homework

English

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Etymology

From home +‎ work.

Noun

homework (uncountable)

1. Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.

   You must do your homework before you can watch television.

2. Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.

   The speaker had certainly done his homework before delivering the lecture.

Usage notes

The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Translations

work that is done at home

• Afrikaans: tuiswerk (af)
• Arabic: واجب (ar) (wajib) m
• Armenian: տնային աշխատանք (hy) (tnayin ašxatank’), դաս (hy) (das)
• Catalan: deures (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 作業 (cmn), 作业 (cmn) (zuòyè), 家庭作業 (cmn), 家庭作业 (cmn) (jiātíng zuòyè), 功課 (cmn), 功课 (cmn) (gōngkè)

• Czech: domácí úkol (cs) m, domácí úkoly (cs) pl
• Danish: lektier (da) pl, hjemmearbejde (da) n
• Dutch: huiswerk (nl), huistaak (nl)
• Faroese: skúlating (fo) n pl
• Finnish: läksyt pl, kotitehtävä (fi) sg / kotitehtävät pl
• French: devoirs m pl
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Hausaufgaben (de) pl
• Hebrew: עבודרת בית
• Hungarian: házi feladat (hu)
• Indonesian: pekerjaan rumah (id)
• Italian: compito (it) m (compiti pl)
• Japanese: 宿題 (ja) (しゅくだい, shukudai)

• Korean: 숙제 (ko) (sukje)
• Latin: pensum (la) n
• Lithuanian: namų darbai (lt)
• Maltese: ħomwerk (mt), xogħol għad-dar (mt)
• Norwegian: lekse (no) m and f, hjemmelekse (no) m and f
• Polish: zadanie domowe (pl)
• Portuguese: tarefa (pt), dever de casa (pt), tarefa de casa (pt), lição de casa (pt)
• Romanian: temă (ro) f
• Russian: домашнее задание (ru) (domášneje zadánije) n, домашняя работа (ru) (domášnjaja rabóta) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: домаћи рад (sh) m, домаћа задаћа (sh) f

  Roman: domaći rad (sh) m, domaća zadaća (sh) f, domaći uradak (sh) m

• Slovak: domáca úloha (sk) f
• Spanish: deberes (es) m pl (Argentina, Spain, Uruguay), tarea (es) f (Latin America)
• Swedish: läxa (sv) c, hemläxa (sv) c, hemuppgift (sv) c
• Tagalog: takdang-aralin (tl)
• Thai: การบ้าน (th) (kanban)
• Turkish: ödev (tr), ev ödevi (tr)
• Uyghur: تاپشۇرۇق (ug) (tapshuruq)

preliminary or preparatory work

• Afrikaans: tuiswerk (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 研究 (cmn) (yánjiū)

• Dutch: huiswerk (nl)
• Finnish: valmistelut pl

• German: Hausaufgaben (de) pl
• Latin: pensum (la) n
• Romanian: temă (ro) f
• Spanish: tarea (es) f
• Swedish: hemläxa (sv) c

See also

• busy work
• schoolwork