English
Adjective
endangered (comparative more endangered, superlative most endangered)
- in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)
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Derived terms
Translations
in danger, at risk
- Bulgarian: застрашен (bg) (zastrašen)
- Catalan: en perill
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瀕危 / 濒危 (zh) (bīnwēi)
- Czech: ohrožený (cs)
- Dutch: bedreigd (nl)
- German: gefährdet
- Finnish: uhanalainen (fi), erittäin uhanalainen (IUCN 3.1)
- French: en danger
- Hebrew: בסיכון (besicun)
- Hungarian: veszélyeztetett (hu)
- Italian: a rischio
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: 危機に瀕する (ききにひんする,kiki ni hinsuru), 消滅危機のある (ぜつめつききのある,zetsumetsu kiki no aru)
- Maori: tata korehāhā
- Polish: zagrożony (pl)
- Portuguese: em risco
- Russian: угрожа́емый (ru) (ugrožájemyj), вымира́ющий (ru) (vymirájuščij) (dying out), исчеза́ющий (ru) (isčezájuščij) (vanishing)
- Spanish: en peligro, peligrado (es)
- Telugu: ముప్పు పొంచి ఉన్న (te) (muppu poñci unna), ప్రమాదంలో ఉన్న (te) (pramādaṁlō unna), అంతరిస్తున్న (te) (antaristunna), అంతరించిపోతున్న (te) (antariñcipōtunna)
- Turkish: nesli tehlikede
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: ebungozini
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Verb
endangered
- simple past and past participle of endanger