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section: Alternative forms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/pr%C3%A6fer#English" title="præfer">præfer</a> [16th–17th c.]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/pr%C3%A6ferre#English" title="præferre">præferre</a> [16th–17th c.]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/preferre#English" title="preferre">preferre</a> [14th–17th c.]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/preferren#Middle_English" title="preferren">preferren</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language" class="extiw" title="w:Anglo-Norman language">Anglo-Norman</a> <a href="/wiki/preferer#Old_French" title="preferer">preferer</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/praefero#Latin" title="praefero">praeferō</a>. Displaced native Old English <a href="/wiki/foresettan#Old_English" title="foresettan">foresettan</a> and <a href="/wiki/foreberan#Old_English" title="foreberan">foreberan</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a>) <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): [pɹɪˈfɝ]</li> <li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a>) <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): [prɪˈfɜː]</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="en-us-prefer.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-prefer.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-prefer.ogg/En-us-prefer.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-us-prefer.ogg" title="File:en-us-prefer.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9C%CB%90(%C9%B9)" title="Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)">-ɜː(ɹ)</a></li> <li>Hyphenation: pre‧fer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb">Verb</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> prefer (third-person singular simple present <a href="/wiki/prefers#English" title="prefers">prefers</a>, present participle <a href="/wiki/preferring#English" title="preferring">preferring</a>, simple past and past participle <a href="/wiki/preferred#English" title="preferred">preferred</a>) <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) To be in the <a href="/wiki/habit" title="habit">habit</a> of <a href="/wiki/choosing" title="choosing">choosing</a> something rather than something else; to <a href="/wiki/favor" title="favor">favor</a>; to like better. [from 14th c.] <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">I prefer tea to coffee.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">I'd prefer it if you didn't do it.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a> 1608–1609 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus" class="extiw" title="w:Coriolanus">The Tragedy of Coriolanus</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act III, scene i], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrvvilliamshakes00shak/page/15/mode/1up">page 15</a>, column 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">You that will be leſſe fearefull, then diſcreet, That loue the fundamentall part of State More then you doubt the change on’t: That preferre A Noble life, before a Long, […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1907 August, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers" class="extiw" title="w:Robert W. Chambers">Robert W[illiam] Chambers</a>, chapter VIII, in <cite>The Younger Set</cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Appleton_%26_Company" class="extiw" title="w:D. Appleton & Company">D. Appleton & Company</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/24962326">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1907, <cite>The Quarterly Review</cite>, volume 207, page 119:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The February kid he should retain, also the full-grown goat; the goatling he should sell, also its kid, unless he prefers using it for the table. Thus he has not only a good supply of milk, but he has an early kid ready for next year, […]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Sapolsky">Robert Sapolsky</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behave_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Behave (book)">Behave</a></cite>, Penguin, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-507-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-507-1">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Similar, if milder, versions of the same are reported in some (but not all) studies of humans, ranging from the Wellesley effect, discussed in the introduction, to heterosexual women preferring the smell of high-testosterone men.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2019 February 26, James Graham, Adam Johnson, “The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend”, in <cite>FAIR.org</cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">You don’t attack politicians because you prefer them; you attack them because you’re scared of them.