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he said that he was awake

1 SEGJA

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(segi, sagða, sagðr), v.

1) to say, tell (seg þú mér þat, er ek spyr þik);

þeir sögðu, at þeir skyldu aldri upp gefast, they said they would never yield;

segja e-m leið, to tell the way, esp. on the sea, to pilot;

segja tíðendi, to tell news;

impers. it is told (hér segir frá Birni bunu);

sem áðr sagði, as was told before;

segjanda er allt vin sínum, all can be told to a friend;

2) to say, declare, in an oath;

ek segi þat guði (Æsi), I declare to God (to the ‘Áss’);

3) law phrases;

segja sik í þing, lög, to declare oneself member of a community;

segja sik ór þingi, lögum, to declare oneself out of, withdraw from, a community;

segja skilit við konu, to declare oneself separated from, divorce, one’s wife;

segja fram sök, to declare one’s case;

segja lög, to recite the law, of the lögsögumaðr;

4) to signify, mean (þetta segir svá);

5) with preps., segja e-n af e-u, to declare one off a thing, take it from him;

segja e-t á e-n, to impose on (bœta at þeim hluta, sem lög segði á hann); to announce (segja á reiði, úsátt sína);

segja eptir e-m, to tell tales of one;

segja frá e-u, to tell, relate;

Unnr, er ek sagða þér frá, U. of whom I told thee;

segja fyrir e-u, to prescribe (svá var með öllu farit, sem hann hafði fyrir sagt);

segja fyrir skipi, to bid God-speed to a ship;

segja e-t fyrir, to predict, foretell (segja fyrir úorðna hluti);

segja e-u sundr, í sundr, to break up, dissolve (segja sundr friði, frændsemi, hjúskap);

segja til e-s, to tell, inform of (segit honum ekki til, hvat þér hafit gört við hrossit);

segja til nafns síns, segja til sín, to tell (give) one’s name;

segja upp e-t, to pronounce (segja upp dóm, gørð);

segja upp lög, to proclaim the law (from the law-hill);

segja e-n upp, to give one up;

segja upp e-u, to declare at an end (segja upp friði, griðum);

segja upp þjónustu við e-n, to leave one’s service;

6) refl., segjast, to declare of oneself;

hann sagðist þá vaka, he said that he was awake;

kristnir menn ok heiðnir sögðust hvárir ór lögum annarra, they declared themselves each out of the other’s laws;

láta (sér) segjast, to let oneself be spoken to, listen to reason;

impers., e-m segist svá, one’s tale runs so.

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pres. segi, segir, segi, pl. segjum, segit, segja; pret. sagði, pl. sögðu; pres. subj. segja; pret. segða, segðir, segði; imperat. seg, segðú; part. sagðr: doubtful forms are sagat, sagaðr, Merl. 2. 4: a pres. indic. seg, segr, ek seg, Grág. i. 64, 134; segr hann, Fms. x. 421; segsk, Grág.i. 159, ii. 57: with a neg. suff. segr-at, Grág. ii. 214; sagðit, Hým. 14; segit-a, tell ye not! Vkv. 21: an older form seggja with a double g is suggested in Lex. Poët. in two or three passages, cp. A. S. secgan, as also seggr; but in Haustl. l. c. the g in ‘sagna’ is soft, and not hard (gg) as in mod. Icel. pronunciation, and sagna would fairly rhyme with segjaandum: [a word common to all Teut. languages, except that, strangely enough, no Goth. form is recorded, for Ulf. renders λαλειν, λέγειν, εἰπειν, by maþljan, quiþan, rodjan; so it may be that the earliest sense was not to say = Lat. dicere, but a limited one, to tell, proclaim; A. S. secgan; Engl. say; Dan. sige; Swed. segja.]

A. To say, in the oldest poems chiefly,

I. to tell, report, Lat. narrare, dicere; segðu, imperat. tell thou me! say! Vþm. 11, 13, 15. 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, Alm. 10, 12, 14, 16. etc., Skm. 3; segðu mér ór helju ek man ór heimi, Vtkv. 6; atgeirinn sagði ( foretold) manns bana, eins eðr fleiri, Nj. 119; mér segir svá hugr um, my mind tells me, I have a foreboding; eigi segir mér vel hugr um þessa ferð, Ld. 366; sagði honum mjök úvænt hugr um hennar hag, Fms. x. 215; sagðit honum hugr vel þá, Hým. 14; seg oss draum þinn, Nj. 95; hann segir honum greiniliga slíkt er hann spurði, Fms. ii. 99; þessi saga er nú ætlu vér at segja, viii. 1 (see saga); hann spurði hvers synir þeir væri,—þeir sögðu, Nj. 125; fór sveinninn ok sagði til Haralds, Fms. vii. 167; hvat hark var þat?—Honum var sagt, 168; svá hafa spakir menn sagt, Ib. 6; svá sagði Þorkell oss, 5; svá sagði Teitr oss, id.; svá sagði oss Úlfhéðinn Gunnarsson, 9; þenna atburð sagði Teitr oss, at því es Kristni kom á Ísland, 13; en Hallr sagði oss svá, 15; svá sagði hann oss, id.; en honum sagði Þórarinn bróðir hans, 16; es sannliga es sagt, at fyrst færi til Íslands, 4; hvatki er missagt es í fræðum þessum (pref.); þar sagði hann eigi koma dag á vetr, Landn. (pref.); svá segja vitrir menn, … en svá er sagt, 25; svá sagði Sæmundr prestr enn fróði, 27; er svá sagt, at honum hafi flestir hlutir höfðingligast gefnir verit, Nj. 254: of inscriptions, writing, segja þær (the Runes) formála þenna allan, Eg. 390; segja bækr, at …, 625. 88; skal sú skrá hafa sitt mál, er lengra segir, Grág. i. 7: segja leið, to tell the way, to guide, esp. on the sea, to pilot, Fms. xi. 123, Eg. 359 (leið-sögn, leiðsögu-maðr):—to tell, bid, far þú ok seg Agli, at þeir búisk þaðan fimmtán, Nj. 94; hann sendi húskarl at segja Steinari, at hann færði bústað sinn, to tell S. to change his abode, Eg. 749; segðu honum að koma, tell him to come!

2. with prepp.; segja eptir e-m, to tell tales of one, inform against, Al. 125; hann sagði eptir mér, segðu ekki eptir mér!—s. frá e-u (frá-sögn), to tell, relate, Nj. 96; þar er hón nú, Unnr, er ek sagða þér frá, U., of whom I told thee, 3; eigi má ofsögum segja frá vitsmunum þínum, Ld. 132: s. fyrir, to dictate, Fms. vii. 226, Fb. iii. 533, Nj. 256: to foretel, Rb. 332; s. fyrir úorðna hluti, Fms. i. 76, viii. 5: segja fyrir skipi, to bid Godspeed to a ship (on her first voyage), ix. 480: to prescribe, Ld. 54; þeir sigldu um nóttina, en hann sagði fyrir ( piloted) með viti ok gæfu, Bs. i. 562: s. manni fyrir jörðu, to give notice as to the redemption of an estate, Gþl. 295–297, 301 sqq.:—segja til, to give up; s. til nafns sins, to give one’s name (on being asked), Hbl.; hvat er nafn höfðingja yðvars? Rútr segir til sin. R. told his name (said, my name is R.) Nj. 8; sagði Örnólfr til svá-felldra itaka, Dipl. i. 1; skal ek hér fá þér sæmd ok virðing, þá er þú kannt mér sjálfr til s., Eg. 312.

3. impers. it is told: hér hefsk Landnáma-bok, ok segir í hinum fyrsta kapitula, hversn, Landn. 24: hér segir frá Birni bunu, 39; segir nokkut af hans orrostum, Fms. viii. 3; sem segir í sögu hans, i. 4 (see saga); sem áðr sagði, … sem sagði fyrr, as was told before, x. 382, 410.

II. to say, pronounce, declare; eg seg þat Guði, I declare to God (in an oath, cp. Engl. ‘so help me, God’), Grág. i. 64, 134; ok segi ek þat Æsi, Glúm. 388.

2. so in the law phrases, segja sik í þing, lög, and the like, to declare oneself in a community, to enter a community under the law; as also, segja sik ór þingi, lögum, to declare oneself out of, to withdraw from, a community, Grág. and the Sagas passim; segja skilit við konu, to declare oneself separated from, to divorce one’s wife, Nj. 50; segja þing laust, to declare a meeting at an end, Grág, i. 116:—segja lög, to say the law, used of the speaker’s (lögsögu-maðr) decisions; syni Erlings segi ek engi lög, i. e. I give no sentence for him, Fms. ix. 331: iron., sögðu sverð þeirra ein lög öllum Svíum, ii. 315; s. prófan (á) málum, K. Á. 216; s. dóm, to give sentence.

3. with prepp.; s. e-n af e-n, to ‘declare a person off a thing,’ i. e. take it from him; hann sagði Vastes af drottningar-dómi ok öllu því ríki, Sks. 462; þá er hann þegar sagðr af lærðra manna tign, 694; skipta svá miklum ríkdómi, ok segja hann af einhverjum ok til annars, i. e. to take it from one and give it to another, Fms. ix. 330; þann dag segja lög mann at aptni af griði, Grág. i. 146; s. e-n afhendan, to declare a person off one’s hands, give him up, Fs. 34:—s. e-t á, to announce:þú skalt segja á reiði mína, Nj. 216; s. á úsátt sína, 256; bæta at þeim hluta sem lög segði á hann, as the law declared, imposed, Fms. x. 152:—s. aptr, to break up, dissolve; s. friði aptr, N. G. L. i. 103:—segja sundr = segja aptr, s. sundr griðum, frændsemi, Fms. ix. 276, x. 133, Fas. ii. 136:—s. fram, to say, pronounce, esp. of pleading, to read; s. fram sök and the like, Grág., Nj. passim:—s. fyrir, see l. 2:—s. upp, to pronounce; er hann hafði þenna kost upp sagðan, Fms. xi. 284: segja upp görð, dóm, sætt, to pronounce sentence, as a judge or umpire, Grág., Nj. Band. 12, passim; s. upp lög, to proclaim the law from the law-hill (the act was called upp-saga), Ib. 17, Bs. i. 25; at hann segði upp lögin, Nj. 164: s. e-n upp, to give one up, Sturl. iii. 181 C: segja e-u upp, to declare at an end; segja upp friði, griðum, Fms. x. 133; segja upp þjónustu við e-n, to leave one’s service, Hkr. iii. 68. to speak, talk; skaut konungr á erendi, talaði hátt ok hvellt ok segir svá—þat er …, Fms. i. 215; ‘þenna kost viljum vér,’ segir Skapti, Nj. 150; ‘frauva,’ segir hann, ‘þat er satt er þú mælir,’ Fms. x. 421. 2. in a dialogue: segir hann, segir hón, says he, says she, etc.; ‘Kenni ek víst,’ segir Otkell,—‘Hverr á,’ segir Skamkell; ‘Melkólfr þræll,’ segir Otkell,—‘Kenna skulu þá fleiri,’ segir Skamkell, ‘en vit tveir,’ 75; Gunnarr mælti—‘Veiztú hvat þér mun verða at bana?’—‘Veit ek,’ segir Njáll,—‘Hvat?’ segir Gunnarr;—‘Þat sem allir munn sízt ætla,’ segir Njáll, 85; and so in countless instances.

IV. to signify, mean; þetta segir svá, Fms. viii. 239; ‘fiat voluntas tua,’ þat segir svá, ‘verði þinn vili,’ Hom. 157.

B. Reflex. to declare of oneself; hann sagðisk þá vaka, he said that he was awake, Nj. 153; sagðisk Haraldr vilja leggja við hann vináttu, Fms. i. 53; þeir sem sögðusk segja fyrir úvorðna hluti, 76; at þú sér annarr en þú segisk, Fas. ii. 544, freq. esp. in mod. usage, for the old writers in this case prefer kveðsk, káðusk (from kveða).

II. as a law phrase, þú segsk í þing með Áskatli goða, Nj. 231; maðr skal segjask í þing með goða þeim er hann vill, Grág. i. 159; nefndu hvárir vátta, Kristnir menn ok heiðnir, ok sögðusk hvárir ór lögum annarra, Nj. 164 (Id. 11, Bs. i. 22); hón sagðisk í ætt sína, she told her origin, i. e. she was exactly like her parents, Njarð. 382: impers. phrase, e-m segisk svá, one’s tale runs so; honum sagðisk svá til, his story runs; or, honum segist vel, he speaks well; honum sagðist vél í dag, he preached well to-day! það segist á e-u, there is a penalty on it, ‘tis not allowed; láta sér segjask. to let oneself be spoken to, be reasonable, Am. 29, and in mod. usage.

III. part., sönnu sagðr, convicted of, Sdm. 25; Jupiter vill vita hvárt hann er sönnu sagðr, if the charge is true, Bret. 12: gerund., in the saying, segjanda er allt vin sínum, all can be said to a friend, one can open one’s, heart to him. Eg. 330.

IV. pass. it is said; svá segisk, at …, Fms. i. 98; þessi kvikendi segjask augnafull umhverfis, Hom. 48; hann segisk ( is said to be, Lat. dicitur) skapaðr ór jörðn, Eluc. 21; segist í hverri viku sálu-messa, Dipl. i. 8; Zabulon, þat má hér segjast bygging, Stj.; ef nokkut riptist eðr af segðist, Dipl. iii. 11; segist þetta með öngu móti aptr, cannot be refuted, Fms. ix. 476, Hom. 154; af sögðum bæjum, aforesaid, Vm. 84; fyrr-sagðr, aforesaid; but this passive is unclassical, being taken from the Latin, and rare even in mod. usage.

V. segendr, part. pl. (seggendr, with a double g. Haustl.), sayers, reporters; sjáendr eða segendr, Grág. ii. 88. segjands-saga, u, f. a hearsay tale; skoluð ér hér vera ok sjá þau tíðendi er hér görask, er yðr þá eigi segjanz-saga til, þvíat ér skolut frá segja ok yrkja um síðan, Ó. H. 206; hence the mod. það er segin saga, a told tale, a thing of course [cp. Fr. ca va sans dire].

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2 Edison, Thomas Alva

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

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b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA

d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont

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American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.

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He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.

At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.

Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.

He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.

Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.

Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.

In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.

On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.

Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.

In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.

In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.

In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.

In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.

In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.

Further Reading

M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.

R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.

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Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva
3 dream

1. noun
1) Traum, der

have a dream about somebody/something — von jemandem/etwas träumen

it was all a bad dream — das ganze war wie ein böser Traum

in a dream — im Traum

go/work like a dream — (coll.) wie eine Eins fahren/funktionieren (ugs.)

2) (ambition, vision) Traum, der

never in one's wildest dreams — nicht in seinen kühnsten Träumen

3) attrib. traumhaft; Traum[haus, -auto, -urlaub]
2. intransitive verb,
dreamt or dreamed träumen (about, of von); (while awake) vor sich (Akk.) hin träumen

he wouldn't dream of doing it — (fig.) er würde nicht im Traum daran denken, das zu tun
3. transitive verb,
dreamt or dreamed träumen

she never dreamt that she'd win — sie hätte sich (Dat.) nie träumen lassen, dass sie gewinnen würde

Phrasal Verbs:

- academic.ru/86411/dream_up">dream up

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1. [dri:m] noun
1) (thoughts and pictures in the mind that come mostly during sleep: I had a terrible dream last night.) der Traum

2) (a state of being completely occupied by one's own thoughts: Don't sit there in a dream!) die Träumerei

3) (something perfect or very beautiful: Your house is a dream!) der Traum

4) (an ambition or hope: It's my dream to win a Nobel Prize.) der Wunschtraum
2. [dremt] verb
((sometimes with of) to see visions and pictures in the mind, especially when asleep: For years I dreamed of being a great artist; I dreamt last night that the house had burnt down.) träumen

- dreamer
- dreamless
- dreamy
- dreamily
- dreaminess
- dream up
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dream

[dri:m]

I. n

1. (during sleep) Traum m

bad/pleasant \dream schlimmer [o schlechter] /schöner Traum

recurring \dream [immer] wiederkehrender Traum

▪ to have a \dream [about sth] [von etw dat] träumen

2. (daydream) Tagtraum m, Träumerei f

▪ to be in a \dream vor sich akk hinträumen, mit offenen Augen träumen

3. (aspiration) [Wunsch]traum m

win the house of your \dreams gewinnen Sie das Haus Ihrer Träume!

the \dream of independence der Traum von der Unabhängigkeit

a \dream come true ein in Erfüllung gegangener Traum

to live one's \dream seinen Traum wahrmachen

4. ( fam: perfect thing, person) Traum m fam

his new girlfriend is a \dream! seine neue Freundin ist einfach perfekt!

this is a \dream of a house das ist ein Traum von einem Haus

he's got a \dream of an apartment er hat eine traumhafte Wohnung

to go/run/work/play like a \dream wie eine Eins fahren/funktionieren/spielen

5.

▶ in your \dreams! du träumst wohl!, nie im Leben!

II. adj

1. (ideal) Traum-

\dream holiday/house Traumurlaub m [o SCHWEIZ Traumferien f] /-haus nt

to be [living] in a \dream world ( pej) in einer Traumwelt leben pej

2. (relating to dreams) Traum-

\dream sequence FILM Traumsequenz f

\dream time AUS MYTH Traumzeit f

III. vi

<dreamt or dreamed, dreamt or dreamed>

1. (during sleep) träumen

▪ to \dream about [or of] sb/sth von jdm/etw träumen

what did you \dream about last night? wovon hast du letzte Nacht geträumt?

2. (fantasize)

▪ to \dream of [or about] sth von etw dat träumen

\dream on! ( iron) träum [nur schön] weiter! iron

3. (consider)

▪ to not \dream of sth nicht [einmal] im Traum an etw akk denken

I wouldn't \dream of asking him for money! es würde mir nicht im Traum einfallen, ihn um Geld zu bitten

IV. vt

<dreamt or dreamed, dreamt or dreamed>

1. (during sleep)

▪ to \dream that... träumen, dass...

2. (imagine)

▪ to \dream sth etw träumen

I must have \dreamt it das muss ich wohl geträumt haben

3. (consider possible)

to never \dream that... nicht im Traum daran denken, dass...

* * *
[driːm] vb: pret, ptp dreamt ( Brit) or dreamed
1. n

1) Traum m

to have a bad dream — schlecht träumen

the whole business was like a bad dream — die ganze Angelegenheit war wie ein böser Traum

sweet dreams! — träum was Schönes!, träume süß!

to have a dream about sb/sth — von jdm/etw träumen

to see sb/sth in a dream —

life is a dream — das Leben ist nur ein Traum

it worked like a dream (inf) — das ging wie im Traum

2)

(when awake) lost in dreams — traumverloren

she goes round in a dream — sie lebt wie im Traum

to be in a dream — (mit offenen Augen) träumen

3) (= fantasy, vision) Traum m

the house/woman of his dreams —

she was happy beyond her wildest dreams — sie war so glücklich, wie sie es in ihren kühnsten Träumen nicht für möglich gehalten hätte

never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd win — ich hätte in meinen kühnsten Träumen nicht gedacht, dass ich gewinnen würde

in your dreams! (inf) —

to have dreams of becoming rich — davon träumen, reich zu werden

to make a dream come true for sb, to make sb's dream come true — jdm einen Traum erfüllen

all his dreams came true — all seine Träume gingen in Erfüllung

it was a dream come true — es war ein Traum, der wahr geworden war

I have a dream of a better world —

it's just idle dreams — das sind nichts als Wunschträume

4) (inf) Schatz m

darling, you're a dream! — Liebling, du bist ein Schatz

a dream of a hat — ein traumhaft schöner Hut

a dream of a girl — ein Schatz m

a dream of a father — ein toller Vater

in your dreams! (inf) — vegiss es! (inf)

2. vi (lit, fig)
träumen (about, of von)
I'm sorry, I was dreaming — es tut mir leid, ich habe geträumt

dream on! (inf) — träum du nur weiter!

3. vt (lit, fig)
träumen; dream haben
he dreams of being free one day — er träumt davon, eines Tages frei zu sein

I would never have dreamed of doing such a thing — ich hätte nicht im Traum daran gedacht, so etwas zu tun

I wouldn't dream of it — das würde mir nicht im Traum einfallen

I wouldn't dream of telling her — es fiele mir nicht im Traum ein, es ihr zu erzählen

who would have dreamed it would be so complicated — wer hätte es sich träumen lassen, dass es so kompliziert sein würde

I never dreamed (that) he would come — ich hätte mir nie or nicht träumen lassen, dass er kommen würde

4. adj attr
Traum-
dreamboat (dated sl) — Traummann m

dream job — Traumjob m

dreamland — Traumland nt

dream world — Traumwelt f

* * *

dream [driːm]

A s

1. Traum m:

everybody has dreams jeder träumt;

have a dream about träumen von;

have a bad dream schlecht träumen;

dreams go by contraries (Sprichwort) (etwa) Träume sind Schäume;

pleasant dreams träum was Schönes!

