except

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Verb

 * 1)  To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
 * 2)  To take exception, to object (to or against).
 * , vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:
 * Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].
 * , vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:
 * Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].
 * , vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:
 * Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].

Translations

 * Arabic: اِسْتَثْنَى
 * Hijazi Arabic: استثنى, طَلَّع
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: escepti
 * Finnish: tehdä poikkeus, antaa erivapaus, vapauttaa (jostakin)
 * French: faire une exception,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Maori: awere
 * Marathi: वगळणे
 * Norwegian: unnta
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: excepcionar
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: vylúčiť
 * Slovene: izvzeti, izključiti
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ngoại trừ,, trừ ra


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: bezwaar hebben,, bezwaar maken
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, óvást emel
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:except

Translations

 * Arabic:, بِاسْتِثْنَاء, عَدَا, , سِوَى, حَاشَا, , , مَا عَدَا
 * Egyptian Arabic: غير, الا
 * Hijazi Arabic: إلَّا, ما عدا, غير
 * South Levantine Arabic: إلَّا, ما عدا, غير
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: акрамя́, за выключэ́ннем
 * Bulgarian:, с изключение на
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 為着
 * Mandarin: 除了...以外,
 * Czech:, , vyjma
 * Danish: bortset fra, ud over, med undtagelse af, undtagen, foruden
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: muuta kuin,, , pois lukien
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician:, , eigo, erga, aliás, exente,
 * Georgian: გარდა
 * German:, , abgesehen von
 * Greek:, εξαιρούμενου
 * Ancient: πλήν
 * Hebrew: חוץ מ־
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Ingrian: krome
 * Irish: ach amháin,, diomaite de
 * Italian:, , , fatto salvo
 * Japanese: 除いて,
 * Korean: ... 말고는, ... 외에는, ...을 빼면
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: جگەلە‌
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Ladino: salvo, saluo, salvu, ekseptado, afueras
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: освен
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: hāunga
 * Marathi:, -व्यतिरिक्त, , खेरीजकरून
 * Ngazidja Comorian: ɓaɗi
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål: utenom, bortsett fra, unntatt, unntagen
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: utanom
 * Old Norse: nema
 * Old Polish: krom, kromie, kromia
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: în afară de, cu excepția
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: се̑м, о̏сӣм
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: okrem
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mimo
 * Upper Sorbian: nimo
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, bortsett från
 * Tagalog: maliban ang, maliban kay/maliban kina, ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, -nın dışında
 * Ukrainian: крім, о́крі́м, пріч, опрі́ч, за ви́нятком
 * Vietnamese:, ngoại trừ, trừ ra, không kể
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אַחוץ, חוץ, אויסער

Conjunction

 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
 * 1)  Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

Usage notes
The part-of-speech designation of "except" may be debatable for certain complement types.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: الا
 * Bulgarian: освен ако
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: catar,
 * Georgian: გარდა
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: εἰ μή
 * Ancient: πλήν (usually )
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:, ecepte se,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ach amháin go, amháin go
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: unntatt, bortsett fra, unnateke, unnateki
 * Polish:, tyle że
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cu exceptia
 * Russian: за исключе́нием того́, что,
 * Spanish: salvo que
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: maliban
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: ac eithrio, heblaw, namyn

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) excepted