English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
state of affairs (plural states of affairs)
- (idiomatic) A specific situation; a set of circumstances.
- His uncooperative attitude creates a difficult state of affairs for all of us.
Translations[edit]
specific situation
- Bashkir: хәл (xäl)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 事態 (zh), 事态 (zh) (shìtài), 情況 (zh), 情况 (zh) (qíngkuàng), 狀態 (zh), 状态 (zh) (zhuàngtài)
- Dutch: stand van zaken m, situatie (nl) f, toestand (nl) m
- Esperanto: aferstato, stato de aferoj
- Finnish: asiaintila (fi), asianlaita (fi)
- French: état de choses (fr) m, situation (fr) f
- Georgian: საქმეთა მდგომარეობა (sakmeta mdgomareoba)
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- German: Sachlage (de) f, Lage (de) f, Zustand (de) m
- Italian: situazione (it), stato (it), stato delle cose
- Japanese: 事態 (ja) (じたい, jitai), 事体 (じたい, jitai)
- Polish: stan rzeczy m
- Portuguese: estado de coisas m, circunstância (pt) f
- Russian: положе́ние дел n (položénije del), состоя́ние дел n (sostojánije del), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh m
- Slovene: okoliščina (sl)
- Turkish: gidişat (tr)
- Vietnamese: tình hình (vi)
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