collaborate

English

Etymology

From collaborator, from French collaborateur, from Latin collaborare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlabəɹeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: col‧lab‧or‧ate

Verb

collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)

1. To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

   Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.

2. To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

   If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

Translations

to work together on a piece of work

• Arabic: تَعَاوَنَ‎ (taʿāwana)
• Bulgarian: сътруднича (bg) (sǎtrudniča)
• Catalan: col·laborar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作 (zh), 协作 (zh) (xiézuò), 配合 (zh) (pèihé)

• Czech: spolupracovat (cs)
• Danish: samarbejde
• Dutch: samenwerken (nl)
• Esperanto: kunlabori, kunagi
• Estonian: koostööd tegema
• Faroese: at samstarva
• Finnish: tehdä yhteistyötä
• French: collaborer (fr)
• German: zusammenarbeiten (de)
• Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai)
• Hebrew: שיתף פעולה‎ (shitéf p'ula)
• Hungarian: közösen dolgozik, együtt dolgozik
• Icelandic: vinna saman
• Ido: kunlaborar (io)
• Indonesian: kerjasama
• Italian: collaborare (it)
• Japanese: 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru), 共同して働く (kyōdō shite hataraku)

• Korean: 공동으로 일하다 (gongdong'euro ilhada)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: sadarboties; līdzdarboties
• Lithuanian: drauge dirbti
• Norwegian: samarbeide (no)
• Occitan: collaborar
• Old English: efenwyrċan
• Polish: współpracować (pl)
• Portuguese: colaborar (pt)
• Quechua: haymay
• Romanian: colabora (ro)
• Russian: сотру́дничать (ru) (sotrúdničatʹ), коопери́ровать (ru) (kooperírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: сарађивати, сурађивати
• Slovak: spolupracovať
• Slovene: sodelovati
• Spanish: colaborar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta (sv), samverka (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: birlikte çalışmak
• Ukrainian: співпрацюва́ти (spivpracjuváty)
• Uyghur: ھەمكارلاشماق‎ (hemkarlashmaq)
• Yiddish: מיטאַרבעטן‎ (mitarbetn), צוזאַמענאַרבעטן‎ (tsuzamenarbetn)

to cooperate treasonably

• Arabic: تَعاوَنُ مَعَ العَدُوّ‎ (taʿāwanu maʿa l-ʿaduww)
• Bulgarian: колаборирам (kolaboriram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勾結 (zh), 勾结 (zh) (gōujié), 通敵 (zh), 通敌 (zh) (tōngdí)

• Czech: kolaborovat
• Danish: kollaborere, samarbejde
• Dutch: collaboreren (nl)
• Estonian: kollaboreerima
• Finnish: olla yhteistoiminnassa, olla yhteistyössä
• French: collaborer (fr)
• German: zusammenarbeiten (de)
• Greek: συνεργάζομαι (el) (synergázomai)
• Hebrew: שיתף פעולה‎ (shitéf p'ula)
• Hungarian: kollaborál
• Icelandic: vinna með
• Indonesian: berkhianat (id)

• Italian: collaborare (it)
• Japanese: (敵に) 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru)
• Korean: (적국에) 협력하다 (hyeomnyeok-hada)
• Latvian: sadarboties (ar ienaidnieku)
• Lithuanian: bendradarbiauti, kolaboruoti
• Norwegian: samarbeide (med fienden), kollaborere
• Polish: kolaborować (pl)
• Portuguese: colaborar (pt)
• Romanian: colabora (ro)
• Russian: сотру́дничать с враго́м (sotrúdničatʹ s vragóm)
• Slovak: kolaborovať
• Slovene: kolaborirati
• Spanish: colaborar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta, kollaborera
• Turkish: işbirliği yapmak

See also

• collaborator
• collaboration

References

• “collaborate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “collaborate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "collaborate" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "collaborate" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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Italian

Verb

collaborate

1. second-person plural present indicative of collaborare
2. second-person plural imperative of collaborare

Participle

collaborate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of collaborare

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Latin

Verb

collabōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collabōrō