Supposed in Different Languages
Discover 'Supposed' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Supposed
Afrikaans veronderstel | ||
Albanian supozohet | ||
Amharic ተብሎ ተገምቷል | ||
Arabic مفترض | ||
Armenian ենթադրյալ | ||
Assamese ধাৰণা কৰা হৈছে | ||
Aymara inasa | ||
Azerbaijani güman edilir | ||
Bambara i n'a fɔ | ||
Basque ustez | ||
Belarusian мяркуецца | ||
Bengali অনুমিত | ||
Bhojpuri मान लिहल गईल | ||
Bosnian pretpostavljao | ||
Bulgarian предполагаем | ||
Catalan suposat | ||
Cebuano kuno | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 应该 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 應該 | ||
Corsican supposta | ||
Croatian trebalo | ||
Czech předpokládal | ||
Danish antages | ||
Dhivehi ކުރަންޖެހޭ ކަމެއް | ||
Dogri ख्याली | ||
Dutch verondersteld | ||
English supposed | ||
Esperanto supozis | ||
Estonian peaks | ||
Ewe bui be | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) dapat | ||
Finnish oletettu | ||
French supposé | ||
Frisian sabeare | ||
Galician suposto | ||
Georgian სავარაუდო | ||
German soll | ||
Greek υποτιθεμένος | ||
Guarani ñeimo'ãva | ||
Gujarati માનવામાં આવે છે | ||
Haitian Creole sipoze | ||
Hausa zato | ||
Hawaiian manaʻo ʻia | ||
Hebrew אמור | ||
Hindi माना | ||
Hmong tsim nyog | ||
Hungarian feltételezett | ||
Icelandic ætlað | ||
Igbo chere | ||
Ilocano naipatang | ||
Indonesian seharusnya | ||
Irish ceaptha | ||
Italian ipotetico | ||
Japanese 想定 | ||
Javanese mestine | ||
Kannada ಭಾವಿಸಲಾದ | ||
Kazakh болжамды | ||
Khmer សន្មត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda biteganijwe | ||
Konkani अनुमान काडप | ||
Korean 가정 | ||
Krio fɔ | ||
Kurdish guman kirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پێشبینیکراو | ||
Kyrgyz болжолдонгон | ||
Lao ຄາດວ່າ | ||
Latin suspicabar malum | ||
Latvian domājams | ||
Lingala oyo bakanisaki | ||
Lithuanian tariama | ||
Luganda okuteekwa | ||
Luxembourgish ugeholl | ||
Macedonian претпоставен | ||
Maithili कल्पित | ||
Malagasy noheverina | ||
Malay sepatutnya | ||
Malayalam കരുതപ്പെടുന്നു | ||
Maltese suppost | ||
Maori whakapae | ||
Marathi पाहिजे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯣꯏꯒꯅꯤ ꯈꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo ring chhin | ||
Mongolian гэж бодсон | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထင်တယ် | ||
Nepali मानिएको | ||
Norwegian antatt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) akuyenera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅନୁମାନ କରାଯାଏ | | ||
Oromo yaadame | ||
Pashto مانا | ||
Persian فرض شده | ||
Polish domniemany | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) suposto | ||
Punjabi ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ | ||
Quechua yanqalla niy | ||
Romanian presupus | ||
Russian предполагаемый | ||
Samoan manatu | ||
Sanskrit विचारित | ||
Scots Gaelic a rèir coltais | ||
Sepedi swanetše | ||
Serbian претпостављао | ||
Sesotho nahanoa | ||
Shona kufungidzirwa | ||
Sindhi سمجهيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) යැයි කියනු ලැබේ | ||
Slovak predpokladaný | ||
Slovenian domnevno | ||
Somali loo maleeyay | ||
Spanish supuesto | ||
Sundanese sakuduna | ||
Swahili inavyodhaniwa | ||
Swedish förment | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) dapat | ||
Tajik тахмин | ||
Tamil கருதப்படுகிறது | ||
Tatar фаразланган | ||
Telugu అనుకుంటారు | ||
Thai ควร | ||
Tigrinya ተባሂሉ ይሕሰብ | ||
Tsonga kumbexana | ||
Turkish sözde | ||
Turkmen çak edilýär | ||
Twi (Akan) sɛ sɛ | ||
Ukrainian передбачається | ||
Urdu سمجھا جاتا ہے | ||
Uyghur پەرەز قىلىنغان | ||
Uzbek taxmin qilingan | ||
Vietnamese cho là | ||
Welsh i fod | ||
Xhosa kufanelekile | ||
Yiddish געמיינט | ||
Yoruba ikure | ||
Zulu okufanele |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "veronderstel" originates in Middle Dutch "onderstellen" which also meant "to support" and "to presuppose". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "supozohet" can also mean "it is assumed" or "it is taken for granted." |
| Amharic | The word "ተብሎ ተገምቷል" in Amharic is a perfect example of how a word can have multiple meanings, including "supposed", "presumed", "expected", or "anticipated". |
| Arabic | "مفترض" in Arabic comes from the root "فرض", meaning "to impose" or "to assume". |
| Azerbaijani | "Güman edilir" also means "suspected" or "believed to be true" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word “ustez” in Basque can also be a pronoun meaning “your (singular formal)”, “your (plural formal)”, or “you (singular or plural formal)”. |
| Belarusian | Мя́ркуецца is derived from мя́рка, meaning “measure, standard” in Belarusian; one can “consider” someone or something by applying a “measure”. |
| Bengali | "অনুমিত" শব্দটি সংস্কৃত শব্দ "अनुमित" থেকে এসেছে, যার আক্ষরিক অর্থ "পেছনে" বা "তার পরে"। |
| Bosnian | The verb pretpostavljam is also used in the meaning 'to assume', which is not its primary meaning. |
