remake

See also: Remake

English

Etymology

re- +‎ make

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: rēmāk', IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈmeɪk/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• (noun) enPR: rē'māk, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːmeɪk/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧make
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Verb

remake (third-person singular simple present remakes, present participle remaking, simple past and past participle remade)

1. (transitive) To make again.

   Synonyms: re-create, redo

   You'll need to remake that cake, as it's completely burned.

2. (transitive) To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.).

   Hyponym: reboot

   The director wanted to remake some of his favourite films from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Translations

to make again

• Bulgarian: преправям (bg) (prepravjam)
• Esperanto: refari, refarigi
• Finnish: tehdä uudelleen
• French: refaire (fr)
• Italian: rifare (it)
• Macedonian: пре́прави (prépravi)
• Portuguese: refazer (pt)
• Russian: де́лать за́ново (délatʹ zánovo), (again and differently) переде́лывать (ru) (peredélyvatʹ)

to make an enhanced remake of

• Hungarian: új verzióban elkészít

Noun

remake (plural remakes)

1. A new version of something.

   Synonyms: reboot, re-creation

2. A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc.

   Hyponyms: reboot, cover version

   I haven't seen the original film, but the remake was great.

   • 2012 August 24, John Patterson, “Total Recall—a remake to forget”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The thing I like most about the Total Recall remake is the—I have to presume ironic—name of its production company. The first words that appear on screen are “Original Film”.

   • 2022 March 18, Adrian Horton, “Cheaper by the Dozen review – breezy Disney remake of family comedy”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The family film is the remake of a remake – the 2022 version puts a new spin on the 2003 movie of the same name, which updated the 1950 movie based on the semi-autobiographical novel by siblings Frank Butler Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

Translations

new version of something

• Bulgarian: преработка (bg) f (prerabotka)
• Finnish: uusi versio, uusintaversio
• French: copie (fr) f, remake (fr) m
• Hungarian: új verzió, feldolgozás (hu)
• Macedonian: прера́ботка f (prerábotka)
• Russian: перерабо́тка (ru) f (pererabótka)
• Ukrainian: переро́бка f (pereróbka)

new version of film

• Bulgarian: риме́йк m (riméjk)
• Czech: remake (cs) m
• Dutch: remake (nl)
• Esperanto: refilmado
• Finnish: uusintaversio, uusi versio, uudelleenfilmatisointi (fi)
• French: remake (fr) m, reprise (fr) f
• German: Remake (de) n, Neuverfilmung f
• Greek: ριμέικ (el) n (riméik)
• Italian: remake (it) m
• Japanese: リメイク (rimeiku)
• Korean: 리메이크 (rimeikeu)
• Macedonian: ри́мејк m (rímejk), прера́ботка f (prerábotka)
• Marathi: रीमेक m (rīmek)
• Polish: remake (pl) m
• Portuguese: remake m, refilmagem f
• Russian: риме́йк m (rimɛ́jk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: римејк m

  Latin: rimejk (sh) m, remake (sh) m

• Swedish: nyinspelning c

Anagrams

• Kareem, Markee, markee

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English remake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪmɛjk]
• Hyphenation: re‧make

Noun

remake m inan

1. remake (of a film)

Declension

Declension of remake (velar masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	remake	remaky
genitive	remaku	remaků
dative	remaku	remakům
accusative	remake	remaky
vocative	remaku	remaky
locative	remaku	remacích
instrumental	remakem	remaky

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English remake.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧make

Noun

remake m (plural remakes, diminutive remakeje n)

1. remake (of a film)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English remake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.mɛk/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

remake m (plural remakes)

1. (film) remake
   • 2022 April 23, Patrick Roger, “Présidentielle 2022 : les clés de lecture avant le second tour entre Emmanuel Macron et Marine Le Pen”, in Le Monde.fr‎^[3]:

     Le duel qui se rejoue dimanche 24 avril entre les deux finalistes du scrutin de 2017 ne saurait être un simple remake.

     The rematch between the two finalists in the 2017 election that will take place on Sunday 24 April cannot be a simple repeat of last time.

Further reading

• “remake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English remake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈmejk/, /riˈmɛjk/, /reˈmejk/, /reˈmɛjk/
• Rhymes: -ejk, -ɛjk

Noun

remake m

1. remake (of a film)

Further reading

• remake in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.mɛjk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -imɛjk
• Syllabification: re‧make

Noun

remake m inan

1. (film) remake (new version of film)

Declension

Declension of remake

	singular	plural
nominative	remake	remaki
genitive	remake'u	remake'ów
dative	remake'owi	remake'om
accusative	remake	remaki
instrumental	remakiem	remake'ami
locative	remake'u	remake'ach
vocative	remake'u	remaki

Further reading

• remake in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• remake in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmej.ki/ [hiˈmeɪ̯.ki]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmej.ki/ [hiˈmeɪ̯.ki]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmej.ki/ [χiˈmeɪ̯.ki]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmej.ke/ [hiˈmeɪ̯.ke]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmɐj.kɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmɐj.kɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmej.kɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈmej.kɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈme.kɨ/

Noun

remake m (plural remakes)

1. remake (new version of a production, such as a film or a videogame)

Further reading

• “remake” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

Noun

remake n (plural remake-uri)

1. remake (about a film)

Declension

Declension of remake

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) remake	remakeul	(niște) remake-uri	remake-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) remake	remakeului	(unor) remake-uri	remake-urilor
vocative	remakeule		remake-urilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrimeik/ [ˈri.mei̯k]
• Rhymes: -imeik

Noun

remake m (plural remakes)

1. remake

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “remake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014