collaborate

English

Etymology

From collaborator, from French collaborateur, from Latin collaborare

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kəˈlabəɹeɪt/, X-SAMPA: /k@"lab@r\eIt/
• (US) IPA: /kəˈlæbəɹeɪt/, X-SAMPA: /k@"l{b@r\eIt/

Verb

collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)

1. To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

   Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.

2. To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

   If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

Translations

to work together on a piece of work

• Arabic: تعاون (ar) (taʿāwana) (مع máʿa)
• Bulgarian: сътруднича (bg) (sǎtrudniča)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (cmn) (hézuò), 協作 (cmn), 协作 (cmn) (xiézuò), 配合 (cmn) (pèihé)

• Czech: spolupracovat (cs)
• Danish: samarbejde (da)
• Dutch: samenwerken (nl)
• Esperanto: kunlabori (eo)
• Estonian: koostööd tegema
• Finnish: tehdä yhteistyötä
• French: collaborer (fr)
• German: zusammenarbeiten (de)
• Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai) 
• Hebrew: שיתף פעולה (he) (shitéf p'ula)
• Hungarian: közösen dolgozik, együtt dolgozik
• Icelandic: vinna saman
• Indonesian: kerjasama

• Italian: collaborare (it)
• Japanese: 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru), 共同して働く (ja) (kyōdō shite hataraku)
• Korean: 공동으로 일하다
• Latvian: sadarboties; līdzdarboties
• Lithuanian: drauge dirbti
• Norwegian: samarbeide (no)
• Polish: współpracować
• Portuguese: colaborar
• Quechua: haymay (qu)
• Romanian: a colabora
• Russian: сотрудничать (ru) (sotrúdničatʹ) , кооперировать (ru) (kooperírovatʹ) 
• Serbo-Croatian: сарађивати (sh), сурађивати (sh)
• Slovak: spolupracovať
• Slovene: sodelovati
• Spanish: colaborar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta (sv)
• Turkish: birlikte çalışmak

to cooperate treasonably

• Arabic: يَتَعاوَنُ مَعِ العَدو (ar) (taʿāwana máʿa al-ʿadw)
• Bulgarian: колаборирам (bg) (kolaboriram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勾結 (cmn), 勾结 (cmn) (gōujié)

• Czech: kolaborovat
• Danish: kollaborere (da), samarbejde (da)
• Dutch: collaboreren (nl)
• Estonian: kollaboreerima
• Finnish: olla yhteistoiminnassa, -työssä
• French: collaborer (fr)
• German: zusammenarbeiten (de)
• Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai) 
• Hebrew: שיתף פעולה (he) (shitéf p'ula)
• Hungarian: kollaborál (hu)
• Icelandic: vinna með

• Indonesian: berkhianat (id)
• Italian: collaborare (it)
• Japanese: (敵に) 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru)
• Korean: (적국에) 협력하다 (hyeomnyeok-hada)
• Latvian: sadarboties (ar ienaidnieku)
• Lithuanian: bendradarbiauti, kolaboruoti
• Norwegian: samarbeide (med fienden), kollaborere
• Polish: kolaborować
• Portuguese: colaborar
• Romanian: a colabora
• Russian: сотрудничать с врагом (sotrúdničatʹ s vragóm)
• Slovak: kolaborovať
• Slovene: kolaborirati
• Spanish: colaborar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta, kollaborera
• Turkish: işbirliği yapmak

References

• “collaborate” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “collaborate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "collaborate" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "collaborate" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

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Italian

Verb form

collaborate

1. second-person plural present tense of collaborare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of collaborare
3. second-person plural imperative of collaborare

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Latin

Verb

collabōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collabōrō