fans

See also: FANS, Fans, fañs, fäns, and fåns

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fænz/
  • Rhymes: -ænz

Noun

fans

  1. plural of fan

Verb

fans

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fan

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

fans

  1. plural of fan

Chinese

Etymology

From English fans.

Pronunciation

Noun

fans

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) admirer(s); supporter(s) (Classifier: 班; 個／个)

Usage notes

Contrary to English usage, fans is used even when there is only one fan, rather than fan. This is likely because the lack of plurals in the language.

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Noun

fans

  1. plural of fan

French

Noun

fans m or f

  1. plural of fan

Galician

Noun

fans

  1. plural of fan

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfans/, /ˈfɛns/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ans, -ɛns
  • Hyphenation: fàns

Noun

fans m or f

  1. plural of fan

References
  1. fan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of for (“speak, say”).

Pronunciation

Participle

fāns (genitive fantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. speaking, saying

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative fāns fantēs fantia
Genitive fantis fantium
Dative fantī fantibus
Accusative fantem fāns fantēs
fantīs		 fantia
Ablative fante
fantī1		 fantibus
Vocative fāns fantēs fantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

fans

  1. (non-standard since 2015) simple past of finnes

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from fans, the English plural of fan, whence also Norwegian Nynorsk countable fan. Ultimately an English clipping of fanatic.

Noun

fans m (definite singular fansen, uncountable)

  1. (collective, colloquial) fans
    Spørst om fansen godtar det.
    Depends on whether the fans accept it.
  2. indefinite plural of fan
    Han har mange fans.
    He has many fans.

Alternative forms
  • fanst (current standard form)

Verb

fans

  1. past tense of finnas (non-standard since 2012)

References

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfans/ [ˈfãns]
  • Rhymes: -ans
  • Syllabification: fans

Noun

fans

  1. plural of fan

Swedish

Noun

fans

  1. indefinite genitive singular of fan
  2. definite genitive singular of fan
  3. indefinite plural of fan
  4. indefinite genitive plural of fan
  5. definite plural of fan
  6. definite genitive plural of fan

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