make up one's mind

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

make up one's mind

1. (idiomatic) To decide; to reach a conclusion.

   I can't make up my mind whether to have ice cream or cake.

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     "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

Translations

to decide, to reach a conclusion

• Arabic: وَطَّنَ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى (ar) (waṭṭana nafsahu ʕalā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解決／解决 (zh) (jiějué), 解决 (zh) (jiějué)

• Finnish: päättää (fi)
• French: se décider (fr)
• German: sich entscheiden (de)
• Hebrew: החליט (he) (hekhlít)
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• Hungarian: dönt (hu), elszánja magát, határoz (hu), elhatározza magát
• Italian: decidersi (it)
• Japanese: 解決する (ja) (かいけつする, kaiketsu-suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bestemme seg

• Russian: реша́ть (ru) impf (rešátʹ), реши́ть (ru) pf (rešítʹ)
• Spanish: decidirse (es), definirse (es)
• Swedish: bestämma sig

See also

• have a mind of one's own
• change one's mind