fluently

English

Etymology

From fluent +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

fluently (comparative more fluently, superlative most fluently)

1. In a fluent manner, as expressing oneself easily, especially in a foreign language.

   He lived in Mexico, so he is able to speak Spanish fluently.

2. In a fluent manner, as having graceful movements.
3. In a fluent manner, as literally flowing.
   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:

     When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.

Translations

expressing oneself easily

• Arabic: بِطَلَاقَة (bi-ṭalāqa)

  Egyptian Arabic: لِبْلِب (liblib)

• Armenian: սահուն (hy) (sahun)
• Catalan: fluidament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流利 (zh) (liúlì), 滔滔 (zh) (tāotāo), 暢達／畅达 (zh) (chàngdá)

• Czech: plynule, plynně
• Danish: flydende (da)
• Dutch: vloeiend (nl)
• Faroese: flótandi
• Finnish: sujuvasti (fi)
• French: couramment (fr)
• German: fließend (de)
• Greek: άπταιστα (el) (áptaista)
• Hindi: रवानी से (hi) (ravānī se)
• Hungarian: folyékonyan (hu)
• Indonesian: dengan lancar, dengan fasih
• Italian: correntemente (it)
• Japanese: ぺらぺらと (ja) (perapera to), 流暢に (ja) (りゅうちょうに, ryūchō ni), すらすらと (ja) (surasura to)
• Norwegian: flytende
• Polish: biegle (pl), płynnie (pl)
• Portuguese: fluentemente
• Russian: бе́гло (ru) (béglo), свобо́дно (ru) (svobódno)
• Slovak: plynulo
• Spanish: dominar (es) (verb), con fluidez, con soltura, fluido (es), fluidamente (es)
• Swedish: flytande (sv)

having graceful movements

• Czech: plynule
• Finnish: sulavasti (fi)
• Polish: płynnie (pl)
• Portuguese: fluentemente