facilitate

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

facilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)

1. To make easy or easier.
2. To help bring about
3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

Translations

to make easy or easier

• Bulgarian: улеснявам (bg) (ulesnjavam), благоприятствам (bg) (blagoprijatstvam)
• Chinese:
• Czech: usnadnit (cs), ulehčit (cs)
• Danish: facilitere (da)
• Esperanto: faciligi (eo)
• Finnish: helpottaa (fi)
• French: faciliter (fr)
• German: erleichtern (de), fördern (de)
• Greek: διευκολύνω (el) (dhievkolíno)
• Jèrriais: faciliter
• Kyrgyz: азайтуу, басаңдатуу, жеңилдетүү, оңойлотуу

  Mandarin: trad. 使容易, simpl. 使容易 (shǐróngyì)

• Norwegian: forenkle (no)
• Polish: ułatwiać (pl), torować (pl)
• Romanian: facilita (ro)
• Russian: способствовать (sposóbstvovat’) impf., поспособствовать (posposóbstvovat’) impf.; помогать (pomogát') impf., помочь (pomóč) pf.; облегчать (oblexčát’) impf., облегчить (oblexčít’) pf.; содействовать (sodéjstvovat’) impf., посодействовать (posodéjstvovat’) pf.
• Spanish: facilitar (es)
• Swedish: underlätta (sv), förenkla (sv)
• Turkish: kolaylaştırmak (tr)

to preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

• Finnish: johtaa (puhetta)

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• French: faciliter

Related terms

• facile
• facilitation
• facilitative
• facilitator
• facilitatory

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Italian

Verb

facilitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of facilitare
2. second-person plural imperative of facilitare
3. Feminine plural of facilitato

Anagrams

• felicitata

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Latin

Noun

facilitāte

1. ablative singular of facilitās

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin facilitas through French facilité

Pronunciation

• IPA: [fatʃiliˈtate]

Noun

facilitate f (plural facilități)

1. facility

Declension

declension of facilitate

	singular		plural
gender f	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	o facilitate	facilitatea	niște facilități	facilitățile
genitive/dative	unei facilități	facilității	unor facilități	facilităților