again and again

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

again and again (not comparable)

1. Repeatedly.
   • 1958 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 415-416:

     The offending train ahead proved to be the 9.30 a.m. from Waterloo, which after Southampton checked us again and again until at last we passed it, headed by 4-6-0 No. 30850, Lord Nelson, standing shamefacedly in the loop at Pokesdown.

Synonyms

• over and over, over and over again, time and again; see also Thesaurus:repeatedly

Translations

repeatedly

• Arabic: مِرَارًا وَتِكْرَارًا (mirāran wa-tikrāran)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反復 / 反复 (zh) (fǎnfù)

• Danish: igen og igen, gang på gang, om og om igen
• Finnish: yhä uudelleen
• French: encore et encore
• German: immer wieder (de)
• Italian: ripetutamente (it), continuamente (it), più e più volte
• Japanese: 何度も (なんども, nando-mo)
• Latin: iterum atque iterum
• Malayalam: വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും (vīṇṭuṁ vīṇṭuṁ)
• Marathi: परत परत (parat parat) पुन्हापुन्हा (punhāpunhā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gang på gang (no)

  Nynorsk: igjen og igjen

• Persian: چندین و چندبار (čandin o čand-bâr)
• Polish: wielokrotnie (pl), raz po raz (pl)
• Portuguese: o tempo inteiro
• Romanian: din nou și din nou, iar și iar
• Russian: сно́ва и сно́ва (snóva i snóva), па́ки и па́ки (ru) (páki i páki) (archaic)
• Spanish: una y otra vez
• Swedish: om och om igen
• Tamil: மீண்டும் மீண்டும் (mīṇṭum mīṇṭum), திரும்பத்திரும்ப (tirumpattirumpa)
• Thai: ซ้ำ ๆ ซาก ๆ (th) (sám-sám-sâak-sâak), ครั้งแล้วครั้งเล่า
• Tocharian B: näno-näno
• Turkish: tekrar tekrar (tr), ardı ardına (tr), defalarca (tr)
• Urdu: بار بار (bār-bār), بارہا (bārhā), گھڑی گھڑی (ghaṛī-ghaṛī)
• Welsh: eto ac eto