Watch out! There's a pothole in the road.
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Pothole
Synonyms for "pothole" (5 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
Noun(1 words)
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2 entriesis a
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10 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 35 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- maalgat noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
Assamese
2 entries- ডোং noun (a hole in a road)
- ডোঙা noun (a hole in a road)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дупка noun (a hole in a road)
Catalan
2 entries- clot noun (a hole in a road)
- sot noun (a hole in a road)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 坑洞 noun (a hole in a road)
- 甌穴 /瓯穴 noun (a hole in a road)
Czech
2 entries- výmol noun (a hole in a road)
- výtluk noun (a hole in a road)
Danish
1 entries- jættegryde noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
Dutch
1 entries- gat in het wegdek noun (a hole in a road)
Esperanto
2 entries- stratotruo noun (a hole in a road)
- vojkavo noun (a hole in a road)
Finnish
3 entries- hiidenkirnu noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
- kuoppa noun (a hole in a road)
- kuoppa noun (hole in a burial mound resulting from unauthorized excavators)
French
2 entries- fondrière noun (a hole in a road)
- nid de poule noun (a hole in a road)
Galician
4 entries- baltre noun (a hole in a road)
- cachafundo noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
- cachón noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
- cono de violación noun (hole in a burial mound resulting from unauthorized excavators)
Georgian
1 entries- ღრანტე noun (a hole in a road)
German
1 entries- Schlagloch noun (a hole in a road)
Greek
1 entries- λακκούβα noun (a hole in a road)
Hungarian
1 entries- kátyú noun (a hole in a road)
Icelandic
1 entries- brothola noun (a hole in a road)
Irish
1 entries- linntreog noun (a hole in a road)
Italian
4 entries- affossamento noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
- avvallamento noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
- buca noun (a hole in a road)
- depressione noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
Japanese
1 entries- 甌穴 noun (a hole in a road)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- khàkìk noun (a hole in a road)
- khàkìk noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
Macedonian
1 entries- дупка noun (a hole in a road)
Manx
1 entries- towl noun (a hole in a road)
Polish
4 entries- dziura wykopana przez łowcę noun (hole in a burial mound resulting from unauthorized excavators)
- wybój noun (a hole in a road)
- wyrwa noun (a hole in a road)
- wytopisko noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
Portuguese
1 entries- buraco (na estrada) noun (a hole in a road)
Romanian
2 entries- hârtoapă noun (a hole in a road)
- hârtop noun (a hole in a road)
Russian
4 entries- вы́боина noun (a hole in a road)
- ры́твина noun (a hole in a road)
- уха́б noun (a hole in a road)
- я́ма noun (a hole in a road)
Sicilian
1 entries- scaffa noun (a hole in a road)
Spanish
3 entries- bache noun (a hole in a road)
- hoyanco noun (a hole in a road)
- poceta noun (a hole in a road)
Swedish
2 entries- jättegryta noun (pit in the bed of a stream)
- potthål noun (a hole in a road)
Tagalog
1 entries- lubak noun (a hole in a road)
Turkish
1 entries- yol çukuru noun (a hole in a road)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вибо́їна noun (a hole in a road)
- я́ма noun (a hole in a road)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ổ gà noun (a hole in a road)
Welsh
1 entries- twll noun (a hole in a road)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Careful! There's a pothole on the road.
Source: tatoeba (1185330)
The linkage between the RV and the car was weak, allowing for the car to be left behind at the first pothole.
Source: tatoeba (5479580)
Sami straddled the pothole.
Source: tatoeba (6450925)
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