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all_of_a_sudden

all of a sudden

English

Alternative forms

Adverb

all of a sudden ‎(not comparable)

(set phrase, colloquial) Suddenly, quickly.
All of a sudden I felt very hot and tired.

Translations

colloquial: suddenly

Arabic: فَجْأَةً ‎(fajʾatan)
Bashkir: ҡапыл ‎(qapïl), кинәт ‎(kinät)
Bengali: হঠাত্ ‎(hôţhat)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 突然 (zh) ‎(tūrán), 忽然 (zh) ‎(hūrán), 一下子 (zh) ‎(yīxiàzi)
Czech: najednou (cs)
Danish: pludselig (da)
Finnish: yhtäkkiä (fi), äkkiä (fi), äkkiarvaamatta, äkisti (fi)
French: soudain (fr), soudainement (fr), subitement (fr), tout à coup (fr), tout d'un coup (fr)
Georgian: უეცრად ‎(uecrad), უცბად ‎(ucbad)

German: urplötzlich (de)
Hungarian: hirtelen (hu), váratlanul (hu)
Japanese: 突然 (ja) ‎(とつぜん, totsuzen)
Latvian: pēkšņi
Norwegian: plutselig (no)
Portuguese: subitamente (pt), de repente (pt), repentinamente (pt)
Russian: вдруг (ru) ‎(vdrug), внеза́пно (ru) ‎(vnezápno), неожи́данно (ru) ‎(neožídanno)
Scottish Gaelic: gu grad
Spanish: de repente (es), súbitamente (es), de pronto
Swedish: plötsligt (sv)