2. Traum(zustand) m:

as in a dream wie im Traum;

live in a dream in einer Traumwelt leben

3. Traumbild n

4. (Tag)Traum m, Träumerei f

5. (Wunsch)Traum m:

that’s beyond my wildest dreams das übertrifft meine kühnsten Träume;

his dream is to inf sein Traum ist es zu inf;

the girl of his dreams das Mädchen seiner Träume

6. fig Traum m, Ideal n:

a dream of a hat ein Gedicht von einem Hut, ein traumhaft schöner Hut;

it is a perfect dream es ist wunderschön

B v/i prät und pperf dreamed, dreamt [dremt]

1. träumen (of, about von) (auch fig):

dream of doing sth davon träumen, etwas zu tun ( → B 3); I never said that, you must have been dreaming du musst oder das musst du geträumt haben

2. träumen, verträumt oder träumerisch sein

3. dream of meist neg

a) ahnen (akk)

b) daran denken ( doing zu tun):

I never dreamed of it ich habe es mir nie träumen lassen;

we did not dream of going there wir dachten nicht im Traum daran hinzugehen;

more things than we dream of mehr Dinge, als wir uns denken können

C v/t

1. träumen (auch fig):

dream a dream einen Traum träumen oder haben;

I dreamed that … ich oder mir träumte, dass …

2. erträumen, ersehnen

3. sich träumen lassen, ahnen:

without dreaming that … ohne zu ahnen, dass …

4. dream away verträumen

5. dream up umg

a) zusammenträumen, -fantasieren,

b) sich etwas ausdenken, sich etwas einfallen lassen

* * *
1. noun
1) Traum, der

have a dream about somebody/something — von jemandem/etwas träumen

it was all a bad dream — das ganze war wie ein böser Traum

in a dream — im Traum

go/work like a dream — (coll.) wie eine Eins fahren/funktionieren (ugs.)

2) (ambition, vision) Traum, der

never in one's wildest dreams — nicht in seinen kühnsten Träumen

3) attrib. traumhaft; Traum[haus, -auto, -urlaub]
2. intransitive verb,
dreamt or dreamed träumen (about, of von); (while awake) vor sich (Akk.) hin träumen

he wouldn't dream of doing it — (fig.) er würde nicht im Traum daran denken, das zu tun
3. transitive verb,
dreamt or dreamed träumen

she never dreamt that she'd win — sie hätte sich (Dat.) nie träumen lassen, dass sie gewinnen würde

Phrasal Verbs:

- dream up

* * *

n.

Traum Träume m. v.

(§ p.,p.p.: dreamed, dreamt)

= phantasieren v.

träumen v.

English-german dictionary > dream
4 claro

adj.

1 obvious, apparent, clear, crisp.

2 clear, bright, clear-cut, articulate.

3 definite, distinct.

intj.

sure, sure enough, of course.

m.

1 clearing, glade, clear space, clear.

2 gap.

3 Claro.

* * *

claro

► adjetivo

1 (gen) clear

■ no está nada claro it's not clear at all

2 (iluminado) bright, well-lit

3 (color) light

■ azul claro light blue

4 (salsa etc) thin; (café, chocolate, etc) weak

5 (evidente) clear

► adverbio

1 clearly

► nombre masculino claro

1 (gen) gap, space; (de bosque) clearing

2 (en el pelo) bald patch

► interjección ¡claro!

1 of course!

■ ¡claro que no puedes! of course you can't!

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

a las claras openly

dejar algo claro to make something clear

estar claro to be clear

¡lo llevas claro! / ¡lo tienes claro! familiar you've got it coming to you!

más claro,-a que el agua familiar as clear as daylight

poner en claro to make plain, clear up

sacar en claro to get out

■ no sacamos nada en claro del informe we didn't get anything out of the report

claro de luna moonlight

mente clara figurado clear mind

————————

claro

► nombre masculino

1 (gen) gap, space; (de bosque) clearing

2 (en el pelo) bald patch

► interjección

* * *
1. (f. - clara)
adj.

1) clear

2) evident

3) bright

4) fair, light

5) weak, thin

6) frank
2. adv.
1) clearly

2) sure

3) frankly

4) of course
3. noun m.
clearing

- claro de luna

* * *

1. ADJ

1) (=no oscuro) [piel] fair; [color] light, pale

un vestido verde claro — a light o pale green dress

pelo castaño claro — light brown hair

una alemana de ojos claros — a blue-eyed German girl

2) (=evidente)

a) [con sustantivos] [ejemplo, prueba, ventaja] clear; [inconveniente] obvious; [desastre] total, absolute

esto es un claro reflejo de que el sistema no funciona — this is a clear indication that the system does not work

España ganó por un claro 15-6 — Spain won a decisive 15-6 victory, Spain were clear winners by 15-6

... aseguró, en clara referencia a sus superiores —... he asserted, clearly referring o in an obvious reference to his superiors

b) [con verbos]

• dejar algo claro — to make sth clear

ha dejado bien claro que no quiere vernos más — he has made it quite clear he does not want to see us again

dejar las cosas claras o en claro — to get things clear, get things straight *

• estar claro — to be clear

el futuro del equipo no está muy claro — the future of the team is not very clear

¿está claro? — is that clear?

estar claro que — to be clear that, be obvious that

está claro que así no vamos a ninguna parte — it's clear o obvious that we'll get nowhere like this

no está nada claro que nuestro partido vaya a ganar las elecciones — it's not at all clear that our party will win the election

• quedar claro — to be clear

si te lees la bibliografía, te quedará todo más claro — if you read the books on the reading list, it'll all be clearer to you o you'll have a better idea of things

así quedarán claras nuestras intenciones — this way our intentions will be (quite) clear

• tener algo claro — to be sure of sth, be clear about sth

ni siquiera tengo claro lo que me espera mañana — I'm not even sure o clear what's in store for me tomorrow

es importante tener nuestro objetivo bien claro — it is important to be sure of our objective

no lo tengo nada claro — I'm not at all sure, I don't really know

c)

a las claras —

prefiero decírselo a las claras — I prefer to tell him straight (out)

su triunfo deja bien a las claras el buen momento que atraviesa — his victory is a clear indication o sign that he is on excellent form

- ser más claro que el agua

las cuentas claras —

me gustan las cuentas claras — I like to have o keep things clear

el ministro ha presentado las cuentas claras al Parlamento — the minister has been quite straightforward with Parliament

llevarlo Esp o tenerlo claro iró —

lo tienes claro — things won't be easy for you

sacar algo en claro (de algo) —

solo hemos sacado en claro que no pretende dimitir — all that we can safely o definitely say is that he has no intention of resigning

lo único que la policía consiguió sacar en claro durante el interrogatorio — the only definite thing the police got from the interview

no he sacado nada en claro de esa conferencia — I'm still none the wiser after that lecture

ver algo claro —

no ven claro cómo van a poder terminar a tiempo — they can't really see how they are going to finish on time

el ministro ve claro que se puede lograr un acuerdo — the minister is optimistic about reaching an agreement

lo vi claro en cuanto oí la noticia — it became clear to me when I heard the news

sus padres no veían muy claro el tema — his parents weren't too sure about the matter

3) (=poco espeso) [té, café] weak; [caldo] thin

4) (=luminoso) [día, mañana] bright; [habitación, casa] light, bright

5) (=transparente) [agua] clear; [tejido] transparent

6) (=nítido) [sonido, voz] clear; [imagen] sharp, clear

7) (=escaso) [pelo] thin; [bosque] light, sparse

8) (=preciso) [idea] clear

tiene las ideas muy claras — he really knows what he wants from life

una mente clara — (lit) a clear mind; (fig) a clear thinker

9) (=sincero) frank

ser claro — to be frank

2. ADV

1) (=con precisión) [oír, ver, hablar] clearly

2) (=sinceramente) frankly

• hablar claro — to speak frankly, be frank

- claro y raspado

3) [tras invitaciones, peticiones] sure

-¿puedo usar tu coche mañana? -¡claro! — "can I use your car tomorrow?" - "sure!"

-¿queréis venir a cenar? -¡claro! — "would you like to come to dinner?" - "sure!"

4) [uso enfático]

¡claro! por eso estaba ayer tan rara — of course! that's why she was acting so funny yesterday

a menos que, claro está, él también la conozca — unless of course he knows her too

-¿por qué no te disfrazas tú? -¡claro, para que os riáis de mí todos! — "why don't you dress up?" - "oh sure, so you can all laugh at me!"

• claro que, claro que nadie se imaginaba lo que vendría después — of course nobody could imagine what would happen afterwards

¡claro que no! — of course not!

claro que no es verdad — of course it isn't true

¡claro que sí! — yes, of course!

3. SM

1) (Meteo) bright spell, sunny interval

habrá nubes y claros — it will be cloudy with bright spells o sunny intervals

un pequeño claro entre las nubes — a slight break in the clouds

claro de luna — moonlight

2) [de tiempo] lull

aprovechamos un clarillo para salir a comprar — we took advantage of a little lull to go and do some shopping

- velar de claro en claro

3) (=espacio despejado) [entre personas] space; [entre árboles] clearing; [de pelo] bald patch

se pueden ver algunos claros en la sala — there are a few (empty) spaces in the hall

4) [en un texto] gap, space; [en discurso] pause

5) (Arquit) (=claraboya) skylight; (=abertura) window (opening)

6) Caribe (Culin) guava jelly

7) Caribe (=bebida) sugar-cane brandy

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I
- ra adjetivo

1) ( luminoso) <cielo/habitación> bright

2) ( pálido) <color/verde/azul> light, pale; < piel> fair

tiene los ojos claros — she has blue/green/gray eyes

3) <salsa/sopa> thin

4) <agua/sonido> clear; <ideas/explicación/instrucciones> clear; <situación/postura> clear

tener algo claro — to be clear about something

que quede bien claro que... — I want it to be quite clear that...

¿está claro? — is that clear?

quiero dejar (en) claro que... — I want to make it very o quite clear that...

a las claras: díselo a las claras tell her straight; llevarlo claro (Esp fam) to be in for a shock; sacar algo en claro de algo — to make sense of something

5) ( evidente) clear, obvious

hay pruebas claras — there is clear evidence

está claro que... — it is clear o obvious that...

a no ser, claro está, que esté mintiendo — unless, of course, he's lying
II
adverbio

1) < ver> clearly

voy a hablarte claro — I'm not going to beat around o about the bush

me lo dijo muy claro — he made it very o quite clear (to me)

2) (indep)

a) ( en exclamaciones de asentimiento) of course

claro que lo sabe! — of course she knows!

claro que no! — no, of course not!

claro que sí! — of course, absolutely!

b) ( como enlace) mind you

nadie le creyó, claro no es de extrañar — nobody believed him. Mind you, it's not surprising

claro, así cualquiera puede — well, of course anyone can do it like that

díselo - claro, para que me regañe ¿no? — (iró) tell him - oh sure, and have him tell me off, right? (iro)
III
masculino

1) ( en bosque) clearing; (en el pelo, la barba) bald patch

2) (Meteo) sunny spell o period o interval

* * *

= apparent, clear [clearer -comp., clearest -sup.], clear-cut, crisp [crisper -comp., crispest -sup.], definite, distinct, light, neat [neater -comp., neatest -sup.], plain [plainer -comp., plainest -sup.], straightforward, tidy, distinctive, designated, uncloudy, unclouded, unclouded, cloudless, forthright, uncompromising, unqualified, cut and dried [cut and dry], patent.

Ex. Menu-based information retrieval system have found favour because of their apparent simplicity.

Ex. In practice the distinction between one term and the next is not very clear.

Ex. The hierarchical relationship is relatively clear-cut, and rather precise guideliness can be formulated to ensure that the BT/NT relationship is consistently applied.

Ex. A crisp, even impression became the norm, along with the use of respectable paper and ink.

Ex. I don't see that we are going to stand a chance unless there is something very definite coming out of this conference and similar conferences where these ideas are advanced.

Ex. Against this proliferation of hosts there is a distinct awareness amongst users of the need for the rationalisation.

Ex. To match the small amount of existing furniture which was reused, internal joinery and furniture is in a light coloured timber.

Ex. What is possibly less easy is to making sure that the guiding stays clean, neat and accurate.

Ex. To reiterate, there are two main categories of relationship: the syntactic relationships referred to in the last paragraph and plain, for example, in a topic such as 'sugar and health'.

Ex. Even in this apparently straightforward situation, complications can arise.

Ex. This was all very tidy, but who was to judge significance?.

Ex. A patron may submit a beautifully legible request for a book with a distinctive author and title, accompanied by a reference to the journal article from which the citation was gleaned.

Ex. It is tremendously valuable to library staff (particularly in libraries with a designated departmental structure) to maintain close professional ties with local academic departments.

Ex. In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment.

Ex. As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.

Ex. As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.

Ex. This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.

Ex. We have been told once, in clear and forthright terms, what it is that we need.

Ex. What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.

Ex. Wing has not had the almost unqualified praise from the reviewers that Pollard and Redgrave received.

Ex. One of them snipped Ben Kline's life short, and Marla's determined to get to the root of a case that's anything but cut and dried.

Ex. It was patent that they could not compete on equal terms with the economic and social forces of a complex civilization.

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* cantarlas claras = call + a spade a spade.

* con una meta clara = focused [focussed].

* con un objetivo claro = focused [focussed].

* cuestiones poco claras = grey area [gray area].

* de forma clara = clearly.

* dejar bien claro = make + it + crystal clear, make + Reflexivo + crystal clear.

* dejar claro = make + it + clear, send + a clear signal that.

* de manera clara = distinctly, clearly.

* de modo claro = transparently.

* en + Lengua + claro = in plain + Lengua.

* en términos claros = in simple terms.

* estar claro = be plain, be out in the open.

* hablar claro = lay + Posesivo + cards on the table, put + Posesivo + cards on the table.

* las cosas + estar + claras = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* más claro el agua = as clear as a bell.

* más claro que el agua = as clear as a bell.

* nada claro = unclear, uncleared.

* no dar una impresión clara = send + mixed signals.

* no está claro todavía = the jury is still out (on).

* para que quede más claro = for main effects.

* pasta de clara de huevo = glair.

* poco claro = fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], indistinct, obscure, unclear, untidy, hazy, inconclusive, slurred, clouded, undistinguished, uncleared, indistinctive.

* poner en claro = clear up.

* ser algo muy claro = be a dead giveaway.

* sin una meta clara = unfocused [unfocussed].

* sin un objetivo claro = non-purposive, unfocused [unfocussed].

* tan claro como el agua = as clear as a bell.

* tener Algo claro = clarify + Posesivo + mind.

* tener claro = be clear in your mind.

* violeta claro = periwinkle.

* * *
I
- ra adjetivo

1) ( luminoso) <cielo/habitación> bright

2) ( pálido) <color/verde/azul> light, pale; < piel> fair

tiene los ojos claros — she has blue/green/gray eyes

3) <salsa/sopa> thin

4) <agua/sonido> clear; <ideas/explicación/instrucciones> clear; <situación/postura> clear

tener algo claro — to be clear about something

que quede bien claro que... — I want it to be quite clear that...

¿está claro? — is that clear?

quiero dejar (en) claro que... — I want to make it very o quite clear that...

a las claras: díselo a las claras tell her straight; llevarlo claro (Esp fam) to be in for a shock; sacar algo en claro de algo — to make sense of something

5) ( evidente) clear, obvious

hay pruebas claras — there is clear evidence

está claro que... — it is clear o obvious that...

a no ser, claro está, que esté mintiendo — unless, of course, he's lying
II
adverbio

1) < ver> clearly

voy a hablarte claro — I'm not going to beat around o about the bush

me lo dijo muy claro — he made it very o quite clear (to me)

2) (indep)

a) ( en exclamaciones de asentimiento) of course

claro que lo sabe! — of course she knows!

claro que no! — no, of course not!

claro que sí! — of course, absolutely!

b) ( como enlace) mind you

nadie le creyó, claro no es de extrañar — nobody believed him. Mind you, it's not surprising

claro, así cualquiera puede — well, of course anyone can do it like that

díselo - claro, para que me regañe ¿no? — (iró) tell him - oh sure, and have him tell me off, right? (iro)
III
masculino

1) ( en bosque) clearing; (en el pelo, la barba) bald patch

2) (Meteo) sunny spell o period o interval

* * *

= apparent, clear [clearer -comp., clearest -sup.], clear-cut, crisp [crisper -comp., crispest -sup.], definite, distinct, light, neat [neater -comp., neatest -sup.], plain [plainer -comp., plainest -sup.], straightforward, tidy, distinctive, designated, uncloudy, unclouded, unclouded, cloudless, forthright, uncompromising, unqualified, cut and dried [cut and dry], patent.

Ex: Menu-based information retrieval system have found favour because of their apparent simplicity.

Ex: In practice the distinction between one term and the next is not very clear.

Ex: The hierarchical relationship is relatively clear-cut, and rather precise guideliness can be formulated to ensure that the BT/NT relationship is consistently applied.

Ex: A crisp, even impression became the norm, along with the use of respectable paper and ink.

Ex: I don't see that we are going to stand a chance unless there is something very definite coming out of this conference and similar conferences where these ideas are advanced.

Ex: Against this proliferation of hosts there is a distinct awareness amongst users of the need for the rationalisation.

Ex: To match the small amount of existing furniture which was reused, internal joinery and furniture is in a light coloured timber.

Ex: What is possibly less easy is to making sure that the guiding stays clean, neat and accurate.

Ex: To reiterate, there are two main categories of relationship: the syntactic relationships referred to in the last paragraph and plain, for example, in a topic such as 'sugar and health'.

Ex: Even in this apparently straightforward situation, complications can arise.

Ex: This was all very tidy, but who was to judge significance?.

Ex: A patron may submit a beautifully legible request for a book with a distinctive author and title, accompanied by a reference to the journal article from which the citation was gleaned.

Ex: It is tremendously valuable to library staff (particularly in libraries with a designated departmental structure) to maintain close professional ties with local academic departments.

Ex: In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment.

Ex: As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.

Ex: As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.

Ex: This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.

Ex: We have been told once, in clear and forthright terms, what it is that we need.

Ex: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.

Ex: Wing has not had the almost unqualified praise from the reviewers that Pollard and Redgrave received.

Ex: One of them snipped Ben Kline's life short, and Marla's determined to get to the root of a case that's anything but cut and dried.

Ex: It was patent that they could not compete on equal terms with the economic and social forces of a complex civilization.

* cantarlas claras = call + a spade a spade.

* con una meta clara = focused [focussed].

* con un objetivo claro = focused [focussed].

* cuestiones poco claras = grey area [gray area].

* de forma clara = clearly.

* dejar bien claro = make + it + crystal clear, make + Reflexivo + crystal clear.

* dejar claro = make + it + clear, send + a clear signal that.

* de manera clara = distinctly, clearly.

* de modo claro = transparently.

* en + Lengua + claro = in plain + Lengua.

* en términos claros = in simple terms.

* estar claro = be plain, be out in the open.

* hablar claro = lay + Posesivo + cards on the table, put + Posesivo + cards on the table.

* las cosas + estar + claras = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* más claro el agua = as clear as a bell.

* más claro que el agua = as clear as a bell.

* nada claro = unclear, uncleared.

* no dar una impresión clara = send + mixed signals.

* no está claro todavía = the jury is still out (on).

* para que quede más claro = for main effects.

* pasta de clara de huevo = glair.

* poco claro = fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], indistinct, obscure, unclear, untidy, hazy, inconclusive, slurred, clouded, undistinguished, uncleared, indistinctive.

* poner en claro = clear up.

* ser algo muy claro = be a dead giveaway.

* sin una meta clara = unfocused [unfocussed].

* sin un objetivo claro = non-purposive, unfocused [unfocussed].

* tan claro como el agua = as clear as a bell.

* tener Algo claro = clarify + Posesivo + mind.

* tener claro = be clear in your mind.

* violeta claro = periwinkle.

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claro¹ -ra

adjective

A (luminoso) ‹cielo› bright; ‹habitación› bright, light

el día amaneció claro the day dawned bright and clear

B (pálido) ‹color/verde/azul› light, pale; ‹piel› fair, white

tiene los ojos claros she has blue/green/gray eyes

el típico sueco rubio y de ojos claros the typical blue-eyed, blond Swede

C ‹salsa/sopa› thin; ‹café/té› weak

D ‹agua/sonido› clear

habló con voz clara she spoke in a clear voice

E ‹ideas/explicación/instrucciones› clear; ‹situación/postura› clear

consiguieron una clara ventaja they gained a clear advantage

tiene muy claro lo que quiere en la vida she is very clear o sure about what she wants out of life, she knows exactly what she wants out of life

que quede bien claro que … I want it to be quite clear that …

lo harás como yo te diga, ¿está claro? you'll do it the way I say, is that clear o do I make myself clear?

quiero dejar (en) claro que … or que quede bien (en) claro que … I want to make it very o quite clear that …, let it be very o quite clear that …

a las claras: no me lo dijo a las claras she didn't tell me in so many words o straight out o ( AmE) right off

no seas cobarde y díselo a las claras don't be a coward, tell her straight

llevarlo claro ( Esp fam) (estar equivocado) to be in for a shock o a disappointment; (enfrentarse a algo difícil) to have one's work cut out ( colloq)

pasar la noche en claro to lie o be awake all night

sacar algo en claro de algo to make sense of sth

¿tú sacaste algo en claro de lo que dijo? did you manage to make any sense of what he said?

F (evidente) clear, obvious

hay pruebas claras de que miente there is clear evidence that he is lying

está claro que ella es la culpable it is clear o obvious that she is the culprit, she is clearly o obviously the culprit

… a no ser, claro está, que esté mintiendo … unless, of course, he's lying

claro²

adverb

A ‹hablar/ver›

voy a hablarte claro I'm not going to beat around o about the bush, I'm going to give it to you straight ( colloq)

ahora lo veo claro I see it all clearly now, now I get it! ( colloq)

me lo dijo muy claro he made it very o quite clear (to me)

claro y raspado ( Ven fam); straight

me lo dijo todo claro y raspado he told me straight, he didn't beat around o about the bush

B ( indep)

1 (en exclamaciones de asentimiento) of course!

¡claro que lo sabe! of course she knows!

