If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.
Source: tatoeba (1842)
Example
//ɪɡˈzɑːm.pəl//
Synonyms for "example" (119 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (59)
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More general
14 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
328 translations across 108 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- voorbeeld noun (something representative of a group)
Albanian
1 entries- shembull noun (something representative of a group)
Amharic
1 entries- ምሳሌ noun (something representative of a group)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- παράδειγμα noun (something representative of a group)
- παράδειγμα noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Arabic
4 entries- أُمْثُولَة noun (something representative of a group)
- مَثَل noun (something representative of a group)
- مَثَل noun (something representative of a group)
- مِثَال noun (something representative of a group)
Armenian
3 entries- օրինակ noun (something representative of a group)
- օրինակ noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- օրինակ noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Asturian
2 entries- exemplu noun (something representative of a group)
- exemplu noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Avar
1 entries- мисал noun (something representative of a group)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- misal noun (something representative of a group)
- nümunə noun (something representative of a group)
Baluchi
2 entries- مثال noun (something representative of a group)
- نمونہ noun (something representative of a group)
Bashkir
4 entries- миҫал noun (something representative of a group)
- миҫал noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- миҫал noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- өлгө noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Basque
4 entries- adibide noun (something representative of a group)
- adibide noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- adibide noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- eredu noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Belarusian
4 entries- пры́клад noun (something representative of a group)
- пры́клад noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- пры́клад noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- узо́р noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Bengali
1 entries- নমুনা noun (something representative of a group)
Bulgarian
4 entries- моде́л noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- образе́ц noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- при́мер noun (something representative of a group)
- при́мер noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Burmese
2 entries- နမူနာ noun (something representative of a group)
- ပြယုဂ် noun (something representative of a group)
Catalan
4 entries- exemple noun (something representative of a group)
- exemple noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemple noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- exemple noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Central Dusun
1 entries- poomitanan noun (something representative of a group)
Central Kurdish
3 entries- نمونە noun (something representative of a group)
- نمونە noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- نمونە noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 例子 noun (something representative of a group)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 例 noun (something representative of a group)
- 例 noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- 例子 noun (something representative of a group)
- 例子 noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- misal noun (something representative of a group)
Czech
3 entries- příklad noun (something representative of a group)
- příklad noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- příklad noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Danish
1 entries- eksempel noun (something representative of a group)
Dutch
3 entries- voorbeeld noun (something representative of a group)
- voorbeeld noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- voorbeeld noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Erzya
3 entries- невтевкс noun (something representative of a group)
- невтема noun (something representative of a group)
- невтематешкс noun (something representative of a group)
Esperanto
3 entries- ekzemplo noun (something representative of a group)
- ekzemplo noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- ekzemplo noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Estonian
1 entries- näide noun (something representative of a group)
Finnish
4 entries- esikuva noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- esimerkki noun (something representative of a group)
- esimerkki noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- esimerkki noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
French
4 entries- exemple noun (something representative of a group)
- exemple noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemple noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- exemple noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Galician
4 entries- exemplo noun (something representative of a group)
- exemplo noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemplo noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- exemplo noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Georgian
1 entries- მაგალითი noun (something representative of a group)
German
4 entries- Beispiel noun (something representative of a group)
- Beispiel noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- Beispiel noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- Exempel noun (something representative of a group)
Greek
3 entries- παράδειγμα noun (something representative of a group)
- παράδειγμα noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- παράδειγμα noun (parallel or closely similar case)
Greenlandic
1 entries- assersuut noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- egzanp noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Hebrew
1 entries- דֻּגְמָה noun (something representative of a group)
Hindi
4 entries- उदाहरण noun (something representative of a group)
- उदाहरण noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- नमूना noun (something representative of a group)
- नमूना noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Hungarian
4 entries- precedens noun (person punished as a warning to others)
- precedens noun (parallel or closely similar case)
- példa noun (something representative of a group)
- példa noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Icelandic
1 entries- dæmi noun (something representative of a group)
Ido
1 entries- exemplo noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Indonesian
4 entries- contoh noun (something representative of a group)
- misal noun (something representative of a group)
- misal noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- teladan noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Interlingua
2 entries- exemplo noun (something representative of a group)
- exemplo noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- مِثال noun (something representative of a group)
- مِثال noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- نِمونِه noun (something representative of a group)
Irish
4 entries- eiseamláir noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- sampla noun (something representative of a group)
- sampla noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- sampla noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Italian
2 entries- esempio noun (something representative of a group)
- esempio noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Japanese
4 entries- 例 noun (something representative of a group)
- 例 noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- 例え noun (something representative of a group)
- 例題 noun (something representative of a group)
Kalmyk
1 entries- үлгүр noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Kamba
1 entries- mfano noun (something representative of a group)
Kazakh
2 entries- мысал noun (something representative of a group)
- мысал noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Khmer
2 entries- តួយ៉ាង noun (something representative of a group)
- ឧទាហរណ៍ noun (something representative of a group)
Korean
4 entries- 례 noun (something representative of a group)
- 례 noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- 례시 noun (something representative of a group)
- 보기 noun (something representative of a group)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- мисал noun (something representative of a group)
- мисал noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- үлгү noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Lao
1 entries- ຕົວຢ່າງ noun (something representative of a group)
Latin
4 entries- exemplar noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemplum noun (something representative of a group)
