English [ edit ] fall asleep third-person singular simple present falls asleep present participle falling asleep simple past fell asleep past participle fallen asleep
To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep .
1914 Louis Joseph Vance , chapter II, in Nobody , New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company , published 1915 , →OCLC She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
( idiomatic , figurative ) To be affected by paresthesia ; to go numb .
My left leg has fallen asleep !
( poetic , euphemistic ) To die ( often seen on gravestones ) .
Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] to pass into sleep
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
American Sign Language: 1@Sfhead-PalmDown A@Palm-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Arabic: غَلَّبَ النُعَاس ( ḡallaba n-nuʕās ) , نَامَ ( nāma ) , اِسْتَغْرَقَ فِي النَّوْم ( istaḡraqa fī n-nawm )
Hijazi Arabic: نام ( nām ) , غفي ( ḡifi )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: yuxulamaq uyumaq
Basque: lo gelditu
Belarusian: засыпа́ць impf ( zasypácʹ ) , засну́ць pf ( zasnúcʹ )
Bulgarian: заспи́вам (bg) impf ( zaspívam ) , заспя́ pf ( zaspjá )
Catalan: adormir-se (ca)
Cherokee: ᎦᏢᏍᎦ ( gatlvsga )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 睡著 (zh) ( shuìzháo ) , 睡着 (zh) ( shuìzháo )
Czech: usnout (cs) , usínat impf
Danish: falde i søvn sove ind
Dutch: in slaap vallen inslapen (nl)
Esperanto: ekdormi
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: sovna
Finnish: nukahtaa (fi)
French: s’endormir (fr)
Galician: adormecer (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: einschlafen (de) , einpennen (de)
Greek: αποκοιμιέμαι (el) ( apokoimiémai )
Ancient: ἀποκοιμῶμαι ( apokoimômai ) , δαρθάνω ( darthánō ) , καθυπνόω ( kathupnóō )
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: elalszik (hu) , álomba merül
Icelandic: sofna (is) , falla í svefn
Ido: dormeskar (io)
Indonesian: ketiduran (id)
Ingrian: nukahtaa nukahtaissa
Italian: addormentarsi (it)
Japanese: 寝る (ja) ( ねる, neru ) , 寝静まる (ja) ( ねしずまる, neshizumaru ) , 眠りに落ちる ( ねむりにおちる, nemuri ni ochiru ) , 寝入る (ja) ( ねいる, neiru ) , 寝付く (ja) ( ねつく, netsuku )
Kazakh: ұйқыға кету ( ūiqyğa ketu )
Khmer: ដេកលក់ ( deek lŭək )
Korean: 잠들다 (ko) ( jamdeulda ) , 잠 이 들다 ( jami deulda )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەو لێکەوتن ( xew lêkewtin )
Lao: ນອນຫລັບ ( nǭn lap )
Latin: addormiō obdormiō addormiscō obdormiscō
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: заспива ( zaspiva ) , заспие pf ( zaspie )
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Neapolitan: s'addorme
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sovne (no) , falle i søvn
Old Galician-Portuguese: adormecer
Polish: zasypiać (pl) , zasnąć (pl) , usypiać (pl) , usnąć (pl)
Portuguese: adormecer (pt)
Quechua: siriy (qu)
Romanian: adormi (ro)
Russian: засыпа́ть (ru) impf ( zasypátʹ ) , засну́ть (ru) pf ( zasnútʹ ) , усну́ть (ru) pf ( usnútʹ )
Slovak: zaspať usnúť
Slovene: zaspati
Spanish: dormirse (es) , quedarse dormido adormecerse (es)
Swedish: somna (sv) , falla i sömn (sv)
Tagalog: makatulog
Thai: หลับ ไป ( làp bpai ) , โงก ( ngôok )
Turkish: uyuyakalmak (tr)
Ukrainian: засипа́ти impf ( zasypáty ) , засина́ти impf ( zasynáty ) , засну́ти pf ( zasnúty )
Vietnamese: ngủ gục (vi)
Volapük: slipikön (vo)
Yiddish: אַנטשלאָפֿן ( antshlofn )
to be affected by paresthesia
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