When translating into English, the German word for "bassoon" is a stumbling block.
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Bassoon
//bəˈsuːn//
Synonyms for "bassoon" (106 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (53)
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2 entriesat location
4 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
7 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
5 entriesused for
9 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 55 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Arabic
1 entries- زمخر noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Armenian
1 entries- ֆագոտ noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Asturian
1 entries- fagó noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- faqot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фагот noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Catalan
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 低音管 noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- 大管 noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- 巴松管 noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Czech
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Danish
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Dutch
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Esperanto
2 entries- fagoto noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- hobojego noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Estonian
1 entries- fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Faroese
1 entries- fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Finnish
1 entries- fagotti noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
French
1 entries- basson noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Georgian
1 entries- ფაგოტი noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
German
1 entries- Fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Greek
1 entries- φαγκότο noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Hebrew
1 entries- בסון noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Hindi
1 entries- बसून noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Hungarian
1 entries- fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Icelandic
1 entries- fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Ido
1 entries- basono noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Indonesian
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Irish
1 entries- basún noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Italian
1 entries- fagotto noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Japanese
2 entries- バスーン noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- ファゴット noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Kazakh
1 entries- фагот noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Korean
1 entries- 바순 noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Latvian
1 entries- fagots noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Lithuanian
1 entries- fagotas noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Macedonian
1 entries- фагот noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Māori
1 entries- pūhoru noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Norwegian
1 entries- fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Polish
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Portuguese
1 entries- fagote noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Romanian
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Russian
1 entries- фаго́т noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- torm-fheadan noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- fàgot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- фа̀гот noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Slovak
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Slovene
1 entries- fagót noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Spanish
2 entries- bajón noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Swahili
1 entries- basuni noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Swedish
1 entries- fagott noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Tagalog
1 entries- bahon noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Thai
1 entries- บาสซูน noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Turkish
1 entries- fagot noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фаго́т noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kèn fagôt noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Volapük
2 entries- basun noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
- fagöm noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Welsh
1 entries- basŵn noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַגאָט noun (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Are you still playing the bassoon?
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Tom practices playing the bassoon every day.
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Tom certainly gets a nice sound out of that old bassoon.
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