than

Etymology
From, , from , a variant of , from , from earlier *þam, from , accusative masculine of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Doublet of.

Conjunction

 * 1)  Because; for.
 * 2) * 1854, Reformation series:
 * If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.
 * 1)  Because; for.
 * 2) * 1854, Reformation series:
 * If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.
 * If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.

Preposition

 * Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
 * No player is more skillful than Greg.
 * No player is more skillful than Greg.

Usage notes
Usage prescriptivists have a number of rules concerning than. According to them, than is not a preposition to govern the oblique case (although it has been used as such by writers such as William Shakespeare, whose 1600 play Julius Caesar contains the line A man no mightier than thyself or me. . ., and Samuel Johnson, who wrote No man had ever more discernment than him, in finding out the ridiculous.). Than functions as both conjunction and preposition; when it is used as a conjunction, it governs the nominative case, and when a preposition, the oblique case. To determine the case of a pronoun following "than", a writer can look to implied words and determine how they would relate to the pronoun.

Examples :


 * You are a better swimmer than she.
 * represents You are a better swimmer than she is.
 * therefore You are a better swimmer than her is, according to such prescriptivists, a solecism.


 * They like you more than her.
 * represents They like you more than they like her.
 * therefore They like you more than she is a solecism, if it attempts to represent the previous sentence. It may be correct, however, if it represents They like you more than she likes you.

Some prescriptivists insist that whom must follow than (not who); although according to the above rule, who would be the "correct" form in the first example. Critics of this often cite this mandatory exception as evidence that the prescriptivist rule is logically erroneous, in addition to its being inconsistent with well-established usage.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: من
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: -dalay, -daldi
 * Bashkir: ablative case; dative case + ҡарағанда
 * Basque: baino
 * Belarusian: чым, ніж, за ,
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, не́жели , не́же , , не́ли
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cimbrian: dan
 * Cornish: ages, es
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: enn
 * Finnish:, partitive case followed by a comparative adjective
 * French:
 * Galician:, ca non, , que non
 * Georgian: ვიდრე
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌿
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἤ,, ἤπερ
 * Hebrew: מִ־, מִמַּה שֶּׁ־, מֵאֲשֶׁר
 * Hindi: की अपेक्षा,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ná
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қарағанда, гөрі
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ກ່ວາ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: nekā
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: denn
 * Lü:
 * Macedonian: од
 * Malay: daripada
 * Ngazidja Comorian: na
 * Northern Sami: go
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: enn
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: нежели, некъли, негъли
 * Old East Slavic: нежели, чѣмъ
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, do que
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , не́же
 * Scots: nor
 * Scottish Gaelic: na
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: него
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: než, ako
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kuliko
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kaysa,
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལས
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: görä
 * Ukrainian:, ,  ,
 * Urdu: سے
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: na
 * Yiddish: פֿאַר, פֿון, ווי, איידער
 * Zhuang:

Adverb

 * 1)  At that time; then.

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) than

Adverb

 * 1) then
 * 2) * 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
 * And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn, Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.
 * And when he had drunk all the wine He would not speak a word other than Latin

Adverb

 * 1) then

Adverb

 * 1) then, there, when, at that time

Conjunction

 * 1) from there, therefore, if, because, after
 * 2) than, (comparative)

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) coal

Etymology 2
.

Verb

 * 1) to complain

Etymology
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1) then