informative

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɪnˈfoɹmətɪv/
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• Canada, General-American: [-ɾɪv]
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian: /ɪnˈfoːmətɪv/
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• Australian: [-ɾɪv]
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)mətɪv
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N F AO1 R M AH0 T IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English inform Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English informative From inform + -ative.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِخْبَارِيّ (ʔiḵbāriyy) — providing useful or interesting information
• Arabic: إِعْلَامِيّ (ʔiʕlāmiyy) — providing useful or interesting information
• Bulgarian: информативен (informativen) — providing useful or interesting information
• Bulgarian: осведомителен (osvedomitelen) — providing useful or interesting information
• Catalan: informatiu — providing useful or interesting information
• Dutch: informatief — providing useful or interesting information
• Finnish: asiapitoinen — providing useful or interesting information
• Finnish: informatiivinen — providing useful or interesting information
• French: instructif — providing useful or interesting information
• French: informatif — providing useful or interesting information
• Georgian: ინფორმატიული (inpormaṭiuli) — providing useful or interesting information
• Georgian: მაინფორმირებელი (mainpormirebeli) — providing useful or interesting information
• German: informativ — providing useful or interesting information
• Indonesian: informatif — providing useful or interesting information
• Irish: eolasach — providing useful or interesting information
• Irish: faisnéiseach — providing useful or interesting information
• Italian: informativo — providing useful or interesting information
• Latin: īnfōrmātīvus — providing useful or interesting information
• Malay: informatif — providing useful or interesting information
• Malay: bermaklumat — providing useful or interesting information
• Norwegian Bokmål: lærerik — providing useful or interesting information
• Norwegian Bokmål: informativ — providing useful or interesting information
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lærerik — providing useful or interesting information
• Norwegian Nynorsk: informativ — providing useful or interesting information
• Persian: آموزنده (âmuzande) — providing useful or interesting information
• Polish: pouczający — providing useful or interesting information
• Polish: informatywny — providing useful or interesting information
• Romanian: informativ — providing useful or interesting information
• Romanian: informator — providing useful or interesting information
• Russian: информати́вный (informatívnyj) — providing useful or interesting information
• Spanish: informativo — providing useful or interesting information
• Spanish: informador — providing useful or interesting information
• Swedish: informativ — providing useful or interesting information
• Swedish: upplysande — providing useful or interesting information
• Swedish: orienterande — providing useful or interesting information
• Swedish: informerande — providing useful or interesting information
• Ukrainian: інформати́вний (informatývnyj) — providing useful or interesting information
• Urdu: معلومات افزا (mā'lūmāt-afzā) — providing useful or interesting information