¿te gustaría verlo? — ¡claro! would you like to see it? — yes, I'd love to o ( colloq) sure!

¿lo hizo? — ¡claro que no! did he do it? — no, of course not! o no, of course he didn't!

2 (como enlace) mind you

nadie le creyó, claro que conociéndolo no es de extrañar nobody believed him. Mind you, knowing him it's not surprising

lo ayudó la madre — claro, así cualquiera his mother helped him — well, of course anyone can do it like that

anda, díselo tú — claro, para que me eche a mí la bronca ¿no? ( iró); go on, you tell him — oh sure o oh fine o I see, so that way it's me he gets mad at, right? ( iro)

claro³

masculine

A (en un bosque) clearing; (en el pelo, la barba) bald patch

había algunos claros en las gradas there were a few empty spaces in the stand

B ( Meteo) sunny spell o period o interval

Compuesto:

claro de luna

moonlight

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claro 1
◊ -ra adjetivo

a) ( luminoso) ‹cielo/habitación› bright

b) ( pálido) ‹color/verde/azul› light, pale;

‹ piel› fair;
◊ tiene los ojos claros she has blue/green/gray eyes

c) ‹salsa/sopa› thin

d) ‹agua/sonido› clear;

‹ideas/explicación/instrucciones› clear;
‹situación/postura› clear;
◊ tener algo claro to be clear about sth;

¿está claro? is that clear?;
quiero dejar (en) claro que … I want to make it clear that …;
sacar algo en claro de algo to make sense of sth
e) ( evidente) clear, obvious;

◊ está claro que … it is clear o obvious that …;

a no ser, claro está, que esté mintiendo unless, of course, he's lying
claro 2 adverbio
1 ‹ ver› clearly;
◊ voy a hablarte claro I'm not going to beat around o about the bush;

me lo dijo muy claro he made it very quite clear (to me)
2 ( indep) ( en exclamaciones de asentimiento) of course
■ sustantivo masculino
a) ( en bosque) clearing;

(en pelo, barba) bald patch
b) (Meteo) sunny spell o period

claro,-a
I adjetivo
1 (despejado, evidente) clear: tengo muy claro que no va a volver, I'm quite sure she won't come back
un asunto poco claro, a shady deal
2 (poco espeso) thin
3 (color) light
II sustantivo masculino
1 (de un bosque) clearing
2 (entre las nubes) break in the clouds
3 claro de luna, moonlight
III adverbio clearly: deberías hablar claro, you must speak clearly
IV exclamación of course!
¡claro que puedo!, of course I can!
♦ Locuciones: a las claras, clearly
dejar algo claro, to make something clear
lo lleva claro si piensa que voy a tolerarlo, she can be quite sure that i?m not going to put up with it
sacar algo en claro, to draw a conclusion: después de tanta discusión, no sacamos nada en claro, we were back to square one after hours of discussion
' claro' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
clara
- escarceo
- estar
- hombre
- nebulosa
- nebuloso
- nítida
- nítido
- notoria
- notorio
- patente
- poca
- poco
- precisa
- preciso
- pues
- rondar
- sacar
- salvaje
- agua
- celeste
- color
- constar
- hablar
- lavado
- neto
- oscuro
- palpable
- que
- quedar
- visto
English:
ale
- apparent
- articulate
- break
- broad
- clean-cut
- clear
- clear-cut
- clearing
- confusing
- crystal-clear
- decided
- distinct
- enough
- fuzzy
- good
- ice-blue
- indistinct
- let
- light
- lucid
- mousy
- mud
- neat
- obscure
- outset
- pale
- plain
- precise
- sharp
- speak out
- spell out
- straight
- surely
- tenuous
- then
- thin
- transparently
- unclear
- unequivocal
- why
- blur
- by
- certainly
- clearly
- course
- crystal
- flash
- increasingly
- more

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claro, -a

♦ adj

1. [luminoso] bright;

una habitación clara a bright o light room

2. [color] light;

verde claro light green

3. [sonido] clear;

hablaba con una voz clara she spoke in a clear voice

4. [sin nubes] clear;

un día/cielo claro a clear day/sky

5. [diluido] [té, café] weak;
[salsa, sopa] thin;
no me gusta el chocolate claro I don't like my hot chocolate thin

6. [poco tupido] thin, sparse

7. [persona, explicación, ideas, libro] clear;

hablaba con un lenguaje claro she spoke in clear terms;

dejar algo claro to make sth clear;

poner algo en claro to get sth clear, to clear sth up;

que quede (bien) claro que no fue idea mía I want to make it (quite) clear that it wasn't my idea;

sacar algo en claro (de) to make sth out (from);

después de escuchar su explicación no saqué nada en claro after listening to her explanation, I was none the wiser;

tengo claro que no puedo contar con él one thing I'm quite sure about is that I can't rely on him, one thing's for sure, I can't rely on him;

verlo claro [estar seguro] to be sure;

Comp

pasar una noche en claro to have a sleepless night;

Comp
Esp Fam
llevarlo o [m5]tenerlo claro: ¡lo lleva o [m5] tiene claro si piensa que le vamos a ayudar! if he thinks we're going to help him, he can think again!;

si no vienen ellos, lo tenemos claro if they don't come, we've had it

8. [obvio, evidente] clear;

el resultado fue claro the result was clear;

¿está claro? is that clear?;

está claro que van a ganar it's clear they're going to win;

está claro que te quieren engañar it's obvious that they are trying to deceive you, they are obviously trying to deceive you;

está claro o [m5]claro está que si no quieres, no estás obligado a participar of course o obviously, you're not obliged to participate if you don't want to;

a no ser, claro, que tengas una idea mejor unless, of course, you have a better idea;

Comp

está más claro que el agua it's perfectly o crystal clear;

allí no vuelvo, eso está más claro que el agua I'm not going there again, that's for certain

♦ nm

1. [en bosque] clearing;
[en multitud] space, gap;
vi un claro en la fila I saw a gap in the row

2. [en cielo nublado] break in the clouds;

se esperan nubes y claros it will be cloudy with some bright spells;

en cuanto haya un claro salimos we'll go out as soon as it brightens up

3. [calvicie, calva] bald patch

4. [en pintura] highlight

5. Arquit skylight

6. claro de luna moonlight

♦ adv

clearly;

hablar claro to speak clearly;

dilo claro, ¿te interesa o no? tell me straight, are you interested or not?;

¡claro! of course!;

¡claro que sí!, ¡pues claro! of course!;

¡claro que no! of course not!;

¡claro que me gusta! of course I like it!;
Irónico
¿me ayudarás? – claro, no pensaba en otra cosa will you help me? – oh sure, I wouldn't dream of doing anything else;
Irónico
ve tú primero – claro, así si hay algún agujero me caigo yo you go first – oh great o thanks a lot, that way if there's a hole I'll be the one to fall into it;

claro, con un jugador más ya se puede of course, with an extra player it's hardly surprising;

la obra no tuvo éxito, claro que conociendo al director no me sorprende the play wasn't a success, but then again that's hardly surprising knowing the director

♦ a las claras loc adv

clearly

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claro

I adj

1 tb fig

clear;

poner en claro make clear;

dejar claro make plain;

quedar claro be clear;

tener algo claro be sure o clear about sth;

pasar la noche en claro lie awake all night, not sleep a wink;

a las claras clearly

2 color light

3 ( luminoso) bright

4 salsa thin

II adv

:

hablar claro speak plainly;

¡claro! of course!;

claro está of course

III m

1 METEO clear spell

2 en bosque clearing

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claro adv

1) : clearly

habla más claro: speak more clearly

2) : of course, surely

¡claro!, ¡claro que sí!: absolutely!, of course!

claro que entendió: of course she understood

claro, -ra adj

1) : bright, clear

2) : pale, fair, light

3) : clear, evident

claro nm

1) : clearing

2)

claro de luna : moonlight

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claro¹ adj

1. (en general) clear

una respuesta clara a clear answer

un día claro a clear day

2. (luminoso) bright

ésta es la habitación más clara de toda la casa this is the brightest room in the house

3. (color) light

le gusta vestir colores claros she likes wearing light coloured clothes

claro² adv clearly

no puede ver claro he can't see clearly

claro³ interj of course

claro que voy a ir a la fiesta of course I'm going to the party

claro que no of course not

claro que sí of course

claro⁴ n (en meteorología) sunny interval

claro de luna moonlight

Spanish-English dictionary > claro
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2. pronoun

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1. <

   a. (lieu: situation) in

• vivre en France/Normandie to live in France/Normandy

• il habite en banlieue/ville he lives in the suburbs/the town

• être en ville to be in town

• il voyage en Grèce/Corse he's travelling around Greece/Corsica

   b. (lieu: mouvement) to

• aller or partir en Angleterre/Normandie to go to England/Normandy

• aller en ville to go (in)to town

   c. (temps) in

• en été in summer

• en mars 1999 in March 1999

• en soirée in the evenings

• il peut le faire en trois jours he can do it in three days

• en semaine during the week

   d. (moyen de transport) by

• en taxi by taxi

• en train by train

• en avion by plane

• ils y sont allés en voiture they went by car

• faire une promenade en bateau to go for a trip in a boat

• ils sont arrivés en voiture they arrived in a car

• aller à Londres en avion to fly to London

   e. ( = chez) ce que j'aime en lui, c'est son courage what I like about him is his courage

• on voit en lui un futur champion du monde they see him as a future world champion

   f. ( = habillé de) in

• être en blanc to be dressed in white

• la femme en manteau de fourrure the woman in the fur coat

• être en chaussettes to be in one's stockinged feet

• il était en pyjama he was in his pyjamas

   g. (description, composition) in

• en cercle in a circle

• une pièce en trois actes a play in three acts

• ça se vend en boîtes de douze they are sold in boxes of twelve

• c'est écrit en anglais it's written in English

• nous avons le même article en vert we have the same item in green

• le plat est en argent the dish is made of silver

• l'escalier sera en marbre the staircase will be made of marble

• c'est en quoi ? (inf) what's it made of?

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• une bague en or a gold ring

• une jupe en soie a silk skirt

► en + comparatif

• c'est son frère en mieux he's like his brother, only better

• je veux la même valise en plus grand I want the same suitcase only bigger

   h. ( = comme un) agir en tyran to act like a tyrant

• en bon politicien, il... being the skilled politician he is, he...

• je le lui ai donné en souvenir I gave it to him as a souvenir

   i. ( = dans le domaine de) en politique in politics

• ce que je préfère en musique, c'est... what I like best in the way of music is...

• être bon en géographie to be good at geography

• être nul en maths to be hopeless at maths

• diplôme en droit/histoire law/history degree

   j. (mesure) in

• compter en euros to calculate in euros

   k. ► en + participe présent

• parler en mangeant to talk while eating

• il s'est coupé en essayant d'ouvrir une boîte he cut himself trying to open a tin

• j'ai écrit une lettre en vous attendant I wrote a letter while I was waiting for you

• fermez la porte en sortant shut the door when you go out

• elle est arrivée en chantant she was singing when she arrived

• il m'a regardé en fronçant les sourcils he looked at me with a frown

• « non » dit-il en haussant les épaules "no", he said with a shrug

• endormir un enfant en le berçant to rock a child to sleep

• monter en courant to run up

• entrer en courant to run in

• il a fait une folie en achetant cette bague it was very extravagant of him to buy this ring

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• en disant cela, il s'est fait des ennemis he made enemies by saying that

2. <

   a. (lieu) quand va-t-il à Nice ? -- il en revient when is he off to Nice? -- he's just come back

   b. (cause) je suis si inquiet que je n'en dors pas I am so worried that I can't sleep

• nous en avons beaucoup ri we had a good laugh about it

• en mourir to die of it

   c. (quantitatif) of it

• voulez-vous des pommes ? il y en a encore would you like some apples? there are still some left

• le vin est bon mais il n'y en a pas beaucoup the wine is good but there isn't much of it

• si j'en avais if I had any

• il n'y en a plus (NonC) there isn't any left ; (pluriel) there aren't any left

   d. (objet) rendez-moi mon stylo, j'en ai besoin give me back my pen - I need it

• qu'est-ce que tu en feras ? what will you do with it (or them)?

• il s'en souviendra de cette réception he'll certainly remember that party

• tu en as eu de beaux jouets à Noël ! what lovely toys you got for Christmas!

• c'est une bonne classe, les professeurs en sont contents they are a good class and the teachers are pleased with them

• je t'en donne 100 € I'll give you 100 euros for it

• il en aime une autre he loves somebody else

   e. ► en être

• en être à la page 19 to be on page 19

• où en est-il dans ses études ? how far has he got with his studies?

• il en est à sa troisième année de médecine he is in his third year in medicine

• l'affaire en est là that's how the matter stands

• elle, mentir ? elle en est incapable she couldn't lie if she tried

• je ne sais plus où j'en suis I'm completely lost

• où en sommes-nous ? (livre, leçon) where have we got to? ; (situation) where do we stand?

• j'en suis à me demander si j'ai bien fait I'm beginning to wonder if I did the right thing

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œɛn
nom féminin

1) abbr école

2) abbr éducation

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abr nf Éducation nationale

See:

éducation

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en ⇒ Note d'usage

A prép

1 ( lieu) ( où l'on est) in; ( où l'on va) to; ( mouvement vers l'intérieur) into; vivre en France/province/ville to live in France/the provinces/town; voyager en Chine to travel in China; aller en Allemagne to go to Germany; monter en voiture to get into a car; aller en ville to go into town; le train va entrer en gare the train is about to enter the station; se promener en ville to stroll around town;

2 ( temps) ( époque) in; ( moment déterminé) in; ( en l'espace de) in; en hiver/1991 in winter/1991; je prendrai mes vacances en septembre I'm taking my vacation in September; il a fait ce travail en dix jours he completed the work in ten days; en semaine, il mange à la cantine during the week he eats in the canteen;

3 ( moyens de transport) by; voyager en train/avion/voiture/bateau to travel by train ou rail/plane ou air/car/boat; je suis venu en taxi I came by taxi; aller à Marseille en avion/voiture to fly/to drive to Marseilles; nous avons fait un tour en barque we went out in a rowing-boat; descendre la rivière en aviron to row down the river;

4 (manière, état) elle était tout en vert/blanc she was all in green/white; il est toujours en manteau/cravate he always wears a coat/tie; un ouvrage en vers/français/trois volumes a work in verse/French/three volumes; elle était très en forme/beauté she was looking very fit/beautiful;

5 ( comme) ( en qualité de) as; ( de la même manière que) like; je vous parle en ami/connaisseur I'm speaking (to you) as a friend/connoisseur; j'ai eu ce livre en cadeau/récompense/souvenir I was given this book as a present/prize/souvenir; il nous considèrent en ennemis they see us as enemies; il me traite en ennemie he treats me like an enemy; agir en traître/dictateur to act like a traitor/dictator, to act in a treacherous/dictatorial way;

6 ( transformation) into; ils se séparèrent en plusieurs groupes they broke up into several groups; traduire en anglais to translate into English; changer des euros en dollars to change euros into dollars;

7 ( matière) made of; c'est en quoi? what is it made of?; c'est en or/plastique it's (made of) gold/plastic; c'est en bois it's made of wood, it's wooden; une montre en or a gold watch ; une veste en laine a woollen^GB jacket; le cadre est en alliage the frame is alloy, it's an alloy frame;

8 ( pour indiquer une variante) son fils, c'est lui en miniature his son is just like him only smaller, his son is a smaller version of him; je voudrais le même en plus grand I'd like the same only bigger; je voudrais la même en bleu I'd like the same in blue;

9 (indique le domaine, la discipline) in; en politique/affaires il faut être rusé in politics/business you have to be clever; idée fondamentale en droit français fundamental idea in French law; en théorie, c'est exact in theory, it's correct; licencié en droit bachelor of law; docteur en médecine doctor of medicine; être bon en histoire to be good at history;

10 (mesures, dimensions) in; compter en secondes/années to count in seconds/years; les draps se font en 90 et en 140 the sheets are available in single and double; le mur fait trois mètres en hauteur et six en longueur the wall is three metres^GB high and six metres^GB long; en profondeur, il y a assez d'espace pour la bibliothèque mais pas en hauteur the space is deep enough for the bookshelves but not high enough; en largeur, il y a la place pour une piscine mais pas en longueur widthwise, there's (enough) room for a swimming pool but not lengthwise.

B pron

1 ( le moyen) si les abricots sont abîmés, fais-en de la confiture if the apricots are bruised make jam with them; prends cette couverture et couvre-t'en take this blanket and cover yourself with it; il sortit son épée et l'en transperça he took out his sword and ran him through;

2 ( la cause) ça l'a tellement bouleversé qu'il en est tombé malade it distressed him so much that he fell ill GB ou became sick US; il a eu un cancer et il en est mort he got cancer and died; elle a eu un accident de voiture et elle en est restée paralysée/infirme she had a car accident which left her paralysed^GB/disabled;

3 ○( emphatique) tu en as un beau chapeau! what a nice hat you've got!; eh bien! on s'en souviendra de ce dimanche! well, we won't forget this Sunday in a hurry!; je n'en veux pas de tes excuses○! I'm not interested in your excuses; et moi, je n'en ai pas des soucis, peut-être! do you think I haven't got worries too!; j'en connais qui seraient contents I know some who would be pleased.

[ɑ̃] préposition

A.[DANS LE TEMPS] [indiquant - le moment] in ; [ - la durée] in, during

en soirée in the evening

en deux heures c'était fini it was over in two hours

en 40 ans de carrière... in my 40 years in the job...

B.[DANS L'ESPACE]

1. [indiquant - la situation] in ; [ - la direction] to

se promener en forêt/en ville to walk in the forest/around the town

faire une croisière en Méditerranée to go on a cruise around the Mediterranean

aller en Espagne to go to Spain

partir en forêt to go off into the forest

2. (figuré)

en moi-même, j'avais toujours cet espoir deep down ou in my heart of hearts, I still had that hope

trouver en soi la force de faire quelque chose to find in oneself the strength to do something

ce que j'apprécie en lui what I like about him

C.[INDIQUANT LE DOMAINE]

1. [pour des connaissances]

bon en latin/physique good at Latin/physics

je ne m'y connais pas en peinture I don't know much about painting

il fait de la recherche en agronomie he's doing research in agronomy

2. [dans une situation]

je suis malheureux en amour I'm unlucky in love

en cela ou ce en quoi il n'a pas tort and I have to say he's right ou not wrong there

D.[INDIQUANT LA COMPOSITION] [pour des objets]

chaise en bois/fer wooden/iron chair

c'est en quoi? (familier) what's it made of?

E.[INDIQUANT LA MANIÈRE, LE MOYEN]

1. [marquant l'état, la forme, la manière]

être en colère/en rage to be angry/in a rage

être en forme to be on (good) form

le pays est en guerre the country is at war

se conduire en gentleman to behave like a gentleman

en véritable ami, il m'a prévenu good friend that he is ou being a true friend, he warned me

je suis venu en ami I came as a friend

il m'a envoyé ces fleurs en remerciement he sent me these flowers to say thank you

peint en bleu painted blue

je la préfère en vert I prefer it in green

il était en pyjama he was in his pyjamas, he had his pyjamas on

couper quelque chose en deux to cut something in two ou in half

en (forme de) losange diamond-shaped

j'ai passé Noël en famille I spent Christmas with my family

faire quelque chose en cachette/en vitesse/en douceur to do something secretly/quickly/smoothly

du sucre en morceaux sugar cubes

une rue en pente a street on a slope ou a hill

2. [introduisant une mesure] in

je veux le résultat en dollars I want the result in dollars

un tissu en 140 de large 140 cm wide material

auriez-vous la même robe en 38 ? do you have the same dress in a 38 ?

3. [indiquant une transformation] into

l'eau se change en glace water turns into ice

se déguiser en fille to dress up as a girl

4. [marquant le moyen]

j'y vais en bateau I'm going by boat

ils ont fait le tour de l'île en voilier they sailed round the island (in a yacht)

en voiture/train by car/train

avoir peur en avion to be scared of flying

payer en liquide to pay cash

F.[AVEC LE GÉRONDIF]

1. [indiquant la simultanéité]

il est tombé en courant he fell while running

nous en parlerons en prenant un café we'll talk about it over a cup of coffee

c'est en le voyant que j'ai compris when I saw him I understood

rien qu'en le voyant, elle se met en colère she gets angry just seeing him, the mere sight of him makes her angry

tout en marchant, elles tentaient de trouver une réponse while walking ou as they walked, they tried to find an answer

2. [indiquant la concession, l'opposition]

en étant plus conciliant, il ne changeait toujours pas d'avis whilst ou although he was more conciliatory, he still wouldn't change his mind

3. [indiquant la cause, le moyen, la manière]

il marche en boitant he walks with a limp

il est parti en courant he ran off

retapez en changeant toutes les majuscules type it out again and change all the capitals

ce n'est pas en criant que l'on résoudra le problème shouting won't solve the problem

4. [introduisant une condition, une supposition] if

en prenant un cas concret, on voit que... if we take a concrete example, we can see that...

en supposant que... supposing that...

