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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
without fail
- (idiomatic) Certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.
- You will report to the police every week without fail.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:8:And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:"Tuesday by all means." "Tuesday, then, without fail."
- Inevitably.
Translations
certainly
- Bulgarian: непреме́нно (bg) (nepreménno)
- Burmese: မုချ (my) (mu.hkya.), ဆက်ဆက် (my) (hcakhcak), မပျက်မကွက် (my) (ma.pyakma.kwak)
- Catalan: sens falta
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一定 (zh) (yīdìng)
- Esperanto: nepre (eo)
- French: sans faute (fr)
- Galician: certamente
- German: unbedingt (de)
- Hungarian: okvetlenül (hu), feltétlenül (hu), mindenképpen (hu)
- Icelandic: áreiðanlega, örugglega
- Irish: gan teip
- Italian: immancabilmente (it), senza dubbio
- Japanese: 是非 (ja) (ぜひ, zehi)
- Korean: 반드시 (ko) (bandeusi)
- Kyrgyz: албетте (ky) (albette), сөзсүз (ky) (sözsüz), милдеттүү түрдө (ky) (mildettüü türdö), кандай болсо да (ky) (kanday bolso da)
- Portuguese: sem falha
- Russian: непреме́нно (ru) (nepreménno), обяза́тельно (ru) (objazátelʹno), (colloquial) как штык (kak štyk, literally “like a bayonet”)
- Spanish: sin falta
- Welsh: yn ddi-feth
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