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| Language | Translations for "TO SEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | deurmaak (survive, experience, live through), belewe (survive), beleef (courteous, polite, survive). (various references) | |
Albanian | vizitoj (attend, come now and then, come to see, go and see, visit). (various references) | |
Arabic | يري (consider), ابصر (catch sight of), راي (consider), بصر (understand). (various references) | |
Asturian | ver. (various references) | |
Aymara | uñjaña. (various references) | |
Bemba | ukumona. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ini. (various references) | |
Catalan | veure (consider, deem, look, regard, see, view, watch). (various references) | |
Cebuano | motan-aw. (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma líe. (various references) | |
Chinese | 閱歷 (to experience), 見 (appear, to appear, to interview, to meet), 瞅 (clever, look, take a look at, wonderful), 看見 (to catch sight of), 看 (it depends, think, to guard, to look after, to look at, to take care of, to watch, whirlwind), 會 (accounting, association, be able to, be possible, can, group, to assemble, to balance an account, to gather, to meet, union). (various references) | |
Cornish | gweles. (various references) | |
Czech | uvidìt (catch sight, come to see, distinguish, see), dožít se èeho (live to see), èekat, jak se to vyvrbí (wait to see which way the cat jumps). (various references) | |
Danish | påvirkningshyppighed (contact, exposure, impression, opportunity to see), eksponeringsgrad (contact, exposure, impression, opportunity to see). (various references) | |
Dutch | opportunity to see (contact, exposure, impression, opportunity to see), ondervinden (go through, live to see), ervaren (experienced), doormaken (survive), beleven (survive). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | ricuna. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sperti (go through, live to see), ĝisvivi (go through, live to see). (various references) | |
Faeroese | at síggja. (various references) | |
Finnish | toivon tapaavani Teidät pian (Ihope to see you soon), meni vieraisille (went to see), joutua näkemään (happen to see), hän kävi luonani (he came to see me), ei olla näkevinään (cut ... dead, pretend not to see). (various references) | |
French | voir (be able to see). (various references) | |
Frisian | sjen (see). (various references) | |
German | sehen (see, look, view, behold, sight, spot, vision). (various references) | |
Guarani | hechapyrãva (worth to see), cherechávo (to see me). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utánanéz vminek (to look up), szemügyre vesz (to take stock of, to traverse), meglátogat (to call on, to visit), lát (see), gondoskodik vmiről (saw, seen, to attend to sg, to provide for, to see to sg, to take care of sg), fogad vkit (saw, seen, to be gracious towards sy), elkísér vhova (saw, seen), belát (admit to, saw, seen), ért (to savvy), átél (to live through). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | takuvaa. (various references) | |
Irish | fheiceáil, feiceáil. (various references) | |
Italian | vedere (see). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 望む (to desire, to wish for). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもいえがく (to figure, to imagine, to picture), のぞむ (to attend, to command, to deal with, to desire, to face, to look out on, to wish for), みうける (to catch sight of, to suppose), みる (a type of seaweed, to examine, to look after, to take care of, to view, to watch). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-mona. (various references) | |
Luganda | okukulaba (to see you). (various references) | |
Macedonian | gleda. (various references) | |
Malagasy | mifankahita (to see each other). (various references) | |
Manx | dy akin. (various references) | |
Maori | kite-a. (various references) | |
Maya | paakat. (various references) | |
Mohawk | -tkahthos. (various references) | |
Papago | neith. (various references) | |
Papiamen | experimentá (go through, live to see). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | see (to find). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay eesay.(various references) | |
Polish | dożyć (go through, live to see), doświadczyć (go through, live to see). (various references) | |
Portuguese | ver (see). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | ver. (various references) | |
Provencal | veire (glass). (various references) | |
Romanian | sã ne vedem sãnãtoşi (au revoir, I hope soon to see you again, see you again, till next time, till we meet again), la revedere (bye bye, cheerio, farewell, good bye, I hope soon to see you again, see you soon, so long, till next time), bun gãsit (glad to see you), bine v-am gãsit (glad to see you), bine ai venit (be welcome, happy to see you, I am happy to see you, welcome), bine aţi venit (I am happy to see you), întoarce capul pentru a vedea pe cineva (screw one's head to see smb.). (various references) | |
Romansch | vesair. (various references) | |
Romany | dikhav. (various references) | |
Ruanda | kubona. (various references) | |
Russian | радый вас видеть (glad to see you), проверять если (check to see if), проверять (check, check in, check to see, check up, control, inspect, look past, monitoring, prove, revise, test, verify, verifying), проведать (come to see, find out, pay a visit). (various references) | |
Samoan | e vaai. (various references) | |
Sepedi | bona. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | posetiti (come over, come to see, pay a call, pay a visit, see, visit). (various references) | |
Shona | -ona. (various references) | |
Sicilian | vidiri. (various references) | |
Spanish | verlos (to see them, to see you), mensajes publicitarios recibidos (contact, exposure, impression, O.T.S., opportunity to see), me alegro de verte de nuevo en pie (i'm happy to see you up and about), da gusto verte (it's a pleasure to see you). (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-fúna. (various references) | |
Swedish | uppsöka (go to see, seek), uppleva (experience), fara till (go to, go to see), besöka (call on). (various references) | |
Turkish | herkesin önünde (for all the world to see, in public), görmemezlikten gelmek (blink, blink at, close one's eyes to, connive, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overlook, overpass, pass off, pretend not to see, turn a blind eye, wink at). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gцrnetin (plain to see). (various references) | |
Xhosa | ukukubona (To see you). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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