state of affairs

English

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Noun

state of affairs (plural states of affairs)

1. (idiomatic) A specific situation; a set of circumstances.

   His uncooperative attitude creates a difficult state of affairs for all of us.

Translations

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)

• German: Sachlage (de) f, Lage (de) f, Zustand (de) m
• Japanese: 事態 (ja) (じたい, jitai), 事体 (じたい, jitai)
• 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)

References

• state of affairs at OneLook Dictionary Search