about to

Phrase

 * He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.
 * She seemed about to say something.
 * 1) * 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Acts of the Apostles, xviii, 14
 * And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
 * I'm not about to let the lockdown stop me from going to the beach every day.
 * I'm not about to wander around at night to find it.
 * I'm not about to let the lockdown stop me from going to the beach every day.
 * I'm not about to wander around at night to find it.
 * I'm not about to wander around at night to find it.

Synonyms

 * bound to
 * fixing to

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَلَى وَشْك
 * Armenian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Eastern Min: 欲
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, , 剛要
 * Cornish: parys dhe
 * Danish: være ved at be about to
 * Dutch: op het punt staan (om) te
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: fifth infinitive of the verb
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თითქმის მზად
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: μέλλω
 * Hebrew: עמד ל־
 * Hungarian:, szándékában áll
 * Indonesian: hampir saja
 * Irish: ar tí
 * Old Irish: fri
 * Italian:,  ,
 * Japanese:, まさに...しようとしている
 * Khmer: ស្ទើរតែ
 * Korean: (으)려고 하다,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: ruoštis, ketinti , tuoj , greitai
 * Maori: whano, hono
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: være i ferd med å
 * Occitan: al mand de
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: no limiar de, prestes a,
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: amega
 * Scottish Gaelic: an impis
 * Spanish:
 * Tày: ái
 * Thai: กำลังจะ
 * Tibetan: ཁད, verb + ལ་ཁད, verb + འགྲོའོ/གྲབས (colloquial/literary) + existential auxiliary ཡོད/ཡོད་རེད/འདུག (egophoric/assertive/testimonial), verb + ཆོག་ཆོག
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, ar fin
 * Yiddish: האַלטן