- exemplum noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemplum noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Latvian
4 entries- paraugs noun (something representative of a group)
- paraugs noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- paraugs noun (parallel or closely similar case)
- piemērs noun (something representative of a group)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pavyzdys noun (something representative of a group)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- pśikład noun (something representative of a group)
- pśikład noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Luhya
1 entries- kumufano noun (something representative of a group)
Macedonian
4 entries- пример noun (something representative of a group)
- пример noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- пример noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- пример noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Malay
4 entries- contoh noun (something representative of a group)
- contoh noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- contoh noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- misal noun (something representative of a group)
Malayalam
3 entries- ഉദാഹരണം noun (something representative of a group)
- ഉദാഹരണം noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- ഉദാഹരണം noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Minangkabau
1 entries- contoh noun (something representative of a group)
Mongolian
1 entries- жишээ noun (something representative of a group)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- mînak noun (something representative of a group)
- mîsal noun (something representative of a group)
- nimûne noun (something representative of a group)
Northern Sami
3 entries- ovdagovva noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- ovdamearka noun (something representative of a group)
- ovdamearka noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- eksempel noun (something representative of a group)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- døme noun (something representative of a group)
- eksempel noun (something representative of a group)
Occitan
1 entries- exemple noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Old English
3 entries- bȳsn noun (something representative of a group)
- bȳsn noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- bȳsn noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Old Norse
2 entries- dǿmi noun (something representative of a group)
- dǿmi noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Oromo
1 entries- fakkeenya noun (something representative of a group)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- приклад noun (something representative of a group)
Pashto
2 entries- مثال noun (something representative of a group)
- نمونه noun (something representative of a group)
Persian
4 entries- مِثَال noun (something representative of a group)
- نَمُونَه noun (something representative of a group)
- نُمُونَه noun (something representative of a group)
- نِمُونَه noun (something representative of a group)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Väabilt noun (something representative of a group)
Polish
3 entries- przykład noun (something representative of a group)
- przykład noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- przykład noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Portuguese
4 entries- exemplo noun (something representative of a group)
- exemplo noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemplo noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- exemplo noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਉਦਾਹਰਨ noun (something representative of a group)
- ਮਿਸਾਲ noun (something representative of a group)
Romanian
4 entries- exemplu noun (something representative of a group)
- exemplu noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exemplu noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- exemplu noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Russian
4 entries- образе́ц noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- приме́р noun (something representative of a group)
- приме́р noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- приме́р noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Sanskrit
1 entries- उदाहरण noun (something representative of a group)
Scots
4 entries- ensaumple noun (something representative of a group)
- ensaumple noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- ensaumple noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- ensaumple noun (parallel or closely similar case)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- eisimpleir noun (something representative of a group)
Semai
1 entries- cuntoh noun (something representative of a group)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prímer noun (something representative of a group)
- prímer noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- prímjer noun (something representative of a group)
- prímjer noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Silesian
1 entries- bajszpil noun (something representative of a group)
Slovak
2 entries- príklad noun (something representative of a group)
- príklad noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Slovene
4 entries- primer noun (something representative of a group)
- primer noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- primer noun (instance as a problem to be solved)
- primerek noun (something representative of a group)
Spanish
4 entries- ejemplo noun (something representative of a group)
- ejemplo noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- ejemplo noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- ejemplo noun (person punished as a warning to others)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- eksempre noun (something representative of a group)
Swahili
4 entries- mfano noun (something representative of a group)
- mifano noun (something representative of a group)
- mifano noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- mifano noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Swedish
4 entries- (varnande) exempel noun (person punished as a warning to others)
- exempel noun (something representative of a group)
- exempel noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- exempel noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Tagalog
2 entries- ehemplo noun (something representative of a group)
- halimbawa noun (something representative of a group)
Tajik
3 entries- мисол noun (something representative of a group)
- мисол noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- намуна noun (something representative of a group)
Tamil
3 entries- உதாரணம் noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- எடுத்துக்காட்டு noun (something representative of a group)
- எடுத்துக்காட்டு noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Tatar
3 entries- ürnäk noun (instance as a problem to be solved)
- мисал noun (something representative of a group)
- мисал noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Telugu
1 entries- ఉదాహరణము noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Thai
1 entries- ตัวอย่าง noun (something representative of a group)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ኣብነት noun (something representative of a group)
Turkish
4 entries- ibret noun (person punished as a warning to others)
- örnek noun (something representative of a group)
- örnek noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- örnek noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Ukrainian
4 entries- взір noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
- при́клад noun (something representative of a group)
- при́клад noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- при́клад noun (something serving as a pattern of behaviour)
Urdu
2 entries- مِثال noun (something representative of a group)
- نَمُونَہ noun (something representative of a group)
Uyghur
1 entries- مىسلا noun (something representative of a group)
Uzbek
4 entries- masala noun (something representative of a group)
- misol noun (something representative of a group)
- misol noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
- namuna noun (something representative of a group)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ví dụ noun (something representative of a group)
Welsh
1 entries- enghraifft noun (something representative of a group)
Yiddish
2 entries- בײַשפּיל noun (something representative of a group)
- בײַשפּיל noun (something serving to explain or illustrate a rule)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
You've set a bad example.
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Compare your composition with the example.
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Do the first example in your workbook.
Source: tatoeba (17330)
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
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