G.[INTRODUISANT LE COMPLÉMENT DU VERBE] in

croire en quelqu'un/quelque chose to believe in somebody/something

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[ɑ̃] pronom

A.[COMPLÉMENT DU VERBE]

1. [indiquant le lieu]

il faudra que tu ailles à la poste — j'en viens you'll have to go to the post office — I've just got back from ou just been there

2. [indiquant la cause, l'agent]

on en meurt you can die of ou from it

je n'en dors plus it's keeping me awake at nights

elle était tellement fatiguée qu'elle en pleurait she was so tired (that) she was crying

3. [complément d'objet]

voilà des fraises/du lait, donne-lui-en here are some strawberries/here's some milk, give him some

passe-moi du sucre — il n'en reste plus give me some sugar — there's none left

si tu n'aimes pas la viande/les olives, n'en mange pas if you don't like meat/olives, don't eat any

tous les invités ne sont pas arrivés, il en manque deux all the guests haven't arrived yet, two are missing

tu en as acheté beaucoup you've bought a lot (of it/of them)

tu n'en as pas dit assez you haven't said enough

4. [avec une valeur emphatique]

tu en as de la chance! you really are lucky, you are!

5. [complément d'objet indirect] about it

ne vous en souciez plus don't worry about it any more

6. [comme attribut]

les volontaires ? — j'en suis! any volunteers ? — me!

B.[EN COMPLÉMENT]

1. [du nom ou du pronom]

j'en garde un bon souvenir I have good memories of it

écoute ces voix et admires-en la beauté listen to these voices and admire their beauty

2. [de l'adjectif]

sa maison en est pleine his house is full of it/them

tu en es sûr ? are you sure (of that) ?

C.[LOCUTIONS] [locutions verbales]

il en va de même pour lui the same goes for him

s'en prendre à quelqu'un to blame ou to attack somebody

il n'en croit pas ses oreilles/yeux he can't believe his ears/eyes

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > en

6 ver

v.

1 to perceive.

Veo a tu hermana muy cansado I see your sister very tired.

2 to have eyesight.

Mis ojos ven bien My eyes see fine.

3 to understand.

4 to be witness of, to witness.

5 to see, to look at, sight, to view.

¿ves algo? can you see anything?

he estado viendo tu trabajo I've been looking at your work

ya veo que estás de mal humor I can see you're in a bad mood

¿ves lo que quiero decir? do you see what I mean?

ir a ver lo que pasa to go and see what's going on

es una manera de ver las cosas that's one way of looking at it

yo no lo veo tan mal I don't think it's that bad

Ellos ven los cuadros They see the pictures.

Ellas ven los cuadros They see the pictures.

María ve la gravedad del asunto Mary sees the seriousness of the situation.

Mis ojos ven bien My eyes see fine.

Veo a tu hermano muy cansado I see your brother very tired.

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VER

CONJUGACIÓN

Present Indicative

veo, ves, ve, vemos, veis, ven.

Past Indicative

vi, viste, vio, vimos, visteis, vieron.

Imperfect Subjunctive

viera, vieras, viera, viéramos, vierais, vieran;

viese, vieses, viese, viésemos, vieseis, viesen.

Future Subjunctive

viere, vieres, viere, viéremos, viereis, vieren.

Imperative

ve (tú), vea (él/Vd.), veamos (nos.), ved (vos.), vean (ellos/Vds.).

Past Participle

visto,-a.

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verb

1) to see

2) understand

3) examine

4) visit

5) witness

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Para las expresiones ver visiones, no ver tres en un burro, ver el sustantivo.
1. VERBO TRANSITIVO

1) (=percibir)

a) [+ persona, objeto] to see

te vi en el parque — I saw you in the park

desde aquí lo verás mejor — you can see it better from here

lo he visto con mis propios ojos — I saw it with my own eyes

me acuerdo como si lo estuviera viendo — I remember it as if I were seeing it now, I remember it as if it were yesterday

—

¡hubieran visto qué casa! — (Méx) you should have seen the house!

• dejarse ver, este año Pedro no se ha dejado ver por aquí — we haven't seen much of Pedro this year

- no veo ni jota

si te he visto no me acuerdo —

le pedí que me ayudara, pero si te he visto no me acuerdo — I asked him to help me but he (just) didn't want to know

ver algn/algo venir —

-¿que ha dimitido? -eso ya lo veía venir — "he's resigned?" - "well, you could see it coming"

ya te veo venir, ¿a que quieres que te preste el coche? — I know what you're after, you want to borrow the car, don't you?

b) [+ gerund]

los vi paseando por el parque — I saw them walking in the park

c) [+ infin]

la vi bajar la escalera — I saw her come downstairs

eso lo he visto hacer aquí muchas veces — I have often seen that done here

d) [+ adj]

te veo muy triste — you look very sad

esta casa la veo pequeña para tanta gente — I think this house is too small for so many people

2) (=mirar) [+ televisión, programa, partido] to watch

anoche vi una película en la tele — I saw o watched a film on TV last night

• es (digno) de ver — it's worth seeing

no poder (ni) ver a algn —

no lo puedo (ni) ver — I can't stand him

3) (en saludos)

¡cuánto tiempo sin verte! — I haven't seen you for ages!

¡hasta más ver! — see you again!

4) (=visitar) to see

ayer fui a ver a tu hermano — I went to see your brother yesterday

tendré que ir a ver al abogado — I shall have to go to o and see my solicitor

el médico todavía no la ha visto — the doctor hasn't seen her yet

5) (=imaginar) to see, imagine

lo estoy viendo de almirante — I can just see o imagine him as an admiral

6) (=vivir) to live through

yo he visto dos guerras mundiales — I have lived through two world wars

y usted que lo vea, y tú que lo veas —

-¡a celebrarlo con salud el año próximo! - ¡y usted que lo vea! — "many happy returns!" - "thank you!"

7) (=examinar) to look at

este tema lo veremos en la próxima clase — we'll be looking at this subject in the next lesson

8) (=comprobar) to see

•¡verás como al final te caerás! — you'll fall, you just wait and see!

ya verás como al final tengo que hacerlo yo — I'll end up doing it myself, you'll see

• habrá que ver, habrá que ver lo que les habrá contado — we'll have to see what he's told them

• voy a ver si está en su despacho — I'll see if he's in his office

9) (=notar) to see

no veo la diferencia entre uno y otro — I can't see the difference between them

ya veo que tendré que hacerlo yo solo — I can see I'll have to do it myself

-¿ves que no son iguales? -pues, no lo veo — "can't you see they're not the same?" - "no, I can't"

-gana más de cien mil al mes -¡ya ves! — "she earns more than 100,000 a month" - "well, there you go!"

• dejarse ver, los efectos de la crisis se dejaron ver meses después — the effects of the crisis were felt months later

la preocupación se dejaba ver en su cara — the worry showed in his face

• echar de ver algo — to notice sth

• por lo que veo — from what I can see

10) (=entender) to see

ahora veo la importancia del problema — I see how serious the problem is now

¿no ves que...? — don't o can't you see that...?

no veo muy claro para qué lo quiere — I can't really see what he wants it for

• hacer ver algo a algn — to point sth out to sb

11) (=encontrar) to see

no veo nada en contra de eso — I see nothing against it

no le veo solución al conflicto — I can't see a solution to the conflict

yo este tema no lo veo así — I don't see this issue that way

12) (Jur) [+ pleito] to hear, try

el proceso se verá en mayo — the case will be heard in May

13) tener que ver

-es demasiado pequeño -¿y eso qué tiene que ver? — "it's too small" - "what's that got to do with it?"

esto tiene que ver con lo que estudiamos ayer — this has to do with what we were looking at yesterday

yo no tuve nada que ver en la venta del terreno — I had nothing to do with the sale of the land

14) a ver

a ver niños, ¿cuál es la capital de Francia? — now, children, what is the capital of France?

-mira, tú sales en la foto -¿a ver? — "look, you're in the photo" - "let's have a look" o"let's see"

a ver ese niño, que no se quede solo — don't leave that child on his own

a ver qué dicen las noticias sobre el robo — let's see if there's anything about the robbery on the news

a ver qué está pasando — let's see what's happening

-estás estudiando mucho -¡a ver, no queda más remedio! — "you're doing a lot of studying" - "well, I haven't got much choice!"

¡a ver, cállate ya! — shut up, will you!

¿a ver? — (And) (Telec) hello?

• a ver si..., a ver si acabas pronto — see if you can finish this off quickly

¡a ver si te crees que no lo sé! — surely you don't think I don't know about it!

2. VERBO INTRANSITIVO

1) (=percibir) to see

no veo muy bien con el ojo derecho — I can't see very well with my right eye

como vimos ayer en la conferencia — as we saw in the lecture yesterday

como veremos más adelante — as we shall see later

• eso está por ver — that remains to be seen

que no veo * —

tengo un hambre que no veo — I'm famished!

que no veas * —

hay un ruido que no veas — there's a hell of a racket! *

un coche que no veas — an amazing car

ver y callar —

no digas nada, tú solo ver y callar — you'd better keep your mouth shut about this

- ver para creer

2) (=comprobar) to see

según voy viendo... — as I am beginning to see...

-¿quién ha venido? -no sé, voy a ver — "who is it?" -"I don't know, I'll go and see"

- al final siempre me toca hacerlo a mi -ya veo — "in the end it's always me that has to do it" - "so I see"

3) (=entender) to see

¿ves?, así es mucho más fácil — you see? it's much easier like this

a mi modo de ver — as I see it, the way I see it

¿viste? — ( Cono Sur) right?, are you with me?

4)

• ver de hacer algo — to see about doing sth, try to do sth

tenemos que ver de solucionar este problema — we must try to o and find a solution to this problem

veremos de salir temprano — we'll see if we can leave early, we'll try to o and leave early

5) (otras locuciones)

•¡hay que ver!, ¡hay que ver lo que te pareces a tu madre! — gosh! how like your mother you are o look!

¡hay que ver lo que ha cambiado la ciudad! — it's incredible o you wouldn't believe how much the town has changed!

•¡ para que veas!, ha aprobado todas las asignaturas, ¡para que veas! — she passed all her exams, how about that!

no solo no perdí, sino que arrasé, ¡para que veas! — not only did I not lose, but I won by a mile, so there!

—

• lo dijo de por ver — ( Cono Sur) he was just trying it on *

—

todo quedó en veremos — it was all left in the air

eso está o queda en veremos — it's not certain yet

• vamos a ver — let's see..., let me see...

-¿esto tiene arreglo? -no sé, vamos a ver — "can this be repaired?" - "I don't know, let's see o let me see"

¿por qué no me llamaste, vamos a ver? — why didn't you call me, I'd like to know?

•ya veremos — we'll see

-¿podré ir a la fiesta? -ya veremos — "can I go to the party?" - "we'll see"

3.

See:

verse

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I
masculino

1) ( aspecto)

de buen ver — good-looking, attractive

no es de mal ver — she's not bad-looking

2) ( opinión)

a mi/su ver — in my/his view
II 1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) ( percibir con la vista) to see

¿ves algo? — can you see anything?

no se ve nada aquí — you can't see a thing in here

tú ves visiones — you're seeing things

es como si lo estuviera viendo — it's as if I were seeing him/it now

ver algo/a alguien + inf — to see something/somebody + inf

la vi bailar hace años — I saw her dance years ago

lo vi hablando con ella — I saw him talking to her

si te he visto no me acuerdo — (fam) he/she doesn't/didn't want to know

ver venir algo — to see something coming

b) ( mirar) <programa/partido> to watch

ver (la) televisión — to watch television

esa película ya la he visto — I've seen that movie before

déjame ver — let me see

no poder (ni) ver a alguien: no puede ni verla or no la puede ver — he can't stand her

c) ( imaginar) to see, picture

2) (entender, notar) to see

¿no ves lo que está pasando? — don't o can't you see what's happening?

no quiere ver la realidad — he won't face up to reality

sólo ve sus problemas — he's only interested in his own problems

se te ve en la cara — I can tell by your face

se la ve feliz/preocupada — she looks happy/worried

ya lo veo — I can see that

hacerse ver — (RPl) to show off

echar de ver — (Esp) to realize

3)

a) (constatar, comprobar) to see

ve a ver quién es — go and see who it is

ya verás lo que pasa! — you'll see what happens

habrá que ver si lo hace — it remains to be seen whether he does it

eso ya se verá! — we'll see

eso está por ver! — we'll see about that!

no me olvidé para que veas! — I didn't forget, see?

le gané para que veas! — I beat him, so there!

b) ( ser testigo de) to see

vieron confirmadas sus sospechas — they saw their suspicions confirmed

nunca he visto cosa igual! — I've never seen anything like it!

habráse visto semejante desfachatez! — what a nerve! (colloq)

si vieras lo mal que lo pasé! — you can't imagine how awful it was!

es tan bonita, si vieras... — she's so pretty, you should see her

vieras or hubieras visto cómo se asustaron...! — (AmL) you should have seen the fright they got!

ya ves, aquí me tienes — well, here I am

hay que ver! — would you believe it!

hay que ver lo que ha crecido! — wow o gosh! hasn't he grown!

hay que ver lo grosera que es — she's incredibly rude

que no veas — (Esp fam)

me echó una bronca que no veas — you wouldn't believe the earful she gave me! (colloq)

que no veo — (AmL fam)

tengo un hambre que no veo — (fam) I'm absolutely starving (colloq)

tengo un sueño que no veo — I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open

4)

a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right, now, what's the problem?; aquí está en el periódico - ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper - let's see; ¿a ver qué tienes ahí? let me see what you've got there; apriétalo a ver qué pasa press it and let's see what happens; a ver si me entienden ( justificando) don't get me wrong; ( explicando) let me make myself clear; a ver si estudias más I'd think about studying harder; a ver si escribes pronto make sure you write soon; cállate, a ver si alguien te oye! shut up, somebody might hear you; a ver cuándo vienes a visitarnos — come and see us soon

5)

a) ( estudiar)

esto mejor que lo veas tú — you'd better have a look at this

tengo que ver cómo lo arreglo — I have to work out how I can fix it

ya veré qué hago — I'll decide what to do later

véase el capítulo anterior — see (the) previous chapter

no vimos ese tema en clase — we didn't cover that topic in class

b) médico ( examinar) to see

¿la ha visto un médico? — has she been seen by a doctor yet?

se hizo ver por un especialista — (AmS) she saw a specialist

c) (Der) < causa> to try, hear

6)

a) (juzgar, considerar)

yo eso no lo veo bien — I don't think that's right

cada uno ve las cosas a su manera — everybody sees things differently

a mi modo or manera de ver — the way I see it

b) ( encontrar) to see

no le veo salida a esto — I can't see any way out of this

no le veo la gracia — I don't think it's funny

no le veo nada de malo — I can't see anything wrong in it

7) (visitar, entrevistarse con) <amigo/pariente> to see, visit; <médico/jefe> to see

cuánto tiempo sin verte! — I haven't seen you for ages!, long time, no see (colloq)

ahora lo vemos menos — we don't see so much of him now

8)

tener... que ver: ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? and what does that have to do with it?; no tengo nada que ver con él I have nothing to do with him; ¿tuviste algo que ver en esto? did you have anything to do with this?; ¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?; ¿tendrán algo que ver con los Zamora? — are they related in any way to the Zamoras?
2.
ver vi

1) ( percibir con la vista) to see

enciende la luz que no veo — turn on the light, I can't see

no veo bien de lejos/de cerca — I'm shortsighted/longsighted

2) ( constatar)

¿hay cerveza? - no sé, voy a ver — is there any beer? - I don't know, I'll have a look

¿está Juan? - voy a ver — is Juan in? - I'll go and see

verás, no quería decírtelo, pero... — look, I didn't want to tell you, but...

pues verás, todo empezó cuando... — well you see, the whole thing began when...

ver para creer — seeing is believing

3) ( pensar) to see

¿vas a decir que sí? - ya veré — are you going to accept? - I'll see

estar/seguir en veremos — (AmL fam)

todavía está en veremos — it isn't certain yet

seguimos en veremos — we still don't know anything
3.
verse v pron

1) (refl)

a) ( percibirse) to see oneself

se vio reflejado en el agua — he saw his reflection in the water

b) ( imaginarse) to see oneself

2)

a) ( hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself

me vi en un aprieto — I found myself in a tight spot

me vi obligado a despedirlo — I had no choice but to dismiss him

vérselas venir — (fam)

me las veía venir — I could see it coming

verse venir algo — to see something coming

b) (frml) ( ser)

este problema se ha visto agravado por... — this problem has been made worse by...

el país se verá beneficiado — the country will benefit

3) ( dejar ver) (+ me/te/le etc)

se te ve todo — you're showing everything

4) (esp AmL) ( parecer)

se ve bien con esa falda — she looks good in that skirt

no se ve bien con ese peinado — that hairdo doesn't suit her

5) (recípr) ( encontrarse) to meet; ( visitarse) to see each other

nos vemos a las siete — I'll meet o see you at seven

no nos vimos durante un tiempo — we didn't see each other for a while

nos vemos! — (esp AmL) see you!

verse con alguien — to see somebody

vérselas con alguien: tendrá que vérselas conmigo — he'll have me to deal with

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= descry, discern, see, spot, view, view, witness, check out, make out, look down over, look down on/upon, catch + sight of.

Ex. He looked up and descried a gym class, all wet and draggled, scurrying back across the sodden football field.

Ex. Such variations also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded in the construction of such a heading.

Ex. Where the conference cannot be seen to have a name, then the work will normally be treated as a collection.

Ex. When all necessary amendments have been spotted, edit the draft abstract and make any improvements to the style that are possible.

Ex. Thus it is possible in an author sequence to view easily the works of one author.

Ex. Many librarians viewed AACR1 as such a significant improvement upon its predecessors, that they were content.

Ex. We sometimes only have to speak a word to witness a reaction in other people that should logically follow only if the object itself were present.

Ex. Where problems do arise it is sensible to check out the training programme before blaming the assistant for poor performance of duties.

Ex. She could just make out that he was standing against the wall near the door, ready to jump anyone who came out the door.

Ex. There was one ram that was content to stay up in the cliffs and look down over his domain.

Ex. The characters stand inside a mysterious domed structure looking down on the Earth watching the 19th century take shape.

Ex. 'Good grief!', he cried, catching sight of the clock.

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* acercarse sin ser visto = sidle up to.

* alcanzar a ver = glimpse.

* algo digno de ver = a sight to behold.

* al ver = at the sight of.

* a mi modo de ver = in my books.

* de buen ver = good looking.

* dejar de ver = become + blind to.

* dejarse ver = have + visibility.

* dichosos los ojos que te ven = a sight for sore eyes.

* donde fueres haz lo que vieres = when in Rome (do as the Romans do).

* el ver televisión = television viewing.

* estar mal visto = frown on/upon.

* estar por ver = be an open question.

* forma de ver las cosas = way of putting things together, bent of mind.

* hacerse ver = gain + exposure.

* hacer ver = alert to, bring to + Posesivo + attention, bring to + the attention, call + attention to, awaken, bring + home, open + Posesivo + eyes to, bring + attention to, bring to + Posesivo + notice, get across.

* hacer ver claramente = hammer + home + message, show + clearly.

* ir a ver = drop in on, check out.

* ir a ver a Alguien = say + hi.

* la forma de ver las cosas = the way + to see things.

* los árboles no dejan ver el bosque = cannot see the forest for the trees.

* manera de ver las cosas = line of thought.

* no aguantar ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.

* no poder ver a Alguien = have + it in for + Nombre.

* no poder ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.

* no querer tener nada que ver Algo = would not touch + Nombre + with a barge pole.

* no querer tener nada que ver con = want + nothing to do with.

* no tener nada que ver con = be irrelevant to.

* no ver = be blind to.

* no ver con buenos ojos = not take + kindly to.

* no verse afectado = be none the worse for wear, be none the worse for (that).

* no verse comprometido por = be uncompromised by.

* no verse en peligro = be uncompromised by.

* ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = ignorance is bliss.

* ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = out of sight out of mind.

* quedar por ver = be an open question, remain + to be seen.

* referencia "véase" = see reference.

* referencia "véase además" = see also reference.

* salir sin ser visto = slip out, steal away.

* según lo ve + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.

* ser algo por ver = be an open question.

* sin ser visto = undetected, unobserved.

* tener algo que ver con = have + something to do with.

* tener mucho que ver con = have + a great deal to do with.

* tener poco que ver = have + little to do.

* tener que ver con = be concerned with, concern, relate to, hold + a stake in, have + a stake in, be a question of.

* una cosa no + tener + nada que ver con la otra = one thing + have + nothing to do with the other.

* una vista digna de ver = a sight to behold.

* un espectáculo digno de ver = a sight to behold.

* véase = see under, SU, refer-to, qv (quod vide -latín).

* véase además = see also.

* véase como ejemplo = witness.

* véase desde = see from, refer-from.

* véase + Nombre + para más información = refer to + Nombre + for details.

* Veo, Veo = I Spy.

* ver Algo a través de los ojos de Alguien = look at + Nombre + through + Posesivo + eyes.

* ver Algo con humor = a funny eye for.

* ver Algo desde el punto de vista + Adjetivo = view + Nombre + through + Adjetivo + eyes.

* ver Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = view + Nombre + in a new light, see + Nombre + in a new light.

* ver Algo desde una perspectiva + Adjetivo = see + Nombre + in a + Adjetivo + light.

* ver Algo venir = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* ver a través de = see through, see through.

* ver bien = welcome.

* ver con los mismos ojos = see + eye to eye (with/on).

* ver con los prismáticos = glass.

* ver con recelo = have + reservations (about).

* ver con un ojo crítico = view with + a critical eye.

* ver de antemano = preview.

* ver desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on.

* ver desventajas = see + drawbacks.

* ver de un vistazo = see + at a glance.

* ver doble = see + double.

* ver el motivo de Algo = glean + the reason for.

* ver el mundo desde una perspectiva diferente = see + the world in a different light.

* ver el porqué = see + the point.

* ver el propósito = see + the point.

* ver el sentido = see + the point.

* ver en pantalla = scroll.

* ver faltas en = see + faults in.

* ver grabación en vídeo = video playback.

