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English
Verb
be late (third-person singular simple present is late, present participle being late, simple past was late, past participle been late)
- (This entry is a translation hub.)
- Near-synonym: run late
- (colloquial) To have one’s menstrual discharge late, implying successful nidation suspected.
Translations
arrive late
- Arabic: تَأَخَّرَ (taʔaḵḵara)
- Gulf Arabic: تأخر (taʔaḵḵar)
- Azerbaijani: gecikmək
- Belarusian: спазня́цца impf (spaznjácca), спазні́цца pf (spaznícca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 遲到/迟到 (zh) (chídào), 來晚/来晚 (lái wǎn)
- Czech: zpožďovat se impf, zpozdit se pf
- Esperanto: malfrui
- Estonian: hilinema
- Finnish: olla myöhässä
- French: être en retard
- German: sich verspäten (de)
- Hungarian: késik (hu), elkésik (hu)
- Japanese: 遅れる (ja) (おくれる, okureru)
- Korean: 늦다 (ko) (neutda)
- Polish: spóźniać się (pl) impf, spóźnić się (pl) pf
- Portuguese: atrasar (pt)
- Romanian: a întârzia (ro)
- Russian: опа́здывать (ru) impf (opázdyvatʹ), опозда́ть (ru) pf (opozdátʹ)
- Spanish: llegar tarde
- Swedish: vara sen
- Turkish: gecikmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: спі́знюватися impf (spíznjuvatysja), спізня́тися impf (spiznjátysja) (rare), спізни́тися pf (spiznýtysja), запі́знюватися impf (zapíznjuvatysja), запізня́тися impf (zapiznjátysja) (rare), запізни́тися pf (zapiznýtysja)
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