Information about the word fail (English → Esperanto: malsukcesi)

Synonyms: miscarry, come unstuck, go awry

Part of speechverb
Pronunciation/feɪ̯l/
Hyphenationfail
Shavian alphabet𐑓𐑱𐑤

Conjugation

Indicative mood
Present tensePast tense
(I) fail(I) failed
(thou) failest(thou) failedst
(he) fails, faileth(he) failed
(we) fail(we) failed
(you) fail(you) failed
(they) fail(they) failed
Subjunctive mood
Present tensePast tense
(I) fail (I) failed
(thou) fail(thou) failed
(he) fail(he) failed
(we) fail(we) failed
(you) fail(you) failed
(they) fail(they) failed
Imperative mood
fail
Participles
Present participlePast participle
failingfailed

Usage samples

You have failed me for the last time, admiral.
Having failed to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early in the three‐month‐old war, the Russians set out to seize parts of the eastern industrial region Donbas not already controlled by pro‐Moscow separatists.

Translations

Dutchfalen; mislukken; zakken; bakken
English (Old English)abreoþan
Esperantomalsukcesi
Faeroesemiseydnast
Germanmißglücken; durchfallen
Low Germanmislükken
Malaygagal
Papiamentofaya; frakasá
Portuguesemalograr‐se; sofrer um xeque; ter mau êxito
Swahili‐kosa
Swedishklicka
West Frisianfale; feile; mislearje