The knife was so dull that I couldn't cut the meat with it and I had to use my pocketknife.
Source: tatoeba (708204)
Pocketknife
Synonyms for "pocketknife" (4 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
75 translations across 51 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- biçak noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- brisk noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- thikëz noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Armenian
3 entries- գրպանի դանակ noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- ծալովի դանակ noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- չախու noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- cib bıçağı noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Bashkir
1 entries- бәке noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Basque
1 entries- labana noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Belarusian
1 entries- складаны нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Breton
1 entries- kanived noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Bulgarian
2 entries- джобен нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- швейцарски нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Catalan
1 entries- navalla noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 刀仔 noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 小刀 noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Czech
1 entries- kapesní nůž noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Danish
1 entries- lommekniv noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Dutch
1 entries- zakmes noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Esperanto
1 entries- poŝtranĉilo noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Faroese
1 entries- lummaknívur noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Finnish
3 entries- linkkuveitsi noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- monitoimiveitsi noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- taskuveitsi noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
French
1 entries- canif noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Galician
4 entries- canivete noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- faca noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- furrusca noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- navalla noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯიბის დანა noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
German
2 entries- Klappmesser noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- Taschenmesser noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Greek
1 entries- σουγιάς noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Hebrew
1 entries- אוֹלָר noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Hungarian
2 entries- bicska noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- zsebkés noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Icelandic
1 entries- vasahnífur noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Ido
1 entries- kulteleto noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Irish
1 entries- scian phóca noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- ratchet noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Japanese
1 entries- ポケットナイフ noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Korean
1 entries- 주머니칼 noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Maltese
1 entries- temprin tal-but noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Mongolian
1 entries- халаасны хутга noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Māori
1 entries- naihi whakakopa noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- kêrika berîkê noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lommekniv noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lommekniv noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- صویا noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- چاقی noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Polish
1 entries- scyzoryk noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Portuguese
1 entries- canivete noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Romanian
2 entries- briceag noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- cuțit de buzunar noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Russian
3 entries- карма́нный нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- перочи́нный нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- складно́й нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- džepni nož noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- perorez noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- перорез noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- џепни нож noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Spanish
1 entries- navaja noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Swedish
3 entries- fickkniv noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- fällkniv noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- pennkniv noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Tajik
1 entries- корд ҷайб noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Thai
2 entries- มีดพก noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- มีดพับ noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- poketnaip noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Turkish
2 entries- cep bıçağı noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
- çakı noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Ukrainian
1 entries- складаний ніж noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Volapük
1 entries- pokaneif noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Welsh
1 entries- cyllell boced noun (small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Perhaps this pocketknife will come in handy someday.
Source: tatoeba (954235)
Tom managed to cut himself while trying to open a bag of peanuts with his pocketknife.
Source: tatoeba (1109402)
I always carry a small pocketknife.
Source: tatoeba (2291826)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.