| Bulgarian | The word "предполагаем" can also mean "we suppose" or "it is assumed". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "suposat" can also mean "fraudulent". |
| Cebuano | Kuno is also used to indicate an action that is about to happen or is expected to happen. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In addition to its common meaning of "supposed," "应该" (supposed) can also mean "ought to," "should," or "must." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 應 in 應該 originally meant to respond to a call for help. |
| Corsican | The same word in Corsican can mean both “supposed” and “suppository” depending on context. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "trebalo" derives from the Proto-Slavic verb *trebovati, meaning "to request" or "to need". |
| Czech | "Předpokládal" can also mean "to presuppose" or "to expect". |
| Danish | The word "antages" in Danish derives from the Old Norse word "atganga", meaning "to go to" or "to come to", and is related to the English word "advance". |
| Dutch | "Verondersteld" in Dutch means not only "supposed" but sometimes also "assumed" or "presumed". |
| Esperanto | Suppozis derives from the French word "suppose". The word is also used in mathematics to represent the supremum of a set. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "peaks" also means "peep" or "take a peek" in English. |
| Finnish | "Olettu" is related to "oletus" (assumption) and "olettaa" (to assume). |
| French | The word "supposé" can also mean "assumed" or "pretended" in French. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "sabeare" is related to the Dutch word "zwabberen", which means "to wobble" or "to swing". |
| Galician | In Galician, "suposto" also means "substrate" or "assumption". |
| German | "Soll" can also mean "debit" as opposed to "Haben" ("credit") in accounting. |
| Greek | The word "υποτιθεμένος" in Greek can also mean "presumed" or "assumed". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "sipoze" derives from French "supposé", which itself comes from Latin "supponere", meaning "to place under". |
| Hausa | The word 'zato' can also mean 'assumed' or 'believed to be true but not certain' in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "manaʻo ʻia" also means "thought of", "held as an opinion", or "considered". |
| Hebrew | The word "אמור" can also mean "word" or "saying". |
| Hindi | "मानना" (mana) also refers to "measuring grain" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tsim nyog" can also mean "to think" or "to believe". |
| Hungarian | The word "feltételezett" in Hungarian can also mean "assumed" or "presumed". |
| Icelandic | Etymology: related to 'ætla', to intend, think |
| Igbo | 'Chere' also means 'in fact' or 'actually' in Igbo |
| Indonesian | The word "seharusnya" can also mean "should have been" or "should be". |
| Irish | **Etymology:** ceaptha likely comes from **céabtha** (pronounced 'kay-v-tha') which means "fit, suitable, meet, proper, right." |
| Italian | The Italian word "ipotetico" originates from the Greek word "ὑποθετικός" (hypothetikos), meaning "conditional" or "conjectural." |
| Japanese | "想定" can also mean "assumption" or "hypothesis" in Japanese, and is often used in scientific and academic contexts. |
| Javanese | Mestine also means `must`, a modal of necessity. |
| Kannada | "ಭಾವಿಸಲಾದ" means "expected" and it is derived from the root word "ಭಾವಿಸು" (bhaavisu), which means "to expect" or "to assume". |
| Kazakh | Болжамды is also used to mean 'to assume', 'to think', or 'to believe'. |
| Khmer | The word "សន្មត់" in Khmer can also refer to something assumed, inferred, or considered likely to be true. |
| Korean | "가정" is a word with dual Korean meanings, the other one of which is "household." |
| Kurdish | "Guman kirin" is also used to emphasize a belief or assumption. |
| Latin | The Latin verb suspicabar also means 'suspected', or 'feared', sharing the same root with 'suspectus', 'looked at' or 'inspected'. |
| Latvian | "Domājams" (supposed) stems from the Latvian verb "domāt" (to think), signifying an assumption based on thought or belief. |
| Lithuanian | The word "tariama" ultimately derives from the Slavic root *tъlkovati, meaning "to interpret" or "to explain." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "ugeholl" is derived from the Old High German word "gihōlida", which means "to hold" or "to keep." |
| Macedonian | The verb "претпостави" comes from the noun "претпоставка" "assumption", which is derived from the Greek word "ὑπόθεσις" "hypothesis". |
| Malagasy | The word "noheverina" in Malagasy, meaning "supposed," is derived from the verb "heverina" which means "to think" or "to believe." |
| Malay | Sepatutnya derives from the root "pantas" meaning "appropriate" or "fitting." |
