facilitate

English

Etymology

From French faciliter, from Latin facilis

Pronunciation

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Verb

facilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)

1. To make easy or easier.
2. To help bring about
3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

Translations

to make easy or easier

• Arabic: سهل (ar) (sahhala)
• Bulgarian: улеснявам (bg) (ulesnjavam), благоприятствам (blagoprijatstvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使……容易 (shǐ ... róngyì), 輔助, 辅助 (fǔzhù), 促进 (cùjìn), 幫助, 帮助 (bāngzhù)

• Czech: usnadnit, ulehčit
• Danish: facilitere
• Esperanto: faciligi
• Finnish: helpottaa
• French: faciliter (fr)
• German: erleichtern (de), fördern (de)
• Greek: διευκολύνω (el) (diefkolýno)
• Jèrriais: faciliter
• Kyrgyz: азайтуу (ky) (azaytuu), басаңдатуу (ky) (basañdatuu), жеңилдетүү (ky) (ceñildetüü), оңойлотуу (ky) (oñoylotuu)

• Maori: huawaere
• Norwegian: forenkle
• Polish: ułatwiać (pl), torować
• Portuguese: facilitar (pt)
• Romanian: facilita (ro)
• Russian: спосо́бствовать (ru) impf (sposóbstvovatʹ), поспосо́бствовать (ru) pf (posposóbstvovatʹ), помога́ть impf (pomogátʹ), помо́чь (ru) pf (pomóčʹ), облегча́ть (ru) impf (oblexčátʹ), облегчи́ть (ru) pf (oblexčítʹ), соде́йствовать (ru) impf (sodéjstvovatʹ), посоде́йствовать (ru) pf (posodéjstvovatʹ)
• Spanish: facilitar (es)
• Swedish: underlätta (sv), förenkla (sv)
• Turkish: kolaylaştırmak

to help bring about

• Finnish: helpottaa

to preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

• Finnish: johtaa puhetta, johtaa, fasilitoida

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• French: faciliter

Related terms

• facile
• facilitation
• facilitative
• facilitator
• facilitatory

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Italian

Verb

facilitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of facilitare
2. second-person plural imperative of facilitare
3. feminine plural of facilitato

Anagrams

• felicitata

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Latin

Noun

facilitāte

1. ablative singular of facilitās

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin facilitas through French facilité

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fatʃiliˈtate]

Noun

facilitate f (plural facilități)

1. facility

Declension

declension of facilitate

	singular		plural
gender f	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	o facilitate	facilitatea	niște facilități	facilitățile
genitive/dative	unei facilități	facilității	unor facilități	facilităților