As a Verb or Adjective: 1. To be not very good or very nice; to be unpleasant, shocking, or bad. English = (be) awful, (be) dreadful. Note: 1. This sign is based on a gesture shared with the spoken language community. The gesture is made when dismissing something as unimportant or trivial or rejecting something because it is no good or awful.

As a Noun: 1. A law, decree or public statement that says you cannot do something. English = ban, prohibition. As a Verb or Adjective: 1. To say publicly by decree or to make a law that says you cannot do something; to be officially not allowed. English = ban, prohibit; (be) banned, (be) prohibited, (be) illegal. 2. To order someone not to do something; to be not allowed. English = forbid; (be) forbidden. Interactive: 1. Used alone to tell someone very forcefully to stop doing something, especially when you are in a position of authority and representing some organisation which rules against that activity. English = 'Stop! It's forbidden to do that.'

Interactive: 1. Used alone to refuse an offer. English = 'No!', 'No thanks!' 2. Used alone to mean that you think there is no possibility or likelihood of what is being discussed actually happening or being really true. English = 'No!', 'No, that's not right!', 'No way!', 'Absolutely not!'

As a Verb or Adjective: 1. To start being something. English = become. 2. To stop being one thing and start being another thing. English = change into. 3. To completely change into something else. English = transform.

As a Noun: 1. The act of betting on something, or the amount of money you agree to give. English = bet. Formal, archaic English = wager. 2. A suggestion from someone that you should compete or argue with them. English = challenge, dare. 3. A challenge which one person makes to another to do something dangerous or frightening. English = dare. As a Verb or Adjective: 1. To make an agreement with someone that if what you say will happen does happen, they will give you a sum of money, and if you are wrong you will give them a sum of money. English = bet. Formal or archaic English = wager. 2. To invite someone to fight or compete with you. English = challenge. 3. To suggest that someone does something dangerous or frightening, to show how brave they are. English = dare.

As a Noun: 1. Trouble, fuss or difficulty. English = bother. As a Verb or Adjective: 1. To not do something because you do not think it is important or necessary, or because you think it would involve too much effort. English = not bother, not care less. Interactive: 1. Used alone as an answer to a request to do something to mean that you do not want to and that you do not think it is important. English = 'I can't be bothered!'

As a Noun: 1. Work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods and services. English = business. 2. An organisation which produces and sells goods or which provides a service. English = business.

As a Noun: 1. A situation in which lots of things are happening or being done. English = activity, action. 2. Something that you do on a particular occasion. English = action. 3. All the important and exciting things that happen in a situation, especially in a film. English = action. As a Verb or Adjective: 1. To be working hard or concentrating on a task, so that you are not free to do anything else. English = (be) busy.

As a Noun: 1. Human beings who are not yet adults. English = children. 2. The sons and daughters of someone regardless of their age. English = children.