converse
Free verbal interchange of thoughts or viewsFree verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
» It was nice to converse with her.
С ней было приятно поговорить.
Було приємно з нею говорити.
З нею було приємно розмовляти.
Meaning
5 senses(literary, uncountable)Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
The opposite or reverse.
Gegenteil, Umkehrung
противоположностьprotivopoložnostʹ
Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.
Gegenteil, Umkehrung, Umkehrschluss
One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
Synonym of transpose.
- a proposition obtained by conversion
Examples
44 sentencesIt was nice to converse with her.
Було приємно з нею говорити.
ruС ней было приятно поговорить.
Tom and Mary were conversing in French.
I often converse with her.
Я часто спілкуюся з нею.
She enjoyed conversing with him.
Їй сподобалося з ним спілкуватися.
deSie genoss es, sich mit ihm zu unterhalten.
He conversed with those exchange students.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”). From LatinFrom Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”).
From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”).
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Forms
plural: converses| Singular | converse |
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uncountable
Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable