annex

See also: Annex

English

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈænɛks/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈænɛks/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /əˈnɛks/, /ˈænɛks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2.

Alternative forms

• annexe (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
• anex (US)
• annx.
• anx.

Noun

annex (plural annexes)

1. An addition, an extension.
2. An appendix to a book or document.
3. An addition or extension to a building.
4. An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

Synonyms

• (something additional): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:augmentation

Derived terms

• granny annexe

 

Translations

addition, an extension

• Bulgarian: приба́вка (bg) f (pribávka), допълне́ние (bg) n (dopǎlnénie)
• Catalan: annex (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: bilag
• Dutch: bijlage (nl) f
• Esperanto: alaĵo, aneksaĵo
• Estonian: lisa
• Finnish: lisäys (fi), laajennus (fi)
• French: annexe (fr)
• German: Anhang (de) m, Zusatz (de) m, Erweiterung (de) f, Annex (de) m, Ergänzung (de) f, Beilage (de) f, Beiheft (de) n
• Greenlandic: bilagi
• Hungarian: függelék (hu)
• Japanese: 付加物 (fukabutsu), 付属 (ja) (fuzoku)
• Macedonian: дополну́вање n (dopolnúvanje), дополне́ние n (dopolnénie)
• Malayalam: അനുബന്ധം (ml) (anubandhaṁ)
• Norwegian: anneks (no)
• Persian: ضمیمه (fa) (zamime)
• Polish: aneks (pl) m
• Portuguese: anexo (pt) m
• Russian: приба́вка (ru) f (pribávka), дополне́ние (ru) n (dopolnénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀некс m

  Roman: àneks (sh) m

• Spanish: anexo (es) m
• Swedish: annex (sv), tillägg (sv), bilaga (sv)

appendix

• Bulgarian: приложе́ние (bg) n (priložénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: aanhangsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: alaĵo, aneksaĵo, anekso
• Finnish: liite (fi)
• German: Anhang (de) m, Ergänzung (de) f, Zusatz (de), Nachtrag (de) m, Anhängsel (de) n, Appendix (de) m, Annex (de) m, Fortsatz (de) m
• Japanese: 付録 (ja) (furoku)
• Malayalam: അനുബന്ധം (ml) (anubandhaṁ)
• Polish: aneks (pl) m
• Portuguese: anexo (pt) m
• Russian: приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije)
• Spanish: apéndice (es) m, extensión (es) f
• Swedish: appendix (sv), tillägg (sv), bilaga (sv)

addition or extension to a building

• Bulgarian: пристро́йка (bg) f (pristrójka)
• Catalan: annex (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: uitbouw (nl) m
• Esperanto: aneksaĵo
• Finnish: lisärakennus (fi), siipi (fi)
• French: annexe (fr) f
• German: Nebengebäude (de) n, Anbau (de) n, Erweiterung (de) f, Zubau m, Seitengebäude (de) n, Erweiterungsbau m, Nebenflügel m, Seitenflügel (de) m
• Japanese: 別館 (ja) (べっかん, bekkan), 増築 (ja) (ぞうちく, zouchiku)
• Polish: aneks (pl) m
• Portuguese: anexo (pt) m, puxadinho m (colloquial)
• Russian: пристро́йка (ru) f (pristrójka), фли́гель (ru) m (flígelʹ), крыло́ (ru) n (kryló)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-thaigh m
• Spanish: anexo (es) m, pabellón (es) m
• Swedish: annex (sv), tillbyggnad, flygel (sv)

addition of territory — see annexation

Etymology 2

From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.

Verb

annex (third-person singular simple present annexes, present participle annexing, simple past and past participle annexed)

1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

   The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.

   • 2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee:

     In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.

2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
   • 1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England:

     Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies

   to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt

3. (intransitive) To join; to be united.

Synonyms

• underjoin

Antonyms

• separate

Derived terms

• annexable
• annexation
• annexational
• annexationism
• annexationist
• annexment
• annexure
• disannex
• nonannexed
• reannex
• unannexed

 

Related terms

• adnexa

Translations

to add something to another, to incorporate into

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: анексі́раваць impf or pf (anjeksíravacʹ), анексава́ць impf or pf (anjeksavácʹ), анэксава́ць impf or pf (aneksavácʹ), далуча́ць impf (dalučácʹ), далучы́ць pf (dalučýcʹ)
• Bulgarian: присъединя́вам (bg) impf (prisǎedinjávam), присъединя́ pf (prisǎedinjá), анекси́рам (bg) impf or pf (aneksíram)
• Catalan: annexar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 併吞／并吞 (zh) (bìngtūn), 吞併／吞并 (zh) (tūnbìng), 兼併／兼并 (zh) (jiānbìng)

• Czech: anektovat impf or pf, připojit (cs) pf
• Danish: annektere (da)
• Dutch: annexeren (nl), inlijven (nl)
• Esperanto: aneksi
• Estonian: annekteerima
• Finnish: liittää (fi)
• French: annexer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: annektieren (de), beifügen (de), anfügen (de), anhängen (de), angliedern (de), einverleiben (de), anheften (de), sich aneignen (de), sich einverleiben (de), aneignen (de)
• Hungarian: hozzácsatol (hu), annektál (hu)
• Japanese: 組み入れる (くみいれる, kumiireru), 編入する (ja) (へんにゅうする, hennyū suru), 併合する (ja) (へいごうする, heigō suru)
• Korean: 병합하다 (byeonghaphada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خستنە سەر (xistne ser)

• Latvian: anektēt
• Lithuanian: aneksuoti
• Macedonian: анекти́ра impf or pf (anektíra)
• Maori: taunaha, āpiti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: annektere (no)

• Polish: anektować (pl) impf or pf, zaanektować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: anexar (pt)
• Romanian: a anexa (ro)
• Russian: аннекси́ровать (ru) impf or pf (annɛksírovatʹ), присоединя́ть (ru) impf (prisojedinjátʹ), присоедини́ть (ru) pf (prisojedinítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анекти́рати impf or pf, припа́јати impf, припо̀јити pf

  Roman: anektírati (sh) impf or pf, pripájati (sh) impf, pripòjiti (sh) pf

• Slovak: anektovať impf or pf, pripojiť pf
• Slovene: anektirati impf or pf
• Spanish: anexar (es)
• Swedish: införliva (sv), annektera (sv)
• Turkish: katmak (tr), eklemek (tr), bağlamak (tr), ilhak etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: анексува́ти (uk) impf or pf (aneksuváty), приє́днувати impf (pryjédnuvaty), приєдна́ти pf (pryjednáty)

See also

• merge
• fuse
• add

Anagrams

• xenna-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin annexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ənˈnɛks]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnɛks]

Noun

annex m (plural annexos)

1. annex (an addition, an extension)
2. annex (an addition to a building)

Derived terms

• annexar

Adjective

annex (feminine annexa, masculine plural annexos, feminine plural annexes)

1. attached (of a document)

Further reading

• “annex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Swedish

Noun

annex n

1. annex (an addition to a building)
2. annex (an addition, an extension)

Declension

Declension of annex
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	annex	annexet	annex	annexen
Genitive	annex	annexets	annex	annexens