Alone

Etymology
From, from earlier , contracted from the  phrase  , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at and. Regarding the different phonological development of alone and one, see the note in.

Adjective

 * 1) By oneself, solitary.
 * 2) * 1611,, ii. 18
 * It is not good that the man should be alone.
 * 1) * 1798,, 
 * Alone on a wide, wide sea.
 * 1) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
 * God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
 * 1) Considered separately.
 * “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons&thinsp;! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
 * 1) Without equal.
 * 2)  Unique; rare; matchless.
 * “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons&thinsp;! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
 * 1) Without equal.
 * 2)  Unique; rare; matchless.
 * 1) Without equal.
 * 2)  Unique; rare; matchless.
 * 1)  Unique; rare; matchless.

Usage notes

 * Used after what it modifies.

Translations

 * Belarusian: сам,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: kéŋ·e-t·i-
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: eläi
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μόνος


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingue:
 * Irish: aonraic
 * Latin:
 * Old English: ānlīpiġ
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: sám
 * Spanish:, a solas
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: сам,


 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მარტო
 * Greek:
 * Italian: da solo,


 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: sapa, paylla
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: са̑м
 * Roman:
 * Swedish:

Adverb

 * 1) By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
 * 2) Without outside help.
 * 3) Exclusively.
 * 1) Without outside help.
 * 2) Exclusively.
 * 1) Exclusively.
 * 1) Exclusively.

Usage notes

 * Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase.
 *  Only the teacher knew vs. The teacher alone knew

Translations

 * American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz
 * Arabic: وَحِيد, مُنْفَرِد
 * Aromanian: singur
 * Assamese: অকলে
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: сам
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: sanglo
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: üksi, üksinda
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: sôl, bessôl
 * Georgian: მარტო, მარტოხელა, ეული
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: allei
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, egymagában
 * Italian:, da solo


 * Japanese: (+で +de),
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ດຽວ
 * Latin:
 * Luxembourgish: eleng
 * Malay: bersendirian
 * Maltese: waħdi
 * Maori: tōtahi
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Prussian: āins
 * Oriya: ଏକା
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: auleen
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: sulet, persul, parsul
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: solu, sou
 * Scots: alane
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: са̑м
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: sám, osamote
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, сам
 * Urdu: اکیلا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: teyna, tenya
 * ǃXóõ: ʻáa


 * American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: сам
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, tot sol
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Georgian: დაუხმარებლად, მარტომ
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , без посторо́нней по́мощи,
 * Slovak: samostatne
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: сам
 * Vietnamese:


 * American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Estonian:, üksi
 * Fijian: duadua
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: მხოლოდ
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:


 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian:, csakis, ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: jedine, výlučne
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Danish: (1),  (2),  (3)
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, ,


 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Slovene:
 * Telugu:
 * West Frisian: allinne

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) halo
 * 2) glow