sudden

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• /ˈsʌd.ən/
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• [ˈsʌd.n̩]
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From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُبَاغِت (mubāḡit) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Arabic: مُفَاجِئ (mufājiʔ) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Armenian: հանկարծակի (hankarcaki) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Armenian: անակնկալ (anaknkal) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Azerbaijani: qəfil — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Belarusian: рапто́ўны (raptówny) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Bulgarian: внезапен (vnezapen) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Catalan: sobtat — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Cebuano: kalit — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Chinese Mandarin: 突然 (tūrán) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Chinese Mandarin: 急劇 /急剧 (jíjù) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Czech: náhlý — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Danish: brat — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Danish: pludselig — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Dutch: plotseling — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Dutch: plotselinge — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Esperanto: subita — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Estonian: äkiline — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Finnish: yhtäkkinen — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Finnish: äkillinen — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• French: soudain — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• French: subit — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Galician: repentino — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Galician: súbito — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• German: plötzlich — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• German: jäh — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Greek: ξαφνικός (xafnikós) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Ancient Greek: αἰφνίδιος (aiphnídios) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Haitian Creole: sibit — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Hebrew: פתאומי (pit'omi) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Hungarian: hirtelen — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Icelandic: skyndilegur — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Irish: tobann — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Italian: improvviso — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Japanese: 突然の (totsuzen no) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Khmer: ភ្លាម (phliəm) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Korean: 급격한 (geupgyeok-han) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latgalian: ūms — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latgalian: pieškys — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latin: subitus — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latin: repentinus — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latin: repens — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latvian: pēkšņs — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latvian: spējš — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Latvian: straujš — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Livonian: aššõ — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Macedonian: ненадеен (nenadeen) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Macedonian: нагол (nagol) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Malayalam: പെട്ടെന്ന് (peṭṭennŭ) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Māori: ohotata — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Māori: whawhati tata — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Māori: matawhawhati — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Mongolian: гэнэт (genet) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Mongolian: ᢉᠡᠨᠡᠳᠲᠡ — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Norwegian Bokmål: brått — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Norwegian Bokmål: plutselig — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brått — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Norwegian Nynorsk: plutseleg — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Occitan: subte — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Old English: fǣrlīċ — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Polish: nagły — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Portuguese: repentino — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Portuguese: súbito — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Romanian: subit — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Romanian: brusc — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Romanian: neașteptat — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Romanian: neprevăzut — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Russian: неожи́данный (neožídannyj) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Russian: внеза́пный (vnezápnyj) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Samoan: fa'afuase'i — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Scottish Gaelic: obann — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Scottish Gaelic: grad — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Serbo-Croatian: ȉznenādan — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Serbo-Croatian: nȅnādan — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Serbo-Croatian: nágao — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Slovak: náhly — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Spanish: repentino — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Spanish: súbito — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Spanish: brusco — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Spanish: subitáneo — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Swahili: ghafla — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Swedish: plötslig — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Swedish: abrupt — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tagalog: biglaan — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tagalog: kagyat — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tagalog: kaagad — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tagalog: bigla — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tagalog: mabilis — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tagalog: kaginsa-ginsa — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Telugu: హఠాత్తుగా (haṭhāttugā) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Telugu: అకస్మాత్తుగా (akasmāttugā) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Thai: กะทันหัน (gà-tan-hǎn) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Tongan: fakatuʻupakē — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Turkish: ani — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Ukrainian: рапто́вий (raptóvyj) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Ukrainian: несподі́ваний (nespodívanyj) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Ukrainian: на́глий (náhlyj) — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Vietnamese: thình lình — happening quickly and with little or no warning
• Vietnamese: đột ngột — happening quickly and with little or no warning