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[ English

[ Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /mIs"teIk/
• IPA: /mɪs'teɪk/
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• Rhymes: -eɪk

[ Verb

Infinitive to mistake

Third person singular mistakes

Simple past mistook

Past participle mistaken

Present participle mistaking

to mistake (third-person singular simple present mistakes, present participle mistaking, simple past mistook, past participle mistaken)

1. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another.
2. (transitive) To make an error, to do something in wrong way.

[ Translations

To understand wrongly (1)

Arabic: اساء الفهم (’asá’ al-fáhem) Chinese: 誤會, 误会 (wùhuì) Danish: misforstå Dutch: misverstaan Esperanto: malinterpreti Finnish: ymmärtää väärin; (to mistake sb for sth) luulla French: se tromper German: missverstehen, mißverstehen Hindi: ग़लत समझना (galat samajhnā) Hungarian: félreért Indonesian: salah paham Italian: fraintendere

Japanese: 勘違いする (かんちがいする, kanchigai suru), 誤解する (ごかいする, gokai suru) Korean: 오해하다 (ohaehada) Kurdish: به‌غه‌له‌ت Malay: salah faham Norwegian: misforstå Polish: pomylić Portuguese: confundir-se Russian: неправильно понимать (neprávil’no ponimát’) Spanish: entender mal Swedish: missförstå, missta Turkish: yanlış anlamak Urdu: غلط سمجھنا (galat samajhnā)

To make an error (2)

Dutch: een fout maken, in de fout gaan Finnish: tehdä virhe French: se tromper Hindi: ग़लत करना (galat karnā) Italian: sbagliare Kurdish: غه‌له‌ت کردن

Norwegian: ta feil Polish: pomylić się Swedish: missta, begå ett misstag (commit a mistake) Turkish: yanlış yapmak, hata yapmak, hata etmek Urdu: غلط کرنا (galat karnā)

[ Noun

Singular mistake

Plural mistakes

mistake (plural mistakes)

1. An error; a blunder.
2. (figuratively) A fetus aborted on gender-selective grounds or a child who was born thee unwanted gender, usually female. (one boy and seven mistakes)
3. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place

[ Translations

An error (1)

Arabic: خطأ (xáʈa’) Chinese: 错误 (cuòwù) Czech: chyba f. Dutch: fout f., misverstand n., blunder m., vergissing f. Esperanto: eraro Finnish: virhe, moka (colloquial), kämmi (colloquial), fiba (slang) French: faute f., erreur f. German: Fehler m. Hindi: ग़लत (galat) m., ग़लती (galatī) f., ग़लत फ़हमी (galat fahmī) f. Hungarian: hiba Indonesian: kesalahan, kekeliruan Interlingua: error Italian: errore m., sbaglio m. Japanese: 間違い (まちがい, machigai), 過ち (あやまち, ayamachi)

Korean: 잘못 (jalmot) Kurdish: غه‌له‌ت Marathi: चूक (čūk) Norwegian: feil m. Polish: pomyłka f. Portuguese: erro m., engano m., equívoco m. Russian: ошибка (ošíbka) f. Slovene: napaka f., zmota f. Spanish: error m., equivocación f. Swedish: fel n., miss c., misstag n. Telugu: పొరపాటు (porapaaTu) Turkish: hata, yanlış Urdu: غلط (galat) m., غلطی (galatī) f., غلط فہمی (galat fahmī) f.

[ Related terms

• mistaken