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Borrowed from Latin fluctuo, fluctuatus.
fluctuate (third-person singular simple present fluctuates, present participle fluctuating, simple past and past participle fluctuated)
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (intransitive) To undulate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
to vary irregularly; to swing
- Bulgarian: колебая се (kolebaja se), меня се (menja se)
- Catalan: fluctuar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: kolísat
- Finnish: heilahdella (fi), vaihdella (fi), heittelehtiä
- French: fluctuer (fr)
- German: schwanken (de), fluktuieren (de)
- Greek: κυμαίνομαι (el) (kymaínomai)
- Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: ingadozik (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Ido: fluktuar (io)
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: manei, mānenei
- Norwegian: svinge (no), fluktuere
- Persian: نوسان کردن (navasân kardan)
- Russian: колеба́ться (ru) impf (kolebátʹsja), меня́ться (ru) impf (menjátʹsja)
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
to undulate
- Bulgarian: меня (bg) (menja), варирам (bg) (variram)
- Catalan: fluctuar (ca)
- French: onduler (fr)
- German: please add this translation if you can
- Greek: κυμαίνομαι (el) (kymaínomai)
- Hungarian: hullámzik (hu)
- Russian: меня́ться (ru) impf (menjátʹsja), варьи́ровать (ru) impf (varʹírovatʹ)
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
to be irresolute; to waver
to cause to vary irregularly
- Dutch: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: heilutella (fi), heilautella (fi), heitellä (fi)
- German: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: колеба́ть (ru) impf (kolebátʹ)
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
flūctuāte
fluctuate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of fluctuar combined with te