improvise

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• /ˈɪm.pɹə.vaɪz/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 M P R AH0 V AY2 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French improviser; ultimately from Latin improvisus.

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِرْتَجَلَ (irtajala) — to make something up as one goes on
• Asturian: improvisar — to make something up as one goes on
• Belarusian: імправізава́ць (impravizavácʹ) — to make something up as one goes on
• Bulgarian: импровизирам (improviziram) — to make something up as one goes on
• Catalan: improvisar — to make something up as one goes on
• Chinese Mandarin: 即興 /即兴 (jíxìng) — to make something up as one goes on
• Chinese Mandarin: 现抓 (xiànzhuā) — to make something up as one goes on
• Czech: improvizovat — to make something up as one goes on
• Czech: dělat spatra — to make something up as one goes on
• Danish: improvisere — to make something up as one goes on
• Dutch: improviseren — to make something up as one goes on
• Finnish: improvisoida — to make something up as one goes on
• Finnish: sepittää — to make something up as one goes on
• French: improviser — to make something up as one goes on
• German: improvisieren — to make something up as one goes on
• Greek: αυτοσχεδιάζω (aftoschediázo) — to make something up as one goes on
• Ancient Greek: σχεδιάζω (skhediázō) — to make something up as one goes on
• Hebrew: אַלְתֵּר (altér) — to make something up as one goes on
• Hungarian: improvizál — to make something up as one goes on
• Hungarian: rögtönöz — to make something up as one goes on
• Icelandic: leika af fingrum fram — to make something up as one goes on
• Icelandic: snarstefja — to make something up as one goes on
• Icelandic: spinna — to make something up as one goes on
• Irish: seiftigh — to make something up as one goes on
• Italian: improvvisare — to make something up as one goes on
• Italian: parlare a braccio — to make something up as one goes on
• Japanese: 即興で — to make something up as one goes on
• Latin: faciō ad libitum — to make something up as one goes on
• Māori: tito ohia — to make something up as one goes on
• Norwegian: improvisere — to make something up as one goes on
• Polish: improwizować — to make something up as one goes on
• Polish: zaimprowizować — to make something up as one goes on
• Portuguese: improvisar — to make something up as one goes on
• Romanian: improviza — to make something up as one goes on
• Russian: импровизи́ровать (improvizírovatʹ) — to make something up as one goes on
• Russian: сымпровизи́ровать (symprovizírovatʹ) — to make something up as one goes on
• Spanish: improvisar — to make something up as one goes on
• Spanish: repentizar — to make something up as one goes on
• Spanish: payar — to make something up as one goes on
• Swedish: improvisera — to make something up as one goes on
• Turkish: doğaçlamak — to make something up as one goes on
• Ukrainian: імпровізува́ти (improvizuváty) — to make something up as one goes on
• Vietnamese: ứng biến — to make something up as one goes on
• Vietnamese: ứng tác — to make something up as one goes on
• Vietnamese: ứng tấu — to make something up as one goes on