* ver inconvenientes = see + drawbacks.

* ver la finalidad = see + the point.

* ver la luz = see + the light.

* ver la luz al final del túnel = see + the light at the end of the tunnel.

* ver la luz del día = see + the light of day.

* ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.

* ver la oportunidad = see + a chance.

* ver la posibilidad = see + the possibility.

* ver las cosas de diferente manera = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas de diferente modo = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas desde una perspectiva = see + things from + perspective.

* ver las cosas de una manera diferente = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas de un modo diferente = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas en su conjunto = see + things as a whole.

* ver las cosas en su totalidad = see + things as a whole.

* ver las cosas positivas = look on + the bright side.

* ver las cosas positivas de la vida = look on + the bright side of life.

* ver las estrellas = see + stars.

* ver la tele = watch + the telly.

* ver la utilidad = see + the point.

* verle las orejas al lobo = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* ver lo que Alguien realmente piensa = see into + Posesivo + heart.

* ver lo que + avecinarse = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* ver lo que pasa = take it from there/here.

* ver mundo = see + life, see + the world.

* ver + Nombre + con nuevos ojos = view + Nombre + through fresh eyes.

* ver + Nombre + desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = see + Nombre + through + Nombre + eyes.

* verse en la necesidad = be constrained to.

* verse en la necesidad de = be left with the need to.

* verse en la necesidad urgente de = be hard pressed.

* verse en la situación = find + Reflexivo + in the position.

* verse en medio de = caught in the middle.

* verse envuelto en = become + involved in, get + involved with/in.

* verse frustrado = become + frustrated.

* vérselas canutas = have + a devil of a time.

* vérselas con = contend with.

* vérselas negras = jump through + hoops, have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre, have + a devil of a time.

* vérsele a Alguien el plumero = give + Reflexivo + away.

* verse muy afectado por = have + a high stake in.

* verse negro = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.

* verse obligado a no + Infinitivo = be enjoined from + Gerundio.

* verse superado sólo por = be second only to.

* verse venir = be on the cards.

* ver televisión = watch + television.

* ver un fantasma = see + a ghost.

* ver ventajas = see + advantages.

* vistas desde fuera = outwardly.

* visto desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.

* * *
I
masculino

1) ( aspecto)

de buen ver — good-looking, attractive

no es de mal ver — she's not bad-looking

2) ( opinión)

a mi/su ver — in my/his view
II 1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) ( percibir con la vista) to see

¿ves algo? — can you see anything?

no se ve nada aquí — you can't see a thing in here

tú ves visiones — you're seeing things

es como si lo estuviera viendo — it's as if I were seeing him/it now

ver algo/a alguien + inf — to see something/somebody + inf

la vi bailar hace años — I saw her dance years ago

lo vi hablando con ella — I saw him talking to her

si te he visto no me acuerdo — (fam) he/she doesn't/didn't want to know

ver venir algo — to see something coming

b) ( mirar) <programa/partido> to watch

ver (la) televisión — to watch television

esa película ya la he visto — I've seen that movie before

déjame ver — let me see

no poder (ni) ver a alguien: no puede ni verla or no la puede ver — he can't stand her

c) ( imaginar) to see, picture

2) (entender, notar) to see

¿no ves lo que está pasando? — don't o can't you see what's happening?

no quiere ver la realidad — he won't face up to reality

sólo ve sus problemas — he's only interested in his own problems

se te ve en la cara — I can tell by your face

se la ve feliz/preocupada — she looks happy/worried

ya lo veo — I can see that

hacerse ver — (RPl) to show off

echar de ver — (Esp) to realize

3)

a) (constatar, comprobar) to see

ve a ver quién es — go and see who it is

ya verás lo que pasa! — you'll see what happens

habrá que ver si lo hace — it remains to be seen whether he does it

eso ya se verá! — we'll see

eso está por ver! — we'll see about that!

no me olvidé para que veas! — I didn't forget, see?

le gané para que veas! — I beat him, so there!

b) ( ser testigo de) to see

vieron confirmadas sus sospechas — they saw their suspicions confirmed

nunca he visto cosa igual! — I've never seen anything like it!

habráse visto semejante desfachatez! — what a nerve! (colloq)

si vieras lo mal que lo pasé! — you can't imagine how awful it was!

es tan bonita, si vieras... — she's so pretty, you should see her

vieras or hubieras visto cómo se asustaron...! — (AmL) you should have seen the fright they got!

ya ves, aquí me tienes — well, here I am

hay que ver! — would you believe it!

hay que ver lo que ha crecido! — wow o gosh! hasn't he grown!

hay que ver lo grosera que es — she's incredibly rude

que no veas — (Esp fam)

me echó una bronca que no veas — you wouldn't believe the earful she gave me! (colloq)

que no veo — (AmL fam)

tengo un hambre que no veo — (fam) I'm absolutely starving (colloq)

tengo un sueño que no veo — I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open

4)

a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right, now, what's the problem?; aquí está en el periódico - ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper - let's see; ¿a ver qué tienes ahí? let me see what you've got there; apriétalo a ver qué pasa press it and let's see what happens; a ver si me entienden ( justificando) don't get me wrong; ( explicando) let me make myself clear; a ver si estudias más I'd think about studying harder; a ver si escribes pronto make sure you write soon; cállate, a ver si alguien te oye! shut up, somebody might hear you; a ver cuándo vienes a visitarnos — come and see us soon

5)

a) ( estudiar)

esto mejor que lo veas tú — you'd better have a look at this

tengo que ver cómo lo arreglo — I have to work out how I can fix it

ya veré qué hago — I'll decide what to do later

véase el capítulo anterior — see (the) previous chapter

no vimos ese tema en clase — we didn't cover that topic in class

b) médico ( examinar) to see

¿la ha visto un médico? — has she been seen by a doctor yet?

se hizo ver por un especialista — (AmS) she saw a specialist

c) (Der) < causa> to try, hear

6)

a) (juzgar, considerar)

yo eso no lo veo bien — I don't think that's right

cada uno ve las cosas a su manera — everybody sees things differently

a mi modo or manera de ver — the way I see it

b) ( encontrar) to see

no le veo salida a esto — I can't see any way out of this

no le veo la gracia — I don't think it's funny

no le veo nada de malo — I can't see anything wrong in it

7) (visitar, entrevistarse con) <amigo/pariente> to see, visit; <médico/jefe> to see

cuánto tiempo sin verte! — I haven't seen you for ages!, long time, no see (colloq)

ahora lo vemos menos — we don't see so much of him now

8)

tener... que ver: ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? and what does that have to do with it?; no tengo nada que ver con él I have nothing to do with him; ¿tuviste algo que ver en esto? did you have anything to do with this?; ¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?; ¿tendrán algo que ver con los Zamora? — are they related in any way to the Zamoras?
2.
ver vi

1) ( percibir con la vista) to see

enciende la luz que no veo — turn on the light, I can't see

no veo bien de lejos/de cerca — I'm shortsighted/longsighted

2) ( constatar)

¿hay cerveza? - no sé, voy a ver — is there any beer? - I don't know, I'll have a look

¿está Juan? - voy a ver — is Juan in? - I'll go and see

verás, no quería decírtelo, pero... — look, I didn't want to tell you, but...

pues verás, todo empezó cuando... — well you see, the whole thing began when...

ver para creer — seeing is believing

3) ( pensar) to see

¿vas a decir que sí? - ya veré — are you going to accept? - I'll see

estar/seguir en veremos — (AmL fam)

todavía está en veremos — it isn't certain yet

seguimos en veremos — we still don't know anything
3.
verse v pron

1) (refl)

a) ( percibirse) to see oneself

se vio reflejado en el agua — he saw his reflection in the water

b) ( imaginarse) to see oneself

2)

a) ( hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself

me vi en un aprieto — I found myself in a tight spot

me vi obligado a despedirlo — I had no choice but to dismiss him

vérselas venir — (fam)

me las veía venir — I could see it coming

verse venir algo — to see something coming

b) (frml) ( ser)

este problema se ha visto agravado por... — this problem has been made worse by...

el país se verá beneficiado — the country will benefit

3) ( dejar ver) (+ me/te/le etc)

se te ve todo — you're showing everything

4) (esp AmL) ( parecer)

se ve bien con esa falda — she looks good in that skirt

no se ve bien con ese peinado — that hairdo doesn't suit her

5) (recípr) ( encontrarse) to meet; ( visitarse) to see each other

nos vemos a las siete — I'll meet o see you at seven

no nos vimos durante un tiempo — we didn't see each other for a while

nos vemos! — (esp AmL) see you!

verse con alguien — to see somebody

vérselas con alguien: tendrá que vérselas conmigo — he'll have me to deal with

* * *

= descry, discern, see, spot, view, view, witness, check out, make out, look down over, look down on/upon, catch + sight of.

Ex: He looked up and descried a gym class, all wet and draggled, scurrying back across the sodden football field.

Ex: Such variations also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded in the construction of such a heading.

Ex: Where the conference cannot be seen to have a name, then the work will normally be treated as a collection.

Ex: When all necessary amendments have been spotted, edit the draft abstract and make any improvements to the style that are possible.

Ex: Thus it is possible in an author sequence to view easily the works of one author.

Ex: Many librarians viewed AACR1 as such a significant improvement upon its predecessors, that they were content.

Ex: We sometimes only have to speak a word to witness a reaction in other people that should logically follow only if the object itself were present.

Ex: Where problems do arise it is sensible to check out the training programme before blaming the assistant for poor performance of duties.

Ex: She could just make out that he was standing against the wall near the door, ready to jump anyone who came out the door.

Ex: There was one ram that was content to stay up in the cliffs and look down over his domain.

Ex: The characters stand inside a mysterious domed structure looking down on the Earth watching the 19th century take shape.

Ex: 'Good grief!', he cried, catching sight of the clock.

* acercarse sin ser visto = sidle up to.

* alcanzar a ver = glimpse.

* algo digno de ver = a sight to behold.

* al ver = at the sight of.

* a mi modo de ver = in my books.

* de buen ver = good looking.

* dejar de ver = become + blind to.

* dejarse ver = have + visibility.

* dichosos los ojos que te ven = a sight for sore eyes.

* donde fueres haz lo que vieres = when in Rome (do as the Romans do).

* el ver televisión = television viewing.

* estar mal visto = frown on/upon.

* estar por ver = be an open question.

* forma de ver las cosas = way of putting things together, bent of mind.

* hacerse ver = gain + exposure.

* hacer ver = alert to, bring to + Posesivo + attention, bring to + the attention, call + attention to, awaken, bring + home, open + Posesivo + eyes to, bring + attention to, bring to + Posesivo + notice, get across.

* hacer ver claramente = hammer + home + message, show + clearly.

* ir a ver = drop in on, check out.

* ir a ver a Alguien = say + hi.

* la forma de ver las cosas = the way + to see things.

* los árboles no dejan ver el bosque = cannot see the forest for the trees.

* manera de ver las cosas = line of thought.

* no aguantar ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.

* no poder ver a Alguien = have + it in for + Nombre.

* no poder ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.

* no querer tener nada que ver Algo = would not touch + Nombre + with a barge pole.

* no querer tener nada que ver con = want + nothing to do with.

* no tener nada que ver con = be irrelevant to.

* no ver = be blind to.

* no ver con buenos ojos = not take + kindly to.

* no verse afectado = be none the worse for wear, be none the worse for (that).

* no verse comprometido por = be uncompromised by.

* no verse en peligro = be uncompromised by.

* ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = ignorance is bliss.

* ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = out of sight out of mind.

* quedar por ver = be an open question, remain + to be seen.

* referencia "véase" = see reference.

* referencia "véase además" = see also reference.

* salir sin ser visto = slip out, steal away.

* según lo ve + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.

* ser algo por ver = be an open question.

* sin ser visto = undetected, unobserved.

* tener algo que ver con = have + something to do with.

* tener mucho que ver con = have + a great deal to do with.

* tener poco que ver = have + little to do.

* tener que ver con = be concerned with, concern, relate to, hold + a stake in, have + a stake in, be a question of.

* una cosa no + tener + nada que ver con la otra = one thing + have + nothing to do with the other.

* una vista digna de ver = a sight to behold.

* un espectáculo digno de ver = a sight to behold.

* véase = see under, SU, refer-to, qv (quod vide -latín).

* véase además = see also.

* véase como ejemplo = witness.

* véase desde = see from, refer-from.

* véase + Nombre + para más información = refer to + Nombre + for details.

* Veo, Veo = I Spy.

* ver Algo a través de los ojos de Alguien = look at + Nombre + through + Posesivo + eyes.

* ver Algo con humor = a funny eye for.

* ver Algo desde el punto de vista + Adjetivo = view + Nombre + through + Adjetivo + eyes.

* ver Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = view + Nombre + in a new light, see + Nombre + in a new light.

* ver Algo desde una perspectiva + Adjetivo = see + Nombre + in a + Adjetivo + light.

* ver Algo venir = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* ver a través de = see through, see through.

* ver bien = welcome.

* ver con los mismos ojos = see + eye to eye (with/on).

* ver con los prismáticos = glass.

* ver con recelo = have + reservations (about).

* ver con un ojo crítico = view with + a critical eye.

* ver de antemano = preview.

* ver desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on.

* ver desventajas = see + drawbacks.

* ver de un vistazo = see + at a glance.

* ver doble = see + double.

* ver el motivo de Algo = glean + the reason for.

* ver el mundo desde una perspectiva diferente = see + the world in a different light.

* ver el porqué = see + the point.

* ver el propósito = see + the point.

* ver el sentido = see + the point.

* ver en pantalla = scroll.

* ver faltas en = see + faults in.

* ver grabación en vídeo = video playback.

* ver inconvenientes = see + drawbacks.

* ver la finalidad = see + the point.

* ver la luz = see + the light.

* ver la luz al final del túnel = see + the light at the end of the tunnel.

* ver la luz del día = see + the light of day.

* ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.

* ver la oportunidad = see + a chance.

* ver la posibilidad = see + the possibility.

* ver las cosas de diferente manera = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas de diferente modo = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas desde una perspectiva = see + things from + perspective.

* ver las cosas de una manera diferente = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas de un modo diferente = see + things differently.

* ver las cosas en su conjunto = see + things as a whole.

* ver las cosas en su totalidad = see + things as a whole.

* ver las cosas positivas = look on + the bright side.

* ver las cosas positivas de la vida = look on + the bright side of life.

* ver las estrellas = see + stars.

* ver la tele = watch + the telly.

* ver la utilidad = see + the point.

* verle las orejas al lobo = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* ver lo que Alguien realmente piensa = see into + Posesivo + heart.

* ver lo que + avecinarse = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* ver lo que pasa = take it from there/here.

* ver mundo = see + life, see + the world.

* ver + Nombre + con nuevos ojos = view + Nombre + through fresh eyes.

* ver + Nombre + desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = see + Nombre + through + Nombre + eyes.

* verse en la necesidad = be constrained to.

* verse en la necesidad de = be left with the need to.

* verse en la necesidad urgente de = be hard pressed.

* verse en la situación = find + Reflexivo + in the position.

* verse en medio de = caught in the middle.

* verse envuelto en = become + involved in, get + involved with/in.

* verse frustrado = become + frustrated.

* vérselas canutas = have + a devil of a time.

* vérselas con = contend with.

* vérselas negras = jump through + hoops, have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre, have + a devil of a time.

* vérsele a Alguien el plumero = give + Reflexivo + away.

* verse muy afectado por = have + a high stake in.

* verse negro = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.

* verse obligado a no + Infinitivo = be enjoined from + Gerundio.

* verse superado sólo por = be second only to.

* verse venir = be on the cards.

* ver televisión = watch + television.

* ver un fantasma = see + a ghost.

* ver ventajas = see + advantages.

* vistas desde fuera = outwardly.

* visto desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.

* * *

ver¹

masculine

A

(aspecto): aún está de buen ver he's still good-looking o attractive, he still looks good

no es de mal ver she's not bad-looking

B

(opinión): a mi/su ver in my/his view, as I see/he sees it

ver² [ E29 ]

GUIA DE BUSQUEDA

■ ver (verbo transitivo)

A

1 percibir con la vista

2 mirar

3 imaginar

B

1 entender, notar

2 echar de ver

C

1 constatar, comprobar

2 ser testigo de

D a ver

E

1 estudiar

2 examinar: médico

3 Derecho

F

1 juzgar, considerar

2 encontrar

G visitar, entrevistarse con

H en el póquer

I tener... que ver

■ ver (verbo intransitivo)

A percibir con la vista

B constatar

C estudiar, pensar

D a ver

E ver de

■ verse (verbo pronominal)

A

1 percibirse

2 imaginarse

B

1 hallarse

2 ser

C parecer

D encontrarse

vt

A

1 (percibir con la vista) to see

¿ves el letrero allí enfrente? can o do you see that sign opposite?

lo vi con mis propios ojos I saw it with my own eyes

¿ves algo? can you see anything?

enciende la luz que no se ve nada switch on the light, I can't see a thing

tú ves visiones, allí no hay nada you're seeing things, there's nothing there

se te ve la combinación your slip is showing

me acuerdo perfectamente, es como si lo estuviera viendo I remember it perfectly, as if I were seeing it now

ver algo/a algn + INF/GER:

la vi bailar en Londres hace años I saw her dance in London years ago

la vi metérselo en el bolsillo I saw her put it into her pocket

los vieron salir por la puerta trasera they were seen leaving by the back door

lo vi hablando con ella I saw him talking to her

ahí donde lo/la ves: ahí donde la ves tiene un genio … incredible though it may seem, she has a real temper …

aquí donde me ves, tengo 90 años cumplidos believe it or not, I'm ninety years old

no ver ni tres en un burro or ni un burro a tres pasos or ni jota ( fam): sin gafas no veo ni jota I can't see a thing without my glasses, without my glasses I'm as blind as a bat

si te he visto no me acuerdo ( fam): en cuanto le pedí un favor, si te he visto no me acuerdo as soon as I asked a favor of him, he just didn't want to know

ver venir algo/a algn: el fracaso se veía venir it was obvious o you could see it was going to fail

te veía venir, ya sabía lo que me ibas a pedir I thought as much, I knew what you were going to ask me for

ya lo veo venir, seguro que quiere una semana libre I know what he's after, I bet he wants a week off ( colloq)

¡y tú que lo veas!: ¡que cumplas muchos más! — ¡y tú que lo veas! many happy returns! — thank you very much

van a bajar los impuestos — ¡y tú que lo veas! ( iró); they're going to cut taxes — do you think you'll live long enough to see it? ( iro)

2 (mirar) to watch

estaba viendo la televisión I was watching television

esa película ya la he visto I've seen that movie before

¿te has hecho daño?, déjame ver have you hurt yourself? let me see

un espectáculo que hay que ver a show which you must see o which is not to be missed o ( colloq) which is a must

no poder (ni) ver a algn: no puede ni verla or no la puede ver he can't stand her, he can't stand the sight of her

no lo puedo ver ni pintado or ni en pintura ( fam); I can't stand the sight of him

3 (imaginar) to see, imagine, picture

yo no la veo viviendo en el campo I can't see o imagine o picture her living in the country

ya la veo tumbada en la arena sin hacer nada … I can see o picture her now lying on the sand doing nothing …

B

1 (entender, notar) to see

¿no ves que la situación es grave? don't o can't you see how serious the situation is?

¿ves qué amargo es? you see how bitter it is?

no quiere ver la realidad he won't face up to reality

sólo ve sus problemas he's only interested in his own problems

se te ve en la cara I can tell by your face

se le ve que disfruta con su trabajo you can see o tell she enjoys her work

te veo preocupado ¿qué te pasa? you look worried, what's the matter?

la veo muy contenta she looks o seems very happy

es un poco complicado, ¿sabes? — ya se ve it's a bit complicated, you know — so I (can) see

ya veo/ya se ve que no tienes mucha práctica en esto I can see o it's obvious you haven't had much practice at this, you obviously haven't had much practice at this

hacerse ver ( RPl); to show off

2

echar de ver to realize, notice

pronto echó de ver que le faltaba dinero he soon realized o noticed that some of his money was missing

se echa de ver que está muy contento it's obvious he's very happy

C

1 (constatar, comprobar) to see

ve a ver quién es go and see who it is

¡ya verás lo que es bueno si no me haces caso! you'll see what you get if you don't do as I say

habrá que ver si cumple su promesa it remains to be seen o we'll have to see whether he keeps his promise

verás como no viene he won't come, wait and see o you'll see

ya no funciona ¿lo ves? or ¿viste? te dije que no lo tocaras now, it's not working any more. You see? I told you not to touch it

¡eso ya se verá! we'll see

¡eso está por ver! we'll see about that!

¡para que veas! ¡tú que decías que no iba a ser capaz! see? I did it! and you said I wouldn't be able to!

gané por tres sets a cero ¡para que veas! I won by three sets to love, so there!

2 (ser testigo de) to see

vieron confirmadas sus sospechas they saw their suspicions confirmed, their suspicions were confirmed

¡nunca he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it!

¡habráse visto semejante desfachatez! what a nerve! ( colloq)

¡si vieras lo mal que lo pasé! you can't imagine how awful it was!

es tan bonita, si vieras … she's so pretty, you should see her

¡vieras or hubieras visto cómo se asustaron …! ( AmL); you should have seen the fright they got!

tenías que haber visto lo furioso que se puso you should have seen how angry he got

¡hombre! ¿tú por aquí? — ya ves, no tenía otra cosa que hacer hello, what are you doing here? — well, I didn't have anything else to do

pensaba tomarme el día libre pero ya ves, aquí me tienes I intended taking the day off but … well, here I am

¡hay que ver! ¡lo que son las cosas! well, well, well! o I don't know! would you believe it?

