transcription, транскрипция: [ broʊkən ]
1.
Broken is the past participle of break .
2.
A broken line is not continuous but has gaps or spaces in it.
A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
= dotted
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
You can use broken to describe a marriage that has ended in divorce, or a home in which the parents of the family are divorced, when you think this is a sad or bad thing.
She spoke for the first time about the traumas of a broken marriage...
Children from broken homes are more likely to leave home before the age of 18.
ADJ : ADJ n [ disapproval ]
4.
If someone talks in broken English, for example, or in broken French, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they do not know the language very well.
Eric could only respond in broken English.
≠ fluent, perfect
ADJ : ADJ n