English
Etymology
ground + work
Noun
groundwork (countable and uncountable, plural groundworks)
- The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest.
- The discovery of the laws of electricity laid the groundwork for a century of innovation.
Translations
foundation
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bashkir: нигеҙ (nigeź)
- Bulgarian: основа (bg) f (osnova), база (bg) f (baza), основен принцип m (osnoven princip)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 基礎／基础 (zh) (jīchǔ), 基础 (zh) (jīchǔ)
- Dutch: grondslag (nl)
- Finnish: perustus (fi), perusta (fi)
- French: fondation (fr) f, fondement (fr) m
- German: Grundlage (de) f
- Hindi: नींव (nī̃v), आधार (hi) (ādhār)
- Indonesian: dasar (id), fondasi (id)
- Italian: fondamenti (it) m
- Japanese: 基礎 (ja) (きそ, kiso)
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- Korean: 터 (ko) (teo)
- Latin: principium (la) n
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: obbyr undinagh f
- Maori: kaupapa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grunnarbeid n
- Nynorsk: grunnarbeid n
- Portuguese: fundamento (pt) m
- Russian: осно́ва (ru) f (osnóva), фунда́мент (ru) m (fundáment)
- Spanish: cimiento (es) m, fundamento (es) m
- Swedish: grundstomme
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