e.g.

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eg"

English

A terser form of ex. gr., both abbreviating Latin exemplī grātiā (“for the sake of an example”).[1]

e.g.

"for example" or "for the sake of an example": used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples.
Continents (e.g. Asia) contain many large bodies of water (e.g. lakes and inland seas) and many large flowing streams of water (i.e., rivers).

Unlike "etc.", "e.g." is very seldom read as a full Latin phrase. Like "i.e.", it is typically read out as its English calque ("for example") or as its letters ("E-G"). It is also sometimes taught or glossed as "example given" for the benefit of English speakers.
"E.g." and its examples are typically set off from the rest of the sentence by punctuation. In US English, "e.g." sometimes will be followed by a comma. However, usually it is not, and it is never followed by a comma in other English-speaking parts.

(UK) I like sweet foods, e.g. danishes.

(US) I like sweet foods (e.g. marzipan) but brush regularly.

(rare, US) I like sweet foods (e.g., marzipan) but brush regularly.

(rare, US) I like sweet foods — e.g., red-bean zongzi — and so prefer Shanghainese cuisine to, e.g., Cantonese.

The example(s) following "e.g." should be illustrative, not exhaustive.[2] An exhaustive list or rephrasing uses "i.e." instead. Since a concluding et cetera makes a list exhaustive, "etc." should never be used with "e.g."

abbreviation for “for example”

Albanian: p. sh. (për shembull)
Arabic: على سبيل المثال‎
Armenian: օր. (ōr.) (օրինակ)
Basque: adib. (eu) (adibidez)
Bulgarian: напр. (napr.) (например)
Catalan: p. ex. (ca) (per exemple)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 例如 (zh) (lìrú)
Czech: např. (cs)
Danish: f.eks. (da), fx (da) (for eksempel (da))
Dutch: bv. (nl), bijv. (nl) (bijvoorbeeld (nl))
Esperanto: (ekzemple) ekz.
Estonian: (näiteks) nt (et)
Faroese: t.d. (til dømis)
Finnish: (esimerkiksi) esim. (fi)
French: par ex. (fr) (par exemple)
Georgian: მაგ. (ka) (mag.)
German: (zum Beispiel) z. B. (de) (dated: (zum Exempel) z. E.), (beispielsweise) bspw. (de)
Greek: π.χ. (el) (p.ch.), παραδείγματος χάριν (el) (paradeígmatos chárin)
Hebrew: לדוגמה‎ (l'dugmá), למשל‎ (l'mashál)
Hungarian: (például) pl.
Icelandic: t.d. (is) (til dæmis (is))
Ido: exemple (io)
Irish: m.sh. (mar shampla)
Italian: (ad esempio) ad es.
Japanese: 例えば (ja) (tatoeba)
Korean: 예를 들면 (yereul deulmyeon)

Kurdish: wekî mînak (ku), wekî nimûne (ku), mîsalen (ku), w.n. (ku), w.m. (ku)
Latin: e. g. (la), ex. gr. (la) (exempli gratia); e. c. (la) (exempli causa)
Latvian: (piemēram) piem.
Lithuanian: (pavyzdžiui) pvz.
Luxembourgish: z. B.
Malay: mis. (misalnya)
Norwegian: f.eks. (no) (for eksempel (no)), t.d. (no) (til dømes (no))
Persian: برای مثال‎
Polish: (na przykład) np. (pl)
Portuguese: p. ex. (pt), (por exemplo) ex. (pt)
Romanian: de ex. (de exemplu), e.g.
Russian: напр. (napr.) (например)
Scottish Gaelic: me (gd)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нпр. (на пример)
Roman: npr. (na primer)
Slovak: napr. (sk) (napríklad)
Slovene: npr. (sl) (na primer)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: na pś. (na pśikład)
Spanish: p. ej. (por ejemplo (es))
Swedish: t.ex. (sv), t ex (sv), tex. t. ex. (till exempel (sv)), exempelvis (sv)
Tagalog: halimbawa (tl)
Turkish: örneğin (tr), mesela (tr), örn.
Ukrainian: наприклад (napryklad)
Vietnamese: vd. (ví dụ)
Welsh: e.e. (er enghraifft)

2007, John C. Traupman, The New College Latin and English Dictionary, ISBN 9780553590128.
2002, Sir Ernest Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, ISBN 9781567922035.

e.g.

(informal, nonstandard, proscribed) An example.
Lemurs are an e.g. of a non-simian primate.

e.g. (by justification)