Meaning

1 senses

  1. To bother; to discomfort.

    lästig sein, stören, Unannehmlichkeiten bereiten

    доставля́ть неудо́бстваdostavljátʹ neudóbstva

    to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Examples

81 sentences

  1. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

    Я дуже перепрошую за незручності. — deniko

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  2. I hope we're not inconveniencing you.

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  3. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

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  4. Would it inconvenience you to go yourself?

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  5. Not having a telephone is an inconvenience.

    ruБез телефона неудобно. — fjay69

    deEs ist lästig, kein Telefon zu haben. — Hans_Adler

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to bother or discomfort:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to bother or discomfort:

Origin

From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, i

From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).

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Forms

inconveniences, inconveniencing, inconvenienced, inconvenienced
Base forminconvenience · to inconvenience
3rd person singularinconveniences
Present participleinconveniencing
Past simpleinconvenienced
Past participleinconvenienced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyinconvenience
he, she, itinconveniences

Past simpleLesson

all personsinconvenienced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave inconvenienced
he, she, ithas inconvenienced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill inconvenience

Synonyms

8 synonyms
imposeB2discommodatediscommodeincommode
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Derivedinconvenienceruninconvenienced

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
inconsistentinconspicuousincontinenceincontrovertibleinconvenientB1incorporate

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