pause

See also Pause, -pause, and pausé

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pôz, IPA: /pɔːz/, X-SAMPA: /pO:z/

Rhymes: -ɔːz

• (US) enPR: pôz, IPA: /pɔz/, X-SAMPA: /pOz/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: päz, IPA: /pɑz/, X-SAMPA: /pAz/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: paws; pores, pours (in non-rhotic accents)

Verb

pause (third-person singular simple present pauses, present participle pausing, simple past and past participle paused)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To interrupt current work and do something else for a moment.

   When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.

   He paused the video until everyone was quiet, then pressed Play.

Translations

to interrupt something

• Arabic: توقف (ar) (tawaqqafa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停頓 (cmn), 停顿 (cmn) (tíngdùn), 暫停 (cmn), 暂停 (cmn) (zàntíng)

• Dutch: pauzeren (nl)
• Finnish: pysähtyä, tauota, pitää tauko
• French: faire une pause, pauser (fr)

• German: pausieren (de), innehalten (de)
• Japanese: 中断する (ja) (ちゅうだんする, chūdan suru), 途切れる (ja) (とぎれる, togireru)
• Latvian: pārtraukt (lv)
• Russian: делать паузу (ru) (délatʹ páuzu)
• Spanish: pausar (es), interrumpir (es), suspender (es)
• Swedish: pausa (sv)

Noun

pause (plural pauses)

1. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
2. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).

Translations

short time for relaxing

• Arabic: توقف (ar) (tawáqquf) m, وقف (ar) (waqf) m
• Armenian: դադար (hy) (dadar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停頓 (cmn), 停顿 (cmn) (tíngdùn), 暫停 (cmn), 暂停 (cmn) (zàntíng)

• Czech: přestávka (cs) f, pauza (cs) f
• Dutch: pauze (nl) c
• Esperanto: paŭzo (eo)
• Finnish: pysähdys (fi), tauko (fi), keskeytys (fi), väliaika (fi), lepoaika (fi), katko (fi)
• French: pause (fr) f
• German: Pause (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: παῦσις f

  Modern: παύση f

• Hebrew: אתנח (he) (etnah)
• Hungarian: szünet (hu)
• Italian: pausa (it) f
• Japanese: 休止 (ja) (きゅうし, kyūshi), 中断 (ja) (ちゅうだん, chūdan)
• Korean: 멈춤 (ko) (meomchum)
• Latvian: pārtraukums (lv) m
• Portuguese: pausa (pt) f
• Romanian: pauză (ro)
• Russian: пауза (ru) (páuza) f, остановка (ru) (ostanóvka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: станка (sh) f, одмор (sh) m

  Roman: stanka (sh) f, odmor (sh) m

• Slovene: pavza (sl) f, odmor (sl) m
• Spanish: pausa (es) f
• Swedish: paus (sv) c

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: pose

Noun

pause f (plural pauses)

1. pause, break

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Italian

Noun

pause f

1. Plural form of pausa

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek pauein (“stop”).

Noun

pause m

1. pause (short time for relaxing)

Inflection

    Inflection of pause

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	pause	pausen	pauser	pausene
Nynorsk m	pause	pausen	pausar	pausane

References

• “pause” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Spanish

Verb

pause (infinitive pausar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pausar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pausar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pausar.