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GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org — suddenly - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Alternative forms

  • sodeinly (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sodenly, sodeynly, sodeinliche, sodaynlyche; equivalent to sudden +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʌd.ən.li/, [sʌd.n̩.li]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: sud‧den‧ly

Adverb

suddenly (comparative more suddenly, superlative most suddenly)

  1. Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
    Synonym: all of a sudden
    Antonym: unsuddenly
    Suddenly, the heavens opened and we all got drenched.
    They've suddenly decided to sell the house.
    • 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Fift”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 464:
      The king before he would take his voyage, sent the Erle of Huntyngdon to ſerche and ſcowre the Seas, leaſt any Frenchmen lyeng in wayte for him might attrap him sodeinly, or he had any knowledge of their ſetting forward.
    • 2013 September 8, Wayne Darsh, “A child of war, with a sense of purpose”, in CNN‎[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 15 July 2025:
      Shannon Spann had an infant, Jake, to care for and two stepdaughters to suddenly raise by herself.
    • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎[2], archived from the original on 15 July 2025:
      But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

Derived terms

  • suddenliness

Translations

happening quickly and with little or no warning — see also all of a sudden
  • Afrikaans: skielik (af)
  • Albanian: papritur (sq), papritmas (sq), befas (sq)
  • Arabic: فَجْأَةً (fajʔatan)
  • Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܡܢ ܫܠܝܐ (Eastern vocalization: ܡܸܢ ܫܸܠܝܵܐ mεn ʃεljā Western vocalization: ܡܶܢ ܫܶܠܝܳܐ men ʃeljo), ܡܢ ܫܠܝ (Eastern vocalization: ܡܸܢ ܫܸܠܝ mεn ʃεlj̠ Western vocalization: ܡܶܢ ܫܶܠܝ men ʃelj̠)
  • Armenian: հանկարծակի (hy) (hankarcaki), հանկարծ (hy) (hankarc)
    Old Armenian: յանկարծ (yankarc), յանկարծուստ (yankarcust), յանկարծակի (yankarcaki)
  • Asturian: de sópeto
  • Azerbaijani: birdən-birə, qəflətən (az), qəfildən (az), birdən (az)
  • Bashkir: ҡапыл (qapïl), кинәт (kinät)
  • Belarusian: ра́птам (ráptam)
  • Bengali: হঠাৎ (bn) (hoṭhat)
  • Bulgarian: внеза́пно (bg) (vnezápno), ненаде́йно (bg) (nenadéjno)
  • Burmese: ရုတ်တရက် (my) (rutta.rak), ဆိုးခနဲဆတ်ခနဲ (my) (hcui:hka.nai:hcathka.nai:)
  • Catalan: de sobte (ca), sobtadament (ca), (colloquial) tot d'una (ca), de cop i volta
  • Chickasaw: himó̠nali'
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 一吓 (jat1 haa5), 突然 (dat6 jin4), 突然間 / 突然间 (dat6 jin4 gaan1)
    Mandarin: 突然 (zh) (tūrán)
  • Coptic: ⲉⲝⲁⲡⲉⲓⲛⲁ (eksapeina) (Sahidic), ⲉⲝⲁⲡⲓⲛⲁ (eksapina) (Sahidic, Akhmimic), ϩⲛⲟⲩϣⲡⲉ ⲛϣⲱⲡ (hnoušpe nšōp) (Sahidic), ϩⲛⲟⲩϣⲱⲡ (hnoušōp) (Sahidic)
  • Cornish: distowgh, a-dhesempis
  • Czech: náhle (cs), najednou (cs)
  • Danish: pludseligt
  • Dutch: plotseling (nl), plots (nl), plotsklaps (nl), ineens (nl), pardoes (nl)
  • Elfdalian: rett sos eð war, rett sos eð ir, rett wen eð ir, rett wen eð war, plötsli, just dǫ, twer-, brå-
  • Esperanto: subite
  • Estonian: äkki (et)
  • Finnish: yhtäkkiä (fi), äkkiä (fi)
  • French: soudainement (fr), tout d'un coup (fr)
    Old French: soudainnemant
  • Galician: de súpeto, de socato, subitamente (gl)
  • Ge'ez: ፍጡነ (fəṭunä), በፍጡን (bäfṭun), ድንቀተ (dənḳätä), ውእተ ፡ ጊዜ (wəʾtä gize), ይእተ ፡ ጊዜ (yəʾtä gize), በምዕር (bämʿər), ግብተ (gəbtä)
