Kilo Lingo

/ɔ̃/

Line drawing of on
Coloured illustration of on
#21 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

one, we, people (informal)

Word origin

From Latin homo ('man, person'), via Old French hom/om used as an indefinite subject. The shift from a noun to an indefinite pronoun parallels the German 'man'.

Origin
Latin
Root
homo
English cognates
human, homicide

Examples

?

Shall we go to the restaurant tonight?

France, dine .

In France, people have dinner around eight o'clock.

.

You never know what might happen.

' -midi.

It looks like it's going to be cold this afternoon.

pizza .

We ate an excellent pizza last night.

Used in

Grammar articles

(48)

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 1.