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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From electronic + mail.
Pronunciation
Noun
e-mail (countable and uncountable; plural e-mails)
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via e-mail.
- The advent of e-mail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable, see Usage notes below) A message sent via an e-mail system.
- I am searching through my old e-mails.
- He sent me several e-mails last week to that effect.
- (uncountable, see Usage notes below) A quantity of e-mail messages.
- I am searching through my old e-mail.
- My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of e-mail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- (informal) An e-mail address.
- What's your e-mail?
Usage notes
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- The spellings e-mail and email are both in common use. The use of “email” is now more widespread, likely due to one less character and thus making it easier to write or type, and is becoming a standardized usage for most businesses and Internet users. In general, the hyphenated form is more likely to be considered proper by those who follow strict grammatical rules; however, as a recently coined word, it remains an unsettled matter at this point.
- As a contraction of electronic mail, some feel that e-mail should follow the same pluralization rules and be uncountable, prohibiting the forms e-mails and an e-mail. Others feel that it is not necessary for e-mail to maintain grammatical similarity to mail, and prefer to pluralize the term as a countable noun. This issue is hotly debated, but it is seldom considered incorrect to use the uncountable form.
Derived terms
- e-mail forward
Verb
to e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)
- To compose and send an e-mail.
Translations
to compose and send an e-mailSee also
Anagrams
Czech
Alternative forms
Noun
e-mail m.
Danish
Etymology
From English e-mail.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /iːmɛjl/, [ˈiːˌmɛjl]
Noun
e-mail c. (singular definite e-mailen, plural indefinite e-mail or e-mails)
- e-mail [from 1992]
Inflection
Inflection of e-mail| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | e-mailen | e-mail e-mails | e-mailene | |
| genitive | e-mails | e-mailens | e-mails e-mails' | e-mailenes |
Synonyms
Derived terms
External links
- E-mail on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
Dutch
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on: E-mailNoun
e-mail m. (plural e-mails)
Derived terms
Verb
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
e-mail f. and m. inv.
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