go bankrupt

English

Verb

go bankrupt (third-person singular simple present goes bankrupt, present participle going bankrupt, simple past went bankrupt, past participle gone bankrupt)

1. (intransitive) To become bankrupt.
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, page 141:

     "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
     "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."

   Several thousand companies go bankrupt in the UK each year.

Synonyms

• go bust
• go under
• go belly-up

Translations

to become bankrupt

• Armenian: սնանկանալ (hy) (snankanal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破產／破产 (zh) (pòchǎn)

• Czech: krachovat, zkrachovat (cs)
• Danish: gå fallit
• Dutch: failliet gaan
• Esperanto: bankroti
• Finnish: mennä konkurssiin
• French: faire faillite (fr), déposer le bilan (fr)
• German: bankrott gehen, Bankrott machen, fallieren (de)
• Greek: χρεωκοπώ (el) (chreokopó), πτωχεύω (el) (ptochévo)
• Hungarian: csődbe megy, bedől (hu)
• Ido: bankrotar (io)
• Italian: fallire (it)
• Japanese: 破産する (ja) (はさんする, hasan suru), 倒産する (ja) (とうさんする, tōsan suru), 潰れる (ja) (tsubureru) (colloquial)
• Korean: 파산하다 (ko) (pasanhada)
• Malay: jatuh muflis
• Mongolian: дампуурах (mn) (dampuurax)
• Norman: faithe banqueroute
• Polish: pobankrutować pf (of many parties), popadać (pl) pf (of many parties), poupadać pf (of many parties), bankrutować (pl) impf, zbankrutować (pl) pf, plajtować impf, splajtować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: falir (pt), ir à falência/bancarrota
• Romanian: da faliment, falimenta, bancruta (ro) (uncommon), mofluzi (ro) (obsolete)
• Russian: обанкро́чиваться (ru) impf (obankróčivatʹsja), банкро́титься (ru) impf (bankrótitʹsja), обанкро́титься (ru) pf (obankrótitʹsja); разоря́ться (ru) impf (razorjátʹsja), разори́ться (ru) pf (razorítʹsja)
• Spanish: quebrar (es)
• Swedish: gå i konkurs (sv)
• Thai: ล้มละลาย (th) (lóm-lá-laai)
• Turkish: iflas etmek (tr)
• Yiddish: באַנקראָטירן (bankrotirn)