany (plural vocative)
vanu (locative singular)
vanech (locative plural)
vanem (instrumental singular)
vany (instrumental plural)


van

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


van

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van c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

vanen (definite singular)
vaner (indefinite plural)
van (indefinite nominative singular)
vanen (definite nominative singular)
vaner (indefinite nominative plural)
vanerne (definite nominative plural)
vans (genitive indefinite singular)
vanens (definite genitive singular)
vaners (genitive indefinite plural)
vanernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse vanr (pl vanir (“one of two groups of gods in Norse mythology”)).


van

From Old Norse vanr (“wont, accustomed”).


van

de hoed van het meisje

het gewicht van een olifant

Zij was van adel.

een stad van één miljoen inwoners

Hij is een man van eer.

Dat is hier niet van toepassing.

de trein van tien uur

een schilderij van Rubens

een plaat van de Beatles

Hij is niet van hier.

Hij ging van deur tot deur.

van vader op zoon.

from (starting point of a movement or change)

van toen af aan.

van 's avonds laat tot 's morgens vroeg

from late at night till the early morning

van dag tot dag

het vlees van de beenderen snijden.

from, off (removal of something from off something else)

sidderen van angst

tranen van geluk

Deze tafel is gemaakt van hout.

Van dit geld kan ik een basgitaar kopen.

de jongste van zijn dochters

Van alle mensen ben ik de mooiste.

Out of all people I am the most beautiful.

Drink niet te veel van dat bier, het is erg sterk.

Don't drink too much of that beer, it is very strong.

of, out of, among (out of a larger whole; partitive)

van 5 €, voor 3 €

from, was, formerly (indicating a change in price)

Hij had zoiets van, hoepel op.

Ik dacht van hé, wat gek.

(colloquial) like (quotative (used to introduce direct speech))

van (prepositional)
van (adverb postpositional)
ervan
hiervan
daarvan
waarvan
ergens van
nergens van
overal van

Afrikaans: van

Berbice Creole Dutch: fan

Javindo: fan

Jersey Dutch: vān, fān, f'n

Negerhollands: van, fan, fa

→ Virgin Islands Creole: fam

Skepi Creole Dutch: fan

From Middle Dutch van, from Old Dutch fan (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fanē, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂poneh₁ (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo, *h₂pó (“off, of”).
Cognate with Old Saxon fana, fan (“from”), Old Frisian fan, fon (“from”), Old High German fona, fon (“from”).


van

Ik neem er tien van.

Ik vertrek van daar.

Ik word er gek van.

Men wordt daar sloom van.

Wat zegt u daar van?

Ik weet daar niks van.


van

a surname or nickname beginning with the preposition van


van

The van sped down the road.

minivan

chiefly if used to carry a few people; "minivan" is officially used in North America

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

(British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.

(dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.

Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.

1959, Western Aerospace, volume 39, page 46:

(aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.


van

I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.

1966, United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

[They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.

1999, Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads, page 53:

(transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).

One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)

2011, The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded:

He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.

2012, FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call:

But not before someone supposedly forwarded all the information onto the FBI. In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting "vanned," Naratto tried to put the memie back in the bottle

2013, Redditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors, Deletes His Account and Disappears:

2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview
The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.

On Wednesday night, Motherboard spoke to the teenager accused of being Cracka. "I got fucking v&," he told Motherboard, using "v&," the slang for "vanned," or getting arrested. (At this point, the arrest had not been made public.)

2016, Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.':

Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.

2017, Dark Ops: An Anonymous Story, page 8:

(Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).

en-verb

van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

vans (present singular third-person)
vanning (participle present)
vanned (participle past)
vanned (past)


van

Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590:

Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster[…]

As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Bhīṣma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Karṇa, clad in armour, stand in the van. And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”

1965, “Virāṭa Parva”, in Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, transl., The Mahābhārata, book 4, translation of original in Sanskrit, section 33, page 84:


van

(mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.


van

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(mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.


van

with strange amaze / A shepherd meeting thee, the oar surveys, / And names a van (Book XI)

1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey:

A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.

So Satan fell; and ſtrait a fiery Globe / Of Angels on full ſail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him ſoft […]

1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 108–109, lines 578–580:

He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; / His vans no longer could his flight sustain.

