• (RP) IPA: /ˈɛnɪ/
• (British) IPA: /ˈɛni/, /ˈæni/
• (Ireland) IPA: /ˈæni/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɛni/
  • (pin-pen) IPA: /ˈɪni/
• (America) homophones en (pin-pen)

any (not comparable)

1. To even the slightest extent, at all.

   I will not remain here any longer.

   If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!

   That doesn't bother me any. (chiefly US usage)

   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 58:

     I wasn't any too easy in my mind.

• French: du tout
• Italian: affatto
• Portuguese: mais
• Spanish: algo

1. (negative polarity item) At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.

   Do you have any biscuits?

   Do you have any food?

   I haven't got any money.

   It won't do you any good.

   • Bible, Gospel of Matthew xi. 27

     No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.

2. No matter what kind.

   Choose any items you want.

   Any person may apply.

   Press any key to continue.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0108 ↗:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

• French: (with a negative particle) aucun
• German: (interrogative or conditional; singular) irgendein; (interrogative or conditional; plural) irgendwelche; (negative) kein, überhaupt kein
• Italian: qualche
• Portuguese: algum
• Russian: како́й-нибудь

• French: n'importe quel, quelconque
• German: (singular) jeder, jeglicher, jeder beliebige, jeder mögliche, welcher auch immer; (informal) egal welcher; (plural) alle
• Italian: qualsiasi
• Portuguese: qualquer
• Russian: любо́й
• Spanish: cualquier, cualquiera

1. Any thing(s) or person(s).

   Any may apply.

• German: jeder
• Portuguese: qualquer um
• Russian: любо́й
• Spanish: alguno, alguna