| Malayalam | The word "കരുതപ്പെടുന്നു" is derived from the verb "കരുതുക" which means to think or believe, and has alternate meanings like assumed, alleged, or held to be true. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "suppost" is also used for "assumed" and can be used as an alternative to "assumed" in some cases, such as when talking about a supposition. |
| Maori | The Maori word "whakapae" can also mean "to accuse" or "to charge someone with an offense." |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "पाहिजे" can also be used to express a desire or a necessity. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "मानिएको" is derived from the root word "मान्ने," which also refers to "accepting" and "recognising." |
| Norwegian | "Antatt" is the past participle of the verb "anta", which means "to assume" or "to believe". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | 'Akuyenera' is derived from the verb 'kuyenera' meaning 'to fit', 'to suit', 'to be appropriate'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "مانا" can also mean "I think" or "it seems to me". |
| Persian | The word "فرض شده" can also mean "obligatory" or "compulsory". |
| Polish | The word 'domniemany' is derived from the Latin word 'dominari', meaning 'to rule', and is related to the Polish word 'dominacja', meaning 'domination'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The verb "supor" (to suppose) in Portuguese also means "to endure", "to carry" or "to tolerate" in different contexts. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "presupus" also means "assumed", "implied", "postulated", or "conjectured". |
| Russian | In Russian, "предполагаемый" can also mean "expected", "implied", or "assumed". |
| Samoan | Its root, "manu," also means "bird"; thus, "manatu" can imply "thought of like a bird" as well. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "a rèir coltais" can also be used to say "it's believed" or "it's thought". |
| Serbian | The word "претпостављао" can also mean "assumed" or "took for granted". |
| Sesotho | The word "nahanoa" can also mean "to pretend" or "to make believe" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "kufungidzirwa" can also mean "to be thought of as being". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | It is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root *h₁yes- 'to desire, to strive for' and is cognate with Latin iō 'I go' and English yea. |
| Slovak | The word "predpokladaný" in Slovak also means "assumed" or "presumed". |
| Slovenian | "Domnevno" originates from the Proto-Slavic word "domneti", meaning "to guess". |
| Somali | The Somali word "loo maleeyay" (supposed) shares its root "leel" with the word "leel" (to say) and "maaley" (to estimate). |
| Spanish | In Spanish, «supuesto» (supposed) derives from the Latin «suppositus,» meaning «placed below» or «underlying,» and can also refer to an assumption, hypothesis, or precondition. |
| Sundanese | The word "sakuduna" can also mean "to be able to" or "to have the ability to" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "inavyodhaniwa" is derived from the word "dhani", which means "to think". |
| Swedish | Före and ment are two words that make up the word förment, före meaning before and ment meaning think. The word has been used both to mean something that is considered to be true before it has been proven to be true as well to mean something false that is believed to be true. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "dapat" in Tagalog has multiple meanings, including "requirement," "expectation," and "punishment." |
| Tajik | The word "тахмин" also means "approximately" and comes from Arabic "تقريب". This word is also used in Persian with the same meaning and is related to another Arabic word, "تقريب", meaning "to approach". |
| Tamil | The word 'கருதப்படுகிறது' is derived from the Tamil word 'கருத்து' ('thought'), implying that something is believed to be true based on assumptions or evidence. |
| Thai | ควร can also mean 'should' and 'it is right to do'. |
| Turkish | "Sözde" is also used to describe something that is fake or pretended. |
| Ukrainian | The word "передбачається" also means "expected" or "presumed" in Ukrainian. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "taxmin qilingan" can also mean "assumed" or "alleged". |
| Vietnamese | "Cho là" literally means "to put and think," which has led to an alternate meaning of "to assume" or "to take for granted." |
| Xhosa | 'Kufanelekile' also means 'suitable' or 'appropriate' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The word 'געמיינט' (gemaynt) can also mean 'community' or 'municipality' in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word "ikure" in Yoruba can also refer to "the act of supposing" or "an assumption." |
| Zulu | In addition to meaning "supposed," "okufanele" may also mean "that which fits" in Zulu. |
| English | The word "supposed" can also mean "falsely believed" or "pretended." |