Phew! That was close!
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Phew
//fjuː//
Synonyms for "phew" (8 found)
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Translations
55 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φεῦ intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Catalan
2 entries- ecs intj (Used to show disgust)
- uf intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 喲 /哟 intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Czech
2 entries- fuj intj (Used to show disgust)
- uf intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Dutch
2 entries- hehe intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- oef intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- фу-у intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Finnish
4 entries- huh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- huh huh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- huhhuh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- hyh intj (Used to show disgust)
French
3 entries- ouf intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- pfou intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- pouah intj (Used to show disgust)
German
3 entries- pfoah intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- pfui intj (Used to show disgust)
- puh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Greek
2 entries- ουφ intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- φου intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Hebrew
4 entries- איכס intj (Used to show disgust)
- פויה intj (Used to show disgust)
- פיו intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- פיכס intj (Used to show disgust)
Hungarian
2 entries- pfuj intj (Used to show disgust)
- püh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Italian
3 entries- uff intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- uffa intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- uh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Japanese
1 entries- ふぅ intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Korean
4 entries- 어휴 intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- 에휴 intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- 후유 intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- 휴 intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Latin
1 entries- ufa intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Lushootseed
1 entries- sʔm intj (Used to show disgust)
Māori
1 entries- kaitoa intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Navajo
1 entries- hwááh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Polish
1 entries- uff intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Portuguese
1 entries- ufa intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Russian
3 entries- уф! intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- фуф intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- фух intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Spanish
3 entries- fíu intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- menos mal intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- puaj intj (Used to show disgust)
Swedish
4 entries- fy intj (Used to show disgust)
- puh intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- pust intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
- usch intj (Used to show disgust)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phù intj (Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Phew, that was a long sentence!
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Phew, I'm safe now.
Source: tatoeba (3762619)
Phew! It hurts to see my identity wither.
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