English [ edit ] 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.
( uncommon ) Housework .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: huiswerk (af)
Arabic: وَاجِب (ar) ( wājib )
Gulf Arabic: وَاجِب ( wājib )
Armenian: տնային աշխատանք ( tnayin ašxatankʿ ) , դաս (hy) ( das )
Azerbaijani: ev tapşırığı
Bashkir: өйгә эш ( öygä eš )
Belarusian: ха́тняе зада́нне n ( xátnjaje zadánnje ) , ха́тняя пра́ца f ( xátnjaja práca )
Bulgarian: дома́шна ра́бота f ( domášna rábota )
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 )
Cornish: ober tre m
Czech: domácí úkol m domácí úkoly pl
Danish: lektier pl hjemmearbejde n
Dutch: huiswerk (nl) , huistaak (nl)
Esperanto: hejmtasko
Faroese: skúlating n pl
Finnish: läksyt (fi) pl kotitehtävä (fi)
French: devoirs (fr) m pl
Georgian: საშინაო დავალება ( sašinao davaleba )
German: Hausaufgaben (de) pl
Hebrew: עבודת בית שיעורי בית
Hindi: गृहकार्य m ( gŕhakārya )
Hungarian: házi feladat (hu)
Icelandic: heimavinna f
Indonesian: pekerjaan rumah
Irish: obair bhaile f
Italian: compito (it) m compiti (it) m pl
Japanese: 宿題 (ja) ( しゅくだい, shukudai )
Korean: 숙제(宿題) (ko) ( sukje )
Lao: ວຽກບ້ານ ( wīak bān )
Latin: pensum n
Lithuanian: namų darbai
Malay: kerja rumah
Maltese: ħomwerk xogħol għad-dar
Maori: mahi kāinga
Mongolian: гэрийн даалгавар ( geriin daalgavar )
Navajo: ółtaʼí hooghandi yinidoolnishígíí
Norwegian: lekse m or f hjemmelekse m or f
Persian: مشق (fa) ( mashq )
Polish: zadanie domowe (pl) n praca domowa (pl) f
Portuguese: tarefa (pt) , dever de casa tarefa de casa lição de casa (pt)
Romanian: temă (ro) f
Russian: дома́шнее зада́ние (ru) n ( domášneje zadánije ) , дома́шняя рабо́та (ru) f ( domášnjaja rabóta ) , дома́шка (ru) f ( domáška ) ( colloquial )
Scottish Gaelic: obair-dachaigh f
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, Spain, Uruguay ) , tarea (es) f ( Latin America )
Swedish: läxa (sv) c hemläxa (sv) c hemuppgift (sv) c
Tagalog: takdang-aralin
Thai: การบ้าน (th) ( gaan-bâan )
Turkish: ödev (tr) , ev ödevi
Ukrainian: дома́шнє завда́ння n ( domášnje zavdánnja ) , дома́шня робо́та f ( domášnja robóta )
Uyghur: تاپشۇرۇق ( tapshuruq )
Vietnamese: bài tập (vi) , bài tập về nhà
Welsh: gwaith cartref m
Yiddish: היימאַרבעט f ( heymarbet )
preliminary or preparatory work
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