From scratch Meaning in English

expression

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التعريف

If you do something from scratch, you start at the very beginning and make or build it completely by yourself, without using anything that was prepared before.

الاستخدام والفروق الدقيقة

This expression is informal and common in both spoken and written English. Often used in cooking ('bake a cake from scratch'), projects, business, and learning. It suggests effort and starting with basic materials, not shortcuts or premade parts.

• Spanish: desde cero - desde el principio
• Portuguese (BR): do zero - do início
• Portuguese (PT): de raiz - do início
• Chinese (Simplified): 从头开始 - 白手起家
• Chinese (Traditional): 從頭開始 - 白手起家
• Hindi: शुरुआत से - बिलकुल नई शुरुआत से
• Arabic: من البداية - من الصفر
• Bengali: শুরু থেকে - একেবারে গোড়া থেকে
• Russian: с нуля
• Japanese: ゼロから - 一から
• Vietnamese: từ đầu
• Korean: 처음부터
• Turkish: sıfırdan
• Urdu: شروع سے
• Indonesian: dari awal

جمل نموذجية

We built the treehouse from scratch.

basic

He learned English from scratch.

basic

She made the soup from scratch.

basic

I had no recipe, so I just made dinner from scratch.

natural

Their company was started from scratch in a garage.

natural

After the file was lost, we had to redo the project from scratch.

natural