summarize

English

Alternative forms

• summarise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From summary +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹaɪz/

• Audio (US):

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Verb

1. To prepare a summary of something.
2. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.

Translations

to prepare a summary

• Arabic: لَخَّصَ (laḵḵaṣa), اِخْتَصَرَ (ar) (iḵtaṣara)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: yekunlaşdırmaq
• Basque: laburbildu
• Catalan: resumir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào), 總結／总结 (zh) (zǒngjié), 总结 (zh) (zǒngjié)

• Dutch: samenvatten (nl), opsommen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tiivistää (fi)
• French: résumer (fr), récapituler (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: zusammenfassen (de)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: achoimrigh
• Italian: riassumere (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 要約する (ja) (ようやくする, yōyaku suru)
• Korean: 요약하다 (ko) (yoyakhada)
• Malay: merumuskan
• Maori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopoto
• Persian: خلاصه کردن (fa) (xolâse kardan)
• Polish: streszczać (pl), reasumować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: resumir (pt)
• Russian: обобща́ть (ru) impf (obobščátʹ), обобщи́ть (ru) pf (obobščítʹ); подводи́ть ито́г (ru) impf (podvodítʹ itóg), подвести́ ито́г pf (podvestí itóg); подыто́живать (ru) impf (podytóživatʹ), подыто́жить (ru) pf (podytóžitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: thoir geàrr-chunntas air
• Spanish: resumir (es)
• Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to give a capitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review

• Azerbaijani: yekunlaşdırmaq
• Catalan: recapitular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總結／总结 (zh) (zǒngjié), 总结 (zh) (zǒngjié)

• French: récapituler (fr)
• Greek: ανακεφαλαιώνω (el) (anakefalaióno)
• Irish: achoimrigh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: riassumere (it)
• Maori: whakarāpopoto
• Russian: обобща́ть (ru) impf (obobščátʹ), обобщи́ть (ru) pf (obobščítʹ); подводи́ть ито́г (ru) impf (podvodítʹ itóg), подвести́ ито́г pf (podvestí itóg); подыто́живать (ru) impf (podytóživatʹ), подыто́жить (ru) pf (podytóžitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: thoir geàrr-chunntas air
• Spanish: resumir (es), recapitular (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Czech: shrnout (cs)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} resumi (eo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: tehdä yhteenveto
• Portuguese: resumir (pt)