on the tip of one's tongue

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34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: a la punta de la llengua — known but not quite remembered
• Chinese Mandarin: 一時想不起來 /一时想不起来 (yīshí xiǎng bù qǐlai) — known but not quite remembered
• Dutch: op het puntje van zijn tong — known but not quite remembered
• Esperanto: sur la pinto de la lango — known but not quite remembered
• Finnish: kielen päällä — known but not quite remembered
• French: sur le bout de la langue — known but not quite remembered
• Galician: na punta da lingua — known but not quite remembered
• Georgian: ენაზე მოადგება (enaze moadgeba) — known but not quite remembered
• German: auf der Zunge liegen — known but not quite remembered
• Greek: στην άκρη της γλώσσας (stin ákri tis glóssas) — known but not quite remembered
• Hungarian: a nyelve hegyén — known but not quite remembered
• Irish: ar bharr do theanga — known but not quite remembered
• Irish: ar bharr do ghoib — known but not quite remembered
• Italian: sulla punta della lingua — known but not quite remembered
• Khmer: នៅចុងៗមាត់ (nŏuchŏngchŏngméat) — known but not quite remembered
• Norwegian Bokmål: ha det på tungen — known but not quite remembered
• Norwegian Bokmål: ha noe på tungen — known but not quite remembered
• Persian: دانستن چیزی ولی فراموشی موقتی آن — known but not quite remembered
• Polish: na końcu języka — known but not quite remembered
• Portuguese: na ponta da língua — known but not quite remembered
• Romanian: pe limbă — known but not quite remembered
• Russian: на ко́нчике языка́ (na kónčike jazyká) — known but not quite remembered
• Russian: крутиться на языке (krutitʹsja na jazyke) — known but not quite remembered
• Scottish Gaelic: air bàrr teangaidh — known but not quite remembered
• Serbo-Croatian: na vrhu jezika — known but not quite remembered
• Spanish: en la punta de la lengua — known but not quite remembered
• Swedish: ha något på tungan — known but not quite remembered
• Swedish: ha något i bakhuvudet — known but not quite remembered
• Tagalog: nasa dulo ng dila — known but not quite remembered
• Turkish: dilin ucunda olmak — known but not quite remembered
• Ukrainian: на кінчику язика (na kinčyku jazyka) — known but not quite remembered
• Walloon: l' awè sol betchete del linwe — known but not quite remembered
• Walloon: l' awè sol dibout del linwe — known but not quite remembered
• Yiddish: אויף שפּיץ צונג (oyf shpits tsung) — known but not quite remembered