English - Alternative Forms

• anie (obsolete)

English - Etymology

Middle English eny, from Old English æniġ.

English - Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæni/, /ˈɛni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛni/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪni/
• Rhymes: -ɛni
• (US) Homophone: innie (pin-pen)
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈæni/
• Rhymes: -æni

English - Adverb

any (not comparable)

1. To even the slightest extent, at all.

   I will not remain here any longer.

   If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!

   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 58:

     I wasn't any too easy in my mind.

Translations

English - Determiner

any

1. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.

   do you have any biscuits?;  do you have any food?;  I haven't got any money;  it won't do you any good

   • Bible, Matthew xi. 27

     No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.

2. No matter what kind.

   choose any items you want;  any person may apply

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

Derived terms

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See also

• some

English - Pronoun

any

1. Any thing(s) or person(s).

   Any may apply.

Translations

English - Anagrams

• Ayn, AYN
• nay, NAY
• NYA
• yan

Catalan - Etymology

From Latin annus.

Catalan - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɲ/
• Rhymes: -aɲ

Catalan - Noun

any m (plural anys)

1. year

   un home de 26 anys

   a 26-year-old man

   quants anys tens?

   How old are you?

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