make up one's mind

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

makeupone'smind(third-person singular simple presentmakes up one's mind,present participlemaking up one's mind,simple past and past participlemade up one's mind)

1. (idiomatic)Todecide;to reach aconclusion.

   I can'tmake up my mindwhether to have ice cream or cake.

   • 1909,Archibald Marshall[pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, inThe Squire’s Daughter,New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company,published1919,→OCLC:

     "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I alwaysmade up my mindI'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal. "

Translations

to decide, to reach a conclusion

• Arabic:وَطَّنَ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى(ar)(waṭṭana nafsahu ʕalā),عَزَمَ(ʕazama),قَرَّرَ(qarrara),صَمَّمَ(ṣammama)
• Belarusian:раша́цьimpf(rašácʹ),рашы́цьpf(rašýcʹ)
• Bengali:ঠিক করা(ṭhik kora)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Quyết định／Quyết định(zh)(juédìng),Quyết tâm／Quyết tâm(zh)(juéxīn)

• Dutch:toteenbesluitkomen,eenkeuzemaken
• Finnish:päättää(fi)
• French:se décider(fr),décider(fr)
• German:sich entscheiden(de),beschließen(de)
• Gothic:𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽(andþagkjan)
• Hebrew:הֶחְלִיט(he)(hekhlít)
• Hungarian:dönt(hu),elszánjamagát,határoz(hu),elhatározzamagát
• Icelandic:ákveða sig
• Irish:socraigh
• Italian:decidersi(it)
• Japanese:Quyết tâm する(ja)(けっしんする, kesshin suru),Quyết める(ja)(きめる, kimeru),Quyết định する(ja)(けっていする, kettei suru)
• Korean:결심하다(ko)(gyeolsimhada),결정하다(ko)(gyeoljeonghada),정하다(ko)(jeonghada)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:bestemme seg(no)

• Polish:decydować(pl)impf,zdecydować(pl)pf
• Portuguese:decidir-se,escolher(pt),chegar a uma conclusão(pt)
• Russian:реша́ться(ru)impf(rešátʹsja),реши́ться(ru)pf(rešítʹsja),реша́ть(ru)impf(rešátʹ),реши́ть(ru)pf(rešítʹ)
• Spanish:decidirse(es),definirse(es)
• Swedish:bestämma sig(sv)
• Thai:ตัดสินใจ(th)(dtàt-sǐn-jai)
• Turkish:karar vermek(tr)
• Ukrainian:вирі́шуватиimpf(vyríšuvaty),ви́рішитиpf(výrišyty)

See also

• have a mind of one's own
• change one's mind