come up with

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

come up with (third-person singular simple present comes up with, present participle coming up with, simple past came up with, past participle come up with)

1. (idiomatic) To invent, create, or think of.

   I don't know the answer, but I might be able to come up with a good guess.

   How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?

   Shelly stalled while she tried to come up with a good response.

2. To reach or overtake.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come,‎ up,‎ with.

Translations

to invent, create

• Arabic: جَاءَ بِـ (jāʔa bi-), أَتَى بِـ (ar) (ʔatā bi-)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 想出 (zh) (xiǎngchū), 提出 (zh) (tíchū)

• Dutch: bedenken (nl), verzinnen (nl)
• Finnish: keksiä (fi)
• French: inventer (fr), imaginer (fr)
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• German: ausdenken (de) (reflex.)
• Malagasy: mamorona (mg)
• Portuguese: pensar (em), alcançar (pt)
• Russian: придумывать (ru) (pridumyvatʹ), приходить в голову (ru) (prixoditʹ v golovu)
• Spanish: ingeniarse (es)

References

• “come up with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.