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>, now <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dated" title="Appendix:Glossary">dated</a>) To <a href="/wiki/advance" title="advance">advance</a>, <a href="/wiki/promote" title="promote">promote</a> (someone or something). [from 14th c.] <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a> 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello" class="extiw" title="w:Othello">The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act II, scene i], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrvvilliamshakes00shak/page/318/mode/1up">page 318</a>, column 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Esther" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Esther">Esther</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Bible1611/page/n609/mode/1up">2:9</a>, column 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And the maiden pleaſed him, and ſhe obtained kindneſſe of him, […], and hee preferred her and her maids, vnto the beſt place of the houſe of the women.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burton_(scholar)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Burton (scholar)">Robert Burton</a>], <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy" class="extiw" title="w:The Anatomy of Melancholy">The Anatomy of Melancholy: [<span title="What It Is. With All the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Seuerall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions, with Their Seuerall Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up, by Democritus Junior, with a Satyricall Preface, Conducing to the Following Discourse.">…]</a></cite>, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/54573970">→OCLC</a>, partition II, section 3, member 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers […].</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1743, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drury_(sailor)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Drury (sailor)">Drury, Robert (sailor; author)</a>, <cite>THE Pleaſant, and Surprizing ADVENTURES OF Mr. Robert Drury, DURING HIS Fifteen Years CAPTIVITY on the Iſland OF MADAGASCAR</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/pleasantandsurp00drurgoog">[1]</a>, London, published 1743, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/23616832">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pleasantandsurp00drurgoog/page/n87/mode/1up">page 67</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">For this Reaſon, I preſume, it was, that ſhe took ſo much Compaſſion upon me ; conſidering herſelf a Slave in a ſtrange Country, and only preferr’d to my Maſter’s Bed by Courteſy.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) To <a href="/wiki/present" title="present">present</a> or <a href="/wiki/submit" title="submit">submit</a> (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). [from 16th c.] <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1599 (first performance), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" class="extiw" title="w:Julius Caesar (play)">The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act III, scene i], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrvvilliamshakes00shak/page/118/mode/1up">page 118</a>, column 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"> […], let him go, And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1803, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_Dallas" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Charles Dallas">Dallas, Robert Charles (author)</a>, <cite>The History of the Maroons</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/cihm_44228">[2]</a>, volume 1, London: Longman and Rees, published 1803, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/13033299">→OCLC</a>, Letter 5, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cihm_44228/page/n281/mode/1up">page 137</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">At length the Maroons, who were delighted to have him with them, became diſcontented with his abſence, and for ſeveral years, during the ſeſſions of the Houſe of Aſſembly, preferred repeated complaints againſt him.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) To put forward for <a href="/wiki/acceptance" title="acceptance">acceptance</a>; to <a href="/wiki/introduce" title="introduce">introduce</a>, <a href="/wiki/recommend" title="recommend">recommend</a> (<a href="/wiki/to#English" title="to">to</a>). [16th–19th c.] <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1630, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" class="extiw" title="w:John Smith (explorer)">John Smith</a>, chapter 1, in <cite>The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12471.0001.001">[3]</a>, London: Thomas Slater, page 2:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott" class="extiw" title="w:Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>], chapter IV, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Roy_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Rob Roy (novel)">Rob Roy. […]</a></cite>, volume II, Edinburgh: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ballantyne" class="extiw" title="w:James Ballantyne">James Ballantyne and Co.</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable_%26_Robinson" class="extiw" title="w:Constable & Robinson">Archibald Constable and Co.</a> […]; London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman" class="extiw" title="w:Longman">Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/82790126">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/robroy02sco/page/68/mode/1up">page 68</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current; and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept, […].