WotD: confirm suspicions

[muckefuck]

1. Verdacht bestätigen
2. verdenking bevestigen
3. confirmar sospechas
4. confirmar sospites
5. confirmer soupçons
6. amhras a chruthú
7. cadarnhau amheuon
8. potwierdzać podejrzenia
9. 의혹을 확인하다 (疑惑을 確認하다)
10. 證實疑心 zhèngshí yíxīn
11. 疑念を確認する ぎねんをかくにんする

Notes: Since Irish cruthaigh can mean "create" as well as "prove", this expression can also mean "create doubt". I'm not sure if there's an easy way to disambiguate it.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

I’m amused that all three of CJK use a slightly different word for ‘suspicion’.

I wonder what Vietnamese has.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I had some difficulty finding those equivalents, so don't read too much into them. 疑心 exists in both Korean and Japanese, too, the usage simply differs slightly. I couldn't find examples of it being used with 確認する (which may not be the best equivalent of "confirm" anyway), but it did collocate with many other of the same verbs as 疑念.