• Finnish: kautta

• Finnish: mukaisesti
• Portuguese: por

• ttbc French: pour chaque (1); au + masculine noun beginning with a consonant or an aspirated h, à la + feminine noun, à l' + noun beginning with a vowel or mute h (2)

  100 kilometres per hour - 100 kilomètres à l’heure

• ttbc Italian: per ogni (1); al + masculine noun, allo + masculine noun beginning with impure s, gn, pn, ps, x or z, alla + feminine noun beginning with a consonant, all' + noun beginning with a vowel (2)

  100 kilometres per hour — 100 chilometri all’ora

• ttbc Latin: per
• ttbc Norwegian: per (abbreviated pr.) (1,2)
• ttbc Spanish: por

Danish

Preposition

per (abbreviated pr.)

1. For each; for every

   Motoren roterer 1000 gange per minut = The engine rotates 1000 times per minute

Dutch

Preposition

per

1. For each; for every; per

   De motor draait 1000 toeren per minuut = The engine goes 1000 revolutions per minute

Esperanto

Preposition

per

1. with

Hungarian

Noun

per

1. lawsuit

Italian

Preposition

per

1. for

Usage notes

When followed by a definite article, per may optionally be combined with the article to give the following combined forms (old forms, very rarely used):

Per + articleCombined form per + ilpel per + lopello per + l'pell' per + ipei per + glipegli per + lapella per + lepelle

Latin

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *peri. Cognates include Ancient Greek περί (peri), Sanskrit परि (pári), and Lithuanian per.

Pronunciation

Preposition

per (with )

1. through
2. during

Related terms

• per-

Derived terms

• per annum
• per capita
• per centum
• per contra
• per se
• per stirpes

Norwegian

Preposition

per (abbreviated pr.)

1. For each; for every

   Motoren roterer 1000 ganger per minutt = The engine rotates 1000 times per minute

Romani

Noun

per

1. belly

Swedish

Pronunciation

Preposition

per

1. For each; for every

   Motorn roterar 1000 varv per minut = The engine goes 1000 revolutions per minute

Per or PER can be:

• a common first name in Scandinavia. A form of Peter which means "rock" or "cliff" in Latin.
• Per (storm), a storm in Sweden, in January 2007.
• the IOC country code for Peru.
• the IATA code for Perth Airport in Western Australia.
• PE ratio, price-to-earnings ratio, used in finance.
• Player Efficiency Rating, a basketball statistic.
• Partial equivalence relation.
• Polarization extinction ratio, used in optics and telecommunications.
• Per, the gender-neutral possessive pronoun used by the inhabitants of the future feminist and anarchist utopia in Marge Piercy's novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
• Packed Encoding Rules, a set of ASN.1 encoding rules for formatting data in binary.
• Protein efficiency ratio, a method used for evaluating the quality of protein in food.
• the official abbreviation of the Western Australian Herbarium
• an acronym for Portable Employer of Record
• Perseus (constellation) (standard astronomical abbreviation)
• the stock symbol for Perot Systems Corporation
• Period (gene)
• Packet Error Ratio, the ratio in data packet based communication systems between valid and invalid packets.
• Pér, a village in Hungary
• Physics Education Research

accommodated to, according to, adapted to, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, all, answerable to, aside, by, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, by way of, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, each, for each, hereby, herewith, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in uniformity with, in virtue of, on, per capita, proper to, suitable for, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, uniform with, upon, vagabond, via, whereby, wherewith, wherewithal, with