</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Usage notes">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The verb can be used in three different forms: <ol><li>prefer + noun + to (or over) + noun. Example: I prefer coffee to tea.</li> <li>prefer + gerund + to (or over) + gerund. Example: I prefer skiing to swimming.</li> <li>prefer + full infinitive + rather than + bare infinitive. Example: I prefer to die honorably rather than live in shame. If the second verb is the same as the first, it can be elided: I prefer to eat fish rather than meat.</li></ol></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Synonyms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/forechoose#English" title="forechoose">forechoose</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Antonyms">Antonyms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Antonyms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/disprefer#English" title="disprefer">disprefer</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Related terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/nonpreferred#English" title="nonpreferred">nonpreferred</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferable#English" title="preferable">preferable</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preference#English" title="preference">preference</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferendum#English" title="preferendum">preferendum</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferential#English" title="preferential">preferential</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferer#English" title="preferer">preferer</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferment#English" title="preferment">preferment</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferrable#English" title="preferrable">preferrable</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferred_creditor#English" title="preferred creditor">preferred creditor</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferred_provider#English" title="preferred provider">preferred provider</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferred_stock#English" title="preferred stock">preferred stock</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferred_stockholder#English" title="preferred stockholder">preferred stockholder</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/preferrer#English" title="preferrer">preferrer</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/prelate#English" title="prelate">prelate</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/unpreferred#English" title="unpreferred">unpreferred</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-to_favor"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">to favor</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="to favor"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Albanian: <a href="/wiki/preferon#Albanian" title="preferon">preferon</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> or <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></li> <li>Arabic: <a href="/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B6%D9%84#Arabic" title="فضل">فَضَّلَ</a> (faḍḍala), <a href="/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%AB%D8%B1#Arabic" title="آثر">آثَرَ</a> (ʔāṯara)</li> <li>Armenian: <a href="/wiki/%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AD%D5%A8%D5%B6%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%AC#Armenian" title="նախընտրել">նախընտրել</a> <a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AD%D5%A8%D5%B6%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%AC" class="extiw" title="hy:նախընտրել">(hy)</a> (naxəntrel)</li> <li>Azerbaijani: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%BCst%C3%BCn_tutmaq&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="üstün tutmaq (page does not exist)">üstün tutmaq</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=t%C9%99rcih_etm%C9%99k&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tərcih etmək (page does not exist)">tərcih etmək</a></li> <li>Basque: <a href="/w/index.php?title=nahiago_izan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="nahiago izan (page does not exist)">nahiago izan</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=nahitu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="nahitu (page does not exist)">nahitu</a></li> <li>Belarusian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8C#Belarusian" title="аддаваць">аддава́ць</a> <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0#Belarusian" title="перевага">перева́гу</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (addavácʹ pjerjeváhu), <a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8C#Belarusian" title="аддаць">адда́ць</a> <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0#Belarusian" title="перевага">перева́гу</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (addácʹ pjerjeváhu)</li> <li>Bulgarian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC#Bulgarian" title="предпочитам">предпочи́там</a> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="bg:предпочитам">(bg)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (predpočítam)</li> <li>Catalan: <a