Translation for 'to fail' from English to Icelandic

to fail

að bila

að feila

að gefa sig

að mistakast

að takast ekki

að fara úrskeiðis

að fara út um þúfur

að virka ekki sem skyldi

að standast ekki kröfur

að klikka (á) [talm.]

að standast ekki viðmið

að fatast flugið [mistakast]

að fá falleinkunnmennt.

að fara í þrothagkerfi

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to fail [end]

að þrjóta

to fail [go wrong]

að misheppnast

to fail (sb.)

að bregðast (e-m)

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fail

klúður {hv} [talm.]

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fail-safe [method, plan, strategy]

pottþéttur {adj} [talm.]

without fail

skilyrðislaust {adv}

alveg örugglega {adv}

án undantekninga {adv}

undantekningalaust {adv}

án þess að bregðast {adv}

alveg pottþétt {adv} [talm.]

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to fail an exam

að falla á prófi

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I'll be there at noon without fail.

Ég verð alveg pottþétt þar á hádegi.

We must not fail our obligation to the earthquake victims.

Við megum ekki bregðast skyldum okkar gagnvart fórnarlömbum jarðskjálftans.

Without fail, the teacher gives us a lot of homework every Friday.

Það bregst ekki að kennarinn lætur okkur hafa fullt af heimaverkefnum hvern föstudag.

• Ch. 9 (39): Rebecca rejects Bois-Guilbert's offer to fail to appear for the combat in return for her love. Albert persuades him that it is in his interest to appear.
• In the latter half of the 1950s, however, the economy began to fail and the government introduced censorship laws limiting dissent.
• This method analyzes a finite or infinite slope as if it were about to fail along its sliding failure surface.
• The terrain below the Sarez Lake in Tajikistan is in danger of catastrophic flooding if the landslide dam formed by the earthquake, known as the Usoi Dam, were to fail during a future earthquake.
• a military operation that was doomed to fail.

• From 1971 to 1974, Christie's health began to fail, but she continued to write.
• For fully ionized atoms (bare nuclei), it is possible in likewise manner for electrons to fail to escape the atom, and to be emitted from the nucleus into low-lying atomic bound states (orbitals).
• Poor economic conditions forced the company to fail and operations ceased in September 1995.
• Salt-accelerated corrosion has caused ceiling light fixtures to fail (see below), but can also cause rapid deterioration of embedded rebar and other structural steel reinforcements holding the tunnel walls and ceiling in place.
• The second was lost in 2004, after bad weather caused the flight crew led by pilot army colonel Micheal Ranft to fail to unlock the flight controls lock pin.

• A player "reneges" means to fail to follow suit when able and required by the rules to do so. Reneging is a form of cheating. In most circles, this results in the guilty party forfeiting the hand.
• Surface mount resistors have been known to fail due to the ingress of sulfur into the internal makeup of the resistor.
• Yet others have investigated under what circumstances the threat and imposition of international economic sanctions tend to succeed and when they are likely to fail.
• Attempts to translate these sentences in an emotivist framework seem to fail (e.g. ...
• It was only when Alexander III's health was beginning to fail that they reluctantly gave permission for Nicholas to propose.

• An operational constraint on the use of the LRV was that the astronauts must be able to walk back to the LM if the LRV were to fail at any time during the EVA (called the "Walkback Limit").
• In the last few years Louis' health began to fail more seriously.
• For smaller engines, such as outboards, where the propeller is exposed to the risk of collision with heavy objects, the propeller often includes a device that is designed to fail when overloaded; the device or the whole propeller is sacrificed so that the more expensive transmission and engine are not damaged.
• The altruistic mechanism does not rely on belief; therefore, they argue that it would be less likely to fail than the alternative, i.e.