preventable

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.

• CMU ARPABET: P R IH0 V EH1 N T AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET 2: P R IY0 V EH1 N T AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Etymology tree English prevent Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English preventable From prevent + -able.

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bengali: নিবার্য (nibarjo) — capable of being prevented
• Bulgarian: предотвратим (predotvratim) — capable of being prevented
• Chinese Mandarin: 可預防的 /可预防的 — capable of being prevented
• Chinese Mandarin: 可預防的 /可预防的 (kě yùfáng de) — capable of being prevented
• Chinese Mandarin: 可防止的 (kě fángzhǐ de) — capable of being prevented
• Chinese Mandarin: 可避免的 (kě bìmiǎn de) — capable of being prevented
• Finnish: estettävissä — capable of being prevented
• French: évitable — capable of being prevented
• French: parable — capable of being prevented
• Hungarian: megakadályozható — capable of being prevented
• Hungarian: megelőzhető — capable of being prevented
• Hungarian: elkerülhető — capable of being prevented
• Hungarian: elhárítható — capable of being prevented
• Japanese: 防げる (fusegeru) — capable of being prevented
• Polish: zapobiegalny — capable of being prevented
• Portuguese: prevenível — capable of being prevented
• Portuguese: evitável — capable of being prevented
• Spanish: prevenible — capable of being prevented