for example

English

Etymology

First attested in the second half of the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fôr′ ĭg-zăm′pəl, (when unstressed) fər-
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəɹ ɪɡˈzɑːm.p(ə)l/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/; (when unstressed) /fəɹ-/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌfoːɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/; (when unstressed) /fə-/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌfoːɹ əɡˈzɛm.pəl/; (when unstressed) /fə-/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzam.pəl/, /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzam.pʌl/; (when unstressed) /fəɹ-/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌfoːɾ ɪɡˈza(ː)m.pel/; (when unstressed) /fɜː(ɾ)-/, /fəɾ-/
• Hyphenation: for ex‧am‧ple

Prepositional phrase

for example

2. (conjunctive) As an example.

   Synonyms: (formal, somewhat dated) as, e.g., for instance, (informal) like, such as

   The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.

   • 1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery:

     The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:

     For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.

Usage notes

• Often written with the Latin initialism e.g. (exemplī grātiā), rarely with the initialism f.e. or f.ex.

Translations

as an example

• Afrikaans: byvoorbeeld (af)
• Albanian: për shembull
• Arabic: مَثَلاً (maṯalan), عَلَى سَبِيل الْمِثَال (ʕalā sabīl al-miṯāl), نَحْوَ (naḥwa)

  Egyptian Arabic: مثلا (masalan)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَثَلاً (maṯalan), عَلَى سَبِيل الْمِثَال (ʕalā sabīl al-miṯāl) (classical)

  South Levantine Arabic: متلا (matalan)

• Aragonese: per exemplo
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܵܐ ܛܘܼܦ̮ܣܵܐ (qā ṭufsā), ܛܘܼܦ̮ܣܵܐܝܼܬ (ṭufsāˀīt)

• Armenian: օրինակ (hy) (ōrinak), օրինակի համար (ōrinaki hamar), զոր օրինակ (zor ōrinak)
• Asturian: por exemplu (ast)
• Avar: масала (masala)
• Azerbaijani: örnək üçün, məsələn, sözbelə, misal üçün
• Bambara: ikomi, i n'a fɔ
• Bashkir: мәҫәлән (məśələn), миҫал өсөн (miśal ösön)
• Basque: adibidez
• Belarusian: напры́клад (naprýklad)
• Breton: da skouer (br)
• Bulgarian: напри́мер (bg) (naprímer)
• Burmese: ဥပမာ (my) (u.pa.ma)
• Catalan: per exemple (ca), com ara (ca)
• Chagatai: مثلا (ms̱lā)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 例如 (lai⁶ jyu⁴), 譬如 (pei³ jyu⁴)

  Dungan: билүн (bilün)

  Hokkien: 比如 (zh-min-nan) (pí-jû / pí-lû), 比在 (pí-chāi), 比論 / 比论 (zh-min-nan) (pí-lūn)

  Mandarin: 比如 (zh) (bǐrú), 例如 (zh) (lìrú), 譬如 (zh) (pìrú), 譬若 (zh) (pìruò)

• Cornish: rag ensampel
• Corsican: per esempiu
• Crimean Tatar: meselâ
• Czech: například (cs)
• Danish: for eksempel (da), eksempelvis
• Dutch: bijvoorbeeld (nl)
• Erzya: невтемга (nevtemga), невтевксэкс (nevtevksëks), невтематешксэкс (nevtematešksëks), саемга (sajemga)
• Esperanto: ekzemple (eo)
• Estonian: näiteks
• Faroese: til dømis
• Finnish: esimerkiksi (fi)
• French: par exemple (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: byfoarbyld, bygelyks

• Galician: por exemplo
• Georgian: მაგალითად (magalitad)
• German: zum Beispiel (de), beispielsweise (de), (dated) zum Exempel (de)
• Greek: για παράδειγμα (gia parádeigma), παραδείγματος χάριν (el) (paradeígmatos chárin) (formal; in abbreviation π.χ.)

  Ancient Greek: αὐτίκα (autíka), παραδείγματος χάριν (paradeígmatos khárin)

• Haitian Creole: pa ekzanp
• Hebrew: לדוגמה (l'dugmá), למשל (l'mashál)
• Hindi: उदाहरण के लिए (udāhraṇ ke lie), उदाहरण के तौर पर (udāhraṇ ke taur par), मिसाल के लिये (misāl ke liye), मिसाल के तौर पर (misāl ke taur par), मसलन (hi) (maslan), उदाहरणार्थ (udāharṇārth)
• Hungarian: például (hu)
• Icelandic: til dæmis (is) (abbreviated as t.d. (is)), til að mynda
• Indonesian: misalnya (id)
• Interlingua: per exemplo
• Irish: mar shampla, cuir i gcás
• Italian: per esempio, ad esempio, verbigrazia (it)
• Japanese: 例えば (ja) (たとえば, tatoeba), 例えるなら (たとえるなら, tatoeru nara)
• Kashubian: na przëkłôd
• Kazakh: мәселен (mäselen), мысалы (mysaly)
• Khmer: ឧទាហរណ៍ (km) (ʼutiəhɑɑ), ជាដើម (ciə daəm)
• Korean: 예컨대 (ko) (yekeondae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: wekî mînak, bo nimûne (ku)

