sonata

See also: sonată, sónata, and sonáta

English

Etymology

From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈnɑːtə/

  Rhymes: -ɑːtə

Noun

sonata (plural sonatas)

1. (music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.

Derived terms

• sonata form
• sonatina

See also

• cantata

Translations

a musical composition for one or a few instruments

• Afrikaans: sonate (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奏鳴曲／奏鸣曲 (zh) (zòumíngqǔ), 奏鸣曲 (zh) (zòumíngqǔ)

• Czech: sonáta (cs) f
• Danish: sonate c
• Esperanto: sonato
• Estonian: sonaat
• Finnish: sonaatti (fi)
• French: sonate (fr) f
• German: Sonate (de) f
• Hawaiian: puolo hui puhi ʻohe
• Hungarian: szonáta (hu)
• Icelandic: sónata f
• Indonesian: sonata (id)
• Irish: sonáid f
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• Italian: sonata (it) f
• Japanese: ソナタ (sonata), 奏鳴曲 (そうめいきょく, sōmeikyoku)
• Korean: 소나타 (sonata)
• Macedonian: сона́та f (sonáta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sonate m

  Nynorsk: sonate m

• Persian: سونات (fa) (sonât)
• Polish: sonata (pl) f
• Portuguese: sonata (pt) f
• Romanian: sonată (ro) f
• Russian: сона́та (ru) f (sonáta)
• Spanish: sonata f
• Swedish: sonat (sv) c
• Tagalog: sonata
• Turkish: sonat (tr)
• Tuvan: соната (sonata)
• Yakut: соната (sonata)

Anagrams

• Aostan

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Catalan

Noun

sonata m (plural sonates)

1. sonata

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Esperanto

Adjective

sonata (accusative singular sonatan, plural sonataj, accusative plural sonatajn)

1. singular present passive participle of soni

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Ido

Adjective

sonata

1. present passive participle of sonar

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Italian

Noun

sonata f (plural sonate)

1. sonata

Anagrams

• ansato, sanato

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Japanese

Romanization

sonata

1. Rōmaji transcription of そなた
2. Rōmaji transcription of ソナタ

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈna.ta/

• audio:

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Noun

sonata f

1. sonata

Declension

Declension of sonata

	singular	plural
nominative	sonata	sonaty
genitive	sonaty	sonat
dative	sonacie	sonatom
accusative	sonatę	sonaty
instrumental	sonatą	sonatami
locative	sonacie	sonatach
vocative	sonato	sonaty

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Portuguese

Noun

sonata f (plural sonatas)

1. (music) sonata (a musical composition for one or a few instruments)

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Spanish

Noun

sonata f (plural sonatas)

1. sonata