Hmm, how shall I say this?
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Hmm
Synonyms for "hmm" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (4)
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Translations
36 translations across 23 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- гм intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- хм intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Catalan
1 entries- hum intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 唔 intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 哼 intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- 嗯 intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- 噷 intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Czech
1 entries- hm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Dutch
1 entries- hm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Esperanto
1 entries- hm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Finnish
1 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
French
1 entries- hum intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰმ intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
German
2 entries- hm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- tja intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Greek
1 entries- χμ intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Italian
3 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- mmh intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- uhm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Japanese
4 entries- うーん intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- ふむ intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- ふむふむ intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- んー intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Korean
2 entries- 으음 intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- 음 intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Malay
1 entries- hm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Norwegian
1 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Polish
1 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Portuguese
2 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- mmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Russian
2 entries- гм intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- хм intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Spanish
1 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Swedish
1 entries- hmm intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Ukrainian
2 entries- гм intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
- хм intj (indicating thinking or pondering)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Hmm, that's a good idea. Let's go there.
Source: tatoeba (65668)
Hmm. I have a feeling I'm going to get lost whichever road I take.
Source: tatoeba (65671)
Hmm, did we have some breadcrumbs?
Source: tatoeba (326881)
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