He cut a twig from the tree with his knife.
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Twig
//twɪɡ//
Synonyms for "twig" (164 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (49)
Related words (82)
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More general
14 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
17 entriesMacaya green twig anolea twig in a bundle cannot be brokena twig in a bundle is unbreakablebattle-twighop the twigin prime twiglime-twigoff one's twigone can't break a twig in a bundleone cannot break a twig in a bundletwig and berriestwig runetwig snaketwig wiltertwigletyou can't break a twig in a bundle
Showing 16 of 17 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
2 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
128 translations across 64 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- takkie noun (a small thin branch)
Albanian
2 entries- bisk noun (a small thin branch)
- krane noun (a small thin branch)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κάρφος noun (a small thin branch)
Arabic
1 entries- غُصَّيْن noun (a small thin branch)
Aragonese
1 entries- branca noun (a small thin branch)
Armenian
1 entries- շիվ noun (a small thin branch)
Assamese
3 entries- ঠানি noun (a small thin branch)
- ঠালি noun (a small thin branch)
- ডালি noun (a small thin branch)
Bashkir
2 entries- ботаҡ noun (a small thin branch)
- сыбыҡ noun (a small thin branch)
Belarusian
2 entries- галі́нка noun (a small thin branch)
- галіна́ noun (a small thin branch)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ве́йка noun (a small thin branch)
- кло́нка noun (a small thin branch)
- загрявам verb (to realise something)
- схващам verb (to realise something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 枝 noun (a small thin branch)
Czech
1 entries- větvička noun (a small thin branch)
Danish
1 entries- kvist noun (a small thin branch)
Dutch
1 entries- twijg noun (a small thin branch)
Esperanto
1 entries- branĉeto noun (a small thin branch)
Estonian
2 entries- oks noun (a small thin branch)
- vits noun (a small thin branch)
Faroese
1 entries- kvistur noun (a small thin branch)
Finnish
2 entries- risu noun (a small thin branch)
- vitsa noun (a small thin branch)
French
4 entries- brindille noun (a small thin branch)
- capter verb (to realise something)
- entraver verb (to realise something)
- piger verb (to realise something)
Galician
4 entries- bringa noun (a small thin branch)
- garabullo noun (a small thin branch)
- guizo noun (a small thin branch)
- verga noun (a small thin branch)
German
4 entries- Zweig noun (a small thin branch)
- checken verb (to realise something)
- mitbekommen verb (to realise something)
- mitkriegen verb (to realise something)
Higaonon
1 entries- sanga noun (a small thin branch)
Hungarian
1 entries- gally noun (a small thin branch)
Icelandic
1 entries- kvistur noun (a small thin branch)
Ingrian
1 entries- vitsa noun (a small thin branch)
Irish
1 entries- craobhóg noun (a small thin branch)
Italian
3 entries- rametto noun (a small thin branch)
- ramoscello noun (a small thin branch)
- verga noun (a small thin branch)
Japanese
3 entries- 小枝 noun (a small thin branch)
- 枝 noun (a small thin branch)
- 気づく verb (to realise something)
Korean
1 entries- 나뭇가지 noun (a small thin branch)
Latin
2 entries- rāmulus noun (a small thin branch)
- virga noun (a small thin branch)
Lithuanian
4 entries- šaka noun (a small thin branch)
- šakelė noun (a small thin branch)
- susigaudyti verb (to realise something)
- suvokti verb (to realise something)
Low German
1 entries- Twieg noun (a small thin branch)
Macedonian
1 entries- гранче noun (a small thin branch)
Malay
1 entries- ranting noun (a small thin branch)
Malayalam
1 entries- ചുള്ളി noun (a small thin branch)
Middle English
1 entries- twygge noun (a small thin branch)
Māori
4 entries- kōetoeto noun (a small thin branch)
- puaka noun (a small thin branch)
- rārā noun (a small thin branch)
- tākupu noun (a small thin branch)
Norman
1 entries- brantchette noun (a small thin branch)
Norwegian
1 entries- kvist noun (a small thin branch)
Old English
1 entries- twiġ noun (a small thin branch)
Old Slovak
1 entries- rázga noun (a small thin branch)
Persian
1 entries- ترکه noun (a small thin branch)
Polish
2 entries- gałązka noun (a small thin branch)
- witka noun (a small thin branch)
Portuguese
3 entries- galho noun (a small thin branch)
- ramo noun (a small thin branch)
- imaginar verb (to realise something)
Romanian
4 entries- nuia noun (a small thin branch)
- rămurea noun (a small thin branch)
- rămurică noun (a small thin branch)
- smicea noun (a small thin branch)
Russian
4 entries- ве́тка noun (a small thin branch)
- ве́точка noun (a small thin branch)
- догада́ться verb (to realise something)
- просе́чь verb (to realise something)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bioran noun (a small thin branch)
- geug noun (a small thin branch)
- meanglan noun (a small thin branch)
- slat noun (a small thin branch)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- grančica noun (a small thin branch)
- vejka noun (a small thin branch)
- вејка noun (a small thin branch)
- гранчица noun (a small thin branch)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ལྕུག་ཕྲན noun (a small thin branch)
Slovak
1 entries- vetvička noun (a small thin branch)
Slovene
1 entries- vejica noun (a small thin branch)
Southern Altai
2 entries- будак noun (a small thin branch)
- чыбык noun (a small thin branch)
Spanish
4 entries- quirina noun (a skinny person)
- ramilla noun (a small thin branch)
- ramita noun (a small thin branch)
- vara noun (a small thin branch)
Swedish
3 entries- kvist noun (a small thin branch)
- fatta verb (to realise something)
- greppa verb (to realise something)
Tagalog
3 entries- gangaw noun (a small thin branch)
- sangay noun (a small thin branch)
- siit noun (a small thin branch)
Tamil
1 entries- சுள்ளி noun (a small thin branch)
Telugu
1 entries- రెమ్మ noun (a small thin branch)
Thai
1 entries- กิ่ง noun (a small thin branch)
Turkish
1 entries- çalı çırpı noun (a small thin branch)
Ukrainian
3 entries- галу́зка noun (a small thin branch)
- гі́лка noun (a small thin branch)
- гі́лочка noun (a small thin branch)
Unami
2 entries- hìtùkwtët noun (a small thin branch)
- siakw noun (a small thin branch)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cành noun (a small thin branch)
- nhánh noun (a small thin branch)
Welsh
1 entries- brigyn noun (a small thin branch)
Zazaki
1 entries- sılo (diq) noun (a small thin branch)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
The bird picked up the twig with its beak and flew to its nest.
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Fire will keep burning even after the twig or the stick that started the fire has burned out.
Source: tatoeba (2188706)
Tom heard a twig crack.
Source: tatoeba (3005496)
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