choose

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, archaic and partially obsolete 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
 * 2) To elect.
 * 3) To decide to act in a certain way.
 * 4) To prefer; to wish; to desire.
 * 1) To elect.
 * 2) To decide to act in a certain way.
 * 3) To prefer; to wish; to desire.
 * 1) To prefer; to wish; to desire.
 * 1) To prefer; to wish; to desire.

Usage notes

 * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Translations

 * Acehnese: piléh
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aklanon: pili'
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِخْتَارَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: اختار
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: বাছা বাছনি, নিৰ্বাচন কৰা
 * Asturian: escoyer, elixir
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: һайлау/һайҙау
 * Basque: aukeratu
 * Belarusian: выбіра́ць, вы́браць
 * Bengali: নির্বাচন করা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cebuano: pili
 * Chechen: харжа
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 揀, 選擇
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, , ,
 * Danish:, udvælge, foretrække
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: elekti
 * Estonian: valima
 * Even: хинма-
 * Evenki: синма-
 * Extremaduran: escohel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: sielzi, cerni
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ამორჩევა
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: αἱρέομαι, ἐκλέγω
 * Haitian Creole: chwazi
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: pili
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: pili
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: valita
 * Ingush: хержа
 * Irish: roghnaigh, togh
 * Old Irish: do·goa
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: таңдау
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ເລືອກ
 * Latin:, dēligō, ēligō, , optō, dēsūmō
 * Latvian: atlasīt
 * Lingala: pono, kopono, kopono
 * Lingala: pono
 * Lithuanian: pasirinkti
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: и́збира
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: għażel
 * Mansaka: palli
 * Maori: whiri, kōwhiri
 * Maranao: piliq
 * Marathi:
 * Middle English: chesen
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: pehpena
 * Nepali: छान्नु
 * Ngazidja Comorian: tsungua
 * Norman: chouaîsi
 * Northern Thai: ᩃᩮᩬᩥᨠ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: ceosan
 * Old Javanese: pilih
 * Old Saxon: kiosan
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: akllay, akray
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tscherner, tscharner, tschearner
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tagh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: изабрати, одабрати
 * Roman: ,
 * Shan:
 * Sinhalese: තෝරා ගන්නවා
 * Slovak: vyberať, vybrať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tai Dam: ꪹꪩꪀ
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: сайларга
 * Tausug: pii
 * Tetum: hili
 * Thai:, , ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: seçmek, saýlamak
 * Ukrainian: вибира́ти, ви́брати
 * Urdu: چننا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:, sièlder, sèlier, sèłier, sernìr, sèrner, sèrnar
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: pili'


 * Arabic: اِخْتَارَ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: aleg
 * Assamese: বাছা বাছনি, নিৰ্বাচন কৰা
 * Asturian: escoyer, elixir
 * Bashkir: һайлау/һайҙау
 * Basque: aukeratu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , vyvolit
 * Danish:, kåre
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: elekti
 * Estonian: valima
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ამორჩევა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: pili
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: valita
 * Irish: togh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ēligō, dīligō,
 * Latvian: izvēlēties
 * Lithuanian: išrinkti
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ħatar, talla'
 * Maori: kōwhiri,
 * Marathi:
 * Middle English: chesen
 * Mongolian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: akllay, akllai, akrai
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scots: wale
 * Scottish Gaelic: tagh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: изабрати, одабрати
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: izvoliti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вибира́ти
 * Urdu: چننا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קלײַבן, אויסקלײַבן


 * Asturian: escoyer, elixir
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zvolit si,
 * Danish: foretrække, have lyst, finde for godt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გადაწყვეტა
 * German:
 * Ilocano: pili
 * Irish: togh
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: iddeċieda
 * Middle English: chesen
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tagh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: одлучити, одабрати
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Venetian: deciđer, desidar


 * Latin:
 * Middle English: chesen


 * Albanian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tongan:

Conjunction

 * 1)  The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
 * The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is $$\tbinom nk$$ or "n choose k".

Etymology 2
From, , , a Northern dialectal form of. Cognate with 🇨🇬,,. , which see for more.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of choosing; selection.
 * 2)  The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.