The word "злой" is the only monosyllabic Russian adjective.
Source: tatoeba (3800900)
Monosyllabic
//ˌmɒnə(ʊ)sɪˈlabɪk//
Synonyms for "monosyllabic" (2 found)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μονοσύλλαβος adj (consisting of one syllable)
Arabic
1 entries- أُحَادِيّ المَقْطَع adj (consisting of one syllable)
Armenian
1 entries- միավանկ adj (consisting of one syllable)
Belarusian
1 entries- аднаскладо́вы adj (consisting of one syllable)
Breton
1 entries- unsilabennek adj (consisting of one syllable)
Bulgarian
1 entries- едносри́чен adj (consisting of one syllable)
Burmese
1 entries- ဧကဝဏ္ဏ adj (consisting of one syllable)
Catalan
3 entries- monosil·làbic adj (consisting of one syllable)
- monosíl·lab adj (consisting of one syllable)
- monosíl·lab noun (a word consisting of one syllable)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 一音節的 /一音节的 adj (consisting of one syllable)
- 單音節的 /单音节的 adj (consisting of one syllable)
Czech
2 entries- jednoslabičný adj (consisting of one syllable)
- jednoslabičný adj (using monosyllables)
Dutch
1 entries- eenlettergrepig adj (consisting of one syllable)
Faroese
4 entries- einstavilsis adj (consisting of one syllable)
- fámæltur adj (using monosyllables)
- fáorðaður adj (using monosyllables)
- við einum stavilsi adj (consisting of one syllable)
Finnish
4 entries- yksitavuinen adj (consisting of one syllable)
- yksitavuinen adj (using monosyllables)
- yksitavuinen noun (a word consisting of one syllable)
- yksitavuinen sana noun (a word consisting of one syllable)
French
2 entries- monosyllabique adj (consisting of one syllable)
- monosyllabique adj (using monosyllables)
German
4 entries- einsilbig adj (consisting of one syllable)
- einsilbig adj (using monosyllables)
- kurz angebunden adj (using monosyllables)
- monosyllabisch adj (consisting of one syllable)
Greek
1 entries- μονοσύλλαβος adj (consisting of one syllable)
Hungarian
4 entries- egy szótagos adj (consisting of one syllable)
- egy szótagú adj (consisting of one syllable)
- foghegyről odavetett adj (using monosyllables)
- kurta adj (using monosyllables)
Icelandic
2 entries- einkvæður adj (consisting of one syllable)
- einkvæður adj (using monosyllables)
Irish
2 entries- aonsiollach adj (consisting of one syllable)
- aonsiollach noun (a word consisting of one syllable)
Italian
1 entries- monosillabico adj (consisting of one syllable)
Japanese
1 entries- 単音節 adj (consisting of one syllable)
Korean
1 entries- 단음절의 adj (consisting of one syllable)
Macedonian
1 entries- едносложен adj (consisting of one syllable)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- eensilbich adj (consisting of one syllable)
Polish
1 entries- jednosylabowy adj (consisting of one syllable)
Portuguese
4 entries- monossilábico adj (consisting of one syllable)
- monossilábico adj (using monosyllables)
- monossílabo adj (consisting of one syllable)
- monossílabo noun (a word consisting of one syllable)
Romanian
2 entries- monosilabic adj (consisting of one syllable)
- monosilabic adj (using monosyllables)
Russian
1 entries- односло́жный adj (consisting of one syllable)
Slovak
1 entries- jednoslabičný adj (consisting of one syllable)
Spanish
2 entries- monosílabico adj (using monosyllables)
- monosílabo adj (consisting of one syllable)
Swedish
2 entries- enstavig adj (consisting of one syllable)
- enstavig adj (using monosyllables)
Tagalog
1 entries- sampantig adj (consisting of one syllable)
Turkish
1 entries- tek heceli adj (consisting of one syllable)
Ukrainian
1 entries- односкладо́вий adj (consisting of one syllable)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đơn âm tiết adj (consisting of one syllable)
Volapük
2 entries- balsilabik adj (consisting of one syllable)
- basilabik adj (consisting of one syllable)
Welsh
1 entries- unsillaf adj (consisting of one syllable)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Chinese is a monosyllabic language.
Source: tatoeba (5493199)
It's easy to get monosyllabic words mixed up with each other.
Source: tatoeba (6178985)
The adjective 'monosyllabic' is not monosyllabic.
Source: tatoeba (10498106)
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