mistake

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
2. (obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).
3. (obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
4. (obsolete) To take or choose wrongly.

Noun

1. An error.
2. A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

Concepts

erreur

faute

se tromper

méprise

tort

commettre une erreur

avoir tort

malentendu

faire erreur

confondre

méprendre

quiproquo

accident

calamité

catastrophe

faillite

faire une bavure

insuccès

abus

défaut

lapsus

planter

tromper

gourer

fauter

crime

trompons

embrouillement

erreur de calcul

incurie

négligence

négligence coupable

bobo

bévue

embrouillons

faux pas

gaffe

rafistolage

travail saboté

se fourvoyer

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mɪˈsteɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.

Phrases

If he makes a buying mistake , it doesn't affect him much .

S'il fait une erreur d'achat, cela ne l'affecte pas beaucoup.