href="/wiki/preferir#Catalan" title="preferir">preferir</a> <a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferir" class="extiw" title="ca:preferir">(ca)</a>, <a href="/wiki/estimar-se_m%C3%A9s#Catalan" title="estimar-se més">estimar-se més</a></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Mandarin: <a href="/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83#Mandarin" title="比較">比較</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%96%9C%E6%AD%A1#Mandarin" title="喜歡">喜歡</a>／<a href="/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E8%BE%83#Mandarin" title="比较">比较</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%96%9C%E6%AC%A2#Mandarin" title="喜欢">喜欢</a> (bǐjiào xǐhuan)</dd></dl></li> <li>Cornish: <a href="/w/index.php?title=bos_gwell_gans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="bos gwell gans (page does not exist)">bos gwell gans</a> (with subject and object reversed)</li> <li>Czech: <a href="/w/index.php?title=up%C5%99ednost%C5%88ovat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="upřednostňovat (page does not exist)">upřednostňovat</a> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/up%C5%99ednost%C5%88ovat" class="extiw" title="cs:upřednostňovat">(cs)</a>, <a href="/wiki/d%C3%A1t_p%C5%99ednost#Czech" title="dát přednost">dát přednost</a>, <a href="/wiki/preferovat#Czech" title="preferovat">preferovat</a> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferovat" class="extiw" title="cs:preferovat">(cs)</a></li> <li>Danish: <a href="/wiki/foretr%C3%A6kke#Danish" title="foretrække">foretrække</a></li> <li>Dutch: <a href="/w/index.php?title=voorkeur_geven&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="voorkeur geven (page does not exist)">(de) voorkeur geven (aan)</a>, <a href="/wiki/verkiezen#Dutch" title="verkiezen">verkiezen (boven)</a> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/verkiezen" class="extiw" title="nl:verkiezen">(nl)</a>, <a href="/wiki/prefereren#Dutch" title="prefereren">prefereren</a> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/prefereren" class="extiw" title="nl:prefereren">(nl)</a></li> <li>Esperanto: <a href="/wiki/preferi#Esperanto" title="preferi">preferi</a> <a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferi" class="extiw" title="eo:preferi">(eo)</a>, <a href="/wiki/pli%C5%9Dati#Esperanto" title="pliŝati">pliŝati</a> <a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/pli%C5%9Dati" class="extiw" title="eo:pliŝati">(eo)</a></li> <li>Estonian: <a href="/wiki/eelistama#Estonian" title="eelistama">eelistama</a></li> <li>Finnish: <a href="/w/index.php?title=pit%C3%A4%C3%A4_parempana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="pitää parempana (page does not exist)">pitää parempana</a></li> <li>French: <a href="/wiki/pr%C3%A9f%C3%A9rer#French" title="préférer">préférer</a> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/pr%C3%A9f%C3%A9rer" class="extiw" title="fr:préférer">(fr)</a></li> <li>Georgian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%83%9B%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="მჯობინება (page does not exist)">მჯობინება</a> (mǯobineba), <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9E%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%AD%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="უპირატესობის მინიჭება (page does not exist)">უპირატესობის მინიჭება</a> (uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba)</li> <li>German: <a href="/wiki/vorziehen#German" title="vorziehen">vorziehen</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/vorziehen" class="extiw" title="de:vorziehen">(de)</a>, <a href="/wiki/bevorzugen#German" title="bevorzugen">bevorzugen</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/bevorzugen" class="extiw" title="de:bevorzugen">(de)</a>, <a href="/wiki/pr%C3%A4ferieren#German" title="präferieren">präferieren</a> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/pr%C3%A4ferieren" class="extiw" title="de:präferieren">(de)</a></li> <li>Greek: <a href="/wiki/%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%89#Greek" title="προτιμάω">προτιμάω</a> (protimáo) <dl><dd>Ancient: <a href="/wiki/%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="προτιμάω">προτιμάω</a> (protimáō), <a href="/w/index.php?title=%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%89&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="προαιρέω (page does not exist)">προαιρέω</a> (proairéō), <a href="/w/index.php?title=%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="προκρίνω (page does not exist)">προκρίνω</a> (prokrínō)</dd></dl></li> <li>Haitian Creole: <a href="/wiki/pito#Haitian_Creole" title="pito">pito</a></li> <li>Hawaiian: <a href="/wiki/makemake#Hawaiian" title="makemake">makemake</a></li> <li>Hebrew: <a href="/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A3#Hebrew" title="העדיף">הֶעֱדִיף</a> (he'edíf)</li> <li>Hindi: <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE#Hindi" title="पसंद करना">पसंद करना</a> (pasand karnā)</li> <li>Hungarian: <a href="/wiki/sz%C3%ADvesebben#Hungarian" title="szívesebben">szívesebben</a> (<a href="/wiki/tesz#Hungarian" title="tesz">tesz</a>), <a href="/wiki/jobban#Hungarian" title="jobban">jobban</a> <a href="/wiki/szeret#Hungarian" title="szeret">szeret</a>/<a href="/wiki/tetszik#Hungarian" title="tetszik">tetszik</a>, <a href="/wiki/el%C5%91nyben_r%C3%A9szes%C3%ADt#Hungarian" title="előnyben részesít">előnyben