fall ill (third-person singular simple present falls ill, present participle falling ill, simple past fell ill, past participle fallen ill)
- To become ill, to get sick, to sicken.
- Synonyms: fall sick, take ill, take sick, be taken ill, be taken sick, be taken bad
2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian[1]:We come into contact with germ-infested surfaces all day, every day, but we don’t keep falling catastrophically ill.
become ill
- Akkadian: 𒈪𒉭 (marāṣu, GIG)
- Albanian: sëmurem (sq)
- Arabic: مَرِضَ (ar) (mariḍa), أُصِيبَ بِالْمَرَض (ʔuṣība bi-l-maraḍ)
- Armenian: հիվանդանալ (hy) (hivandanal)
- Azerbaijani: xəstələnmək (az), naxoşlamaq, azarlamaq
- Bashkir: ауырып китеү (awırıp kitew), ауырыу (awırıw), сирләү (sirləw)
- Belarusian: захво́рваць impf (zaxvórvacʹ), захварэ́ць pf (zaxvarécʹ), занемага́ць impf (zanjemahácʹ), занемагчы́ pf (zanjemahčý), заняду́жваць impf (zanjadúžvacʹ), заняду́жыць pf (zanjadúžycʹ)
- Breton: kleñvel (br)
- Bulgarian: разболя́вам се impf (razboljávam se), разболе́я се pf (razboléja se)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 生病 (zh) (shēngbìng), 得病 (zh) (débìng), 患病 (zh) (huànbìng)
- Czech: onemocnět (cs) pf
- Danish: blive syg
- Dutch: ziek worden
- Esperanto: malsaniĝi
- Estonian: haigestuma
- Finnish: sairastua (fi)
- French: tomber malade (fr)
- Galician: enfermar (gl)
- German: erkranken (de), krank werden
- Greek: αρρωσταίνω (el) (arrostaíno)
- Hindi: बीमार पड़ना (bīmār paṛnā)
- Hungarian: megbetegszik (hu)
- Icelandic: verða veikur (is)
- Ido: maladeskar (io)
- Irish: meathlaigh, galraigh
- Italian: ammalarsi (it)
- Japanese: 病気になる (びょうきになる, byōki ni naru)
- Kazakh: ауырып қалу (auyryp qalu)
- Korean: 병에 걸리다 (byeong-e geollida), 병이 나다 (byeong-i nada)
- Kyrgyz: ооруп калуу (oorup kaluu)
- Latin: aegrēscō (la)
- Latvian: saslimt
- Lithuanian: susirgti
- Macedonian: заболува impf (zaboluva), заболи pf (zaboli)
- Northern Sami: buohccát
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bli syk
- Ottoman Turkish: خستهلانمق (hastalanmak)
- Persian: بیمار شدن (bimâr šodan)
- Polish: zachorować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: adoecer (pt)
- Quechua: qishyay
- Romanian: a se îmbolnăvi (ro)
- Russian: заболева́ть (ru) impf (zabolevátʹ), заболе́ть (ru) pf (zabolétʹ), захвора́ть (ru) pf (zaxvorátʹ), занеду́жить (ru) pf (zanedúžitʹ), занемога́ть (ru) impf (zanemogátʹ), занемо́чь (ru) pf (zanemóčʹ)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: ammaladiai
- Logudorese: maladiàre, nesigare
- Sassarese: cadí maraddu
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: разболе́вати се impf, разболије́вати се impf, разбо̀лети се pf, разбо̀љети се pf
- Roman: razbolévati se impf, razbolijévati se (sh) impf, razbòleti se (sh) pf, razbòljeti se (sh) pf
- Slovak: ochorieť pf, onemocnieť pf, zaľahnúť pf
- Slovene: zbolevati impf, zboleti (sl) pf
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: schórjeś pf
- Spanish: caer enfermo, enfermar (es), enfermarse (es)
- Swedish: insjukna (sv), bli sjuk
- Tajik: бемор шудан (bemor šudan)
- Thai: ล้มป่วย, ล้มเจ็บ
- Turkish: hastalanmak (tr), hasta olmak (tr), rahatsızlanmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: захво́рювати impf (zaxvórjuvaty), захворі́ти pf (zaxvoríty), занеду́жувати impf (zanedúžuvaty), занеду́жати pf (zanedúžaty)
- Urdu: بیمار پڑنا (bīmār paṛnā)
- Uzbek: kasallanmoq (uz), betoblanmoq (uz), kasal boʻlib qolmoq
- Vietnamese: bị ốm
- Volapük: malädikön (vo)
- Welsh: mynd yn wael
- Yámana: tamaia
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