G

See also: Appendix:Variations of "g" and

G U+0047, G
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
F
[U+0046]
Basic Latin H
[U+0048]
U+FF27, G
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G

[U+FF26]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF28]

Translingual

Letter

G (lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Symbol

G

  1. (metrology) giga-.
  2. gauss.
  3. (biochemistry) glycine, a natural amino acid.
  4. (biochemistry) Any of the nucleotides guanodine, nucleoside guanosine, or nucleobase guanine, which are components of DNA.
  5. (physics) The gravitational constant in the formula F = Gm1m2/r2; sometimes called "big G" to distinguish from g for the acceleration of gravity.

See also

Other representations of G:


English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒiː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g, plural Gs or G's)

  1. The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
See also

Number

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Noun

G (countable and uncountable, plural Gs)

  1. (sports, baseball) Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
  2. (US, politics) Green.
  3. (US, of a movie) General (suitable for a general audience).
  4. (sports) Goals (a sports statistic).
  5. Ground floor (of a building).
  6. A galaxy.
  7. gravity
  8. (slang, chiefly US) Grand (thousand dollars).
    • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown, Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
      Just really want to smoke my weed, fuck these hoes, and stack my Gs.
  9. (grammar) Abbreviation of genitive case.
  10. (Britain, education) The academic grade that comes next below F.
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Noun

G (plural Gs)

  1. (slang) A gangster, gangsta.
  2. (economics) Abbreviation for Government Spending.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).

Afar

Letter

G

  1. The fourteenth letter in the Afar alphabet.

See also


American Sign Language

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe G)

  1. The letter G

Azerbaijani

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The ninth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /xeː/
  • (file)

Letter

G (capital, lowercase g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also


Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɡo/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The eighth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called go and written in the Latin script.

See also


Finnish

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords expect for ng [ŋː].

See also


German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeː/

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the German alphabet.

See also


Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

G (lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /dʒi/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/
  • (phoneme, before e or i) IPA(key): /dʒ/

Letter

G m or f (invariable, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Italian alphabet, called gi and written in the Latin script.

See also


Japanese

Etymology 1

From English G.

Noun

G (katakana ジー, rōmaji )

  1. G, gravity

Etymology 2

Initial of ゴキブリ.

Noun

G (katakana ジー, rōmaji )

  1. (slang, euphemistic) a cockroach

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

(file)

Letter

G

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The tenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

See also


Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [d͡ʒi]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [ɡ]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [k̚]

Letter

G

  1. The seventh letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

G

  1. (pensions) Initialism of grunnbeløp.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

G

  1. (pensions) Initialism of grunnbeløp.

Portuguese

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡe/, /dʒe/

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The ninth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phonemes /g/ and /dʒ/. Preceded by F and followed by H.

Usage notes

When followed by the letters i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /dʒ/, as in plângi /plɨndʒʲ/ (you cry) and înger /ɨn.dʒer/ (angel). When followed by "hi" or "he" (ghi & ghe) and in all other cases, it represents /g/.

See also


Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G (lower case g)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Slovene

Pronunciation

Letter

G (capital, lowercase g)

  1. The 8th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by F and followed by H.

See also


Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɡæ/

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called ga and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by C and followed by F.

See also


Spanish

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.

See also


Turkish

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script.

See also


Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The tenth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called gờ or giê and written in the Latin script.

See also


Welsh

Letter

G

  1. The 10th letter of the alphabet, preceded by Ff and followed by Ng

Mutation

  • G at the beginning of words is omitted in a soft mutation, mutates to Ng in a nasal mutation and is unchanged in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word gorsaf (station):
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
gorsaf orsaf ngorsaf unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also


Zulu

Letter

G (upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.