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Fall asleep

English

Noun

to fall asleep (past tense fell asleep, past participle fallen asleep)

  1. To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
  2. (poetic, euphemistic) To die (often seen on gravestones ).
    John Doe, fell asleep 1 January 2001.

Translations

  • Finnish: nukahtaa
  • French: s'endormir (1)
  • Italian: addormentarsi (1)
  • Polish: zasypiać , zasnąć , usypiać , usnąć
  • Slovak: zaspať (1), usnúť (1), zosnúť (2)
  • Swedish: somna (1), somna in (2)



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