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Pronunciation[edit]
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Prepositional phrase[edit]
in a way
- To a certain degree; to an extent; in a certain sense.
- Synonyms: after a fashion, in a sense
- Coordinate term: as it were
2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe[1]”, in National Geographic:As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
Translations[edit]
to a certain degree, or in a certain sense
- Dutch: in zekere zin
- Finnish: tavallaan (fi)
- French: dans un sens (fr), d’une certaine façon, dans un certain sens, dans une certaine mesure (fr)
- German: in gewisser Weise, gewissermaßen (de)
- Greek: κάπως (el) (kápos), περίπου (el) (perípou)
- Hungarian: bizonyos értelemben
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: delvis, til dels, til en viss grad
- Nynorsk: delvis, til dels, til ei viss grad
- Polish: w pewnym sensie, niejako (pl), poniekąd (pl)
- Portuguese: de certa forma
- Romanian: într-un fel
- Russian: в не́котором ро́де (ru) (v nékotorom róde), в не́которой сте́пени (v nékotoroj stépeni)
- Swedish: på ett sätt, på sätt och vis (sv)
- Turkish: bir bakıma (tr)
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