You need only ask him to pay the debt.
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Debt
//dɛt//
Synonyms for "debt" (57 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
Related word relations
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5 entriesAntonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
5 entriescapable of
1 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
68 entriesShowing 16 of 68 words.
distinct from
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
99 entriesShowing 16 of 99 words.
Translations
273 translations across 115 languages.
Aklanon
1 entries- utang noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Albanian
1 entries- borxh noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χρέος noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Arabic
4 entries- دين noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- دَيْن noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- دَيْن noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- قَرْض noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Armenian
3 entries- պարտք noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- պարտք noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- պարտք noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Aromanian
2 entries- borgi noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- hreu noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Avar
2 entries- борч noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- къарз noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- borc noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- borc noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- qərz noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Bashkir
4 entries- аласаҡ noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- бурыс noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- бурыс noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- бурыс noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Basque
1 entries- zor noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Belarusian
3 entries- доўг noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- доўг noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- доўг noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Bengali
2 entries- ঋণ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- কর্জ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Bulgarian
3 entries- дълг noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- дълг noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- задълже́ние noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Burmese
2 entries- ကြွေး noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- မြီ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Catalan
2 entries- deute noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- deute noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Cebuano
1 entries- utang noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Central Kurdish
3 entries- قەرز noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- قەرز noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- قەرزار noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Chechen
1 entries- декхар noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 人情債 /人情债 noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- 人情債 /人情债 noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- 借款 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- 債務 /债务 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Church Slavic
2 entries- длъгъ noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- длъгъ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Chuvash
1 entries- парӑм noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Czech
3 entries- dluh noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dluh noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- dluh noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Dalmatian
1 entries- debeta noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Danish
4 entries- gæld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- gæld noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- gæld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- skyldighed noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Dupaningan Agta
1 entries- gahut noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Dutch
4 entries- schuld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- schulden noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- schulden noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- verplichting noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Esperanto
3 entries- ŝuldo noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- ŝuldo noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- ŝuldo noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Estonian
1 entries- võlg noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Faroese
3 entries- skuld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- skuld noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- skuld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Finnish
4 entries- velka noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- velka noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- velka noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- velvoite noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
French
2 entries- dette noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dette noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Galician
3 entries- débeda noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- débeda noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- débeda noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Georgian
4 entries- ვალი noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- ვალი noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- ვალი noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- თავანი noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
German
4 entries- Schuld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- Schulden noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- Schulden noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- Verbindlichkeit noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Greek
3 entries- χρέος noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- χρέος noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- χρέος noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Hebrew
1 entries- חוֹב noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Higaonon
1 entries- utang noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Hindi
2 entries- ऋण noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- क़र्ज़ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Hungarian
4 entries- adósság noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- adósság noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- kötelezettség noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- tartozás noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Icelandic
2 entries- skuld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- skuld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Indonesian
3 entries- berutang noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- utang noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- utang noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Ingrian
1 entries- velka noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Ingush
1 entries- декхар noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- بِدِهی noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- بِدِهی noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- دِیْن noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- قَرْض noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Irish
1 entries- dette noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Italian
4 entries- buffo noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- buffo noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- debito noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- debito noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Japanese
2 entries- 借金 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- 負債 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Jeju
1 entries- 빗 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Kazakh
2 entries- борыш noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- қарыз noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Khmer
1 entries- បំណុល noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Korean
3 entries- 부채 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- 빚 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- 차금 noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- карыз noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Lao
1 entries- ໜີ້ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Latin
1 entries- dēbitum noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Latvian
2 entries- parāds noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- parāds noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Lezgi
1 entries- бурж noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Lithuanian
3 entries- skola noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- skola noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- įsiskolinimas noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- dług noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- dług noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schold noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Macedonian
3 entries- борч noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- долг noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- долг noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Malagasy
1 entries- trosa noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Malay
1 entries- hutang noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Maltese
2 entries- dejn noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dejn noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Mapudungun
1 entries- defe noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Marathi
1 entries- कर्ज noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Mirandese
3 entries- díbeda noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- díbeda noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- díbeda noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Mongolian
2 entries- зээл noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- өр noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Māori
1 entries- moni tārewa noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Nauruan
1 entries- idùra noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Nepali
2 entries- ऋण noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- कर्जा noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Norman
1 entries- dette noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- deyn noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- qer noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- qer noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- gjeld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- gjeld noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- gjeld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Nupe
1 entries- gbàtà noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Occitan
2 entries- deute noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- deute noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Old English
1 entries- scyld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- دین noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- دین noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- دین noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- длуство noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Pashto
2 entries- دين noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- قرض noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Polish
4 entries- dług noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dług noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- wdzięczność noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- zadłużenie noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Portuguese
4 entries- débito noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- débito noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- débito noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- dívida noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Romanian
3 entries- datorie noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- datorie noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- datorie noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Russian
4 entries- долг noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- долг noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- долг noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- задо́лженность noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Sanskrit
1 entries- ऋण noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- comain noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- comain noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- fiach noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- fiach noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dȗg noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dȗg noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- dȗg noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- ду̑г noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Shan
1 entries- ၼီႈ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Slovak
3 entries- dlh noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dlh noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- dlh noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Slovene
3 entries- dolg noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- dôlg noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- dôlg noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Southern Altai
3 entries- алуча noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- алым noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- ӧдӱш noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Spanish
4 entries- adeudo noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- deuda noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- deuda noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- deuda noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Swahili
2 entries- deni noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- deni class ji/ma noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Swedish
4 entries- gäld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- skuld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- skuld noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- skuld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Tabasaran
1 entries- бурж noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Tagalog
1 entries- utang noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Tajik
2 entries- дайн noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- қарз noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Tarifit
2 entries- amerwas noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- amerwas noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Tatar
1 entries- бурыч noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Tausug
1 entries- utang noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Telugu
1 entries- అప్పు noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Ternate
2 entries- hagi noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- nyagi noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Thai
1 entries- หนี้ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Tocharian B
1 entries- peri noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Turkish
3 entries- borç noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- borç noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- borç noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Turkmen
1 entries- bergi noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Ukrainian
4 entries- борг noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- борг noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- борг noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- зобов'я́зання noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
Unami
2 entries- lèkhamweokàn noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- lèkhamweokàn noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- dołh noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
Urdu
2 entries- دَین noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- قَرْض noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Uyghur
1 entries- قەرز noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Uzbek
3 entries- dayn noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- nasiya noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
- qarz noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nợ noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
West-Frisian
3 entries- skuld noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- skuld noun (state or condition of owing something to another)
- skuld noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Yoruba
1 entries- gbèsè noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Zazaki
2 entries- deyn (diq) noun (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another)
- vedeyn noun (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Our debt is more than we can pay.
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We asked for the payment of his debt.
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In the first place, you all have to pay a debt first.
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