részesít</a> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/el%C5%91nyben_r%C3%A9szes%C3%ADt" class="extiw" title="hu:előnyben részesít">(hu)</a></li> <li>Irish: <a href="/wiki/is_fearr_le#Irish" class="mw-redirect" title="is fearr le">is fearr le</a> (with subject and object reversed)</li> <li>Italian: <a href="/wiki/preferire#Italian" title="preferire">preferire</a> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferire" class="extiw" title="it:preferire">(it)</a>, <a href="/wiki/favorire#Italian" title="favorire">favorire</a> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/favorire" class="extiw" title="it:favorire">(it)</a></li> <li>Japanese: …の<a href="/wiki/%E6%96%B9#Japanese" title="方">方</a>を<a href="/wiki/%E5%A5%BD%E3%82%80#Japanese" title="好む">好む</a> (…のほうをこのむ, ...no hō o konomu), …の<a href="/wiki/%E6%96%B9#Japanese" title="方">方</a>が<a href="/wiki/%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%8D#Japanese" title="好き">好き</a>である (…のほうがすきである, ... no hō ga suki de aru)</li> <li>Khmer: <a href="/wiki/%E1%9E%85%E1%9E%BC%E1%9E%9B%E1%9E%85%E1%9E%B7%E1%9E%8F%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%8F#Khmer" title="ចូលចិត្ត">ចូលចិត្ត</a> (coul cət)</li> <li>Korean: 더 <a href="/wiki/%EC%A2%8B%EC%95%84%ED%95%98%EB%8B%A4#Korean" title="좋아하다">좋아하다</a> (-deo joahada), <a href="/wiki/%EC%84%A0%ED%98%B8%ED%95%98%EB%8B%A4#Korean" title="선호하다">선호(選好)하다</a> <a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%84%A0%ED%98%B8%ED%95%98%EB%8B%A4" class="extiw" title="ko:선호하다">(ko)</a> (seonhohada)</li> <li>Lao: <a href="/wiki/%E0%BA%AA%E0%BA%B0%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%9E%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%B0#Lao" title="ສະເພາະ">ສະເພາະ</a> (sa phǫ)</li> <li>Latin: <a href="/wiki/addico#Latin" title="addico">addīcō</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=mavolo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="mavolo (page does not exist)">māvolō</a>, <a href="/wiki/malo#Latin" title="malo">mālō</a> <a href="https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/malo" class="extiw" title="la:malo">(la)</a>, <a href="/wiki/antehabeo#Latin" title="antehabeo">antehabeō</a></li> <li>Lingala: <a href="/wiki/pono#Lingala" title="pono">pono</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=kopono&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kopono (page does not exist)">kopono</a></li> <li>Macedonian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0#Macedonian" title="претпочита">претпо́чита</a> (pretpóčita), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0#Macedonian" title="преферира">префери́ра</a> (preferíra)</li> <li>Malay: <a href="/wiki/lebih_suka#Malay" title="lebih suka">lebih suka</a></li> <li>Manx: <a href="/w/index.php?title=share_lesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="share lesh (page does not exist)">share lesh</a> (with subject and object reversed)</li> <li>Maori: <a href="/w/index.php?title=mariu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="mariu (page does not exist)">mariu</a></li> <li>Mongolian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%85%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BB%D1%8D%D1%85&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="эрхэмлэх (page does not exist)">эрхэмлэх</a> <a href="https://mn.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%85%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BB%D1%8D%D1%85" class="extiw" title="mn:эрхэмлэх">(mn)</a> (erxemlex)</li> <li>Nepali: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="चुन्नु (page does not exist)">चुन्नु</a> (cunnu)</li> <li>Norman: <a href="/wiki/pr%C3%A9f%C3%A9ther#Norman" title="préféther">préféther</a></li> <li>Norwegian: <dl><dd>Bokmål: <a href="/wiki/foretrekke#Norwegian_Bokmål" title="foretrekke">foretrekke</a> <a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/foretrekke" class="extiw" title="no:foretrekke">(no)</a></dd></dl></li> <li>Old English: <a href="/wiki/foreberan#Old_English" title="foreberan">foreberan</a>, <a href="/wiki/foresettan#Old_English" title="foresettan">foresettan</a></li> <li>Ottoman Turkish: <a href="/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%86%D9%85%D9%83#Ottoman_Turkish" title="بكنمك">بگنمك</a> (beğenmek)</li> <li>Persian: <a href="/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%AD_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86#Persian" title="ترجیح دادن">ترجیح دادن</a> <a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%AD_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86" class="extiw" title="fa:ترجیح دادن">(fa)</a> (tarjih dâdan)</li> <li>Polish: <a href="/wiki/wole%C4%87#Polish" title="woleć">woleć</a> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/wole%C4%87" class="extiw" title="pl:woleć">(pl)</a></li> <li>Portuguese: <a href="/wiki/preferir#Portuguese" title="preferir">preferir</a> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferir" class="extiw" title="pt:preferir">(pt)</a></li> <li>Quechua: <a href="/w/index.php?title=allikachiy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="allikachiy (page does not exist)">allikachiy</a></li> <li>Romanian: <a