You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
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Achieve
//əˈt͡ʃiːv//
Synonyms for "achieve" (148 found)
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Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (44)
Related words (74)
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99 translations across 36 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπιτυγχάνω verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Arabic
2 entries- حَقَّق verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- حَقَّقَ verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Armenian
1 entries- նվաճել verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- nail olmaq verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Belarusian
2 entries- дасяга́ць verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- дасягну́ць verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Bulgarian
4 entries- достигам verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- осъществявам verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- постигам verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- реализирам verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Catalan
3 entries- acomplir verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- aconseguir verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- obtenir verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 實現 /实现 verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- 達到 /达到 verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Czech
2 entries- dosahovat verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- dosáhnout verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Dutch
4 entries- bereiken verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- bereiken verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- realiseren verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- realiseren verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Esperanto
1 entries- atingi verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Finnish
4 entries- päästä tavoitteeseen/päämäärään verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- saada aikaan verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- saavuttaa verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- toteuttaa verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
French
2 entries- accomplir verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- réaliser verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Galician
2 entries- acadar verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- conseguir verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
German
4 entries- erlangen verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- erreichen verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- erreichen verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- realisieren verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍉𐌽 verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Greek
1 entries- κατορθώνω verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Interlingua
1 entries- compler verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Irish
2 entries- bain amach verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- cuir i gcrích verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Italian
4 entries- ottenere verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- portare verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- raggiungere verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- realizzare verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Japanese
3 entries- 実現する verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- 達成する verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- 達成する verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Korean
4 entries- 달성하다 verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- 성취하다 verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- 얻다 verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- 이루다 verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Latin
1 entries- pervenio verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Marathi
1 entries- मिळवणे verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Māori
1 entries- whakatutuki verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Polish
4 entries- osiągać verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- osiągać verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- osiągnąć verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- osiągnąć verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Portuguese
3 entries- conseguir verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- conseguir verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- ganhar verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Russian
4 entries- вы́полнить verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- выполня́ть verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- доби́ться verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- добива́ться verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ostvariti verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- pòstići verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- оства́рити verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- по̀стићи verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Spanish
4 entries- conseguir verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- conseguir verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- lograr verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- lograr verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Swedish
3 entries- uppnå verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
- uppnå verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- åstadkomma verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Telugu
1 entries- సాధించు verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Tocharian B
2 entries- kälp verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- yäm verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Ukrainian
4 entries- добива́тися verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- досяга́ти verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- досягти́ verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
- успі́шно вико́нувати verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Uzbek
1 entries- erishmoq verb (to obtain, or gain as the result of exertion)
Yiddish
1 entries- אויפֿטאָן verb (to carry out successfully; to accomplish)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
We must achieve our aim at any price.
Source: tatoeba (23275)
You'll never achieve anything if you don't study harder.
Source: tatoeba (30467)
No one can achieve anything without effort.
Source: tatoeba (40344)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.