It's no use pretending to make me believe that I believe things you don't believe!
Source: tatoeba (1495)
Believe
//bɪˈliːv//
Synonyms for "believe" (105 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (52)
Related word relations
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More general
7 entriesAntonyms
5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
distinct from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
49 entriesShowing 16 of 49 words.
Translations
386 translations across 129 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- glo verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- glo verb (to accept as true)
- glo verb (to consider likely)
- glo verb (to consider likely)
Albanian
1 entries- besoj verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Amharic
1 entries- አመነ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ancient Greek
2 entries- νομίζω verb (to accept as true)
- πιστεύω verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ao
1 entries- amang (Chungli) verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Arabic
4 entries- آمَنَ verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- آمَنَ بِـ verb (to ascribe existence to)
- امن verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- تاق verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Aragonese
1 entries- creyer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Argobba
1 entries- አመና verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Armenian
1 entries- հավատալ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Aromanian
2 entries- cred verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- pistipsescu verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Asturian
4 entries- creer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creer verb (to accept as true)
- creyer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creyer verb (to accept as true)
Aukan
1 entries- biibi verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Azerbaijani
1 entries- inanmaq verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Bashkir
2 entries- ышаныу verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- ышаныу verb (to accept as true)
Belarusian
4 entries- ве́рыць verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- ду́маць verb (to consider likely)
- меркава́ць verb (to consider likely)
- паве́рыць verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Bengali
1 entries- বিশ্বাস verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Bhojpuri
1 entries- पतियावल verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Bulgarian
4 entries- вя́рвам verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- вя́рвам verb (to accept as true)
- вя́рвам verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- ми́сля verb (to accept as true)
Burmese
1 entries- ယုံ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Catalan
2 entries- creure verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creure verb (to accept as true)
Cebuano
1 entries- tuo verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎪᎯᏳᎲᏍᎦ verb (to accept as true)
Chinese
2 entries- щин verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- щин verb (to accept as true)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 信仰 verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- 信仰 verb (to ascribe existence to)
- 相信 verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- 相信 verb (to accept as true)
Czech
4 entries- myslet verb (to consider likely)
- věřit verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- věřit verb (to accept as true)
- věřit verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Dalmatian
1 entries- credro verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Danish
4 entries- mene verb (to consider likely)
- tro verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- tro verb (to accept as true)
- tro verb (to consider likely)
Dutch
4 entries- denken verb (to consider likely)
- geloven verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- geloven verb (to accept as true)
- geloven verb (to consider likely)
Esperanto
4 entries- fidi verb (to accept as true)
- fidi verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- kredi verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- kredi verb (to accept as true)
Estonian
4 entries- uskuma verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- uskuma verb (to accept as true)
- uskuma verb (to consider likely)
- uskuma verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Faroese
1 entries- trúgva verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Finnish
4 entries- uskoa verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- uskoa verb (to accept as true)
- uskoa verb (to consider likely)
- uskoa verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
French
4 entries- croire verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- croire verb (to accept as true)
- croire verb (to consider likely)
- croire verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Friulian
1 entries- crodi verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Galician
2 entries- crer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crer verb (to accept as true)
Ge'ez
1 entries- አምነ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Georgian
1 entries- დაჯერება verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
German
4 entries- aanemme verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- denken verb (to consider likely)
- glauben verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- glauben verb (to accept as true)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to accept as true)
Greek
3 entries- πιστεύω verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- πιστεύω verb (to accept as true)
- πιστεύω verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- kwè verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Hebrew
3 entries- הֶאֱמִין verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- הֶאֱמִין verb (to accept as true)
- הֶאֱמִין verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- tuo verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Hindi
4 entries- आस्था verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- मानना verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- श्रद्धा verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- सच्चा verb (to accept as true)
Hungarian
1 entries- hisz verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Hunsrik
1 entries- glaave verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Icelandic
1 entries- trúa verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ido
4 entries- kredar verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- kredar verb (to accept as true)
- kredar verb (to consider likely)
- kredar verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Indonesian
4 entries- beriman verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- memercayai verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- memercayai verb (to accept as true)
- percaya verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ingrian
1 entries- uskoa verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Iranian Persian
4 entries- اِعْتِقاد داشْتَن verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- اِعْتِقاد داشْتَن verb (to accept as true)
- ایمان داشْتَن verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- باوَر کَرْدَن verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Irish
4 entries- creid verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creid verb (to accept as true)
- creid verb (to consider likely)
- creid verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Italian
4 entries- credere verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- credere verb (to accept as true)
- credere verb (to consider likely)
- credere verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Japanese
4 entries- 信じる verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- 信じる verb (to accept as true)
- 信じる verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- 思う verb (to consider likely)
Javanese
1 entries- percaya verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Kabuverdianu
4 entries- akridita verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- akridita verb (to accept as true)
- akridita verb (to consider likely)
- akridita verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Kazakh
1 entries- сену verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Khmer
1 entries- ជឿ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Korean
3 entries- 믿다 verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- 믿다 verb (to accept as true)
- 생각하다 verb (to consider likely)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ишенүү verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Lao
1 entries- ເຊື່ອ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Latgalian
2 entries- ticēt verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- īticēt verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Latin
3 entries- crēdō verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crēdō verb (to accept as true)
- crēdō verb (to consider likely)
Latvian
2 entries- ticēt verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- ticēt verb (to accept as true)
Lithuanian
3 entries- patikėti verb (to accept as true)
