keep quiet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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keep quiet (third-person singular simple present keeps quiet, present participle keeping quiet, simple past and past participle kept quiet)

1. (intransitive) To remain silent.
   Granny is asleep, so keep quiet while you play.
2. (idiomatic) To refrain from talking about something; to keep a secret.
   Remember it's a surprise party, so keep quiet about it. — Okay. I'll keep it still
   I'm quitting my job by the end of the month, but my boss doesn't know. Please keep it quiet.

remain silent

• Arabic: صَمَتَ (ṣamata)
• Armenian: լռել (hy) (lṙel)
• Aromanian: tac
• Azerbaijani: susmaq (az)
• Belarusian: маўча́ць impf (mawčácʹ)
• Bulgarian: мълча́ (bg) impf (mǎlčá)
• Catalan: callar (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 緘默 / 缄默 (zh) (jiānmò), 沉默 (zh) (chénmò)
• Comorian:
  Ngazidja Comorian: urua
• Czech: mlčet (cs) impf
• Dalmatian: tacar
• Danish: tie (da)
• Dutch: zwijgen (nl)
• Estonian: vait olema, vaikima (et)
• Finnish: olla hiljaa, vaieta (fi)
• French: se taire (fr), garder le silence (fr)
• Friulian: tasê
• Georgian: სიჩუმის დაცვა (sičumis dacva), გაჩუმდება (gačumdeba)
• German: schweigen (de)
• Greek: σωπαίνω (el) (sopaíno)
• Hawaiian: noho mālie
• Hebrew: שָׁתַק (he) (shaták)
• Hindi: चुप रहना (cup rahnā)
• Hungarian: (refrain from making any noise) csendben van, csendes (hu), csendesen van, (keep silent, refrain from speaking) hallgat (hu), csendben marad
• Icelandic: þegja
• Italian: tacere (it)
• Japanese: 黙る (ja) (だまる, damaru), 沈黙する (ja) (ちんもくする, chinmoku suru)
• Kashubian: môłczec impf
• Kazakh: үндемеу (ündemeu), сөйлемеу (söilemeu), айтпау (aitpau)
• Korean: 조용히 하다 (joyonghi hada), 침묵하다 (chimmukhada), 말하지 않다 (malhaji anta)
• Kyrgyz: унчукпоо (ky) (uncukpoo), үндөбөө (ündöböö), сүйлөбөө (süylöböö)
• Ladin: scuté
• Lao: ມິດ (mit)
• Latin: taceō (la)
• Latvian: klusēt
• Lithuanian: tylėti (lt)
• Lushootseed: ʔiyəqcut
• Macedonian: мо́лчи impf (mólči), ќу́ти impf (ḱúti)
• Māori: whakahū
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: tie (no)
  Nynorsk: teia
• Occitan: calar (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: мльчати impf (mlĭčati)
• Old East Slavic: мълчати impf (mŭlčati)
• Polish: milczeć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ficar quieto, calar-se
• Romani:
  Kalo Finnish Romani: ȟukkar
• Romanian: tăcea (ro)
• Russian: молча́ть (ru) impf (molčátʹ)
• Sardinian: cagliai, cagliare, citiri
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: мучати impf, ћутати impf, ћутјети impf
  Latin: mučati (sh) impf, ćutati impf, ćutjeti impf
• Sicilian: taciri (scn), tàciri (scn)
• Slovak: mlčať (sk) impf
• Slovene: molčati (sl) impf
• Sorbian:
  Lower Sorbian: mjelcaś impf
  Upper Sorbian: mjelčeć impf
• Spanish: callar (es)
• Swedish: tiga (sv), hålla tyst (sv)
• Tajik: хомӯш будан (xomüš budan), сукут кардан (sukut kardan), хомӯш шудан (xomüš šudan)
• Thai: นิ่ง (th) (nîng), เงียบ (th) (ngîiap), เงียบขรึม (ngîiap-krʉ̌m)
• Turkish: susmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: мовча́ти impf (movčáty)
• Uzbek: sukut qilmoq, jim turmoq
• Vietnamese: im lặng (vi), lặng thinh (vi)
• Welsh: tewi (cy)
• Yiddish: שווײַגן (shvaygn)