activate

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
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Verb

activate (third-person singular simple present activates, present participle activating, simple past and past participle activated)

(transitive) To put into action; to put to work.
(transitive) To turn on (an electrical device).

Synonyms

Antonyms

deactivate

Translations

to put into action

Albanian: aktivizoj (sq)
Arabic: فَعَّلَ‎‎ (ar) (faʿʿala)
Asturian: activar
Basque: aktibatu
Bengali: সক্রিয় করা (śôkriyô kôra)
Bulgarian: пускам (bg) (puskam), активирам (bg) (aktiviram)
Catalan: activar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 激活 (zh) (jīhuó)
Dutch: activeren (nl)
Esperanto: aktivigi
Estonian: rakendama
Finnish: aktivoida (fi)
French: actionner (fr), activer (fr)
Galician: activar

Greek: ενεργοποιώ (el) (energopoió)
Kyrgyz: жандыруу (ky) (candıruu)
Maori: whakahohe
Marathi: सक्रिय करावे (sakriy karāve)
Norman: activiser
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aktivere (no), aktivisere (no)
Polish: aktywować (pl), uaktywnić
Portuguese: ativar (pt)
Romanian: activa (ro)
Russian: активизи́ровать (ru) impf, pf (aktivizírovatʹ), активи́ровать (ru) impf, pf (aktivírovatʹ), приводи́ть в де́йствие impf (privodítʹ v déjstvije), привести́ в де́йствие pf (privestí v déjstvije)
Spanish: activar (es)
Swedish: aktivera (sv)
Turkish: etkinleştirmek (tr)

to turn on

Asturian: activar
Catalan: activar (ca)
Czech: zapnout (cs)
Dutch: aanzetten (nl), inschakelen (nl)
Esperanto: aktivigi
Estonian: käivitama (et)
Finnish: aktivoida (fi), käynnistää (fi)
French: actionner (fr), allumer (fr)

Galician: activar
Greek: ενεργοποιώ (el) (energopoió) (ανοίγω (el) (anoígo))
Polish: włączyć (pl)
Portuguese: ativar (pt)
Russian: активи́ровать (ru) impf, pf (aktivírovatʹ), включа́ть (ru) impf (vključátʹ), включи́ть (ru) pf (vključítʹ)
Slovene: vključiti
Spanish: activar (es)
Swedish: aktivera (sv)

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Translations to be checked

German: ^{(please verify)} aktivieren (de)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} mengaktifkan (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} activar
Italian: ^{(please verify)} attivare

Japanese: 活性化する (かっせいかする, kasseika suru)
Mandarin: 使活动 (shǐ huódòng); 啟動, 启动 (qǐdòng); 触发 (chùfā)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} aktivírati
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} dunotön

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