mistake

Signification

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mɪˈsteɪk/

Étymologie

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.