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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.

• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: sonar — to seem vaguely familiar
• Chinese Mandarin: 聽起來熟悉 /听起来熟悉 (tīngqǐlái shúxī) — to seem vaguely familiar
• Czech: to mi přijde povědomé — to seem vaguely familiar
• Czech: to mi něco připomíná — to seem vaguely familiar
• Czech: to mi něco říká — to seem vaguely familiar
• Dutch: een belletje doen rinkelen — to seem vaguely familiar
• Dutch: iets zeggen — to seem vaguely familiar
• Estonian: tuttav ette tulema — to seem vaguely familiar
• Finnish: soittaa kelloa — to seem vaguely familiar
• French: dire quelque chose — to seem vaguely familiar
• Galician: soar — to seem vaguely familiar
• German: bekannt vorkommen — to seem vaguely familiar
• German: etwas sagen — to seem vaguely familiar
• Hungarian: rémlik — to seem vaguely familiar
• Hungarian: ismerős — to seem vaguely familiar
• Hungarian: ismerősen cseng — to seem vaguely familiar
• Italian: far venire in mente — to seem vaguely familiar
• Italian: suonare familiare — to seem vaguely familiar
• Portuguese: lembrar (algo) — to seem vaguely familiar
• Portuguese: soar familiar — to seem vaguely familiar
• Portuguese: dizer alguma coisa — to seem vaguely familiar
• Russian: быть знако́мым (bytʹ znakómym) — to seem vaguely familiar
• Russian: припомина́ть (pripominátʹ) — to seem vaguely familiar
• Spanish: sonar — to seem vaguely familiar
• Swedish: ringa en klocka — to seem vaguely familiar