English [ edit ] Wikipedia
Etymology [ edit ] From home work
Pronunciation [ edit ] homework (usually uncountable , plural homeworks
Work that is done at home , especially school exercises assigned by a teacher .
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby , “Finland spreads word on schools ”, in The Guardian Weekly
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. [ …] Children address teachers by their first names. Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes'[sic homework a night.
You must do your homework before you can watch television.
Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.
The speaker had certainly done his homework before delivering the lecture.
Usage notes [ edit ] The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework .
Quotations [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
work that is done at home
Afrikaans: tuiswerk
Arabic: وَاجِب (ar) (wājib )
Armenian: տնային աշխատանք tnayin ašxatankʿ ), դաս (hy) (das )
Belarusian: ха́тняе зада́нне n xátnjaje zadánnje ), ха́тняя пра́ца f xátnjaja práca )
Bulgarian: дома́шна рабо́та f domášna rabóta )
Burmese: အိမ်စာ (my) (imca )
Catalan: deures (ca) m pl
Chinese:
Cantonese: 功課 功课 gung1 fo3 )
Mandarin: 作業 (zh) , 作业 (zh) (zuòyè ), 家庭作業 (zh) , 家庭作业 (zh) (jiātíng zuòyè ), 功課 (zh) , 功课 (zh) (gōngkè )
Czech: domácí úkol m domácí úkoly pl
Danish: lektier pl hjemmearbejde n
Dutch: huiswerk (nl) , huistaak
Esperanto: hejmtasko
Faroese: skúlating n pl
Finnish: läksyt pl kotitehtävä (fi)
French: (please verify ) devoirs m pl
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Hausaufgaben (de) pl
Hebrew: עבודת בית שיעורי בית
Hungarian: házi feladat (hu)
Icelandic: heimavinna f
Indonesian: pekerjaan rumah
Italian: compito (it) m compiti pl
Japanese: 宿題 (ja) (しゅくだい, shukudai )
Korean: 숙제 (ko) (sukje ) (宿題 (ko) )
Latin: pensum n
Lithuanian: namų darbai
Maltese: ħomwerk xogħol għad-dar
Mongolian: гэрийн даалгавар gerijn daalgavar )
Navajo: ółtaʼí hooghandi yinidoolnishígíí
Norwegian: lekse m , f hjemmelekse m , f
Polish: zadanie domowe (pl) n praca domowa (pl) f
Portuguese: tarefa (pt) , dever de casa tarefa de casa lição de casa
Romanian: temă (ro) f
Russian: дома́шнее зада́ние n domášneje zadánije ), дома́шняя рабо́та f domášnjaja rabóta )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: домаћи рад m домаћа задаћа f
Roman: domaći rad m domaća zadaća f domaći uradak m
Slovak: domáca úloha f
Spanish: deberes m pl ( Argentina, , ) tarea (es) f ( Latin America )
Swedish: läxa (sv) c hemläxa c hemuppgift c
Tagalog: takdang-aralin
Thai: การบ้าน (th) (kanban )
Turkish: ödev (tr) , ev ödevi
Ukrainian: дома́шнє завда́ння n domášnje zavdánnja ), дома́шня робо́та f domášnja robóta )
Uyghur: تاپشۇرۇق tapshuruq )
Yiddish: היימאַרבעט f heymarbet )
preliminary or preparatory work
See also [ edit ] 