• Kyrgyz: маселен (maselen), мисалы (ky) (misalı)
• Lao: ອຸບປະມາ (ʼup pa mā), ອຸປະມາວ່າ (ʼu pa mā wā), ເຊັ່ນວ່າ (sen wā), ເປັນຕົ້ນ (pen ton)
• Latin: exempli gratia, quemadmodo, tanquam, quemadmodum
• Latvian: piemēram
• Lithuanian: pavyzdžiui (lt)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: bieveurbeeld, bi'jveurbeeld (nds)

  German Low German: to'n Bispeel, bi Vörbild

• Macedonian: на пример (na primer)
• Malay: contohnya (ms), misalnya
• Maltese: per eżempju
• Māori: ina koa
• Marathi: उदाहरणार्थ (udāharṇārtha)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: жишээлбэл (žišeelbel)

  Mongolian script: ᠵᠢᠱᠢᠶᠡᠯᠡᠪᠡᠯ (ǰišiyelebel)

• Neapolitan: p'esempio
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: for eksempel (no)

  Nynorsk: til dømes

• Occitan: pr'exemple
• Pannonian Rusyn: наприклад (napriklad)
• Pashto: مثلا (masalán)
• Persian: مثلاً (fa) (masalan)
• Picard: par egzimpe, pèr egzimpe
• Polish: na przykład (pl), bodaj (pl) (archaic)
• Portuguese: por exemplo (pt)
• Punjabi: مَثَلاً (mas̱alan)
• Quechua: hina, ñisun, pakachamanta, rikusun
• Romanian: de exemplu, spre exemplu, de pildă, cum ar fi, precum (ro)
• Romansh: per exempel, per sumeglia
• Russian: наприме́р (ru) (naprimér)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: ovdamearkka dihte

• Sanskrit: दृष्टान्तरूपेण (dṛṣṭāntarūpeṇa)
• Scottish Gaelic: mar eisimpleir
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на пример, на примјер, при́мерице̄, при́мјерице̄

  Latin: na primer (sh), na primjer, prímericē, prímjericē (sh)

• Sicilian: pi scempru, pir esempiu (borrowed from Italian); pi diri, ora comu ora
• Slovak: napríklad
• Slovene: na prímer
• Somali: tusaale (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: na pśikład

  Upper Sorbian: na přikład

• Spanish: por ejemplo (es), verbigracia (es) (formal), verbi gratia
• Sranan Tongo: fu eksempre
• Swahili: kwa mfano
• Swedish: till exempel (sv), exempelvis (sv)
• Tagalog: halimbawa (tl)
• Tajik: масалан (tg) (masalan)
• Tatar: мәсәлән (mäsälän)
• Telugu: ఉదాహరణకి (udāharaṇaki)
• Thai: อย่างเช่น (yàang-chêen), เป็นต้น (th) (bpen-dtôn), เป็นต้นว่า (bpen-dtôn-wâa)
• Tibetan: དཔེར་ན (dper na), དཔེར (dper), མཚོན་ན (mtshon na)
• Turkish: örneğin (tr), mesela (tr), sözgelimi (tr), farzımahal, bir örnek verecek olursak

  Ottoman Turkish: مثلا (mesela)

• Turkmen: meselem, mysal üçin
• Tuvan: чижээлээрге (çijeeleerge)
• Ukrainian: напри́клад (naprýklad), як-о́т (uk) (jak-ót), як-то́ (jak-tó)
• Urdu: مثال کے طور پر (misāl ke taur par), مثلاً (masalan, vulg. maslan)
• Uyghur: مەسەلەن (meselen)
• Uzbek: masalan (uz), misol uchun
• Venetan: par exenpio
• Vietnamese: ví dụ (vi), thí dụ (vi)
• Volapük: as sam, äs sam
• Võro: näütüses
• Walloon: par egzimpe (wa), metans (wa)
• Welsh: er enghraifft
• Yiddish: אַ שטייגער (a shteyger), צום בײַשפּיל (tsum bayshpil), למשל (lemoshl)
• Yoruba: bí àpẹẹrẹ, fún àpẹẹrẹ
• Zulu: ngesibonelo, ngesifanekiso, ngomzekelo

See also

• for one

Further reading

• “for example”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.