ли — meaning in English

English meaning

• do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
• ed noun A short informal way of saying "education," especially in school or course names.
• if conj Used to introduce a condition: supposing that something is or were true.
• li noun A traditional Chinese unit of distance, now standardized at about half a kilometer.
• whether conj Used to introduce a question or choice between two or more possibilities.
• Yi noun A member of an ethnic group living mainly in the mountainous regions of southwest China.

Senses

ли is used for these senses in English:

• ed Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.
• Li A surname from Chinese
• Yi A surname from Korean. Equivalent to Chinese 李 (Lǐ)
• do (transitive, chiefly, in questions) To have as one's job.
• if (computing) A keyword that invokes conditional processing: in the event that a given condition is true, execute the given statement(s) (otherwise execute other statements).
• li The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
• whether Introduces a simple indirect question (without a correlative).
• whether Introduces a disjunctive adverbial clause qualifying the main clause (with correlative or).

do — full definition

1. verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
2. verb Used as a helping verb to form questions and negatives, or for emphasis.
3. verb To be sufficient or acceptable.
4. verb To fare or get on in a particular way.
5. noun A social event or party (informal, chiefly British).

ed — full definition

1. noun A short informal way of saying "education," especially in school or course names.
2. noun A short informal way of saying "edition" or "editor," often seen in publishing credits.

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