🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

além

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ah-leng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Beyond/bɪˈjɒnd/
prepositionadverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"As montanhas estão além do vale."

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2 senses
As preposition
  1. 1

    At or to the further side of.

    "The mountains lie beyond the valley."
As adverb
  1. 1

    Further away in the distance.

    "She looked beyond to see what lay ahead."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'beyond' originates from the Old English 'begeondan', which means 'on the other side of'. It is derived from the Proto-Germanic *bi- and *gand, indicating a movement or position further than a certain point. Over time, its usage has evolved to encompass both physical and metaphorical distances.

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