href="/wiki/prefera#Romanian" title="prefera">prefera</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/prefera" class="extiw" title="ro:prefera">(ro)</a></li> <li>Russian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian" title="предпочитать">предпочита́ть</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C" class="extiw" title="ru:предпочитать">(ru)</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (predpočitátʹ), <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian" title="предпочесть">предпоче́сть</a> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C" class="extiw" title="ru:предпочесть">(ru)</a> <abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr> (predpočéstʹ)</li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Roman: <a href="/wiki/preferirati#Serbo-Croatian" title="preferirati">preferirati</a> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferirati" class="extiw" title="sh:preferirati">(sh)</a></dd></dl></li> <li>Spanish: <a href="/wiki/preferir#Spanish" title="preferir">preferir</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/preferir" class="extiw" title="es:preferir">(es)</a>, <a href="/wiki/anteponer#Spanish" title="anteponer">anteponer</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/anteponer" class="extiw" title="es:anteponer">(es)</a></li> <li>Swedish: <a href="/wiki/f%C3%B6redraga#Swedish" title="föredraga">föredraga</a>, <a href="/wiki/f%C3%B6redra#Swedish" title="föredra">föredra</a> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/f%C3%B6redra" class="extiw" title="sv:föredra">(sv)</a></li> <li>Tagalog: <a href="/w/index.php?title=mas_gusto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="mas gusto (page does not exist)">mas gusto</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kumikiling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kumikiling (page does not exist)">kumikiling</a></li> <li>Thai: <a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9A#Thai" title="ชอบ">ชอบ</a> ~ <a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2#Thai" title="มากกว่า">มากกว่า</a> (chɔ̂ɔp ~ mâak-gwàa)</li> <li>Tibetan: <a href="/wiki/%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%91%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%91%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94#Tibetan" title="འདོད་པ">འདོད་པ་</a> ('dod pa)</li> <li>Turkish: <a href="/wiki/tercih_etmek#Turkish" title="tercih etmek">tercih etmek</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/tercih_etmek" class="extiw" title="tr:tercih etmek">(tr)</a></li> <li>Ukrainian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8#Ukrainian" title="віддавати">віддава́ти</a> <a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0#Ukrainian" title="перевага">перева́гу</a> <abbr title="imperfective aspect">impf</abbr> (viddaváty pereváhu)</li> <li>Vietnamese: <a href="/w/index.php?title=th%C3%ADch_h%C6%A1n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="thích hơn (page does not exist)">thích hơn</a></li> <li>Welsh: <a href="/w/index.php?title=bod_yn_well_gan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="bod yn well gan (page does not exist)">bod yn well gan</a> (with subject and object reversed)</li> <li>Yiddish: <a href="/wiki/%D7%A4%D6%BC%D7%A8%D7%A2%D7%A4%D6%BF%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%9F#Yiddish" title="פּרעפֿערירן">פּרעפֿערירן</a> (preferirn)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chinese">Chinese</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Chinese">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" class="extiw" title="w:English language">English</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">prefer</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <div class="standard-box zhpron" style="overflow:auto; max-width:500px; font-size:100%"><div class="vsSwitcher" data-toggle-category="pronunciations"> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Cantonese">Cantonese</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping" class="extiw" title="w:Jyutping">Jyutping</a>): pi6 foe1</li></ul> <div class="vsHide" style="clear:right;"> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Cantonese">Cantonese</a> <ul><li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Standard Cantonese">Standard Cantonese</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou_Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Guangzhou Cantonese">Guangzhou</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Hong Kong Cantonese">Hong Kong</a>)<abbr title="Add Cantonese homophones"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Module%3Ayue-pron%2Fhom&action=edit">+</a></abbr> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping" class="extiw" title="w:Jyutping">Jyutping</a>: pi6 foe1</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale</a>: pih fēu</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_Pinyin" class="extiw" title="w:Cantonese Pinyin">Cantonese Pinyin</a>: pi6 foe1</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization" class="extiw" title="w:Guangdong Romanization">Guangdong Romanization</a>: pi6 fê1</li> <li>Sinological <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology" class="extiw" title="w:Cantonese phonology">key</a>): /pʰiː²² fœː⁵⁵/</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb_2">Verb</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> prefer <ol><li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Hong Kong Cantonese">Hong Kong Cantonese</a>) to <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">prefer</a> (to