I left my briefcase in the bus.
Source: tatoeba (35379)
Briefcase
//ˈbɹiːfˌkeɪs//
Synonyms for "briefcase" (9 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (4)
Related word relations
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
8 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
5 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesused for
13 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 57 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- aktetas noun (case used for carrying documents)
Albanian
2 entries- valixhe noun (case used for carrying documents)
- çantë noun (case used for carrying documents)
Arabic
3 entries- حَقِيبَة noun (case used for carrying documents)
- شَنْطَة noun (case used for carrying documents)
- مِحْفَظَة noun (case used for carrying documents)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- portfel noun (case used for carrying documents)
Basque
1 entries- maleta noun (case used for carrying documents)
Belarusian
4 entries- дыплама́т noun (case used for carrying documents)
- кейс noun (case used for carrying documents)
- па́пка noun (case used for carrying documents)
- партфэ́ль noun (case used for carrying documents)
Bengali
1 entries- ব্রিফকেস noun (case used for carrying documents)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ку́фарче noun (case used for carrying documents)
- ча́нта noun (case used for carrying documents)
Catalan
1 entries- cartera noun (case used for carrying documents)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 公文包 noun (case used for carrying documents)
- 皮包 noun (case used for carrying documents)
Czech
3 entries- aktovka noun (case used for carrying documents)
- diplomatka noun (case used for carrying documents)
- kufřík noun (case used for carrying documents)
Danish
1 entries- portefølje noun (case used for carrying documents)
Dutch
1 entries- aktetas noun (case used for carrying documents)
Esperanto
2 entries- aktujo noun (case used for carrying documents)
- teko noun (case used for carrying documents)
Estonian
1 entries- portfell noun (case used for carrying documents)
Faroese
1 entries- skjalamappa noun (case used for carrying documents)
Finnish
2 entries- asiakirjasalkku noun (case used for carrying documents)
- salkku noun (case used for carrying documents)
French
3 entries- porte-documents noun (case used for carrying documents)
- portefeuille noun (case used for carrying documents)
- serviette noun (case used for carrying documents)
Galician
2 entries- carteira noun (case used for carrying documents)
- maletín noun (case used for carrying documents)
German
2 entries- (attaché case also) Aktenkoffer noun (case used for carrying documents)
- Aktentasche noun (case used for carrying documents)
Greek
1 entries- χαρτοφύλακας noun (case used for carrying documents)
Hebrew
1 entries- מזוודה noun (case used for carrying documents)
Hindi
3 entries- अटेची noun (case used for carrying documents)
- अटैची noun (case used for carrying documents)
- ब्रीफ़केस noun (case used for carrying documents)
Hungarian
1 entries- aktatáska noun (case used for carrying documents)
Icelandic
1 entries- skjalataska noun (case used for carrying documents)
Italian
1 entries- valigetta noun (case used for carrying documents)
Japanese
2 entries- ブリーフケース noun (case used for carrying documents)
- 鞄 noun (case used for carrying documents)
Kazakh
1 entries- портфель noun (case used for carrying documents)
Korean
2 entries- 가방 noun (case used for carrying documents)
- 서류 가방 noun (case used for carrying documents)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- портфель noun (case used for carrying documents)
Latin
1 entries- scrīnium noun (case used for carrying documents)
Latvian
1 entries- portfelis noun (case used for carrying documents)
Lithuanian
1 entries- portfelis noun (case used for carrying documents)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Mapp noun (case used for carrying documents)
Macedonian
3 entries- актовка noun (case used for carrying documents)
- ташна noun (case used for carrying documents)
- чанта noun (case used for carrying documents)
Manx
1 entries- kishtey laue noun (case used for carrying documents)
Māori
1 entries- kopamārō noun (case used for carrying documents)
North Frisian
1 entries- Aktentask noun (case used for carrying documents)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- dokumentmappe noun (case used for carrying documents)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- dokumentmappe noun (case used for carrying documents)
Polish
2 entries- aktówka noun (case used for carrying documents)
- teczka noun (case used for carrying documents)
Portuguese
2 entries- maleta noun (case used for carrying documents)
- pasta noun (case used for carrying documents)
Romanian
2 entries- geantă noun (case used for carrying documents)
- servietă noun (case used for carrying documents)
Russian
4 entries- диплома́т noun (case used for carrying documents)
- кейс noun (case used for carrying documents)
- па́пка noun (case used for carrying documents)
- портфе́ль noun (case used for carrying documents)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- màileid noun (case used for carrying documents)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ȁktōvka noun (case used for carrying documents)
- а̏кто̄вка noun (case used for carrying documents)
Slovak
3 entries- aktovka noun (case used for carrying documents)
- diplomatka noun (case used for carrying documents)
- kufrík noun (case used for carrying documents)
Slovene
1 entries- aktovka noun (case used for carrying documents)
Spanish
1 entries- maletín noun (case used for carrying documents)
Swedish
1 entries- portfölj noun (case used for carrying documents)
Tajik
2 entries- киф noun (case used for carrying documents)
- портфель noun (case used for carrying documents)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལག་འབེག noun (case used for carrying documents)
Turkish
1 entries- evrak çantası noun (case used for carrying documents)
Turkmen
1 entries- portfel noun (case used for carrying documents)
Ukrainian
4 entries- диплома́т noun (case used for carrying documents)
- кейс noun (case used for carrying documents)
- па́пка noun (case used for carrying documents)
- портфе́ль noun (case used for carrying documents)
Urdu
2 entries- اٹیچی noun (case used for carrying documents)
- بریفکیس noun (case used for carrying documents)
Uzbek
1 entries- portfel noun (case used for carrying documents)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Please pack the disks and hard copies into the briefcase.
Source: tatoeba (39716)
Then he got dressed, stuffed his lecture notes into his briefcase, and ran down the stairs.
Source: tatoeba (43151)
The money was stolen from his briefcase.
Source: tatoeba (48637)
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