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err

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Translingual

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err

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Erre.

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).

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Verb

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err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

  1. (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
    He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.
    • 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation‎[1], page 7:
      Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
    • 1989, L[eften] S[tavros] Stavrianos, Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 211:
      Gorbachev’s phrase, “fear to err,” is strikingly reminiscent of President Roosevelt’s phrase, “nothing to fear but fear itself.”
  2. (intransitive) To sin.
    To err is human, to forgive, divine.
  3. (archaic) to stray.
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Interjection

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err

  1. Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).
    Err... what did you just say?

Albanian

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Etymology

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According to Orel, Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).

Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos, but the phonological development required seems implausible.

Noun

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err m

  1. dark, darkness

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Verb

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err

  1. to darken
  2. to delay/keep until dark
  3. to blind
  4. to make miserable

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Further reading

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  • “err”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
  • “err”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980
  • Newmark, Leonard (1999), “err”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Estonian

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Noun

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err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

Faroese

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Noun

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err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

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Declension of err (n9)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative err errið err errini
accusative err errið err errini
dative erri errinum errum errunum
genitive ers ersins erra erranna

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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err

  1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative err errek
accusative erret erreket
dative errnek erreknek
instrumental errel errekkel
causal-final errért errekért
translative erré errekké
terminative errig errekig
essive-formal errként errekként
essive-modal — —
inessive errben errekben
superessive erren erreken
adessive errnél erreknél
illative errbe errekbe
sublative erre errekre
allative errhez errekhez
elative errből errekből
delative erről errekről
ablative errtől errektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		erré erreké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		erréi errekéi
Possessive forms of err
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. errem errjeim
2nd person sing. erred errjeid
3rd person sing. errje errjei
1st person plural errünk errjeink
2nd person plural erretek errjeitek
3rd person plural errjük errjeik

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  • r in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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Noun

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err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

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Declension of err (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative err errið err errin
accusative err errið err errin
dative erri errinu errum errunum
genitive errs errsins erra erranna

Võro

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Noun

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err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

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