- tikėti verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- tikėti verb (to accept as true)
Lombard
1 entries- cred verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Luxembourgish
2 entries- gleewen verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- gleewen verb (to accept as true)
Lü
1 entries- ᦵᦋᦲᧈ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Macedonian
1 entries- верува verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Malay
1 entries- percaya verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Malayalam
3 entries- വിശ്വസിക്കുക verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- വിശ്വസിക്കുക verb (to accept as true)
- വിശ്വസിക്കുക verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Maltese
3 entries- emmen verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- emmen verb (to accept as true)
- emmen verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Mirandese
4 entries- acraditar verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- acraditar verb (to accept as true)
- acraditar verb (to consider likely)
- acraditar verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Mongolian
1 entries- итгэх verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Navajo
1 entries- oodlą́ verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Norman
4 entries- craithe verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- craithe verb (to accept as true)
- craithe verb (to consider likely)
- craithe verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
North Frisian
1 entries- liiwe verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- bawer kirin verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- tro verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- tro verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- tru verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- tru verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Occitan
3 entries- creire verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- créder verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- créser verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Old East Slavic
1 entries- вѣрити verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Old English
4 entries- ġelīefan verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- ġelīefan verb (to accept as true)
- ġelīefan verb (to consider likely)
- ġelīefan verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Old Irish
4 entries- creitid verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creitid verb (to accept as true)
- creitid verb (to consider likely)
- creitid verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Old Javanese
1 entries- pracaya verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Old Norse
1 entries- trúa verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Old Occitan
1 entries- creyre verb (to accept as true)
Oromo
1 entries- amanuu verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ossetian
1 entries- уыриын verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- اینانمق verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- اینانمق verb (to accept as true)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- вериц verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Piedmontese
1 entries- chërde verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Polish
4 entries- myśleć verb (to consider likely)
- przypuszczać verb (to consider likely)
- sądzić verb (to consider likely)
- wierzyć verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Portuguese
4 entries- achar verb (to consider likely)
- acreditar verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- acreditar verb (to accept as true)
- acreditar verb (to consider likely)
Quechua
3 entries- iñiy verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- iñiy verb (to accept as true)
- iñiy verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Romanian
2 entries- crede verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crede verb (to accept as true)
Romansch
4 entries- crair verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crajer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creir verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Russian
4 entries- ве́рить verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- ве́рить verb (to accept as true)
- ве́рить verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- ве́рить в verb (to ascribe existence to)
Sanskrit
2 entries- श्रद्दधाति verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- श्रद्दधाति verb (to accept as true)
Sardinian
4 entries- crei verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crere verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crèdere verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crèere verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- saoil verb (to consider likely)
- smaoinich verb (to consider likely)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- vjȅrovati verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- vjȅrovati verb (to accept as true)
- vjȅrovati verb (to consider likely)
- vjȅrovati verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Sicilian
2 entries- crìdiri verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- crìriri verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Slovak
2 entries- veriť verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- veriť verb (to accept as true)
Slovene
4 entries- verjeti verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- verjeti verb (to accept as true)
- verjeti verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
- verovati verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Southern Ohlone
1 entries- aaman verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Spanish
4 entries- creer verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- creer verb (to accept as true)
- creer verb (to consider likely)
- creer verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- bribi verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Sundanese
1 entries- percanten verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Swedish
4 entries- anta verb (to consider likely)
- förmoda verb (to consider likely)
- tro verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- tro verb (to accept as true)
Tagalog
2 entries- maniwala verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- maniwala verb (to accept as true)
Tajik
2 entries- бовар кардан verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- эътиқод доштан verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Tamil
4 entries- உறுதி verb (to have confidence in)
- ஏற்க verb (to accept as true)
- ஏற்றுக்கொள் verb (to accept as true)
- ஒப்புக்கொள் verb (to accept as true)
Tatar
1 entries- инанырга verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Telugu
3 entries- అనుకో verb (to consider likely)
- ఒప్పుకో verb (to accept as true)
- నమ్ము verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Thai
1 entries- เชื่อ verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Turkish
4 entries- güvenmek verb (to have confidence in)
- inanmak verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- inanmak verb (to accept as true)
- inanmak verb (to consider likely)
Turkmen
1 entries- ynanmak verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Udmurt
1 entries- оскыны verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Ukrainian
4 entries- вважа́ти verb (to consider likely)
- ві́рити verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- ві́рити verb (to accept as true)
- ві́рити verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Urdu
3 entries- اِعْتِبار کَرْنا verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- مانْنا verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- یَقِین کَرْنا verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Uyghur
1 entries- ئىشەنمەك verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Uzbek
1 entries- ishonmoq verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Venetan
2 entries- crédar verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- créder verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Vietnamese
2 entries- tin verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- tin tưởng verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Walloon
4 entries- croere verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- croere verb (to accept as true)
- croere verb (to consider likely)
- croere verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Welsh
4 entries- credu verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- credu verb (to accept as true)
- credu verb (to consider likely)
- credu verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
West-Frisian
4 entries- leauwe verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
- leauwe verb (to accept as true)
- leauwe verb (to consider likely)
- leauwe verb (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth)
Yiddish
1 entries- גלייבן verb (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person))
Sample sentences
31 total sentences available.
What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
Source: tatoeba (1737)
Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.
Source: tatoeba (1940)
It depends what you mean by "believe" in God.
Source: tatoeba (1953)
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