unnecessary

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• UK: /ʌnˈnɛs.ə.s(ə)ɹɪ/
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• UK: /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.ɪ/
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• US: /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/
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• UK, US, nonstandard: /ʌnˈnɛs.ə.ɹɪ/
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• Australian: /anˈnes.əˌseɹ.i/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 N N EH1 S AH0 S EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English necessary English unnecessary From un- + necessary.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: غَيْر ضَرُورِيّ (ḡayr ḍarūriyy) — not necessary
• Armenian: անպետք (anpetkʻ) — not necessary
• Armenian: ավելորդ (avelord) — not necessary
• Azerbaijani: lazımsız — not necessary
• Azerbaijani: gərəksiz — not necessary
• Belarusian: непатрэ́бны (njepatrébny) — not necessary
• Bulgarian: ненужен (nenužen) — not necessary
• Catalan: innecessari — not necessary
• Chinese Mandarin: 多餘的 /多余的 (duōyú de) — not necessary
• Chinese Mandarin: 不必要 (bù bìyào) — not necessary
• Czech: nepotřebný — not necessary
• Danish: unødvendig — not necessary
• Dutch: onnodig — not necessary
• Esperanto: nenecesa — not necessary
• Estonian: liigne — not necessary
• Finnish: tarpeeton — not necessary
• Finnish: turha — not necessary
• French: inutile — not necessary
• French: non nécessaire — not necessary
• Galician: innecesario — not necessary
• German: nicht notwendig — not necessary
• German: unnötig — not necessary
• Greek: περιττός (perittós) — not necessary
• Hindi: अनावश्यक (anāvaśyak) — not necessary
• Hungarian: szükségtelen — not necessary
• Italian: innecessario — not necessary
• Italian: superfluo — not necessary
• Italian: eccessivo — not necessary
• Italian: inutile — not necessary
• Japanese: 余計な (yokei na) — not necessary
• Japanese: 不要な (fuyō na) — not necessary
• Korean: 불필요하다 (bulpiryohada) — not necessary
• Latin: superforāneus — not necessary
• Macedonian: непотребен (nepotreben) — not necessary
• Malayalam: അനാവശ്യ (anāvaśya) — not necessary
• Malayalam: അനാവശ്യമായ (anāvaśyamāya) — not necessary
• Māori: huakore — not necessary
• Māori: hiahiakore — not necessary
• Norwegian: unødvendig — not necessary
• Plautdietsch: onneedich — not necessary
• Polish: zbędny — not necessary
• Polish: niepotrzebny — not necessary
• Polish: niekonieczny — not necessary
• Portuguese: desnecessário — not necessary
• Romanian: inutil — not necessary
• Romanian: nenecesar — not necessary
• Romanian: netrebuincios — not necessary
• Russian: нену́жный (nenúžnyj) — not necessary
• Slovak: nepotrebný — not necessary
• Slovak: zbytočný — not necessary
• Spanish: innecesario — not necessary
• Spanish: desnecesario (disused) — not necessary
• Swedish: onödig — not necessary
• Turkish: gereksiz — not necessary
• Turkish: lüzumsuz — not necessary
• Turkish: boş yere — not necessary
• Ukrainian: непотрі́бний (nepotríbnyj) — not necessary
• Urdu: خواہ مخواہ (xāh maxāh) — not necessary
• Welsh: diangen — not necessary