English [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] change one's mind third-person singular simple present changes one's mind present participle changing one's mind simple past and past participle changed one's mind
( idiomatic ) decide differently than one had decided before.
She started up the stairs, changed her mind , and turned to go back down.
2006 Baggs, Amanda, Changes in Self-Awareness Over Time, Disclaimer on Assumptions , [http://] ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=294 May 2006:
So don’t necessarily assume that something has changed if I appear to have changed my mind , sometimes my mind is all that’s changed. 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL , number 1000 , page 61 :Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" [ …] . A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds .
Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] to decide differently than one had decided before
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: غَيَّرَ رَأْيَهُ ( ḡayyara raʔyahu )
Armenian: միտքը փոխել ( mitkʻə pʻoxel )
Azerbaijani: fikrini dəyişmək
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: пераду́мваць impf ( pjeradúmvacʹ ) , пераду́маць pf ( pjeradúmacʹ ) , разду́мваць impf ( razdúmvacʹ ) , разду́маць pf ( razdúmacʹ )
Bulgarian: разми́слям (bg) impf ( razmísljam ) , разми́сля (bg) pf ( razmíslja )
Catalan: canviar d'opinió repensar-s'hi (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 改變 主意 ／ 改变 主意 ( gǎibiàn zhǔyì ) , ( derogatory ) 變卦 ／ 变卦 (zh) ( biànguà )
Czech: změnit názor pf rozmyslit se pf
Danish: ombestemme sig
Dutch: van gedachten veranderen zich bedenken (nl)
Esperanto: ŝanĝi sian opinion decidi alie
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: muuttaa mielensä muuttaa mieltään
French: changer d’avis se raviser (fr)
Galician: acordar (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: seine Meinung ändern sich umentscheiden (de) , es sich anders überlegen (de)
Greek:
Ancient: μεταμέλομαι ( metamélomai )
Hebrew: שִׁנָּה אֶת דַּעֲתוֹ ( shiná et da'ató )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: meggondolja magát
Icelandic: sjá sig um hönd hringla með
Irish: intinn a athrú
Italian: cambiare idea
Japanese: 気が変わる (ja) ( きがかわる, ki ga kawaru ) , 思い直す ( おもいなおす, omoinaosu )
Kazakh: айну ( ainu )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 마음 을 바꾸다 ( ma'eum-eul bakkuda ) , 의견 을 바꾸다 ( uigyeon-eul bakkuda ) , 생각 을 바꾸다 ( saenggag-eul bakkuda ) , 결심 을 바꾸다 ( gyeolsim-eul bakkuda ) , 고쳐 생각하다 ( gocheo saenggakhada )
Latin: sententiam muto
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: kihirua
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skifte mening endre oppfatning ombestemme seg
Polish: zmienić zdanie pf rozmyślać się (pl) impf rozmyślić się pf
Portuguese: mudar de ideia
Romanian: răzgândi (ro)
Russian: переду́мывать (ru) impf ( peredúmyvatʹ ) , переду́мать (ru) pf ( peredúmatʹ ) , разду́мывать (ru) impf ( razdúmyvatʹ ) , разду́мать (ru) pf ( razdúmatʹ )
Slovak: zmeniť názor pf rozmyslieť sa pf
Spanish: cambiar de opinión cambiar de idea cambiar de parecer mudar de idea mudar de opinión mudar de parecer
Swedish: ändra sig (sv) , ändra åsikt ändra mening
Thai: เปลี่ยนใจ (th) ( bplìian-jai )
Turkish: fikrini değiştirmek
Ukrainian: переду́мувати impf ( peredúmuvaty ) , переду́мати pf ( peredúmaty ) , розду́мати pf ( rozdúmaty )
Vietnamese: nghĩ lại (vi) , thay đổi ý định
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