To err is human, to forgive divine.
Source: tatoeba (20868)
Err
//ɜː//
Synonyms for "err" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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1 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
12 entriesTranslations
121 translations across 54 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- أَخْطَأَ verb (make a mistake)
- غلط verb (make a mistake)
- غَلِطَ verb (make a mistake)
Armenian
1 entries- սխալվել verb (make a mistake)
Bashkir
2 entries- хата ебәреү verb (make a mistake)
- яңылышыу verb (make a mistake)
Belarusian
4 entries- памыля́цца verb (make a mistake)
- памылі́цца verb (make a mistake)
- схі́біць verb (make a mistake)
- хі́біць verb (make a mistake)
Bulgarian
4 entries- греша́ verb (make a mistake)
- допу́скам гре́шка verb (make a mistake)
- допу́сна гре́шка verb (make a mistake)
- заблужда́вам се verb (make a mistake)
Burmese
2 entries- ချော်ချွတ် verb (make a mistake)
- မှား verb (make a mistake)
Catalan
2 entries- equivocar verb (make a mistake)
- errar verb (make a mistake)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 做錯 /做错 verb (make a mistake)
- 犯錯 /犯错 verb (make a mistake)
- 走眼 verb (make a mistake)
Czech
3 entries- chybit verb (make a mistake)
- chybovat verb (make a mistake)
- mýlit se verb (make a mistake)
Danish
1 entries- fejle verb (make a mistake)
Dutch
4 entries- dwalen verb (make a mistake)
- een fout maken verb (make a mistake)
- een vergissing maken verb (make a mistake)
- zich vergissen verb (make a mistake)
Esperanto
1 entries- erari verb (make a mistake)
Finnish
4 entries- erehtyä verb (make a mistake)
- haksahtaa verb (make a mistake)
- kämmätä verb (make a mistake)
- mokata verb (make a mistake)
French
2 entries- errer verb (make a mistake)
- se tromper verb (make a mistake)
Gagauz
3 entries- pişik yapmaa verb (make a mistake)
- pişiklemää verb (make a mistake)
- yanılmaa verb (make a mistake)
German
3 entries- Fehler machen verb (make a mistake)
- irren verb (make a mistake)
- sich irren verb (make a mistake)
Hebrew
1 entries- שגה verb (make a mistake)
Hindi
1 entries- ग़लती करना verb (make a mistake)
Hungarian
1 entries- téved verb (make a mistake)
Ido
1 entries- erorar verb (make a mistake)
Italian
2 entries- errare verb (make a mistake)
- sbagliare verb (make a mistake)
Japanese
1 entries- 間違える verb (make a mistake)
Kazakh
3 entries- жаңылу verb (make a mistake)
- жаңылысу verb (make a mistake)
- қателесу verb (make a mistake)
Khmer
1 entries- ភាន់ verb (make a mistake)
Korean
2 entries- 잘못하다 verb (make a mistake)
- 틀리다 verb (make a mistake)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жаңылуу verb (make a mistake)
- жаңылышуу verb (make a mistake)
Ladino
1 entries- yerrar verb (make a mistake)
Latin
1 entries- errō verb (make a mistake)
Macedonian
2 entries- греши verb (make a mistake)
- погреши verb (make a mistake)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡝᠨᡩᡝᠮᠪᡳ verb (make a mistake)
Mwotlap
1 entries- higap verb (make a mistake)
Occitan
2 entries- errar verb (make a mistake)
- s'enganar verb (make a mistake)
Old Anatolian Turkish
2 entries- آزمق verb (make a mistake)
- یازمق verb (make a mistake)
Persian
2 entries- اشتباه کردن verb (make a mistake)
- خطا کردن verb (make a mistake)
Polish
4 entries- błądzić verb (make a mistake)
- mylić się verb (make a mistake)
- pomylić się verb (make a mistake)
- popełniać błąd verb (make a mistake)
Portuguese
1 entries- errar verb (make a mistake)
Quechua
1 entries- pantay verb (make a mistake)
Romanian
2 entries- greși verb (make a mistake)
- se înșela verb (make a mistake)
Russian
4 entries- допуска́ть оши́бку verb (make a mistake)
- допусти́ть оши́бку verb (make a mistake)
- заблужда́ться verb (make a mistake)
- ошиба́ться verb (make a mistake)
Sanskrit
1 entries- स्रेधति verb (make a mistake)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- grijéšiti verb (make a mistake)
- gréšiti verb (make a mistake)
- pogrijéšiti verb (make a mistake)
- pogréšiti verb (make a mistake)
Sicilian
1 entries- sbagghiari verb (make a mistake)
Slovak
1 entries- mýliť sa verb (make a mistake)
Slovene
2 entries- motiti se verb (make a mistake)
- zmotiti se verb (make a mistake)
Spanish
3 entries- equivocarse verb (make a mistake)
- errar verb (make a mistake)
- marrar verb (make a mistake)
Swedish
2 entries- fela verb (make a mistake)
- göra misstag verb (make a mistake)
Tajik
2 entries- иштибоҳ кардан verb (make a mistake)
- хато кардан verb (make a mistake)
Thai
1 entries- ทำผิด verb (make a mistake)
Turkish
3 entries- hata yapmak verb (make a mistake)
- yanlış yapmak verb (make a mistake)
- yanılmak verb (make a mistake)
Ukrainian
2 entries- помили́тися verb (make a mistake)
- помиля́тися verb (make a mistake)
Urdu
1 entries- غلطی کرنا verb (make a mistake)
Uzbek
3 entries- adashmoq verb (make a mistake)
- xato qilmoq verb (make a mistake)
- yanglishmoq verb (make a mistake)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phạm lỗi verb (make a mistake)
Volapük
1 entries- pölön verb (make a mistake)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
We are liable to err.
Source: tatoeba (28800)
After all, even the gods may err at times.
Source: tatoeba (403897)
To err is human.
Source: tatoeba (432440)
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