already

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

The use as an intensifier in American English is a and.

In Singapore English, the use of already as a marker of action completion and change of state (i.e., and  respectively) is analogous to ,   and. Compare and.

Adverb

 * 1) Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
 * 2) So soon.
 * 1) So soon.
 * 1) So soon.
 * 1) So soon.
 * 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:, مِنْ قَبْلُ
 * Egyptian Arabic: خلاص, قبل كده
 * Gulf Arabic: أوردي
 * Hijazi Arabic: قِد, قِيد
 * South Levantine Arabic: مِن قبِل
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܒ݂ܲܪ, ܥܲܕܠܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: ужо́, ўжо
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ပြီးပြီ
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏳᎳ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 已經
 * Dungan: кәҗя
 * Eastern Min: 捌曾
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Cornish: seulabrys
 * 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:
 * 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:
 * Nupe: aní
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ǣr
 * Persian: ,
 * Pipil: -ya, -a
 * Polabian: al
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ña
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: ge, za
 * Scots: a'ready
 * Scottish Gaelic: cheana, mu thràth, mar thà
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: већ
 * Roman: već
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: južo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, кайҳо, қаблан
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Tîrî: wai
 * Turkish:, çoktan
 * Turkmen: eýýäm
 * Ukrainian:, вже́, раніше
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: xà, zà
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: eisoes
 * West Frisian: al, alree
 * White Hmong: twb
 * Yiddish: שוין
 * Zhuang: gaenq


 * Arabic: لقد
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:, nu al
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, di già
 * Japanese: こんなに早く
 * Northern Sami: juo
 * Persian: به این زودی
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, πιά
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: una buona volta
 * Khmer:
 * Persian: دیگه,
 * Portuguese: de uma vez
 * Slovak: okamžite, hneď,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: שוין