favor) <ul><li><dl class="zhusex"><a href="/wiki/%E5%89%9B%E6%89%8D#Chinese" title="剛才">剛才</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a>Mr Pennicott<a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%90%8C#Chinese" title="同">同</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%88%91#Chinese" title="我">我</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%8F%90%E5%87%BA#Chinese" title="提出">提出</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%92%97#Chinese" title="咗">咗</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%95%B2#Chinese" title="一啲">一啲</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese" title="佢">佢</a><a href="/wiki/%E7%95%B6%E4%BA%8B%E4%BA%BA#Chinese" title="當事人">當事人</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%98%85#Chinese" title="嘅">嘅</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%84%8F%E8%A6%8B#Chinese" title="意見">意見</a>，<a href="/wiki/%E6%88%91#Chinese" title="我">我</a><a href="/wiki/%E8%AB%97#Chinese" title="諗">諗</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese" title="佢">佢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a>prefer<a href="/wiki/%E6%88%91#Chinese" title="我">我</a><a href="/wiki/%E9%96%8B%E8%81%B2#Chinese" title="開聲">開聲</a><a href="/wiki/%E8%AC%9B#Chinese" title="講">講</a>，<a href="/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese" title="佢">佢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a><a href="/wiki/%E8%A6%81%E6%B1%82#Chinese" title="要求">要求</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%85%A9#Chinese" title="兩">兩</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%A8%A3#Chinese" title="樣">樣</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%98%A2#Chinese" title="嘢">嘢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%98%85#Chinese" title="嘅">嘅</a>⋯⋯ [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Cantonese">Cantonese</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese" class="extiw" title="w:Traditional Chinese">trad.</a>] <a href="/wiki/%E5%88%9A%E6%89%8D#Chinese" title="刚才">刚才</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a>Mr Pennicott<a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%90%8C#Chinese" title="同">同</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%88%91#Chinese" title="我">我</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%8F%90%E5%87%BA#Chinese" title="提出">提出</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%92%97#Chinese" title="咗">咗</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%95%B2#Chinese" title="一啲">一啲</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese" title="佢">佢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%BD%93%E4%BA%8B%E4%BA%BA#Chinese" title="当事人">当事人</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%98%85#Chinese" title="嘅">嘅</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%84%8F%E8%A7%81#Chinese" title="意见">意见</a>，<a href="/wiki/%E6%88%91#Chinese" title="我">我</a><a href="/wiki/%E8%B0%82#Chinese" title="谂">谂</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese" title="佢">佢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a>prefer<a href="/wiki/%E6%88%91#Chinese" title="我">我</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%BC%80%E5%A3%B0#Chinese" title="开声">开声</a><a href="/wiki/%E8%AE%B2#Chinese" title="讲">讲</a>，<a href="/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese" title="佢">佢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a><a href="/wiki/%E8%A6%81%E6%B1%82#Chinese" title="要求">要求</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%B0%B1#Chinese" title="就">就</a><a href="/wiki/%E4%B8%A4#Chinese" title="两">两</a><a href="/wiki/%E6%A0%B7#Chinese" title="样">样</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%98%A2#Chinese" title="嘢">嘢</a><a href="/wiki/%E5%98%85#Chinese" title="嘅">嘅</a>⋯⋯ [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese" class="extiw" title="w:Cantonese">Cantonese</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese" class="extiw" title="w:Simplified Chinese">simp.</a>]<dd>From: 2016, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zh:%E7%9F%B3%E6%B0%B8%E6%B3%B0" class="extiw" title="w:zh:石永泰">石永泰</a> [Paul SHIEH Wing-tai], 食水含鉛超標調查委員會 [Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.coi-drinkingwater.gov.hk/chi/pdf/transcript20160107.pdf">P.139 of transcript</a></dd><dd>gong1 coi4 zau6 Mr Pennicott zau6 tung4 ngo5 tai4 ceot1 zo2 jat1 di1 keoi5 dong1 si6 jan4 ge3 ji3 gin3, ngo5 nam2 keoi5 zau6 pi6 foe1 ngo5 hoi1 seng1 gong2, keoi5 zau6 jiu1 kau4 zau6 loeng5 joeng6 je5 ge3... 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He had asked two things…</dd></dl></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Romanian">Romanian</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Romanian">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_3">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Romanian_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Romanian pronunciation">key</a>): [prefˈer]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb_3">Verb</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=prefer&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> prefer <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#first_person" title="Appendix:Glossary">first-person</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" 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