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Prepositional phrase
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from A to Z
- (idiomatic) Covering a complete range; comprehensively; from beginning to end.[1][2]
They covered the whole field from A to Z in eight classes.
completely
- Afrikaans: van A tot Z (af)
- Albanian: nga A në Z
- Arabic: مِنَ الأَلِف إِلَى اليَاء (mina l-ʔalif ʔilā l-yāʔ)
- Belarusian: ад а́ да я́ (ad á da já), ад А́ да Я́ (ad Á da Já), ад а́льфы да аме́гі (ad álʹfy da amjéhi)
- Bulgarian: от А́ до Я́ (ot Á do Já), от а́лфа до оме́га (ot álfa do oméga)
- Catalan: de la A a la Z
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 從頭到尾/从头到尾 (zh) (cóng tóu dào wěi) (from head to tail)
- Czech: od A do Z
- Danish: fra A til Z, fra A til Å
- Dutch: van A tot Z
- Estonian: A-st Z-ni
- Finnish: aasta ööhön (fi), A:sta Ö:hön
- French: de A à Z (fr), depuis A jusqu’à Z (fr)
- Georgian: ანიდან ჰოემდე (anidan hoemde)
- German: von A bis Z (de)
- Greek: από το Α ως το Ω (apó to A os to O)
- Hebrew: מ־א׳ ועד ת׳ (he) (mi-álef ve'ád tav)
- Hungarian: á-tól z-ig (hu), ától zéig, ától cettig (hu)
- Icelandic: frá A til Ö
- Italian: dalla A alla Z
- Japanese: 初めから終わりまで (はじめからおわりまで, hajime kara owari made) (from beginning to end), 一から十まで (いちからじゅうまで, ichi kara jū made) (from one to ten)
- Kazakh: А-дан Я-ға дейін (A-dan Ä-ğa deiın)
- Korean: 하나에서 열까지 다 (hana-eseo yeol-kkaji da) (from one to ten)
- Latvian: no A līdz Z
- Lithuanian: nuo A iki Z
- Macedonian: од А до Ш (od A do Š)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fra A til Å
- Occitan: de la A a la Z
- Polish: od A do Z (pl), od a do zet (pl)
- Portuguese: de A a Z
- Romanian: de la A la Z
- Russian: от а́ до я́ (ru) (ot á do já), от А́ до Я́ (ru) (ot Á do Já), с нача́ла до конца́ (s načála do koncá) (from beginning to end), от а́льфы до оме́ги (ru) (ot álʹfy do omégi), от а́ до и́жицы (ru) (ot á do ížicy) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: од А до Ш (Serbian)
- Roman: od A do Š (Serbian), od A do Z (Croatia)
- Slovak: od A po Z
- Slovene: od A do Ž
- Spanish: de pe a pa (es), de la cruz a la fecha
- Swedish: från A till Ö (sv), A och O
- Turkish: A'dan Z'ye
- Ukrainian: від а́ до я́ (vid á do já), від А́ до Я́ (vid Á do Já), від а́льфи до оме́ги (vid álʹfy do oméhy)
- Yiddish: פֿון א׳ ביז תּ׳ (fun alef biz tof)
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- ^ Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “from A to Z”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 1.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 1