e-mail

See also: email, Email, E-Mail, and émail

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ēʹmāl, IPA^(key): /ˈiːmeɪl/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːmeɪl

Noun

e-mail (countable and uncountable, plural e-mails)

1. Alternative spelling of email.
   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 262:

     I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

   • 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57:

     She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.

Derived terms

• e-mail address
• e-mail list

Translations

email — see email

Verb

e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)

1. Alternative spelling of email

Derived terms

• e-mailable

 

Translations

email — see email

Anagrams

• maile, Lamie, Melia, ameli

Czech

Alternative forms

• email

Noun

e-mail m inan

1. e-mail

Declension

Declension of e-mail (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	e-mail	e-maily
genitive	e-mailu	e-mailů
dative	e-mailu	e-mailům
accusative	e-mail	e-maily
vocative	e-maile	e-maily
locative	e-mailu	e-mailech
instrumental	e-mailem	e-maily

Danish

Etymology

From English e-mail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːmɛjl/, [ˈiːˌmɛjl]

Noun

e-mail c (singular definite e-mailen, plural indefinite e-mail or e-mails)

1. e-mail [from 1992]

Inflection

Declension of e-mail

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	e-mail	e-mailen	e-mail e-mails	e-mailene
genitive	e-mails	e-mailens	e-mails e-mails'	e-mailenes

Synonyms

• (system): e-post
• (message): e-brev, mail

Derived terms

• e-maile
• e-mail-adresse

Further reading

• e-mail on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈimeːl/
• Hyphenation: e-mail

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English e-mail.

Noun

e-mail m (plural e-mails, diminutive e-mailtje n)

1. e-mail

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard) mail, email

Derived terms

• e-mailadres

Descendants

• → Trió: email

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

e-mail

1. inflection of e-mailen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• maile
• email

French

Alternative forms

• E-mail, email

Etymology

Borrowed from English e-mail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɛl/, /i.mɛjl/
• Hyphenation: e‧mail

Verb

e-mail m (plural e-mails)

1. (computing) An e-mail

   Synonyms: courriel, mail, mél, courrier électronique

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• ímél

Etymology

From English e-mail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiːmeːl]
• Rhymes: -eːl

Noun

e-mail (plural e-mailek)

1. e-mail (system, message)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	e-mail	e-mailek
accusative	e-mailt	e-maileket
dative	e-mailnek	e-maileknek
instrumental	e-maillel	e-mailekkel
causal-final	e-mailért	e-mailekért
translative	e-maillé	e-mailekké
terminative	e-mailig	e-mailekig
essive-formal	e-mailként	e-mailekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	e-mailben	e-mailekben
superessive	e-mailen	e-maileken
adessive	e-mailnél	e-maileknél
illative	e-mailbe	e-mailekbe
sublative	e-mailre	e-mailekre
allative	e-mailhez	e-mailekhez
elative	e-mailből	e-mailekből
delative	e-mailről	e-mailekről
ablative	e-mailtől	e-mailektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	e-mailé	e-maileké
non-attributive possessive - plural	e-mailéi	e-mailekéi

Possessive forms of e-mail
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	e-mailem	e-mailjeim
2nd person sing.	e-mailed	e-mailjeid
3rd person sing.	e-mailje	e-mailjei
1st person plural	e-mailünk	e-mailjeink
2nd person plural	e-mailetek	e-mailjeitek
3rd person plural	e-mailjük	e-mailjeik

Derived terms

• e-mail-cím
• e-mailes
• e-mailezik

 

See also

• email (“enamel”, synonym of zománc)

Further reading

• e-mail in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈmɛjl/, /iˈmejl/
• Rhymes: -ɛjl, -ejl

Noun

e-mail f or m (invariable)

1. e-mail (system, message)
2. e-mail address

Anagrams

• amile, malie

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English e-mail.

Noun

e-mail m (plural e-mails)

1. (Jersey, computing) e-mail

Related terms

• e-mailer (“to e-mail”)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English e-mail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.mɛjl/

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -imɛjl
• Syllabification: e-‧mail

Noun

e-mail m inan

1. e-mail system

   Synonyms: poczta elektroniczna, mail, mejl

2. e-mail (message)

   Synonyms: mail, mejl

3. e-mail address

   Synonyms: mail, mejl

Declension

Declension of e-mail

	singular	plural
nominative	e-mail	e-maile
genitive	e-maila/e-mailu	e-maili/e-mailów
dative	e-mailowi	e-mailom
accusative	e-mail	e-maile
instrumental	e-mailem	e-mailami
locative	e-mailu	e-mailach
vocative	e-mailu	e-maile

Derived terms

adjective

• e-mailowy

 

verb

• e-mailować

 

Further reading

• e-mail in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• e-mail in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• email

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English e-mail.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈmej.u/ [iˈmeɪ̯.u]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈmej.u/ [iˈmeɪ̯.u]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈmej.o/ [iˈmeɪ̯.o]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌiˈmɐj.lɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌiˈmɐj.lɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌiˈmej.lɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌiˈmej.lɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌiˈme.lɨ/

Noun

e-mail m (plural e-mails)

1. (uncountable) e-mail (system for sending messages via the Internet)

   Synonym: correio eletrónico

2. e-mail (message sent via e-mail)

   Synonym: correio eletrónico

   • 2012, Vanessa de Oliveira, Psicopatas do coração, Matrix Editora, →ISBN, page 110:

     Liguei meu notebook para ver as mensagens do dia. Aos poucos eu estava voltando a responder os e-mails de meus leitores.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. e-mail (an e-mail address)

   Synonym: endereço eletrónico

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English e-mail.

Noun

e-mail n (plural e-mailuri)

1. e-mail

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	e-mail	e-mailul		e-mailuri	e-mailurile
genitive-dative	e-mail	e-mailului		e-mailuri	e-mailurilor
vocative	e-mailule			e-mailurilor

Swedish

Noun

e-mail n

1. e-mail

Declension

Declension of e-mail

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	e-mail	e-mails
	definite	e-mailet	e-mailets
plural	indefinite	e-mail	e-mails
	definite	e-mailen	e-mailens