Already

Etymology 1
From, , equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at,.

Adverb

 * 1) Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
 * Much of what he said I knew already.
 * It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.
 * 1) So soon.
 * It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.
 * 1) So soon.
 * 1) So soon.
 * 1) So soon.

Usage notes
Already may be used with the present perfect (I have already done that), the past perfect (I had already done it by then), the future perfect (When you arrive, the business will already have been completed) or the simple future (When you arrive, the business will already be complete).

"Already" and "all ready" do not mean the same thing. The two-word term can be used to mean "fully prepared".

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: خلاص, قبل كده
 * Gulf Arabic: أوردي
 * Hijazi Arabic: قِد, قِيد
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, uje
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: ужо́, ўжо
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ပြီးပြီ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 已經, 已经
 * Dungan: кәҗя
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Min Dong: 捌曾
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: xoxo
 * Faroese: longu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: za, bielzà, dizà
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: უკვე
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: scho
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἤδη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पहले ही, पहले से
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingue: ja
 * Irish: cheana
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , とっくに
 * Kazakh: әлдеқашан
 * Khasi: lypa


 * Khmer:, រួចហើយ
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ແລ້ວ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: jau
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᧟
 * Macedonian: веќе
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: diġà
 * Mongolian: хэдийнээ, аль хэдийн, хэзээний
 * Nahuatl:
 * Northern Sami: juo
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ,
 * Pipil: -ya, -a
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ña
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: a'ready
 * Scottish Gaelic: cheana, mu thràth, mar thà
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: већ
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: južo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, кайҳо, қаблан
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:, çoktan
 * Turkmen: eýýäm
 * Ukrainian: уже́, вже́, раніше
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: xà, zà
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: eisoes
 * West Frisian: al, alree
 * White Hmong: twb
 * Yiddish: שוין
 * Zhuang: gaenq


 * Arabic: لقد
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:


 * Greek: ,
 * Interlingue: ja
 * Northern Sami: juo
 * Persian: به این زودی
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:, πιά


 * Interlingue: ja
 * Khmer:
 * Persian: دیگه,
 * Portuguese: de uma vez
 * Slovak: okamžite, hneď,
 * Spanish:
 * Yiddish: שוין

Etymology 2
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