English
Verb
lie down (third-person singular simple present lies down , present participle lying down , simple past lay down , past participle lain down )
( intransitive ) To assume a reclining position .
Lie down on the bed until you feel better.
Antonym: get up
( intransitive ) To be lazy or remiss .
He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.
2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph [1] :They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”
( intransitive ) To submit passively .
I'm not going to lie down and take this!
Translations
assume a reclining position
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: اِسْتَلْقَى ( istalqā )
Armenian: պառկել (hy) ( paṙkel )
Belarusian: класці́ся impf ( klascísja ) , легчы́ pf ( ljehčý )
Bengali: শুয়ে পড়া ( śuẏe poṛa )
Bulgarian: ля́гам си (bg) ( ljágam si ) , ле́гна си ( légna si )
Catalan: ajeure's (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 瞓低 / 𰥛低 ( fan3 dai1 )
Mandarin: 偃 (zh) ( yǎn ) , 躺下 (zh) ( tǎngxià ) , 躺 (zh) ( tǎng )
Czech: lehnout si
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: gaan liggen
Esperanto: sterni (eo)
Faliscan: cupo , leco
Finnish: panna maata , panna makuulle , käydä pitkälleen , käydä pitkäkseen
French: s’étendre (fr) , se coucher (fr) , s’allonger (fr)
Galician: deitarse
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: sich legen
Greek:
Ancient: κεῖμαι ( keîmai )
Hindi: लेटना (hi) ( leṭnā )
Hungarian: lefektet (hu)
Icelandic: leggjast niður , leggjast
Italian: sdraiarsi (it) , distendersi (it) , coricarsi (it)
Japanese: 臥す ( ふす, fusu ) , 身を伏せる ( みをふせる, mi-o fuseru ) , 俯せる ( うつぶせる, utsubuseru )
Khmer: ទំរេត ( tumreit )
Korean: 눕다 (ko) ( nupda )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: cubō , dēcumbō , recumbō , iaceō (la)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
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Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: ле́гнува ( légnuva )
Malay: baring
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Ojibwe: gawishimon
Persian: خوابیدن (fa) ( xâbidan ) , لمیدن (fa) ( lamīdan )
Polish: kłaść (pl)
Portuguese: deitar-se
Pumpokol: ak
Quechua: siriy (qu)
Rapa Nui: moe
Romanian: se culca
Romansch: s'extender
Russian: ложи́ться (ru) impf ( ložítʹsja ) , лечь (ru) pf ( lečʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: laigh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лȅћи
Roman: lȅći (sh)
Slovak: ľahnúť si
Slovene: léči
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: połožowaś se ( imperfective ) , połožyś se ( perfective )
Spanish: echarse (es) , tenderse (es) , acostarse (es)
Swedish: lägga sig (sv)
Tajik: хобидан ( xobidan )
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: นอน (th) ( nɔɔn )
Ukrainian: ляга́ти impf ( ljaháty ) , лягти́ pf ( ljahtý )
Urdu: لیٹنا ( leṭnā )
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Waray-Waray: higda
Welsh: please add this translation if you can
Translations to be checked
See also