¡hay que ver! hasta se llevaron el dinero de los niños would you believe it! they even took the children's money

¡hay que ver lo que ha crecido! wow o gosh! hasn't he grown!

hay que ver qué bien se portaron they behaved really well, it's amazing how well they behaved

hay que ver lo grosera que es she's incredibly rude

que no veas ( Esp fam): me echó una bronca que no veas she gave me such an earful! ( colloq), you wouldn't believe the earful she gave me! ( colloq)

tenía una borrachera que no veas he was absolutely blind drunk

tienen una cocina que no veas they have an incredible kitchen

que no veo ( AmL fam): tengo un hambre que no veo ( fam); I'm absolutely starving ( colloq), I'm so hungry I could eat a horse ( colloq)

tengo un sueño que no veo I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open

D

a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right o well, now, what's the problem?

a ver, el fórceps, rápido give me the forceps, quickly

aquí está en el periódico — ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper — let's see

¿a ver qué tienes ahí? let me see o show me what you've got there, what have you got there?

aprieta el botón a ver qué pasa press the button and let's see what happens

a ver si me entienden (justificando) don't get me wrong; (explicando) let me make myself clear

a ver si arreglas esa lámpara when are you going to fix that light?

a ver si escribes pronto write soon, make sure you write soon

¡cállate, a ver si alguien te oye! shut up, somebody might hear you

¡a ver si ahora se cree que se lo robé yo! I hope he doesn't think that I stole it!

a ver cuándo vienes a visitarnos come and see us soon/one of these days

¡a ver! (AmC, Col) (al contestar el teléfono) hello?

E

1

(estudiar): esto mejor que lo veas tú you'd better look at this o see this o have a look at this

tengo que ver cómo lo arreglo I have to work out o see how I can fix it

aún no lo sé, ya veré qué hago I still don't know, I'll decide what to do later

véase el capítulo anterior see (the) previous chapter

no vimos ese tema en clase we didn't look at o study o do that topic in class

2

«médico» (examinar): ¿la ha visto ya un médico? has she been seen by a doctor yet?, has she seen a doctor yet?

¿por qué no te haces ver por un especialista? ( AmS); why don't you see a specialist?

3 ( Derecho) ‹causa› to try, hear

F

1

(juzgar, considerar): yo eso no lo veo bien I don't think that's right

cada uno ve las cosas a su manera everybody has their own point of view, everybody sees things differently

a mi modo or manera de ver to my way of thinking, the way I see it

2 (encontrar) to see

no le veo salida a esta situación I can't see any way out of this situation

¿tú le ves algún inconveniente? can you see any drawbacks to it?

no le veo la gracia I don't think it's funny, I don't find it funny

no le veo nada de malo I can't see anything wrong in it

no veo por qué no I don't see why not

G

(visitar, entrevistarse con): es mejor que vea a su propio médico it's better if you go to o see your own doctor

hace tiempo que no lo veo I haven't seen him for some time

¡cuánto tiempo sin verte! I haven't seen you for ages!, long time, no see ( colloq)

aún no he ido a ver a la abuela I still haven't been to see o visit grandmother

ahora que vive lejos lo vemos menos we don't see so much of him now that he lives so far away

H

(en el póquer): las veo I'll see you

I

tener … que ver: eso no tiene nada que ver con lo que estamos discutiendo that has nothing to do with what we are discussing

es muy joven — ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? he's very young — and what does that have to do with it?

no tengo nada que ver con esa compañía I have nothing to do with that company, I have no connection with that company

¿tuviste algo que ver en ese asunto? did you have anything to do with o any connection with that business?, were you involved in that business?

¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?

¿tendrán algo que ver con los Icasuriaga de Zamora? are they related in any way to the Icasuriagas from Zamora?

■ ver

vi

A (percibir con la vista) to see

no veo bien de lejos/de cerca I'm shortsighted/longsighted

enciende la luz que no veo turn on the light, I can't see

B

(constatar): ¿hay cerveza? — no sé, voy a ver is there any beer? — I don't know, I'll have a look

¿está Juan? — voy a ver is Juan in? — I'll go and see

verás, no quería engañarte pero … look, I wasn't trying to deceive you, it's just that …

pues verás, la cosa empezó cuando … well you see, the whole thing began when …

ver para creer seeing is believing

C (estudiar, pensar) to see

vamos a veror veamos, ¿dónde le duele? let's see now, where does it hurt?

¿vas a decir que sí? — ya veré, déjame pensarlo un poco are you going to accept? I'll see, let me think about it

estar/seguir en veremos ( AmL fam): todavía está en veremos it isn't certain yet

seguimos en veremos we still don't know anything, we're still in the dark

D

a ver see ver² vt D.

E ver de (procurar) to try

vean de que no se dé cuenta try to make sure he doesn't notice

vamos a ver de hacerlo lo más rápido posible let's try to get it done o let's see if we can get it done as quickly as possible

■ verse

v pron

A ( refl)

1 (percibirse) to see oneself

¿te quieres ver en el espejo? do you want to see yourself o look at yourself in the mirror?

se vio reflejado en el agua he saw his reflection in the water

2 (imaginarse) to see oneself

¿tú te ves viviendo allí? can you see yourself living there?

B

1 (hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself

me vi obligado a despedirlo I was obliged to dismiss him, I had no choice but to dismiss him

se vio en la necesidad de pedir dinero prestado he found himself having to borrow money

me vi en un aprieto I found myself in a tight spot

vérselas venir ( fam): me las veía venir por eso tomé precauciones I saw it coming so I took precautions

vérselas y deseárselas: me las vi y me las deseé estudiando y trabajando durante cinco años it was really tough o hard o it was a real struggle studying and working for five years

verse venir algo to see sth coming

2 ( frml)

(ser): este problema se ha visto agravado por … this problem has been made worse by …

las cifras se ven aumentadas al final del verano the figures rise at the end of the summer

el país se verá beneficiado con este acuerdo the country will benefit from this agreement

C ( esp AmL) (parecer) to look

me veo gordísima con esta falda I look really fat in this skirt

D ( recípr) (encontrarse) to meet

se veían un par de veces al mes they used to see each other o meet a couple of times a month

nos vemos a las siete I'll meet o see you at seven

es mejor que no nos veamos durante un tiempo we'd better not see each other for a while

¡nos vemos! ( esp AmL); see you!, I'll be seeing you!

verse CON algn to see sb

ya no me veo con ellos I don't see them any more

vérselas con algn: tendrá que vérselas conmigo como se atreva a molestarte he'll have me to deal with if he dares to bother you

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ver 1 sustantivo masculino
1 ( aspecto):
◊ ser de buen ver to be good-looking o attractive

2 ( opinión):
◊ a mi/su ver in my/his view

ver 2 ( conjugate ver) verbo transitivo
1
a) ( percibir con la vista) to see;

◊ ¿ves algo? can you see anything?;

no se ve nada aquí you can't see a thing in here;
lo vi hablando con ella I saw him talking to her
b) ( mirar) ‹programa/partido› to watch;

◊ ver (la) televisión to watch television;

esa película ya la he visto I've seen that movie before;
no poder (ni) ver a algn: no la puede ver he can't stand her
2 (entender, notar) to see;
◊ ¿no ves lo que está pasando? don't o can't you see what's happening?;

se la ve preocupada she looks worried;
hacerse ver (RPl) to show off
3
a) (constatar, comprobar) to see;

◊ ve a ver quién es go and see who it is;

¡ya verás lo que pasa! you'll see what happens;
¡ya se verá! we'll see
b) ( ser testigo de) to see;

◊ ¡nunca he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it!;

¡si vieras lo mal que lo pasé! you can't imagine how awful it was!;
¡hubieras visto cómo se asustaron! (AmL) you should have seen the fright they got!
4
◊ a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right, now, what's the problem?;

está aquí, en el periódico — ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper — let's see;
apriétalo a ver qué pasa press it and see what happens;
a ver si escribes pronto make sure you write soon
5
a) ( estudiar):

◊ esto mejor que lo veas tú you'd better have a look at this;

tengo que ver cómo lo arreglo I have to work out how I can fix it;
ya veré qué hago I'll decide what to do later
b) [ médico] ( examinar) to see;

◊ ¿la ha visto un médico? has she been seen by a doctor yet?

6
a) (juzgar, considerar):

◊ yo eso no lo veo bien I don't think that's right;

a mi modo or manera de ver the way I see it
b) ( encontrar) to see;

◊ no le veo salida a esto I can't see any way out of this;

no le veo la gracia I don't think it's funny
7 (visitar, entrevistarse con) ‹amigo/pariente› to see, visit;
‹médico/jefe› to see;
◊ ¡cuánto tiempo sin verte! I haven't seen you for ages!

8
◊ tener … que ver: ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? and what does that have to do with it?;

no tengo nada que ver con él I have nothing to do with him;
¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?
verbo intransitivo
1 ( percibir con la vista) to see;
◊ así no veo I can't see like this;

no veo bien de lejos/de cerca I'm shortsighted/longsighted
2 ( constatar):
◊ ¿hay cerveza? — no sé, voy a ver is there any beer? — I don't know, I'll have a look;

pues verás, todo empezó cuando … well you see, the whole thing began when …
3 ( pensar) to see;
◊ ya veré I'll see;

estar/seguir en veremos (AmL fam): todavía está en veremos it isn't certain yet;
seguimos en veremos we still don't know anything
verse verbo pronominal
1 ( refl) (percibirse, imaginarse) to see oneself
2 ( hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself;
◊ me vi en un aprieto I found myself in a tight spot;

me vi obligado a despedirlo I had no choice but to dismiss him
3 (esp AmL) ( parecer):
◊ se ve bien con esa falda she looks good in that skirt;

no se ve bien con ese peinado that hairdo doesn't suit her
4 ( recípr)
a) ( encontrarse) to meet;

◊ nos vemos a las siete I'll meet o see you at seven;

¡nos vemos! (esp AmL) see you!
b) (visitarse, encontrarse) to see each other;

◊ nos vemos a menudo we see each other often;

verse con algn to see sb
ver 1 m (aspecto exterior) aún estás de buen ver, you're still good-looking
ver 2 I verbo transitivo
1 to see: vi tu cartera sobre la mesa, I saw your wallet on the table
no veo nada, I can't see anything
puede ver tu casa desde aquí, he can see your house from here ➣ Ver nota en see; (mirar la televisión) to watch: estamos viendo las noticias de las tres, we are watching the three o'clock news
(cine) me gustaría ver esa película, I'd like to see that film
2 (entender) no veo por qué no te gusta, I can't see why you don't like it
(considerar) a mi modo de ver, as far as I can see o as I see it
tus padres no ven bien esa relación, your parents don't agree with that relationship
(parecer) se te ve nervioso, you look nervous
3 (averiguar) ya veremos qué sucede, we'll soon see what happens
fam (uso enfático) ¡no veas qué sitio tan bonito!, you wouldn't believe what a beautiful place!
4 a ver, let's see: a ver si acabamos este trabajo, let's see if we can finish this job
me compré un compacto, - ¿a ver?, I bought a compact disc, - let's have a look!
5 (ir a ver, visitar) to see, visit: le fui a ver al hospital, I visited him in hospital
II verbo intransitivo
1 to see: no ve bien de lejos, he's shortsighted, US nearsighted
2 (dudar, pensar) ¿me prestas este libro?, - ya veré, will you lend me this book?, - I'll see
3 (tener relación) no tengo nada que ver con ese asunto, I have nothing to do with that business
solo tiene cincuenta años, - ¿y eso qué tiene qué ver?, he's only fifty, - so what?
♦ Locuciones: no poder ver a alguien: no puede (ni) verle, she can't stand him
¿To see, to watch o to look?
Los tres verbos reflejan tres conceptos muy distintos. To see hace referencia a la capacidad visual y no es fruto de una acción deliberada. A menudo se usa con can o could: I can see the mountains from my bedroom. Puedo ver las montañas desde mi dormitorio.
To look at implica una acción deliberada: I saw an old atlas, so I opened it and looked at the maps. Vi un atlas antiguo, así que lo abrí y miré los mapas.
To watch también se refiere a una acción deliberada, a menudo cuando se tiene un interés especial por lo que ocurre: I watched the planes in the sky with great interest. Miraba los aviones en el cielo con gran interés. Igualmente puede indicar el paso del tiempo (we watched the animals playing for half an hour, durante media hora observamos cómo jugaban los animales), movimiento (they stood there watching the cars drive off into the distance, se quedaron allí de pie viendo cómo se marchaban los coches) o vigilancia (the policemen have been watching this house because they thought we were thieves, los policías estaban vigilando la casa porque pensaban que éramos ladrones).
Para hablar de películas u obras de teatro usamos to see: Have you seen Hamlet?, ¿Has visto Hamlet? To watch se refiere a la televisión y los deportes en general: I always watch the television in the evening. Siempre veo la televisión por las noches. I like to watch football. Me gusta ver el fútbol. Al hablar de programas o partidos específicos podemos usar tanto to watch como to see: I like to see/watch the news at 9:00. Me gusta ver las noticias a las 9.00. Did you see/watch the match last night?, ¿Viste el partido anoche?
' ver' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- abundante
- acabar
- aclararse
- aconsejar
- acordar
- acordarse
- acostumbrada
- acostumbrado
- actual
- actualmente
- acuerdo
- adentro
- adición
- advertir
- agradecer
- aguantar
- aguardar
- ahora
- alegre
- almuerzo
- alquiler
- alta
- alto
- amarilla
- amarillo
- americanada
- amplia
- amplio
- añadir
- anexa
- anexo
- añorar
- apartamento
- apellido
- apetecer
- apreciar
- arrepentirse
- arriesgarse
- atreverse
- aún
- ausente
- ayudar
- bajar
- bastante
- burra
- burro
- cachorra
- cachorro
- caliente
English:
able
- add
- add up
- addition
- advertising
- afloat
- afraid
- afternoon
- aghast
- ajar
- akin
- alight
- alike
- alive
- all
- allow
- alone
- already
- although
- among
- amongst
- and
- another
- apartment
- appear
- appendix
- arouse
- as
- ashamed
- asleep
- assassin
- assassinate
- assassination
- associate
- attorney
- averse
- awake
- awaken
- aware
- bar
- barrister
- bath
- be
- beat
- beer
- beg
- benefit
- between
- billion
- bite

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ver

♦ nm

1. [aspecto]
estar de buen ver to be good-looking

2. [opinión]
a mi ver the way I see it

♦ vt

1. [percibir con los ojos] to see;
[mirar] to look at; [televisión, programa, espectáculo deportivo] to watch; [película, obra, concierto] to see;
¿ves algo? can you see anything?;

yo no veo nada I can't see a thing;

he estado viendo tu trabajo I've been looking at your work;

¿vemos la tele un rato? shall we watch some TV?;

esta serie nunca la veo I never watch this series;

¿has visto el museo? have you been to the museum?;

yo te veo más delgada you look thinner to me;
Méx Fam
¿qué me ves? what are you looking at?;

este edificio ha visto muchos sucesos históricos this building has seen a lot of historic events;

los jubilados han visto aumentadas sus pensiones pensioners have had their pensions increased;

ver a alguien hacer algo to see sb doing sth;

los vi actuar en el festival I saw them acting at the festival;

te vi bajar del autobús I saw you getting off the bus;

los vieron discutir o [m5] discutiendo they were seen arguing;

¡nunca o [m5] jamás he visto cosa igual! I've never seen the like of it!;

¡si vieras qué bien lo pasamos! if only you knew what a good time we had!;

¡si vieras qué cara se le puso! you should have seen her face!;

Comp

ver venir algo/a alguien: este problema ya lo veía venir I could see this problem coming;

lo veo venir I can see what he's up to;

Comp

verlas venir: él prefiere quedarse a verlas venir he prefers to wait and see;

Comp

¡quién lo ha visto y quién lo ve! it's amazing how much he's changed!;

Comp

si no lo veo, no lo creo I'd never have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes;

Comp

si te he visto no me acuerdo: pero ahora, si te he visto, no me acuerdo but now he/she/ etc doesn't want to know

2. [entender, apreciar, considerar] to see;

ya veo que estás de mal humor I can see you're in a bad mood;

¿no ves que trata de disculparse? can't you see o tell she's trying to apologize?;

¿ves lo que quiero decir? do you see what I mean?;

ahora lo veo todo claro now I understand everything;

a todo le ve pegas he sees problems in everything;

yo no le veo solución a este problema I can't see a solution to this problem;

¿tú cómo lo ves? how do you see it?;

yo lo veo así I see it this way o like this;

es una manera de ver las cosas that's one way of looking at it;

yo no lo veo tan mal I don't think it's that bad;

ahí donde la ves, era muy guapa de joven she was very pretty when she was young, you know;

dejarse ver (por un sitio) to show one's face (somewhere);

¿te gusta? – ¡a ver! do you like it? – of course I do!;

Comp

¡habráse visto!: ¡habráse visto qué cara dura/mal genio tiene! you'd never believe what a cheek/temper he has!;

Comp

¡hay que ver! [indica sorpresa] would you believe it!;
[indica indignación] it makes me mad!;
¡hay que ver qué lista es! you wouldn't believe how clever she is!;

¡hay que ver cuánto se gasta estando de vacaciones! it's amazing how much you spend when you're on Br holiday o US vacation!;

Comp

para que veas: no le tengo ningún rencor, ¡para que veas! I don't bear him any hard feelings, in case you were wondering;

Comp
Fam
no poder ver a alguien (ni en pintura): no lo puedo ver I can't stand (the sight of) him

3. [imaginar] to see;

ya veo tu foto en los periódicos I can (just) see your photo in the newspapers;

francamente, yo no la veo casada to be honest, I find it hard to see her getting married

4. [comprobar] to see;

ir a ver lo que pasa to go and see what's going on;

ve a ver si quedan cervezas go and see if o have a look if there are any beers left;

veré qué puedo hacer I'll see what I can do;

queda por ver si ésta es la mejor solución it remains to be seen whether this is the best solution;

eso está por ver, eso habrá que verlo that remains to be seen;

veamos let's see

5. [tratar, estudiar] [tema, problema] to look at;

el lunes veremos la lección 6 we'll do lesson 6 on Monday;

como ya hemos visto en anteriores capítulos… as we have seen in previous chapters…

6. [reconocer] [sujeto: médico, especialista] to have o take a look at;

necesitas que te vea un médico, Andes, RP [m5] hazte ver por un médico you ought to see a doctor;
Andes, RP
el televisor no funciona, tengo que hacerlo ver the television's not working, I must get someone to have a look at it o get it seen to

7. [visitar, citarse con] to see;

tienes que ir a ver al médico you ought to see the doctor;

ven a vernos cuando quieras come and see us any time you like;

mañana vamos a ver a mis padres we're seeing my parents tomorrow;

hace siglos que no la veo I haven't seen her for ages;

últimamente no los veo mucho I haven't seen much of them recently

8. Der [juzgar]
ver un caso to hear a case

9. [en juegos de naipes] to see;

las veo I'll see you

♦ vi

1. [percibir con los ojos] to see;

ver bien/mal to have good/poor eyesight;

no veo bien de cerca/de lejos I'm long-sighted/short-sighted;

¿ves bien ahí? can you see all right from there?;

Comp
Fam
que no veo: tengo un hambre/sueño que no veo I'm incredibly hungry/tired;

Comp
Fam
que no veas: hace un frío/calor que no veas it's incredibly cold/hot;

los vecinos arman un ruido que no veas the neighbours are unbelievably noisy;

Comp

hasta más ver [adiós] see you soon

2. [hacer la comprobación] to see;

la casa está en muy buenas condiciones – ya veo the house is in very good condition – so I see;

es muy sencillo, ya verás it's quite simple, you'll see;

creo que me queda uno en el almacén, iré a ver I think I have one left in the storeroom, I'll just go and see o look;

vendrá en el periódico – voy a ver it'll be in the newspaper – I'll go and see o look;

tú sigue sin estudiar y verás you'll soon see what happens if you carry on not studying;

¿ves?, te lo dije (you) see? I told you so;

Comp

ver para creer seeing is believing

3. [decidir]
¿lo harás? – ya veré will you do it? – I'll see;

ya veremos we'll see

4. [en juegos de naipes]
¡veo! I'll see you!

5. [como muletilla]
verás, tengo algo muy importante que decirte listen o look, I've got something very important to say to you;

¿qué ha pasado? – pues, verás, yo estaba… what happened? – well, you see, I was…

6.
a ver: a ver cuánto aguantas en esa postura let's see how long you can hold that position;

a ver cuándo vienes a vernos you must come and see us some time;

no subas al tejado, a ver si te vas a caer don't go up on the roof, you might fall;

¡a ver si tienes más cuidado con lo que dices! you should be a bit more careful what you say!;

¿a ver? [mirando con interés] let me see, let's have a look;
Col
¡a ver! [al teléfono] hello?;

a ver, ¿qué te pasa? let's see, what's wrong?;

a ver, antes de empezar… let's see, right, before starting…;

vamos a ver let's see

♦ See also the pronominal verb verse

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ver

<part visto>

I v/t

1 L.Am. ( mirar) look at; televisión watch

2 see;

sin ser visto unseen, without being seen;

la vi ayer en la reunión I saw her yesterday at the meeting;

no puede verla fig he can’t stand the sight of her;

tengo un hambre que no veo fam I’m starving o

ravenous;

me lo veía venir I could see it coming;

te veo venir fig I know what you’re after

3 ( visitar)

:

fui a ver al médico I went to see the doctor

4 ( opinar)

:

¿cómo lo ves? what do you think?

