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och

Pronunciation: /ɔ/

“och” is a Swedish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

conjunction

  1. and; used to connect two homogeneous (similar) words or phrases
  2. and; used to denote the last item of a list
  3. and, plus
  4. used to connect two finite verbs to denote that the two actions are performed at the same time, often used similarly to the gerund in other languages
  5. to; in order to; used to connect two finite verbs to denote that the first is done in order to be able to do the second
  6. introduces a main clause which somehow is bound to a previous clause

interjection

  1. and, so, so what

Etymology

From Old Swedish ock, ok, from Old Norse ok, unstressed variant of Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic og, Dutch ook, German auch, and English eke. The unusual spelling with the digraph ch may have been to avoid confusion with the now dated ock (“too, also”).

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