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Conveys comfort; used to calm somebody or urge somebody to relax, especially when the person is crying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
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Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
好啦,好啦
(hǎo la, hǎo la)
— used to calm somebody
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Finnish:
noh, noh
— used to calm somebody
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French:
là, là
— used to calm somebody
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Galician:
ala, ala
— used to calm somebody
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German:
na na
— used to calm somebody
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German:
nicht doch
— used to calm somebody
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German:
aber, aber
— used to calm somebody
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German:
ei ei
— used to calm somebody
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Icelandic:
svona, svona
— used to calm somebody
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Indonesian:
cup cup
— used to calm somebody
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Jamaican Creole:
hush
— used to calm somebody
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Japanese:
よしよし
(yoshi yoshi)
— used to calm somebody
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Russian:
ну будет, будет; да ладно уж; чего уж там
(nu budet, budet; da ladno už; čevo už tam)
— used to calm somebody
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Spanish:
ya, ya
— used to calm somebody
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Swedish:
såja
— used to calm somebody
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Swedish:
så, så
— used to calm somebody
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Swedish:
seså
— used to calm somebody