Pronunciation
Adverb
suddenly (comparative more suddenly, superlative most suddenly)
- Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
- Suddenly, the heavens opened and we all got drenched.
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Antonyms
Translations
happening quickly and with little or no warning
- Afrikaans: skielik
- Albanian: papritur (sq)
- Arabic: فجأةً (ar) (faj’áatan)
- Armenian: հանկարծակի (hy) (hankarçaki)
- Bengali: হঠাত্ (bn) (hôţhat)
- Bulgarian: внезапно (bg) (vnezápno), ненадейно (bg) (nenadéjno)
- Catalan: de sobte
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 突然 (cmn) (tūrán)
- Czech: náhle (cs)
- Danish: pludseligt (da)
- Dutch: plotseling (nl), plots (nl), plotsklaps (nl), ineens (nl), pardoes (nl)
- Esperanto: subite (eo)
- Estonian: äkki (et)
- Finnish: yhtäkkiä (fi), äkkiä (fi)
- French: soudainement (fr), tout d'un coup (fr)
- Old French: soudainnemant
- Georgian: უეცრად (ka) (uetsrad), მოულოდნელად (ka) (moulodnelad)
- German: plötzlich (de)
- Greek: ξαφνικά (ksafniká)
- Hebrew: פתאום (he) (pith'óm)
- Hindi: अचानक (hi) (acānak), ऎकाऎक् (hi) (ekaa ek)
- Hungarian: hirtelen (hu)
- Icelandic: brátt (is), skyndilega (is), snögglega (is), hastarlega (is)
- Ido: subite (io)
- Indonesian: secara tiba-tiba, mendadak (id)
- Interlingua: subito (ia)
- Italian: all'improvviso (it), improvvisamente (it)
- Japanese: 突然 (ja) (とつぜん, totsuzen)
- Korean: 갑자기 (ko) (gapjagi)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: لهپڕ (ku)
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- Latin: repente (la), subito (la), derepente (la)
- Latvian: pēkšņi (lv)
- Lithuanian: staiga (lt)
- Malay: tiba-tiba
- Malayalam: പെട്ടന്ന് (ml), പെട്ടെന്ന് (ml) (pettenn)
- Marathi: अचानक (mr) (acānak)
- Mongolian: гэнэт (mn) (genet)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: ناگهان (fa) (nâgahân)
- Polish: nagle (pl)
- Portuguese: de repente (pt), repentinamente (pt), subitamente (pt)
- Russian: вдруг (ru) (vdrug), неожиданно (ru) (neožídanno), внезапно (ru) (vnezápno)
- Sanskrit: सहसा (sa) (sahasa), सपदि (sa) (sapadi)
- Sardinian:
- Logudorese Sardinian: improntùitu, indùna, setzi, tottindunu
- Scottish Gaelic: gu h-obann (gd), gu grad (gd)
- Slovene: naênkrat (sl)
- Spanish: de repente, repentinamente (es), de pronto (es), súbitamente (es)
- Swahili: kwa ghafula (sw)
- Swedish: plötsligt (sv), med ens (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: అకస్మాత్తుగా (te) (akasmaattugaa)
- Thai: เร็ว (th) (reo)
- Tibetan: ཧོབ་ཏེ་ཁ་ལ (bo) (hob te kha la)
- Turkish: aniden (tr), ansızın (tr), birden (tr), birdenbire (tr)
- Ukrainian: раптово (uk) (raptovo), несподівано (uk) (nespodivano)
- Urdu: اچانک (ur) (acānak)
- Vietnamese: thình lình (vi), đột ngột (vi)
- Yiddish: אויף (yi) (oyf), מיט אַ מאָל (yi) (mit a mol)
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