1717, John Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, book XII:

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly / But merely vans to beat the air[…]

From Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow. Doublet of fan.


van

C’est à l’occasion du Saint-Léger gagné par Elis que l’on usa pour la première fois d’un van comme mode de locomotion pour les chevaux. Ce fut l’occasion d’un coup monstre.
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Adolphe de Neuter, Mémoires d'un entraîneur, volume 1: La casaque rose, Paris: Imprimerie Kapp, 1925, p. 145

ils leur ont montré comment faire monter un cheval dans un van, le lâcher, effectuer les premiers soins de sauvetage avant l’arrivée du vétérinaire.


van

empty, devoid of content, containing only air

gl-adj

van (feminine va, masculine plural vans, feminine plural vas)

va (feminine)
vans (masculine plural)
vas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vão (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vānus (“empty”). Cognate with Portuguese vão and Spanish vano.


van

third-person plural present indicative of ir


van

Boldog vagyok.

Van itt valaki?

Péternek van egy kutyája.

to have; someone (-nak/-nek) has something (-a/-e/-ja/-je)

Ez az ajtó fából van.

to be made (out) of something (with -ból/-ből)

A lakásom biztosítva van. (from biztosítva ← biztosít)

My apartment (flat) is (has been) insured.

A probléma meg van oldva. (from megoldva ← megold)

„Szakmány módra van rám mérve minden óra: / Jöttem kegyelmedhez búcsuvevő szóra.”

1846, János Arany, translated by Anton N. Nyerges, Toldi, canto 6, stanza 13:

“Every hour is measured as though by contract. / I come to bid you now farewell.”

(auxiliary, construed with -va/-ve (adverbial participle) of the main verb) to be (indicating the statal passive)

vagyok (first-person indefinite indicative present singular)
vagy (indefinite indicative informal present second-person singular)
van (formal indefinite indicative present second-person singular)
van (indefinite indicative present singular third-person)
vagyunk (first-person indefinite indicative plural present)
vagytok (indefinite indicative informal plural present second-person)
vannak (formal indefinite indicative plural present second-person)
vannak (indefinite indicative plural present third-person)
intransitive verb (definite indicative present)
definite forms are not used (definite indicative present)
voltam (first-person indefinite indicative past singular)
voltál (indefinite indicative informal past second-person singular)
volt (formal indefinite indicative past second-person singular)
volt (indefinite indicative past singular third-person)
voltunk (first-person indefinite indicative past plural)
voltatok (indefinite indicative informal past plural second-person)
voltak (formal indefinite indicative past plural second-person)
voltak (indefinite indicative past plural third-person)
leszek (first-person future indefinite indicative singular)
leszel (future indefinite indicative informal second-person singular)
lesz (formal future indefinite indicative second-person singular)
lesz (future indefinite indicative singular third-person)
leszünk (first-person future indefinite indicative plural)
lesztek (future indefinite indicative informal plural second-person)
lesznek (formal future indefinite indicative plural second-person)
lesznek (future indefinite indicative plural third-person)
lennék or (conditional first-person indefinite present singular)
volnék (conditional first-person indefinite present singular)
lennél or (conditional indefinite informal present second-person singular)
volnál (conditional indefinite informal present second-person singular)
lenne or (conditional formal indefinite present second-person singular)
lenne or (conditional indefinite present singular third-person)
volna (conditional formal indefinite present second-person singular)
volna (conditional indefinite present singular third-person)
lennénk or (conditional first-person indefinite plural present)
volnánk (conditional first-person indefinite plural present)
lennétek or (conditional indefinite informal plural present second-person)
volnátok (conditional indefinite informal plural present second-person)
lennének or (conditional formal indefinite plural present second-person)
lennének or (conditional indefinite plural present third-person)
volnának (conditional formal indefinite plural present second-person)
volnának (conditional indefinite plural present third-person)
lettem volna (conditional first-person indefinite past singular)
lettél volna (conditional indefinite informal past second-person singular)
lett volna (conditional formal indefinite past second-person singular)
lett volna (conditional indefinite past singular third-person)
lettünk volna (conditional first-person indefinite past plural)
lettetek volna (conditional indefinite informal past plural second-person)
lettek volna (conditional formal indefinite past plural second-person)
lettek volna (conditional indefinite past plural third-person)
legyek (first-person indefinite present singular subjunctive)
légy or (indefinite informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
legyél (indefinite informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
legyen (formal indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
legyen (indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
legyünk (first-person indefinite plural present subjunctive)
legyetek (indefinite informal plural present second-person subjunctive)
legyenek (formal indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
legyenek (indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
lenni (definite infinitive)
lenni (infinitive present)
lennem (first-person infinitive singular)
lenned (infinitive informal second-person singular)
lennie (formal infinitive second-person singular)
lennie (infinitive singular third-person)
lennünk (first-person infinitive plural)
lennetek (infinitive informal plural second-person)
lenniük (formal infinitive plural second-person)
lenniük (infinitive plural third-person)
lét (noun-from-verb)
levő (participle present)
lévő (participle present)
volt (participle past)
leendő (future participle)
léve (adverbial participle)
lévén (adverbial participle)
lehet (potential)

