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English
Pronunciation
Verb
take heart (third-person singular simple present takes heart, present participle taking heart, simple past took heart, past participle taken heart)
- (intransitive) To be courageous; to regain one's courage.
- Synonym: take courage
- Antonym: lose heart
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.
Translations
to be courageous
- Finnish: rohkaistua (fi)
- Galician: ser valente
- Greek: αναθαρρεύω (el) (anatharrévo), αναθαρρώ (el) (anatharró)
- Hungarian: felbátorodik (hu)
- Icelandic: herða sig upp, herða upp hugann, safna kjarki, öðlast kjark, taka í sig kjark, hleypa í sig kjarki, hleypa í sig hörku, (take heart to do something) manna sig upp í að gera eitthvað, taka á öllu sínu, mjálma í sig móðinn, setja í sig móð, brynja sig þolinmæði
- Italian: farsi coraggio, prendere il coraggio a due mani
- Japanese: 頑張る (ja) (がんばる, ganbaru)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: одва́жити pf, јуна́чити impf
- Roman: odvážiti (sh) pf, junáčiti (sh) impf
- Swedish: hålla ut (sv)
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Interjection
take heart
- Used when encouraging someone to bear or take up a difficult situation.
Take heart, help will arrive shortly and everything will be fine.
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