k

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiceless velar plosive.
 * – See ᵏ|⟨ᵏ⟩.
 * 1)  the permeability of a material for fluids
 * 2)  the spring constant of an elastic material
 * 3)  Boltzmann's constant

Noun

 * 1)    taken from the SI-prefix k- for kilo- meaning 1000's multiplier
 * &euro;500k = 500,000 Euros

Letter

 * 1) The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.
 * 1) The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).
 * 2)  A kilobit (more formally kb), especially in measuring Internet connection.
 * 3)  kilometre or kilometres.
 * 4)  thousand or thousands.
 * 5) The SI measurement value of 1,000
 * 1) The SI measurement value of 1,000
 * 1) The SI measurement value of 1,000

Interjection

 * 1)  OK

Usage notes
"k" usually implies or  towards the statement it is responding to, in a less  way than "".

Etymology 4
Abbreviations.


 * 1)  the prefix  or.
 * 1)  the prefix  or.
 * 1)  the prefix  or.

Usage notes

 * Phonetically, /k/ is always ⟨k⟩. ⟨c⟩ is used for /tʃ/.

Etymology
Contraction of ku.

Pronoun

 * 1)  I

Usage notes
Used before verbs and adjectives to express the first person. When isolated, is used. They can also be used together, thus:
 * Kuani k=arpa wa ku=ye. ― I will go and tell him.

Etymology
, from.

Preposition

 * 1) to, toward, towards (movement towards a person)
 * 2) to (in the direction of rather than a destination)
 * 3) to, up to
 * 4) for, to (purpose)
 * 1) to, up to
 * 2) for, to (purpose)
 * 1) for, to (purpose)
 * 1) for, to (purpose)
 * 1) for, to (purpose)

Usage notes
This preposition is followed by the dative case.

Letter

 * 1) the eleventh letter of the, called  or  in Italian

Usage notes

 * The letter is not considered part of the contemporary Italian alphabet. See under.

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Etymology 2
From.

Preposition

 * 1) to

Letter

 * 1) The seventeenth letter of the Lushootseed alphabet, pronounced as a voiceless velar stop.

Usage notes

 * When written before j, k and j merge into voiceless palatal fricative, the ch sound in German ich.

Pronunciation

 * , or if voiced

Usage notes
Used only in loanwords and some proper nouns.

Etymology 1
See Translingual section.

Letter

 * 1) The 15th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by  and followed by.

Etymology 2
, from.

Preposition

 * 1) to
 * 2) towards

Usage notes
Although both and  can be used synonymously,  must take the alternative form  in the following environment:
 * before /k, g, h/:
 * before consonant clusters with emphasis on /k, g, h/:
 * before consonant clusters with emphasis on /k, g, h/:
 * before consonant clusters with emphasis on /k, g, h/:
 * before consonant clusters with emphasis on /k, g, h/:

Synonyms

 * (see usage notes)

Adjective

 * : kirchnerista

Pronunciation

 * Letter name


 * Phoneme

Letter

 * 1)  Pronounced  in front of a, o, u and å and  in front of e, i, y, ä and ö (some loan words might ignore this rule).

Etymology 1
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

The use of $⟨k⟩$ instead of using the Spanish-based $⟨c⟩$ and $⟨q⟩$ was promoted in the late 19th century primarily by the educated (such as and ) because of the Baybayin character primarily being applicable to all vowels, as well as the ease of usage with Tagalog grammar rules. Its order in the Abakada alphabet was due to the order of the similar sounding $⟨c⟩$ in the Spanish alphabet.

Etymology 2
From ,

Interjection

 * 1)  OK

Etymology 3
From the Abakada alphabet letter being pronounced as.

Pronoun

 * : you; u

Derived terms

 * The digraph $⟨km⟩$ transcribes the single consonant
 * The digraph $⟨kn⟩$ transcribes the single consonant
 * The digraph $⟨kp⟩$ transcribes the single consonant

Palatalized consonants are written $⟨kpy, ky⟩$, labialized consonants as $⟨knw, kw⟩$.