5 ( entender)

:

me hizo ver que estaba equivocado she made me see that I was wrong;

¿(lo) ves? (do) you see?

6 JUR pleito hear

7

:

no tiene nada que ver con it doesn’t have anything to do with

II v/i

1 L.Am. ( mirar) look;

ve aquí dentro look in here

2 see;

no veo bien sin gafas I don’t see too well without my glasses

3 ( considerar)

:

está por ver that remains to be seen;

ya veremos we’ll see;

vamos a ver let’s see;

a ver let’s see, now then

4 locuciones

:

¡hay que ver! would you believe it!;

¡para que veas! so there!

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ver {88} vt

1) : to see

vimos la película: we saw the movie

2) entender: to understand

ya lo veo: now I get it

3) examinar: to examine, to look into

lo veré: I'll take a look at it

4) juzgar: to see, to judge

a mi manera de ver: to my way of thinking

5) visitar: to meet with, to visit

6) averiguar: to find out

7)

a ver or

vamos a ver : let's see

ver vi

1) : to see

2) enterarse: to learn, to find out

3) entender: to understand

♦ See also the reflexive verb verse

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ver vb

1. (en general) to see [pt. saw; pp. seen]

no veo nada I can't see a thing

ya he visto esta película I've already seen this film

voy a ver quién es I'll go and see who it is

2. (mirar) to watch

están viendo la tele they're watching TV

3. (parecer) to look

lo veo muy feliz he looks very happy

4. (considerar) to think [pt. & pp. thought]

veo difícil que mi equipo gane la liga I don't think my team will win the league

a ver let's see

a ver si I hope

no poder ver a alguien not to be able to stand someone

no puede ver a su vecino she can't stand her neighbour

veamos let's see

Spanish-English dictionary > ver

7 FYRIR

for

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prep.

I. with dat.

1) before, in front of (ok vóru fyrir honum borin merkin);

fyrir dyrum, before the door;

2) before one, in one’s presence;

hón nefndist fyrir þeim Gunnhildr, she told them that her name was G.;

3) for;

hann lét ryðja fyrir þeim búðina, he had the booth cleared for them, for their reception;

4) before one, in one’s way;

fjörðr varð fyrir þeim, they came to a fjord;

sitja fyrir e-m, to lie in wait for one;

5) naut. term. before, off;

liggja fyrir bryggjum, to lie off the piers;

fyrir Humru-mynni, off the Humber;

6) before, at the head of, over;

vera fyrir liði, to be over the troops;

vera fyrir máli, to lead the case;

sitja fyrir svörum, to undertake the defence;

7) of time, ago;

fyrir þrem nóttum, three nights ago;

fyrir stundu, a while ago;

fyrir löngu, long ago;

vera fyrir e-u, to forebode (of a dream);

8) before, above, superior to;

Hálfdan svarti var fyrir þeim brœðrum, H. was the foremost of the brothers;

9) denoting disadvantige, harm, suffering;

þú lætr Egil vefja öll mál fyrir þér, thou lettest E. thwart all thy affairs;

tók at eyðast fyrir herm lausa-fé, her money began to fail;

10) denoting obstacle, hindrance;

mikit gøri þer mér fyrir þessu máli, you make this case hard for me;

varð honum lítit fyrir því, it was a small matter for him;

Ásgrími þótti þungt fyrir, A. thought that things looked bad;

11) because of, for;

hon undi sér hvergri fyrir verkjum, she had no rest for pains;

fyrir hræðslu, for fear;

illa fœrt fyrir ísum, scarcely, passable for ice;

gáðu þeir eigi fyrir veiðum at fá heyjanna, because of fishing, they neglected to make hay;

fyrir því at, because, since, as;

12) against;

gæt þín vel fyrir konungi ok hans mönnum, guard thee well against the king and his men;

beiða griða Baldri fyrir alls konar háska, against all kinds of harm;

13) fyrir sér, of oneself;

mikill fyrir sér, strong, powerful;

minnstr fyrir sér, smallest, weakest;

14) denoting manner or quality, with;

hvítr fyrir hærum, while with hoary hair;

II. with acc.

1) before, in front of;

halda fyrir augu sér, to hold (one’s hands) before one’s eyes;

2) before, into the presence of;

stefna e-m fyrir dómstól, before a court;

3) over;

hlaupa fyrir björg, to leap over a precipice;

kasta fyrir borð, to throw overboard;

4) in one’s way, crossing one’s way;

ríða á leið fyrir þá, to ride in their way, so as to meet them;

5) round, off;

sigla fyrir nes, to weather a point;

6) along, all along;

fyrir endilangan Noreg, all along Norway, from one end to the other;

draga ör fyrir odd, to draw the arrow past the point;

7) of time, fyrir dag, before day;

fyrir e-s minni, before one’s memory;

8) for, on behalf of;

vil ek bjóða at fara fyrir þik, I will offer to go for thee, in thy stead;

lögvörn fyrir mál, a lawful defence for a case;

9) for, for the benefit of;

þeir skáru fyrir þá melinn, they cut the lyme-grass for them (the horses);

10) for, instead of, in place of, as;

11) for, because of (vilja Gunnar dauðan fyrir höggit);

fyrir þín orð, for thy words (intercession);

fyrir sína vinsæld, by reason of his popularity;

12) denoting value, price;

fyrir þrjár merkr, for three marks;

fyrir hvern mun, by all means, at any cost;

13) in spite of, against (giptast fyrir ráð e-s);

14) joined with adverbs ending in -an, governing acc. (fyrir austan, vestan, sunnan, norðan, útan innan, framan, handan, ofan, neðan);

fyrir austan, sunnan fjall, east, south of the fell;

fyrir neðan brú, below the bridge;

fyrir handan á, beyond the river;

fyrir innan garð, inside the fence;

III. as adverb or ellipt.

1) ahead, before, opp. to eptir;

þá var eigi hins verra eptir ván, er slíkt fór fyrir, when this came first, preceded;

2) first;

mun ek þar eptir gera sem þér gerit fyrir, I shall do to you according as you do first;

3) at hand, present, to the fore;

föng þau, er fyrir vóru, stores that were at hand;

þar var fyrir fjöldi boðsmanna, a host of guests was already present (before the bride and bridegroom came);

4) e-m verðr e-t fyrir, one takes a certain step, acts so and so;

Kolbeini varð ekki fyrir, K. was at a loss what to do;

e-t mælist vel (illa) fyrir, a thing is well (ill) spoken or reported of (kvæðit mæltist vel fyrir).

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prep., in the Editions spelt differently; in MSS. this word is usually abbreviated either  (i. e. firir), or Ꝼ̆, fur͛, fvr͛ (i. e. fyrir); in some MSS. it is idiomatically spelt with i, fir͛, e. g. Arna-Magn. 382 (Bs. i. 263 sqq.); and even in the old Miracle-book Arna-Magn. 645 (Bs. i. 333 sqq.), just as ifir is written for yfir ( over); in a few MSS. it is written as a monosyllable fyr, e. g. D. I. i. 475, Mork. passim; in Kb. (Sæm.-Edda) occurs fyr telia, Vsp. I; fyr norðan, 36; fyr dyrum, Gm. 22; fyr vestan ver, Hkv. 2. 8; in other places as a dissyll. fyrir, e. g. Hm. 56, Gm. 54, Skm. 34, Ls. 15, Am. 64, Hkv. 2. 2, 19 (quoted from Bugge’s edition, see his preface, p. xvi); fyr and fyrir stand to one another in the same relation as ept to eptir, und to undir, of ( super) to yfir: this monosyllabic form is obsolete, save in the compds, where ‘for-’ is more common than ‘fyrir-;’ in some cases both forms are used, e. g. for-dæming and fyrir-dæming; in others only one, but without any fixed rule: again, the forms fyri, fyre, or fire, which are often used in Edd., are just as wrong, as if one were to say epti, undi, yfi; yet this spelling is found now and then in MSS., as, fyre, Ó. H. (facsimile); fire, Grág. Sb. ii. 288 (also facsimile): the particles í and á are sometimes added, í fur, Fms. iv. 137; í fyrir, passim; á fur, Haustl. 1. [Ulf. faur and faura; A. S. fore and for; Engl. for and fore-; Germ. für and vor; Dan. for; Swed. för; Gr. προ-; Lat. pro, prae.]

WITH DAT., chiefly without the notion of movement.

A. LOCAL:

I. before, in front of; fyrir dyrum, before the doors, at the doors, Nj. 14, Vsp. 53, Hm. 69, Edda 130; niðr f. smiðju-dyrum, Eg. 142:—ahead, úti fyrir búðinni, Nj. 181; kómusk sauðirnir upp á fjallit f. þeim, ahead of them, 27; vóru fyrir honum borin merkin, the banner was borne before him, 274; göra orð fyrir sér, to send word before one, Fms. vii. 207, Hkr. iii. 335 (Ó. H. 201, l. c., frá sér):—also denoting direction, niðri í eldinum f. sér, beneath in the fire before them, Nj. 204; þeir sá f. sér bæ mikinn, they saw before them a great building, i. e. they came to a great house, Eg. 546; öðrum f. sér ( in front) en öðrum á bak sér, Grág. i. 5.

2. before one, before one’s face, in one’s presence; úhelgaða ek Otkel f. búum, before the neighbours, Nj. 87; lýsi ek f. búum fimm, 218; lýsa e-u ( to proclaim) f. e-m, Ld. 8; hann hermdi boð öll f. Gizuri, Nj. 78; hón nefndisk f. þeim Gunnhildr, told them that her name was G., Fms. i. 8; kæra e-t f. e-m, Ó. H. 60; slíkar fortölur hafði hann f. þeim, Nj. 200; the saying, því læra börnin málið að það er f. þeim haft, bairns learn to speak because it is done before them, i. e. because they hear it; hafa gott (íllt) f. e-m, to give a good (bad) example, e. g. in the presence of children; lifa vel f. Guði, to live well before God, 623. 29; stór ábyrgðar-hluti f. Guði, Nj. 199; sem þeir sjá réttast f. Guði, Grág. i. (pref.); fyrir öllum þeim, Hom. 89; á laun f. öðrum mönnum, hidden from other men, unknown to them, Grág. i. 337, Jb. 378; nú skaltú vera vin minn mikill f. húsfreyju minni, i. e. when you talk to my wife, Nj. 265; fyrir Drottni, before the Lord, Merl. 2. 78.

3. denoting reception of guests, visitors; hann lét ryðja f. þeim búðina, he had the room cleared for them, for their reception, Nj. 228; Valhöll ryðja fyr vegnu fólki, i. e. to clear Valhalla for slain folk, Em. I; ryðja vígvöll f. vegundum, Nj. 212; ljúka upp f. e-m, to open the door for one, Fms. xi. 323, Stj. 5; rýma pallinn f. þeim, Eg. 304; hann lét göra eld f. þeim, he had a fire made for them, 204; þeir görðu eld. f. sér, Fms. xi. 63; … veizlur þar sem fyrir honum var búit, banquets that were ready for him, Eg. 45.

II. before one, in one’s way; þar er díki varð f. þeim, Eg. 530; á (fjörðr) varð f. þeim, a river, fjord, was before them, i. e. they came to it, 133, 161; at verða eigi f. liði yðru, 51; maðr sá varð f. Vindum, that man was overtaken by the V., Hkr. iii. 363; þeirra manna er f. honum urðu, Eg. 92.

2. sitja f. e-m, to lie in wait for one, Ld. 218, Nj. 107; lá f. henni í skóginum, Edda (pref.); sitja f. rekum, to sit watching for wrecks, Eg. 136 (fyrir-sát).

3. ellipt., menn urðu at gæta sín er f. urðu, Nj. 100; Egill var þar f. í runninum, E. was before (them), lay in ambush, Eg. 378; hafði sá bana er f. varð, who was before (the arrow), i. e. he was hit, Nj. 8.

4. verða f. e-u, to be hit, taken, suffer from a thing; ef hann verðr f. drepi, if he be struck, Grág. ii. 19; verða f. áverka, to be wounded, suffer injury, Ld. 140; verða f. reiði konungs, to fall into disgrace with the king, Eg. 226; verða f. ósköpum, to become the victim of a spell, spell-bound, Fas. i. 130; sitja f. hvers manns ámæli, to be the object of all men’s blame, Nj. 71; vera eigi f. sönnu hafðr, to be unjustly charged with a thing, to be innocent.

III. a naut. term, before, off; liggja f. bryggjum, to lie off the pier, Ld. 166; skip fljóta f. strengjum, Sks. 116; þeir lágu f. bænum, they lay off the town, Bs. i. 18; liggja úti f. Jótlands-síðu, off Jutland, Eg. 261; hann druknaði f. Jaðri, off the J., Fms. i. II; þeir kómu at honum f. Sjólandi, off Zealand, x. 394; hafa úti leiðangr f. landi, Hkr. i. 301; f. Humru-minni, off the Humber, Orkn. 338, cp. Km. 3, 8, 9, 13, 19, 21; fyrir Nesjum, off the Ness, Vellekla; fyrir Tungum, Sighvat; fyrir Spáni, off Spain, Orkn. 356.

IV. before, at the head of, denoting leadership; smalamaðr f. búi föður síns, Ver. 26 (of king David); vera f. liði, to be over the troops, Eg. 292, Nj. 7; vera f. máli, to lead the case, Band. 8; vera forstjóri f. búi, to be steward over the household, Eg. 52; ráða f. landi, ríki, etc., to rule, govern, Ó H. 33, Nj. 5; hverr f. eldinum réði, who was the ringleader of the fire, Eg. 239; ráða f. e-u, to rule, manage a thing, passim: the phrase, sitja f. svörum, to respond on one’s behalf, Ölk. 36, Band. 12; hafa svör f. e-m, to be the chief spokesman, Fms. x. 101, Dipl. v. 26.

V. special usages; friða f. e-m, to make peace for one, Fms. vii. 16, Bs. i. 65; bæta f. e-m, to make things good for one, Hom. 109; túlka, vera túlkr, flytja (etc.) f. e-m, to plead for one, Fms. iii. 33, Nj. 128,—also spilla f. e-m, to disparage one, Eg. 255; haga, ætla f. e-u, to manage, arrange for one, Ld. 208, Sturl. i. 14, Boll. 356; rífka ráð f. e-m, to better one’s condition, Nj. 21; ráða heiman-fylgju ok tilgjöf f. frændkonu sinni, Js. 58; standa f. manni, to stand before, shield a man, stand between him and his enemy, Eg. 357, Grág. ii. 13; vera skjöldr f. e-m, 655 xxxii. 4; hafa kostnað f. e-u, to have the expences for a thing, Ld. 14; vinna f. e-m, to support one by one’s work, Sks. 251; starfa f. fé sínu, to manage one’s money, Ld. 166; hyggja f. e-u, to take heed for a thing, Nj. 109; hyggja f. sér, Fs. 5; hafa forsjá f. e-m, to provide for one, Ld. 186; sjá f. e-u, to see after, Eg. 118, Landn, 152; sjá þú nokkut ráð f. mér, Nj. 20: ironic. to put at rest, Háv. 40: ellipt., sjá vel f., to provide well for, Nj. 102.

B. TEMP. ago; fyrir þrem nóttum, three nights ago; fyrir stundu, a while ago, Nj. 80; fyrir litlu, a little while ago, Fms. i. 76, Ld. 134; fyrir skömmu, a sbort while ago; fyrir löngu, a long while ago, Nj. 260, Fms. i. 50; fyrir öndverðu, from the beginning, Grág. i. 80, ii. 323, 394, Finnb. 342; fyrir þeim, before they were born, Fms. i. 57.

2. the phrase, vera f. e-u, to forebode; vera f. stórfundum, Nj. 107, 277; þat hygg ek vera munu f. siða-skipti, Fms. xi. 12; þessi draumr mun vera f. kvámu nökkurs manns, vii. 163; dreyma draum f. e-u, 8; fyrir tiðendum, ii. 65:—spá f. e-m, to ‘spae’ before, prophecy to one, Nj. 171.

C. METAPH.:

I. before, above; þóttu þeir þar f. öllum ungum mönnum, Dropl. 7; þykkisk hann mjök f. öðrum mönnum, Ld. 38; ver f. hirðmönnum, be first among my herdsmen, Eg. 65; Hálfdan svarti var f. þeim bræðrum, H. was the foremost of the brothers, Fms. i. 4; þorgrímr var f. sonum Önundar, Grett. 87; var Haraldr mest f. þeim at virðingu, Fms. i. 47.

II. denoting help, assistance; haun skal rétta vættið f. þeim, Grág. i. 45 (vide above A. IV and V).

2. the following seem to be Latinisms, láta lífit f. heilagri Kristni, to give up one’s life for holy Christianity, = Lat. pro, Fms. vii. 172; ganga undir píslir fyrir Guðs nafni, Blas. 38; gjalda önd mína f. önd þinni, Johann. 17; gefa gjöf f. sál sinni ( pro animâ suâ), H. E. i. 466; fyrir mér ok minni sál, Dipl. iv. 8; færa Guði fórnir f. e-m, 656 A; heita f. e-m, biðja f. e-m, to make a vow, pray for one (orare pro), Fms. iii. 48, Bs. i. 70; biðja f. mönnum, to intercede for, 19, Fms. xi. 287: even with a double construction, biðja f. stað sinn (acc., which is vernacular) ok heilagri kirkju (dat., which is a Latinism), x. 127.

III. denoting disadvantage, harm, suffering; þú lætr Egil vefja öll mál fyrir þér, thou lettest Egil thwart all thy affairs, Eg. 249; únýtir hann þá málit fyrir sér, then he ruins his own case, Grág. i. 36, Dropl. 14, 16; Manverjar rufu safnaðinn f. Þorkatli, the Manxmen broke up the assembly, i. e. forsook Thorkel, Fms. ix. 422; kom upp grátr f. henni, she burst into tears, 477; taka fé f. öðrum, to take another’s money, N. G. L. i. 20; knörr þann er konungr lét taka fyrir Þórólfi, Landn. 56; ef hross verðr tekit f. honum, if a horse of his be taken, Grág. i. 436; hann tók upp fé fyrir öllum, he seized property for them all, Ó. H. 60; e-t ferr ílla f. e-m, a thing turns out ill for one; svá fór f. Ólófu, so it came to pass for O., Vígl. 18; loka dyrr f. e-m, to lock the door in one’s face, Edda 21: þeir hafa eigi þessa menn f. yðr drepit, heldr f. yðrar sakir þessi víg vegit, i. e. they have not harmed you, but rather done you a service in slaying those men, Fbr. 33; tók at eyðask f. henni lausa-fé, her money began to fail, Nj. 29; rak á f. þeim storma ok stríðviðri, they were overtaken by gales and bad weather, Vígl. 27; Víglundr rak út knöttinn f. Jökli, V. drove the ball for J., i. e. so that he had to run after it, 24; sá er skar tygil f. Þóri, he who cut Thor’s line, Bragi; sverð brast f. mér, my sword broke, Korm. 98 (in a verse); brjóta e-t f. e-m, to break a thing for one, Bs. i. 15 (in a verse); Valgarðr braut krossa fyrir Merði ok öll heilög tákn, Nj. 167; árin brotnaði f. honum, his oar broke; allar kýrnar drápust fyrir honum, all his cows died.

2. denoting difficulty, hindrance; sitja f. sæmd e-s, to sit between oneself and one’s honour, i. e. to hinder one’s doing well, Sturl. 87; mikit göri þér mér f. þessu máli, you make this case sore for me, Eb. 124; þér er mikit f. máli, thy case stands ill, Fms. v. 325; ekki er Guði f. því, it is easy for God to do, 656 B. 9; varð honum lítið f. því, it was a small matter for him, he did it easily, Grett. III; mér er minna f. því, it is easier for me, Am. 60; þykkja mikit f. e-u, to be much grieved for a thing, do it unwillingly, Nj. 77; Icel. also say, þykja fyrir (ellipt.), to feel hurt, be displeased:—ellipt., er þeim lítið fyrir at villa járnburð þenna, it is a small matter for them to spoil this ordeal, Ó. H. 140; sem sér muni lítið f. at veiða Gunnar, Nj. 113; fast mun f. vera, it will be fast-fixed before (one), hard to move, Ld. 154; Ásgrími þótti þungt f., A. thought that things looked sad (heavy), Nj. 185; hann var lengi f., he was long about it, Fms. x. 205; hann var lengi f. ok kvað eigi nei við, he was cross and said not downright no, Þorf. Karl. 388.

IV. in a causal sense, for, because of, Lat. per, pro; sofa ek né mákat fugls jarmi fyrir, I cannot sleep for the shrill cry of birds, Edda 16 (in a verse); hon undi sér hvergi f. verkjum, she had no rest for pains, Bjarn. 69; fyrir gráti, tárum, = Lat. prae lacrymis; fyrir harmi, for sorrow; f. hlátri, for laughter, as in Engl.; þeir æddust f. einni konu, they went mad for the sake of one woman, Sól. 11; ílla fært f. ísum, scarce passable for ice, Fms. xi. 360; hætt var at sitja útar f. Miðgarðs-ormi, Edda 35; hann var lítt gengr f. sárinu, he could hardly walk for the wound, Fbr. 178; fyrir hræðslu, for fear, Hbl. 26; heptisk vegrinn f. þeim meinvættum sem …, Fs. 4; gáðu þeir eigi f. veiðum at fá heyjanna, because of fishing they took no care to make hay, Landn. 30; fyrir riki konungs, for the king’s power, Eg. 67, 117; fyrir ofríki manna, Grág. i. 68; fyrir hví, for why? Eluc. 4; fyrir hví þeir væri þar, Eg. 375; fyrir því, at …, for that, because, Edda 35, Fms. i. 22, vii. 330, Ld. 104; en fyrir því nú at, now since, Skálda 171; nú fyrir því at, id., 169: the phrase, fyrir sökum, for the sake of, because of, passim; vide sök.

