mistake
An errorAn error.
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» I must have made a mistake.
Ich muss einen Fehler gemacht haben. — Espi
Я, наверно, ошибся. — FeuDRenais
Должно быть, я допустил ошибку. — the_orange
Я, мабуть, помилився. — deniko
Я, мабуть, помилилася. — deniko
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Examples
3910 sentencesI must have made a mistake.
Я, мабуть, помилився. — deniko
ruЯ, наверно, ошибся. — FeuDRenais
deIch muss einen Fehler gemacht haben. — Espi
I'm very sorry about the mistake.
Мені дуже шкода із-за помилки. — deniko
ruЯ сожалею об этой ошибке. — Balamax
We are sorry for his mistake.
Ми перепрошуємо за його помилку. — deniko
ruМы сожалеем о его ошибке. — fjay69
Meaning
2 sensesAn error.
There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.
He always made mistakes on purpose.
Fehler
оши́бкаošíbka, заблужде́ниеzabluždénije
поми́лкаpomýlka, по́милкаpómylka, хи́баxýba
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- an understanding of something that is not correct
- part of a statement that is not correct
Origin
From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); eqFrom Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
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Forms
plural: mistakesSynonyms
36 synonyms- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention:errorfault
- an understanding of something that is not correct:misunderstandingmisapprehension
- part of a statement that is not correct:error
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A2Make or do — Because the lesson uses it
Collocations
12 patterns- made a mistake
- the same mistake
- a big mistake
- same mistake
- big mistake
- make mistakes
- kind of mistake
- a huge mistake
- make that mistake
- lot of mistakes
- same mistake again
- often make mistakes
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.