modify

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd.ɪ.faɪ/
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• General-American: /ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈməʊd.ɪ.faɪ/
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• General-American: /ˈmoʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
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• CMU ARPABET: M AA1 D AH0 F AY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English modifien, from Middle French modifier, from Latin modificare (“to limit, control, regulate, deponent”), from modificari (“to measure off, set bound to, moderate”), from modus (“measure”) + facere (“to make”); see mode.

Blend of Modi + modify, after Narendra Modi, from Gujarati મોદી (modī).

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aragonese: modificar — to change part of
• Basque: aldatu — to change part of
• Belarusian: мадыфікава́ць (madyfikavácʹ) — to change part of
• Breton: kemmañ — to change part of
• Bulgarian: изменям (izmenjam) — to change part of
• Bulgarian: променям (promenjam) — to change part of
• Catalan: modificar — to change part of
• Chinese Mandarin: 修改 (xiūgǎi) — to change part of
• Crimean Tatar: tüzetmek — to change part of
• Danish: modificere — to change part of
• Dutch: modificeren — to change part of
• Dutch: veranderen — to change part of
• Esperanto: modifi — to change part of
• Esperanto: aliigi — to change part of
• Estonian: muutma — to change part of
• Finnish: muokata — to change part of
• Finnish: muunnella — to change part of
• French: modifier — to change part of
• Galician: modificar — to change part of
• German: ändern — to change part of
• German: abändern — to change part of
• German: modifizieren — to change part of
• Greek: μετατρέπω (metatrépo) — to change part of
• Hungarian: módosít — to change part of
• Ido: modifikar — to change part of
• Indonesian: mengoprek — to change part of
• Indonesian: memodifikasi — to change part of
• Interlingua: modificar — to change part of
• Italian: modificare — to change part of
• Korean: 수정하다 (sujeonghada) — to change part of
• Ladin: muder — to change part of
• Latin: adaptō — to change part of
• Malagasy: manova — to change part of
• Malay: mengubahshai — to change part of
• Malay: memodifikasi — to change part of
• Māori: whakarerekē — to change part of
• Māori: whakakē — to change part of
• Norwegian: modifisere — to change part of
• Occitan: modificar — to change part of
• Polish: modyfikować — to change part of
• Polish: zmieniać — to change part of
• Portuguese: modificar — to change part of
• Romanian: modifica — to change part of
• Russian: изменя́ть (izmenjátʹ) — to change part of
• Russian: модифици́ровать (modificírovatʹ) — to change part of
• Northern Sami: earáhuhttit — to change part of
• Northern Sami: rievdadit — to change part of
• Campidanese Sardinian: modificai — to change part of
• Spanish: modificar — to change part of
• Swahili: -sahihisha — to change part of
• Swedish: modifiera — to change part of
• Tagalog: magpasadya — to change part of
• Tagalog: ipasadya — to change part of
• Tagalog: magsaayos — to change part of
• Tagalog: isaayos — to change part of
• Tagalog: magpabago — to change part of
• Tagalog: ipabago — to change part of
• Tagalog: magmodipika — to change part of
• Tagalog: modipikahin — to change part of
• Tibetan: སྒྱུར་བཅོས་གཏོང (sgyur bcos gtong) — to change part of
• Tibetan: བཟོ་བཅོས་རྒྱག (bzo bcos rgyag) — to change part of
• Turkish: modifiye etmek — to change part of
• Turkish: değiştirmek — to change part of
• Ukrainian: модифікува́ти (modyfikuváty) — to change part of
• Venetan: canbiare — to change part of
• Bulgarian: изменям се (izmenjam se) — to be or become modified
• Bulgarian: променям се (promenjam se) — to be or become modified
• Finnish: muokkautua — to be or become modified
• Greek: μετατρέπομαι (metatrépomai) — to be or become modified
• Hungarian: módosul — to be or become modified
• Indonesian: terkoprek — to be or become modified
• Romanian: a modifica — to be or become modified
• Russian: изменя́ться (izmenjátʹsja) — to be or become modified
• Russian: модифици́роваться (modificírovatʹsja) — to be or become modified
• Turkish: değişmek — to be or become modified
• Chinese Mandarin: 修飾 /修饰 (xiūshì) — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase
• Finnish: määrittää — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase
• French: modifier — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase
• Greek: προσδιορίζω (prosdiorízo) — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase
• Japanese: 修飾する (shūshoku suru) — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase
• Korean: 수식하다 (susikada) — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase
• Spanish: modificar — (grammar) to qualify another word or phrase