Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.
Source: tatoeba (1968)
Occupied
//ˈɒkjʊpaɪd//
Synonyms for "occupied" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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1 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
6 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
7 entriesTranslations
103 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- محتل adj (militarily subjugated)
- مشغول adj (busy)
- مشغول adj (busy)
- مَحْجُوز adj (reserved)
Belarusian
4 entries- акупава́ны adj (militarily subjugated)
- за́няты adj (reserved)
- за́няты adj (busy)
- за́няты adj (militarily subjugated)
Bengali
1 entries- মশগুল adj (busy)
Bulgarian
4 entries- зае́т adj (reserved)
- зае́т adj (busy)
- окупи́ран adj (militarily subjugated)
- зае́то intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Czech
2 entries- obsazený adj (reserved)
- okupovaný adj (militarily subjugated)
Dutch
4 entries- bezet adj (reserved)
- bezet adj (busy)
- bezet adj (militarily subjugated)
- bezig adj (busy)
Estonian
2 entries- hõivatud adj (reserved)
- okupeeritud adj (militarily subjugated)
Finnish
4 entries- miehitetty adj (militarily subjugated)
- varattu adj (reserved)
- varattu adj (busy)
- varattu intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
French
4 entries- occupé adj (reserved)
- occupé adj (busy)
- occupé adj (militarily subjugated)
- occupé intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Georgian
3 entries- დაკავებული adj (reserved)
- დაკავებული adj (busy)
- ოკუპირებული adj (militarily subjugated)
German
4 entries- belegt adj (reserved)
- beschäftigt adj (busy)
- besetzt adj (reserved)
- besetzt adj (busy)
Greek
1 entries- κατειλημμένος adj (reserved)
Hebrew
4 entries- כבוש adj (militarily subjugated)
- עסוק adj (busy)
- תפוס adj (reserved)
- תפוס intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Hungarian
4 entries- elfoglalt adj (busy)
- foglalt adj (reserved)
- megszállt adj (militarily subjugated)
- foglalt intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Italian
3 entries- occupato adj (reserved)
- occupato adj (militarily subjugated)
- occupato intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Japanese
1 entries- オキュパイド intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Latin
2 entries- occupātus adj (reserved)
- occupātus adj (busy)
Macedonian
1 entries- окупиран adj (militarily subjugated)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- opptatt intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- دركار adj (busy)
- مشغول adj (busy)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- beschafticht adj (busy)
- drock adj (busy)
Polish
4 entries- okupowany adj (militarily subjugated)
- zajęty adj (reserved)
- zajęty adj (busy)
- zajęty adj (militarily subjugated)
Portuguese
3 entries- ocupado adj (reserved)
- ocupado adj (busy)
- ocupado adj (militarily subjugated)
Romanian
1 entries- ocupat intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Russian
4 entries- за́нятый adj (reserved)
- за́нятый adj (busy)
- за́нятый adj (militarily subjugated)
- зарезерви́рованный adj (reserved)
Spanish
4 entries- ocupado adj (busy)
- ocupado adj (militarily subjugated)
- reservado adj (reserved)
- ocupado intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Swedish
4 entries- ockuperad adj (militarily subjugated)
- upptagen adj (reserved)
- upptagen adj (busy)
- upptaget intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Turkish
4 entries- dolu adj (reserved)
- işgal altında adj (militarily subjugated)
- meşgul adj (busy)
- dolu intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Ukrainian
4 entries- за́йнятий adj (reserved)
- за́йнятий adj (busy)
- за́йнятий adj (militarily subjugated)
- окупо́ваний adj (militarily subjugated)
Urdu
3 entries- مقبوض adj (militarily subjugated)
- مقبوضہ adj (militarily subjugated)
- مَصْرُوف intj ((used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable))
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Your mind is not occupied with your own affairs.
Source: tatoeba (20322)
The bathroom is occupied now.
Source: tatoeba (35262)
During that winter, writing occupied most of my free time.
Source: tatoeba (44776)
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