From Old Hungarian vagyon. See Hungarian volt.
* Forms beginning with v- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- (“to be”). Cognate with Northern Mansi о̄луӈкве (ōluňkve), Finnish olla and Estonian olema. Compare inflected forms such as volt, volna, való and Old Hungarian vola or vala. See also vagy for the stem in present tense.
* Forms beginning with l- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *le- (“to become”). Cognate with Finnish lienee (potential of olla), Karelian lienöy (potential of olla), Northern Sami leat.

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potential of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fi">olla</i>

potential of <i class="Latn mention" lang="krl">olla</i>


van

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van (comparative plus van, superlative le plus van)

plus van (comparative)
le plus van (superlative)


van

van f (genitive singular van, plural vannyn)


van

desctree

Dutch: van
Afrikaans: van
Berbice Creole Dutch: fan
Javindo: fan
Jersey Dutch: vān, fān, f'n
Negerhollands: van, fan, fa
→ Virgin Islands Creole: fam
Skepi Creole Dutch: fan

Limburgish: ven

From Old Dutch fan, from Proto-Germanic *fanē.


van

vant (neuter)
vane (definite plural singular)


van

vanen (definite singular)
vaner (indefinite plural)
vanar (indefinite plural)
vanene (definite plural)
vanane (definite plural)


van

Borrowed from Dutch van (“of, from”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fanē. Doublet of von.


van

van (covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus)

van (nominative singular)
vany (nominative plural)
vana (genitive singular)
vanów (genitive plural)
vanowi (dative singular)
vanom (dative plural)
van (accusative singular)
vany (accusative plural)
vanem (instrumental singular)
vanami (instrumental plural)
vanie (locative singular)
vanach (locative plural)
vanie (singular vocative)
vany (plural vocative)


van

(Brazil) van (a covered vehicle used for carrying goods)


van

ro-adj

van m or n (feminine singular vană, masculine plural vani, feminine and neuter plural vane)

vană (feminine singular)
vani (masculine plural)
vane (feminine neuter plural)
van (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
vană (feminine indefinite singular)
vani (indefinite masculine singular)
vane (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
vanul (definite masculine neuter singular)
vana (definite feminine singular)
vanii (definite masculine singular)
vanele (definite feminine neuter plural)
vane (feminine indefinite singular)
vanului (definite masculine neuter singular)
vanei (definite feminine singular)
vanilor (definite masculine singular)
vanelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from Latin vānus, Italian vano.


van

van kuće

van zemlje


van

From Latin vadunt, third-person plural present indicative of vadō (“to go”).


van

Han är van vid att stiga upp klockan sju varje morgon.

He is used to getting up at seven every morning.

accustomed to, used to, having the habit to

Hon är en van bilförare.

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van (comparative vanare, superlative vanast)

vanare (comparative)
vanast (superlative)
van (indefinite positive)
vanare (comparative indefinite)
vanast (indefinite superlative)
vant (indefinite neuter positive singular)
vanare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
vanast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
vana (indefinite plural positive)
vanare (comparative indefinite plural)
vanast (indefinite plural superlative)
vane (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
vanare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
vanast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
vane (definite masculine positive singular)
vanare (comparative definite masculine singular)
vanaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
vana (definite positive)
vanare (comparative definite)
vanaste (definite superlative)

From Old Norse vanr, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wāno-.


van

Unadapted borrowing from English van, short for caravan.


van

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Valman.


van

Van a vierd durst a bargher an a haar galshied too,

1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 10:

When a weasel crossed the road, and a hare gazed at me too,