sleep in

See also: sleep-in

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sliːp ɪn/

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Verb

sleep in (third-person singular simple present sleeps in, present participle sleeping in, simple past and past participle slept in)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep,‎ in.
2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To sleep late; to go on sleeping past one's customary or planned hour.

   Synonym: lie in

   On a rainy Saturday, after a busy week at work, he closed the curtains and decided to sleep in.

Translations

to sleep late

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡懶覺／睡懒觉 (zh) (shuìlǎnjiào), 睡過頭／睡过头 (zh) (shuìguòtóu)

• Czech: zaspat (cs) pf
• Dutch: uitslapen (nl) (have a good sleep), verslapen (nl) (oversleep)
• Esperanto: satdormi (sleep well), fordormi (oversleep)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: nukkua pommiin (fi)
• French: faire la grasse matinée (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ausschlafen (de) (have a good sleep), verschlafen (de) (oversleep)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
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• Hungarian: (stay in bed) ágyban marad (hu), (sleep more/longer) tovább alszik, (sleep long) sokáig alszik; (have sufficient sleep) kialussza magát
• Japanese: 寝坊する (ja) (ねぼうする, nebō suru), 寝過ごす (ja) (ねすごす, nesugosu)
• Korean: 늦잠을 자다 (neutjam-eul jada)
• Latvian: izgulēties
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• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oversove (no) (sleep past one's customary or planned hour), sove ut (have a good, long sleep)

• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see wysypiać się impf, wyspać się pf
• Portuguese: dormir até tarde
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: проспа́ть (ru) pf (prospátʹ) (oversleep), вы́спаться (ru) pf (výspatʹsja) (have a good sleep), отоспа́ться (ru) pf (otospátʹsja) (have a good sleep)
• Spanish: habérsele pegado a uno las sábanas, dormir hasta tarde
• Swedish: sova ut (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Venetian: dormir fin tardi
• Vietnamese: ngủ nướng
• Welsh: cysgu'n hwyr

See also

• sleep-in

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