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English
Pronunciation
Adverb
once in a while (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Occasionally; sometimes.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:occasionally
I send her a note once in a while to let her know I'm thinking of her.
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occasionally
- Azerbaijani: arabir (az)
- Bulgarian: понякога (bg) (ponjakoga), от време на време (ot vreme na vreme)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 偶爾 / 偶尔 (zh) (ǒu'ěr)
- Danish: en gang imellem (da), indimellem
- Dutch: nu en dan (nl)
- Esperanto: de tempo al tempo
- Finnish: ajoittain (fi), silloin tällöin (fi)
- French: de temps en temps (fr)
- German: ab und zu (de)
- Greek: κάπου-κάπου (kápou-kápou), κάθε τόσο (káthe tóso), κατά διαστήματα (katá diastímata), πού και πού (el) (poú kai poú), μια (φορά) στο τόσο (mia (forá) sto tóso)
- Hungarian: nagy ritkán, nagy néha, időnként (hu), olykor (hu), olykor-olykor (hu), néha (hu), néha-néha (hu), hébe-hóba (hu)
- Italian: di tanto in tanto (it)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: av og til (no), nå og da, i gang i mellom
- Ojibwe: wiikaa
- Plautdietsch: enjawiess
- Polish: raz na jakiś czas (pl)
- Portuguese: de vez em quando (pt)
- Russian: иногда́ (ru) (inogdá), вре́мя от вре́мени (ru) (vrémja ot vrémeni), поро́й (ru) (porój)
- Spanish: de vez en cuando (es)
- Swedish: då och då (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
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