confirm

English

Alternative forms

• confirme (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin confirmare (“to make firm, strenghten, establish”), from com- (“together”) with firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)m

Verb

confirm (third-person singular simple present confirms, present participle confirming, simple past and past participle confirmed)

1. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
2. To confer the Christian sacrament of confirmation.
3. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Antonyms

• disconfirm
• deny
• dispute
• contradict
• question

Related terms

• confirmability
• confirmation

Translations

to strengthen

• Bulgarian: потвърждавам (bg) (potvǎrždávam), подкрепям (bg) (podkrepjam)
• Finnish: vahvistaa (fi)
• Hungarian: megerősít (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bekrefte (nb), stadfeste (nb)

  Nynorsk: bekrefte (nn), stadfeste (nn)

• Russian: укреплять (ru) (ukreplját') impf., укрепить (ru) (ukrepít') pf.; усиливать (ru) (usílivat') impf., усилить (ru) (usílit') pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: učvŕstiti (sh), utvŕditi (sh)
• Swedish: bekräfta (sv)

to confer the confirmation

• Danish: bekræfte (da)
• Finnish: konfirmoida (fi)
• German: bestätigen (de)
• Hungarian: bérmál (hu), konfirmál (hu)
• Icelandic: ferma (is)
• Luxembourgish: bestätegen (lb)
• Norwegian: bekrefte (no)

  Bokmål: konfirmere (nb)

  Nynorsk: konfirmere (nn)

• Polish: bierzmować (pl)
• Serbo-Croatian: krȉzmati (sh)
• Spanish: confirmar (es)
• Swedish: befästa (sv), bekräfta (sv), konfirmera (sv)

to assure

• Arabic: أكد (ar) (ʾákkada)
• Bulgarian: потвърждавам (bg) (potvǎrždávam), утвърждавам (bg) (utvǎrždávam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 證實 (cmn), 证实 (cmn) (zhèngshí)

• Czech: potvrdit (cs)
• Dutch: bevestigen (nl), beamen (nl)
• Esperanto: konfirmi (eo)
• Finnish: vakuuttaa (fi)
• French: confirmer (fr)
• German: bestätigen (de), bekräftigen (de)
• Hungarian: megerősít (hu)

• Japanese: 確認する (ja) (かくにんする, kakunin-suru)
• Jèrriais: confirmer
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bekfrefte (nb), forsikre om (nb), forsikre om (nb)

  Nynorsk: bekrefte (nn)

• Polish: potwierdzać (pl)
• Russian: подтверждать (ru) (podtverždát') impf., подтвердить (ru) (podtverdít') pf.; подкреплять (ru) (podkreplját') impf., подтвердить (ru) (podkrepít') pf.;
• Serbo-Croatian: potvŕditi (sh)
• Spanish: confirmar (es)
• Swedish: konfirmera (sv), försäkra (sv), bekräfta (sv)

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• Hebrew: לאשר (le'asher) (3)
• Italian: confermare (1), cresimare (2)
• Arabic: يؤكد

See also

• verify
• corroborate
• establish
• prove

External links

• confirm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• confirm in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• confirm at OneLook Dictionary Search