  • Georgian: უეცრად (uecrad), მოულოდნელად (moulodnelad), ანაზდად (anazdad), უცბად (ucbad)
    Old Georgian: მეყჳსეულად (meq̇wiseulad), მეყსეულად (meq̇seulad), მუნქუეს (munkues)
  • German: plötzlich (de), urplötzlich (de) (emph.), unversehens (de) (exalted)
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌺𐍃 (anaks)
  • Greek: ξαφνικά (el) (xafniká)
    Ancient Greek: ἄφνω (áphnō)
  • Guarani:
    Mbya Guarani: xapy'a
  • Haitian Creole: sibitman
  • Hawaiian: ʻemo ʻole, hikiwawe, honua, poni, aia hoʻi
  • Hebrew: פתאום (he) (pit'óm)
  • Hindi: अचानक (hi) (acānak), एकाएक (hi) (ekāek), सहसा (hi) (sahsā), अनायास (anāyās)
  • Hungarian: hirtelen (hu), egyszer csak
  • Icelandic: brátt, skyndilega (is), snögglega, hastarlega
  • Ido: subite (io)
  • Indonesian: tiba-tiba (id), mendadak (id)
  • Interlingua: subito
  • Irish: go tobann, de gheit
  • Italian: all'improvviso (it), improvvisamente (it)
  • Japanese: 突然 (ja) (とつぜん, totsuzen)
  • Kazakh: аңдаусызда (aŋdawsızda), кенет (kenet), кенеттен (kenetten)
  • Khmer: ស្រាប់តែ (km) (srap tae), ភ្លាមនោះ (pliem nuh)
  • Korean: 갑자기 (ko) (gapjagi), 돌연(突然) (ko) (doryeon)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: لەپڕ (lepirr)
  • Lao: please add this translation if you can
  • Latgalian: ūmai, pieški
  • Latin: repente, subito (la), derepente
  • Latvian: pēkšņi
  • Lithuanian: staiga
  • Macedonian: наеднаш (naednaš), одеднаш (odednaš)
  • Malay: tiba-tiba (ms)
  • Malayalam: പെട്ടന്ന് (peṭṭannŭ), പെട്ടെന്ന് (ml) (peṭṭennŭ)
  • Maltese: f’daqqa waħda
  • Manchu: ᡤᠠᡳᡨᠠᡳ (gaitai)
  • Māori: whakarere (placed after a verb)
  • Marathi: अचानक (mr) (acānak)
  • Mongolian: гэнэт (mn) (genet)
  • Naga:
    Khiamniungan Naga: thǖlīk
  • Nengone: kedin
  • Nepali: अचानक (ne) (acānak), एक्कासि (ne) (ekkāsi)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: plutselig (no), med ett
  • Odia: please add this translation if you can
  • Old English: fǣrlīċe
  • Persian: ناگهان (fa) (nâgahân)
  • Plautdietsch: onverhofs
  • Polish: nagle (pl), raptem (pl), z nagła, znienacka (pl)
  • Portuguese: de repente (pt), repentinamente (pt), subitamente (pt)
  • Romanian: subit (ro), brusc (ro), deodată (ro), instantaneu (ro)
  • Russian: вдруг (ru) (vdrug), неожи́данно (ru) (neožídanno), внеза́пно (ru) (vnezápno), скоропостижно (ru) (skoropostižno)
  • Samoan: fa'afuase'i
  • Sanskrit: सहसा (sa) (sahasā), सपदि (sa) (sapadi)
  • Sardinian:
    Logudorese: improntùitu, indùna, setzi, tottindunu
  • Scottish Gaelic: gu h-obann, gu grad
  • Sikkimese: ཏོག་གི (tog gi)
  • Slovak: zrazu
  • Slovene: naênkrat
  • Spanish: repentinamente (es), súbitamente (es), subitáneamente (es)
  • Swahili: ghafula
  • Swedish: plötsligt (sv), med ens (sv), plötsligen (sv), rätt som det var, tvär-
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠈꠔꠣ (axóta)
  • Tamil: திடீரென்று (ta) (tiṭīreṉṟu)
  • Telugu: అకస్మాత్తుగా (te) (akasmāttugā)
  • Tetum: please add this translation if you can
  • Thai: อยู่ดีๆ, อยู่ๆ, จู่ๆ
  • Tibetan: ཧོབ་ཏེ་ཁ་ལ (hob te kha la)
  • Tocharian B: istak, ramer
  • Tongan: fakatuʻupakē
  • Turkish: aniden (tr), ansızın (tr), birden (tr), birdenbire (tr), gafleten (tr)
  • Ukrainian: раптово (raptovo), несподівано (nespodivano), знена́цька (znenácʹka)
  • Urdu: اَچانَک (acānak), ناگَہاں (nāgahā̃)
  • Vietnamese: thình lình (vi), đột ngột (vi), bỗng (vi), chợt (vi)
  • Welsh: yn sydyn
  • Yiddish: אויףֿ (oyf), מיט אַ מאָל (mit a mol), פּלוצלינג (plutsling)
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