catch a cold

English

Alternative forms

• catch cold

Pronunciation

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Verb

catch a cold (third-person singular simple present catches a cold, present participle catching a cold, simple past and past participle caught a cold)

1. (idiomatic) To contract a cold.
2. (idiomatic) To encounter difficulties.
   • 2014 March 22, Rupert Jones, “Retiring abroad? Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze”, in The Guardian:

     Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze.

   • 2018 February 14, Gary Howes, “British Pound to Languish Below 1.10 vs. Euro as Recession Beckons in 2021 say Scandinavian Economists”, in Pound Sterling:

     If the U.S. goes into recession in 2021, the rest of the world is expected to catch a cold.

Translations

contract a cold

• Arabic: أُصِيبَ بِبَرْدٍ (ʔuṣība bibardin)
• Aromanian: mi-arãtsescu
• Belarusian: засту́джвацца impf (zastúdžvacca), застудзі́цца pf (zastudzícca)
• Bulgarian: простудя́вам се impf (prostudjávam se), простудя́ се pf (prostudjá se)
• Catalan: refredar-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 感冒 (gam² mou⁶)

  Mandarin: 感冒 (zh) (gǎnmào), 受涼／受凉 (zh) (shòuliáng), 傷風／伤风 (zh) (shāngfēng)

• Czech: nachladit se pf, nastydnout pf
• Danish: blive forkølet
• Dutch: kouvatten (nl), verkouden worden
• Esperanto: malvarmumi (eo)
• Estonian: külmetuma
• Finnish: vilustua (fi)
• French: prendre froid (fr), attraper un rhume, attraper la mort (fr), attraper froid (fr)
• Galician: arrefriar (gl)
• German: sich erkälten
• Hebrew: הִצְטַנֵּן (he) (hitstanén), הִתְקָרֵר (hitkarér)
• Hungarian: megfázik (hu)
• Italian: raffreddarsi
• Japanese: 風邪を引く (ja) (かぜをひく, kaze o hiku), 風邪を召す (かぜをめす, kaze o mesu)
• Khmer: ផ្ដាសាយ (km) (phdaahsaay)
• Korean: 감기에 걸리다 (gamgi-e geollida)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: puorsaļt
• Latvian: saaukstēties
• Lithuanian: péršalti
• Macedonian: настинува impf (nastinuva), настине pf (nastine)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Mon: ဒးချာံ (daḥ khyāṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bli forkjølet

  Nynorsk: bli forkjølt

• Ottoman Turkish: صوغوقلامق (soğuklamak)
• Persian: سرما خوردن (fa) (sarmâ xordan), چاییدن (fa) (čāyidan)
• Polish: przeziębiać się impf, przeziębić się pf
• Portuguese: resfriar-se, pegar um resfriado, gripar
• Romanian: răci (ro)
• Russian: простужа́ться (ru) impf (prostužátʹsja), простуди́ться (ru) pf (prostudítʹsja), простыва́ть (ru) impf (prostyvátʹ), просты́ть (ru) pf (prostýtʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прехладити се pf

  Roman: prehladiti se (sh) pf

• Slovak: nachladnúť pf, prechladnúť pf
• Slovene: prehladiti se pf
• Spanish: resfriarse (es)
• Swedish: bli förkyld
• Thai: จับหวัด (jàp-wàt), เป็นหวัด (bpen-wàt)
• Ukrainian: засту́джуватися impf (zastúdžuvatysja), застуди́тися pf (zastudýtysja)
• Uzbek: shamollamoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: bị cảm lạnh
• Walloon: atraper do må (wa)
• Welsh: cael annwyd, dala annwyd (South)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקילן זיך (farkiln zikh)

See also

• catch one's death

Further reading

• “catch a cold”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.