pay attention

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

pay attention (third-person singular simple present pays attention, present participle paying attention, simple past and past participle paid attention)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.

   Please pay attention to the danger signs.

Synonyms

• (to attend): give heed, pay heed, pick up what someone is putting down, take heed

Translations

to be attentive

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: иғтибар итеү (iğtibar itew)
• Belarusian: звярта́ць ува́гу impf (zvjartácʹ uváhu)
• Bulgarian: насочвам внимание (nasočvam vnimanie)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 注意 (zyu³ ji³) (take notice of), 睬 (coi²) (acknowledge), 理 (lei⁵) (tend to; care about), 理睬 (lei⁵ coi²)

  Mandarin: 注意 (zh) (zhùyì), 注重 (zh) (zhùzhòng)

• Czech: dávat pozor (cs), věnovat pozornost
• Dutch: opletten (nl)
• Esperanto: atenti
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: huomioida (fi), kiinnittää huomiota
• French: prêter attention (fr) (à), faire attention (fr), être attentif
• Galician: prestar atención
• German: beachten (de), achten (de), achtgeben (de), aufpassen (de), Aufmerksamkeit schenken
• Greek: προσέχω (el) (prosécho), δίνω σημασία (díno simasía)
• Hindi: (पर (par)) ध्यान देना (dhyān denā)
• Hungarian: figyel (hu)
• Ido: atencar (io)
• Irish: tabhair aird
• Italian: prestare attenzione (it), fare attenzione, dare retta
• Japanese: 注意を払う (ちゅういをはらう, chūi o harau)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 주의를 기울이다 (juuireul giurida)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: bo xwe kirin xem (ku)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: animadverto (la), aspecto, attendō, audio (la)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: обраќа внимание impf (obraḱa vnimanie)
• Maori: matenui, mātorotoro, whakapaepae
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følge med

• Polish: zwracać uwagę
• Portuguese: prestar atenção
• Romanian: acorda atenție, fi atent la, da atenție
• Russian: обраща́ть внима́ние impf (obraščátʹ vnimánije), обрати́ть внима́ние pf (obratítʹ vnimánije) (на (na))
• Spanish: prestar la atención (to a person), poner la atención (to an idea or thing), tomar en cuenta, pescar (es) (colloquial), prestar atención (es), estar pendiente
• Thai: ระวัง (th) (rá-wang)
• Turkish: dikkatli olmak
• Ukrainian: зверта́ти ува́гу impf (zvertáty uváhu)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can