change

See also: changé, chànge, Cháng'é, and 'Change

change - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: chānj, IPA: /t͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

Verb

change (third-person singular simple present changes, present participle changing, simple past and past participle changed)

  1. (intransitive) To become something different.
    • The tadpole changed into a frog.   Stock prices are constantly changing.
  2. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
    • The fairy changed the frog into a prince.   I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit.
  3. (transitive) To replace.
    • Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb.   After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt.
  4. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
    • You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing.   The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started.
  5. (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
    • It's your turn to change the baby.
  6. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
  7. (archaic) To exchange.
  8. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
    • to change a horse

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Derived terms

Translations

  • Hungarian: átöltöztet (hu), (diaper) tisztába tesz
  • Portuguese: trocar (pt)

Noun

change (countable and uncountable, plural changes)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
    • The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
  2. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
    • Can I get change for this $100 bill, please?
  3. (countable) A replacement.
    • a change of clothes
  4. (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
    • A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.
  5. (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
    • Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.
    • This bus ride requires exact change.
  6. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
    • The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
  7. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  8. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  9. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "change": big, small, major, minor, dramatic, drastic, rapid, slow, gradual, radical, evolutionary, revolutionary, abrupt, sudden, unexpected, incremental, social, economic, organizational, technological, personal, cultural, political, technical, environmental, institutional, educational, genetic, physical, chemical, industrial, geological, global, local, good, bad, positive, negative, significant, important, structural, strategic, tactical.

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Translations

  • Arabic: فَكَّة f (fakka)
    • Egyptian Arabic: فكة f (fakka)
    • Hijazi Arabic: فكة f (fakka), باقي m (bāgi)
    • Moroccan Arabic: صرف m (ṣarf)
  • Assamese: খুচুৰা (khusura)
  • Asturian: cambéu m
  • Basque: kanbio
  • Belarusian: дро́бныя гро́шы m pl (dróbnyja hróšy), дро́бныя m pl (dróbnyja)
  • Breton: eskemm (br) m
  • Bulgarian: ре́сто n (résto), дре́бни пари́ pl (drébni parí)
  • Catalan: canvi (ca) m
  • Chichewa: chinji
  • Chinese:
  • Czech: drobné (cs) m pl
  • Danish: småpenge pl, vekselpenge pl
  • Dutch: wisselgeld (nl) n
  • Esperanto: ŝanĝmono
  • Estonian: peenraha
  • Finnish: vaihtoraha (fi)
  • French: monnaie (fr) f
  • Galician: cambio (gl) m
  • Georgian: ხურდა (xurda)
  • German: Wechselgeld (de) n
  • Greek: ψιλά (el) n pl (psilá)
  • Hebrew: עֹדֶף m ('odef)
  • Hindi: छुट्टा (hi) (chuṭṭā), रेज़गारी f (rezgārī), चिल्लर m pl (cillar)
  • Hungarian: apró (hu), aprópénz (hu), váltópénz (hu)
  • Ido: kambio (io)
  • Italian: resto (it) m
  • Japanese: お釣り (ja) (おつり, o-tsuri), 釣り銭 (ja) (つりせん, tsurisen), 小銭 (ja) (こぜに, kozeni)
  • Khmer: លុយ (km) (luy)
  • Korean: 잔돈 (ko) (jandon), 거스름돈 (ko) (geoseureumdon)
  • Kurdish:
    • Central Kurdish: باقی (ckb) (baqî)
  • Lao: ເງິນທອນ (ngœn thǭn)
  • Latin: mutatio (la), permutatio (la)
  • Latvian: sīknauda f
  • Lithuanian: grąža f, smulkūs pinigai pl
  • Macedonian: кусур m (kusur), ситно n (sitno)
  • Malayalam: ചില്ലറ (ml) (cillaṟa)
  • Maori: tīni
  • Mongolian:
  • Norwegian:
  • Polish: drobne (pl) m pl
  • Portuguese: troco (pt) m, trocado (pt) m
  • Romanian: schimb (de bani) n
  • Russian: ме́лкие де́ньги (ru) f pl (mélkije dénʹgi), ме́лочь (ru) f (méločʹ)
  • Scottish Gaelic: iomlaid f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Roman: sitnina (sh) f, sića, kusur (sh) m (excess money given when paying cash), sitniš (sh)
  • Slovak: drobné m pl
  • Slovene: drobiž (sl) m
  • Spanish: cambio (es) m, calderilla (es) f (Spain - specifically coins), (Spain - specifically coins) chatarra (es) f, (Northern Mexico) feria (es) f, (Caribbean Islands, Colombian Atlantic Coast, Costa Rica, Southeastern Mexico) menudo (es) m, (Mexico - specifically coins) morralla (es) f, (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Northwestern Argentina, Panama, Peru, Southern and Southeastern Mexico, Venezuela) sencillo (es) m, (Ecuador, Spain, regional usage in Mexico - in full : dinero suelto) suelto (es) m, (Southeastern Mexico) vuelto (es) m
  • Swedish: växel (sv) c, växelpengar c
  • Tagalog: barya
  • Telugu: చిల్లర (te) (cillara)
  • Thai: เงินทอน (th) (ngən-tɔɔn)
  • Turkish: bozuk (tr) m pl, bozukluk (tr)
  • Ukrainian: дрібні́ гро́ші m pl (dribní hróši), дрібняки́ m pl (dribnjaký), дрібні́ m pl (dribní)
  • Vietnamese: tiền lẻ (vi), tiền nhỏ
  • Yiddish: מינץ f (mints), קליינגעלט n (kleyngelt)
  • Zazaki: werdi (diq)

change - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʃɑ̃ʒ/

Noun

change m (plural changes)

  1. exchange

Derived terms

Verb

change

  1. inflection of changer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

change - Norman

Alternative forms

Noun

change m (plural changes)

  1. (Jersey) change
  2. (Jersey, money) exchange rate

change - Old French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈt͡ʃan.d͡ʒə/

Noun

change m (oblique plural changes, nominative singular changes, nominative plural change)

  1. change (difference between one state and another)
  2. exchange

Descendants

Meaning and Definition of change
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