pay back

See also: payback and payback

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪ bæk/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to pay an amount of money owed to another, to repay

   He paid her back with interest.

   He paid back all the money he owed her.

2. (figuratively) to exact revenge

   He paid them back for their conniving.

Translations

to repay

• Arabic: جَازَى‎ (jāzā)
• Bikol Central: balos
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賠 (zh), 赔 (zh) (péi), 報償 (zh), 报偿 (zh) (bàocháng), 償 (zh), 偿 (zh) (cháng), 償還 (zh), 偿还 (zh) (chánghuán)

• Danish: tilbagebetale
• Dutch: terugbetalen (nl)
• Esperanto: repagi
• Finnish: maksaa takaisin, palauttaa (fi), hyvittää (fi), maksaa (fi)
• French: rembourser (fr), rendre (fr)
• German: zurückzahlen (de)
• Greek: εξοφλώ (el) (exofló)

  Ancient: ἀποτίνω (apotínō)

• Icelandic: endurgjalda
• Irish: aisíoc
• Italian: ripagare (it), restituire (it)

• Japanese: 払い戻す (はらいもどす, haraimodosu)
• Korean: 갚다 (ko) (gapda)
• Latin: rependō
• Maori: whakautu, whakautu moni
• Norman: s'atchitter
• Old English: ġieldan, forġieldan
• Portuguese: devolver (pt)
• Quechua: hunt'apuy
• Russian: отплатить (ru) (otplatitʹ), расплатиться (ru) (rasplatitʹsja)
• Scots: foryeild
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìol
• Spanish: devolver (es)
• Swahili: kulipa (sw)
• Swedish: betala tillbaka, betala tillbaks (colloquial), betala bak (colloquial)
• Vietnamese: trả (vi)
• Westrobothnian: villgo

to exact revenge

• Bikol Central: balos
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: maksaa samalla mitalla, maksaa potut pottuina, palauttaa (fi)
• French: rendre la pareille (fr)
• German: sich revanchieren (de), heimzahlen (de), sich rächen, vergelten (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀποτίνω (apotínō)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: rependō
• Norman: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hacer pagar, vengarse (es), desquitarse (es)
• Swedish: hämnas (sv)

See also

• payback

Anagrams

• back pay, backpay