V. by, by the force of; öxlin gékk ór liði fyrir högginu, the shoulder was disjointed by the force of the stroke, Háv. 52.

2. denoting contest; falla f. e-m, to fall before one, i. e. fighting against one, Fms. i. 7, iv. 9, x. 196; verða halloki f. e-m, to be overcome in fighting one, Ld. 146; látask f. e-m, to perish by one, Eb. 34; hafa bana f. e-m, to be slain by one, Nj. 43; þeir kváðu fá fúnað hafa f. honum, 263; mæddisk hann f. þeim, he lost his breath in fighting them, Eg. 192; láta ríki f. e-m, to lose the kingdom before another, i. e. so that the latter gains it, 264; láta lausar eignir mínar f. þér, 505; láta hlut sinn f. e-m, Fs. 47; standask f. e-m, to stand one’s ground before one, Edda (pref.); hugðisk hann falla mundu f. sjóninni einni saman, that he would sink before his glance, 28, Hým. 12; halda hlut f. e-m, Ld. 54; halda frið ok frelsi f. várum óvinum, Fms. viii. 219; fara mun ek sem ek hefi áðr ætlað f. þínum draum ( thy dream notwithstanding), Ld. 216; þér farit hvárt er þér vilit f. mér, you go wherever you like for me, so far as I am concerted, Fær. 37; halda vöku f. sér, to keep oneself awake, Fms. i. 216.

β. with verbs, flýja, hlaupa, renna, stökkva f. e-m, to fly, leap, run before one, i. e. to be pursued, Bs. i. 774, Grág. ii. 359; at hann rynni f. þrælum hans, Ld. 64; fyrir þessum úfriði stökk Þangbrandr til Noregs, 180; skyldi hann ganga ór á f. Hofsmönnum, Landn. 178; ganga f. e-u, to give way before, yield to a thing, Fms. i. 305, x. 292; vægja f. e-m, to yield to one, give way, Eg. 21, 187, Nj. 57, Ld. 234.

VI. against; verja land f. e-m, Eg. 32; verja landit f. Dönum ok öðrum víkingum, Fms. i. 23; til landvarnar f. víkingum, Eg. 260; landvarnar-maðr f. Norðmönnum, Fms. vi. 295; gæta brúarinnar f. bergrisum, Edda 17; gæt þín vel f. konungi ok hans mönnum, guard thee well against the king and his men, Eg. 113; góð aðstoð f. tröllum ok dvergum, Bárð. 163; beiða Baldri griða f. allskonar háska, Edda 36; auðskæðr f. höggum, Eg. 770.

VII. in the sense of being driven before; fyrir straumi, veðri, vindi, before the stream, wind, weather (forstreymis, forvindis), Grág. ii. 384, Fms. vii. 262; halda f. veðri, to stand before the wind, Róm. 211.

2. rýrt mun verða f. honum smá-mennit, he will have an easy game with the small people, Nj. 94: ellipt., hafði sá bana er f. varð, 8; sprakk f., 16, 91.

VIII. fyrir sér, of oneself, esp. of physical power; mikill f. sér, strong, powerful; lítill f. sér, weak, feeble, Nj. 20, Ísl. ii. 368, Eg. 192; þér munuð kalla mik lítinn mann f. mér, Edda 33; minnstr f. sér, smallest, weakest, Eg. 123; gildr maðr f. sér, Ísl. ii. 322, Fms. ii. 145; herðimaðr mikiil f. sér, a hardy man, Nj. 270; hvat ert þú f. þér, what kind of fellow art thou? Clem. 33; vera einn f. sér, to be a strange fellow, Grett. 79 new Ed.; Icel. also say, göra mikið (lítið) f. sér, to make oneself big ( little).

β. sjóða e-t f. sér, to hesitate, saunter, Nj. 154; mæla f. munni, to talk between one’s teeth, to mutter, Orkn. 248, Nj. 249.

IX. denoting manner or quality; hvítr f. hærum, white with hoary hairs, Fms. vi. 95, Fas. ii. 540; gráir fyrir járnum, grey with steel, of a host in armour, Mag. 5; hjölt hvít f. silfri, a hilt white with silver = richly silvered, Eb. 226.

X. as adverb or ellipt.,

1. ahead, in front, = á undan, Lat. prae, opp. to eptir; þá var eigi hins verra eptir ván, er slíkt fór fyrir, as this came first, preceded, Nj. 34; at einhverr mundi fara heim fyrir, that some one would go home first (to spy), Eg. 580; Egill fór f., E. went in before, id.; at vér ríðim þegar f. í nótt, 283.

β. first; hann stefndi f. málinu, en hann mælti eptir, one pronounced the words first, but the other repeated after him, Nj. 35; mun ek þar eptir göra sem þér gerit f., I shall do to you according as you do first, 90:—temp., sjau nóttum f., seven nights before, Grág. ii. 217.

2. to the fore, at hand, present; þar var fyrir fjöldi boðsmanna, a host of guests was already to the fore, i. e. before the bride and bridegroom came, Nj. 11; úvíst er at vita hvar úvinir sitja á fleti fyrir, Hm. 1; skal þá lögmaðr þar f. vera, he shall be there present, Js. 3; heima í túni fyrir, Fær. 50; þar vóru fyrir Hildiríðar-synir, Eg. 98; var honum allt kunnigt fyrir, he knew all about the localities, 583; þeim ómögum, sem f. eru, who are there already, i. e. in his charge, Grág. i. 286: of things, föng þau er f. vóru, stores that were to the fore, at hand, Eg. 134.

3. fore, opp. to ‘back,’ of clothes; slæður settar f. allt gullknöppum, Eg. 516; bak ok fyrir, back and front, = bak ok brjóst, Mar.

XI. in the phrase, e-m verðr e-t fyrir, a thing is before one, i. e. one takes that and that step, acts so and so in an emergency; nú verðr öðrum þeirra þat f., at hann kveðr, now if the other part alleges, that …, Grág. i. 362; Kolbeini varð ekki f., K. had no resource, i. e. lost his head, Sturl. iii. 285:—the phrase, e-t mælisk vel (ílla) fyrir, a thing is well ( ill) reported of; víg Gunnars spurðisk ok mæltisk ílla fyrir um allar sveitir, Nj. 117, Sturl. ii. 151; mun þat vel f. mælask, people will like it well, Nj. 29, Þórð. 55 new Ed.; ílla mun þat f. mælask at ganga á sættir við frændr sína, Ld. 238; ok er lokit var, mæltisk kvæðit vel f., the people praised the poem, Fms. vii. 113.

XII. in special senses, either as prep. or adv. (vide A. V. above); segja leið f. skipi, to pilot a ship, Eg. 359; segja f. skipi, to say a prayer for a new ship or for any ship going to sea, Bs. i. 774, Fms. x. 480; mæla f. e-u, to dictate, Grág. ii. 266; mæla f. minni, to bring out a toast, vide minni; mæla f. sætt, i. 90; skipa, koma e-u f., to arrange, put right; ætla f. e-u, to make allowance for; trúa e-m f. e-u, to entrust one with; það fer mikið f. e-u (impers.), it is of great compass, bulky; hafa f. e-u, to have trouble with a thing; leita f. sér, to enquire; biðjask f., to say one’s prayers, vide biðja; mæla fyrir, segja f., etc., to order, Nj. 103, Js. 3: of a spell or solemn speaking, hann mælti svá f., at …, Landn. 34; spyrjask f., to enquire, Hkr. ii. 333; búask f., to prepare, make arrangement, Landn. 35, Sks. 551; skipask f., to draw up, Nj. 197; leggjask f., to lie down in despair, Bs. i. 194; spá fyrir, to ‘spae’ before, foretell; þeir menn er spá f. úorðna hluti, Fms. i. 96; segja f., to foretell, 76, Bb. 332; Njáll hefir ok sagt f. um æfi hans, Nj. 102; vita e-t f., to ‘wit’ beforehand, know the future, 98; sjá e-t f., to foresee, 162; ef þat er ætlat f., fore-ordained, id.

WITH ACC., mostly with the notion of movement.

A. LOCAL:

I. before, in front of; fyrir dyrrin, Nj. 198; láta síga brýnn f. brár, Hkv. Hjörv. 19; halda f. augu sér, to hold (one’s hands) before one’s eyes, Nj. 132; leggja sverði fyrir brjóst e-m, to thrust a sword into his breast, 162, Fs. 39.

2. before one, before a court; stefna e-m f. dómstól, Fms. xi. 444; ganga, koma f. e-n, to go, come before one, Fms. i. 15, Eg. 426, Nj. 6, 129, passim; fyrir augu e-s, before one’s eyes, Stj. 611.

3. before, so as to shield; hann kom skildinum f. sik, he put the shield before him, Nj. 97, 115; halda skildi f. e-n, a duelling term, since the seconder had to hold one’s shield, Ísl. ii. 257.

4. joined to adverbs such as fram, aptr, út, inn, ofan, niðr, austr, vestr, suðr, norðr, all denoting direction; fram f., forward; aptr f., backward, etc.; hann reiddi öxina fram f. sik, a stroke forward with the axe, Fms. vii. 91; hann hljóp eigi skemra aptr en fram fyrir sik, Nj. 29; þótti honum hann skjóta brandinum austr til fjallanna f. sik, 195; komask út f. dyrr, to go outside the door, Eg. 206:—draga ofan f. brekku, to drag over the hill, Ld. 220; hrinda f. mel ofan, to thrust one over the gravel bank, Eg. 748; hlaupa f. björg, to leap over a precipice, Eb. 62, Landn. 36; elta e-n f. björg, Grág. ii. 34; hlaupa (kasta) f. borð, to leap ( throw) overboard, Fms. i. 178, Hkr. iii. 391, Ld. 226; síga ( to be hauled) niðr f. borgar-vegg, 656 C. 13, Fms. ix. 3; hlaupa niðr f. stafn, Eg. 142; niðr f. skaflinn, Dropl. 25; fyrir brekku, Orkn. 450, Glúm. 395 (in a verse).

II. in one’s way, crossing one’s way; þeir stefndu f. þá, Fms. ix. 475; ríða á leið f. þá, to ride in their way, so as to meet them, Boll. 348; hlaupa ofan f. þá, Nj. 153; vóru allt komin f. hann bréf, letters were come before him, in his way, Fms. vii. 207; þeir felldu brota f. hann, viz. they felled trees before him, so as to stop him, viii. 60, ix. 357; leggja bann f. skip, to lay an embargo on a ship, Ld. 166.

III. round, off a point; fyrir nesit, Nj. 44; út f. Holm, out past the Holm, Fms. vii. 356: esp. as a naut. term, off a point on the shore, sigla f. England, Norðyrnbraland, Þrasnes, Spán, to sail by the coast of, stand off England, Northumberland, … Spain, Orkn. 338, 340, 342, 354; fyrir Yrjar, Fms. vii. (in a verse); fyrir Siggju, Aumar, Lista, Edda 91 (in a verse); er hann kom f. Elfina, when be came off the Gotha, Eg. 80; leggja land f. skut, to lay the land clear of the stern, i. e. to pass it, Edda l. c.; göra frið f. land sitt, to pacify the land from one end to another, Ld. 28; fyrir uppsprettu árinnar, to come to ( round) the sources of the river, Fms. iii. 183; fyrir garðs-enda, Grág. ii. 263; girða f. nes, to make a wall across the ness, block it up, cp. Lat. praesepire, praemunire, etc., Grág. ii. 263; so also binda f. op, poka, Lat. praeligare, praestringere; hlaða f. gat, holu, to stop a hole, opening; greri f. stúfinn, the stump (of the arm or leg) was healed, closed, Nj. 275; skjóta slagbrandi f. dyrr, to shoot a bolt before the door, to bar it, Dropl. 29; láta loku (lás) f. hurð, to lock a door, Gísl. 28; setja innsigli f. bréf, to set a seal to a letter, Dipl. i. 3: ellipt., setr hón þar lás fyrir, Ld. 42, Bs. i. 512.

2. along, all along; f. endilanga Danmörk, f. endilangan Noreg, all along Denmark, Norway, from one end to the other, Fms. iv. 319, xi. 91, Grett. 97:—öx álnar f. munn, an axe with an ell-long edge, Ld. 276; draga ör f. ödd, to draw the arrow past the point, an archer’s term, Fms. ii. 321.

IV. with verbs, fyrir ván komit, one is come past hope, all hope is gone, Sturl. i. 44, Hrafn. 13, Fms. ii. 131; taka f. munn e-m, to stop one’s mouth; taka f. háls, kverkar, e-m, to seize one by the throat, etc.; taka mál f. munn e-m, ‘verba alicujus praeripere,’ to take the word out of one’s mouth, xi. 12; taka f. hendr e-m, to seize one’s hands, stop one in doing a thing, Eb. 124; mod., taka fram f. hendrnar á e-m.

B. TEMP.: fyrir dag, before day, Eg. 80; f. miðjan dag, Ld. 14; f. sól, before sunrise, 268; f. sólar-lag, before sunset; f. miðjan aptan, Nj. 192; f. náttmál, 197; f. óttu, Sighvat; f. þinglausnir, Ölk. 37; f. Jól, Nj. 269; f. fardaga, Grág. ii. 341; viku f. sumar, 244; f. mitt sumar, Nj. 138; litlu f. vetr, Eg. 159; f. vetrnætr, Grág. ii. 217; f. e-s minni, before one’s memory, Íb. 16.

C. METAPH.:

I. above, before; hann hafdi mest fyrir aðra konunga hraustleikinn, Fms. x. 372.

II. for, on behalf of; vil ek bjóða at fara f. þik, I will go for thee, in thy stead, Nj. 77; ganga í skuld f. e-n, Grág. i. 283; Egill drakk … ok svá f. Ölvi, Eg. 210; kaupa e-t f. e-n, Nj. 157; gjalda gjöld f. e-n, Grág. i. 173; verja, sækja, sakir f. e-n, Eg. 504; hvárr f. sik, each for oneself, Dipl. v. 26; sættisk á öll mál f. Björn, Nj. 266; tók sættir f. Björn, Eg. 168; svara f. e-t, Fms. xi. 444; hafa til varnir f. sik, láta lýrit, lög-vörn koma f.; færa vörn f. sik, etc.; verja, sækja sakir f. sik, and many similar law phrases, Grág. passim; biðja konu f. e-n, to woo a lady for another, Fms. x. 44; fyrir mik, on my behalf, for my part, Gs. 16; lögvörn f. mál, a lawful defence for a case, Nj. 111; hafa til varnar f. sök, to defend a case, Grág. i. 61; halda skiladómi f. e-t, Dipl. iv. 8; festa lög f. e-t, vide festa.

III. in a distributive sense; penning f. mann, a penny per man, K. Þ. K. 88; fyrir nef hvert, per nose = per head, Lv. 89, Fms. i. 153, Ó. H. 141; hve f. marga menn, for how many men, Grág. i. 296; fyrir hverja stiku, for each yard, 497.

IV. for, for the benefit of; brjóta brauð f. hungraða, Hom. 75; þeir skáru f. þá melinn, they cut the straw for them (the horses), Nj. 265; leggja kostnað f. e-n, to defray one’s costs, Grág. i. 341.

V. for, instead of; hann setti sik f. Guð, Edda (pref.); hafa e-n f. Guð (Lat. pro Deo), Stj. 73, Barl. 131; geta, fá, kveðja mann f. sik, to get a man as one’s delegate or substitute, Grág. i. 48 passim; þeir höfðu vargstakka f. brynjur, Fs. 17; manna-höfuð vóru f. kljána, Nj. 275; gagl f. gás ok grís f. gamalt svín, Ó. H. 86; rif stór f. hlunna, Háv. 48; buðkr er f. húslker er hafðr, Vm. 171; auga f. auga, tönn f. tönn, Exod. xxi. 24; skell f. skillinga, Þkv. 32.

VI. because of, for; vilja Gunnar dauðan fyrir höggit, Nj. 92, Fms. v. 162; eigi f. sakleysi, not without ground, i. 302; fyrir hvat (why, for what) stefndi Gunnarr þeim til úhelgi? Nj. 101; ok urðu f. þat sekir, Landn. 323; hafa ámæli f. e-t, Nj. 65, passim.

2. in a good sense, for one’s sake, for one; fyrir þín orð, for thy words, intercession, Ísl. ii. 217; vil ek göra f. þín orð, Ld. 158, Nj. 88; fyrir sína vinsæld, by his popularity, Fms. i. 259: the phrase, fyrir e-s sök, for one’s sake, vide sök: in swearing, a Latinism, fyrir trú mína, by my faith! (so in Old Engl. ‘fore God), Karl. 241; fyrir þitt líf, Stj. 514; ek særi þik f. alla krapta Krists ok manndóm þinn, Nj. 176. VII. for, at, denoting value, price; fyrir þrjár merkr, for three marks, Eg. 714; er sik leysti út f. þrjú hundruð marka, Fms. ix. 421; ganga f. hundrað, to pass or go for a hundred, D. I. i. 316:—also of the thing bought, þú skalt reiða f. hana þrjár merkr, thou shall pay for her three marks, Ld. 30; fyrir þik skulu koma mannhefndir, Nj. 57; bætr f. víg, Ísl. ii. 274; bætr f. mann, Eg. 259, passim; fyrir áverka Þorgeirs kom legorðs-sökin, Nj. 101:—so in the phrase, fyrir hvern mun, by all means, at any cost; fyrir öngan mun, by no means, Fms. i. 9, 157, Gþl. 531:—hafði hverr þeirra mann f. sik, eða tvá …, each slew a man or more for himself, i. e. they sold their lives dearly, Ó. H. 217.

2. ellipt., í staðinn f., instead of, Grág. i. 61; hér vil ek bjóða f. góð boð, Nj. 77; taka umbun f., Fms. vii. 161; svara slíku f. sem …, Boll. 350; þér skulut öngu f. týna nema lífinu, you shall lose nothing less than your head, Nj. 7.

VIII. by means of, by, through; fyrir þat sama orð, Stj.; fyrir sína náttúru, Fms. v. 162; fyrir messu-serkinn, iii. 168; fyrir þinn krapt ok frelsis-hönd, Pass. 19. 12; svikin f. orminn, by the serpent, Al. 63,—this use of fyrir seems to be a Latinism, but is very freq. in eccl. writings, esp. after the Reformation, N. T., Pass., Vídal.; fyrir munn Davíðs, through the mouth of David, etc.:—in good old historical writings such instances are few; þeir hlutuðu f. kast ( by dice), Sturl. ii. 159.

IX. in spite of, against; fyrir vilja sinn, N. G. L. i. 151; fyrir vitorð eðr vilja e-s, against one’s will or knowledge, Grág. ii. 348; kvángask (giptask) f. ráð e-s, i. 177, 178, Þiðr. 190; nú fara menn f. bann ( in spite of an embargo) landa á milli, Gþl. 517; hann gaf henni líf f. framkvæmd farar, i. e. although she had not fulfilled her journey ( her vow), Fms. v. 223; fyrir várt lof, vi. 220; fyrir allt þat, in spite of all that, Grett. 80 new Ed.; fyrir ráð fram, heedlessly; fyrir lög fram, vide fram.

X. denoting capacity, in the same sense as ‘at,’ C. II, p. 27, col. 1; scarcely found in old writers (who use ‘at’), but freq. in mod. usage, thus, eigi e-n f. vin, to have one for a friend, in old writers ‘at vin;’ hafa e-n f. fífl, fól, to make sport of one.

2. in old writers some phrases come near to this, e. g. vita f. vist, to know for certain, Dipl. i. 3; vita f. full sannindi, id., ii. 16; hafa f. satt, to take for sooth, believe, Nj. 135; koma f. eitt, to come ( turn) all to one, Lv. 11, Nj. 91, Fms. i. 208; koma f. ekki, to come to naught, be of no avail, Ísl. ii. 215; fyrir hitt mun ganga, it will turn the other way, Nj. 93; fyrir hann er einskis örvænt orðs né verks, from him everything may be expected, Ísl. ii. 326; hafa e-s víti f. varnað, to have another’s faults for warning, Sól. 19.

XI. joined with adverbs ending in -an, fyrir austan, vestan, sunnan, norðan, útan, innan, framan, handan, ofan, neðan, either with a following acc. denoting. direction, thus, fyrir austan, sunnan … fjall, east, south of the fell, i. e. on the eastern, southern side; fyrir neðan brú, below the bridge; fyrir útan fjall = Lat. ultra; fyrir innan fjall = Lat. infra; fyrir handan á, beyond the river; fyrir innan garð, inside the yard; fyrir ofan garð, above, beyond the yard, etc.; vide these adverbs:—used adverb., fyrir sunnan, in the south; fyrir vestan, in the west; fyrir norðan, in the north; fyrir austan, in the east,—current phrases in Icel. to mark the quarters of the country, cp. the ditty in Esp. Árb. year 1530; but not freq. in old writers, who simply say, norðr, suðr …, cp. Kristni S. ch. 1: absol. and adverb., fyrir ofan, uppermost; fyrir handan, on the other side:—fyrir útan e-t, except, save, Anal. 98, Vkv. 8; fyrir fram, vide fram.

☞ For- and fyrir- as prefixes, vide pp. 163–167 and below:

I. fore-, for-, meaning before, above, in the widest sense, local, temp., and metaph. furthering or the like, for-dyri, for-nes, for-ellri, for-beini, etc.

β. before, down, for-brekkis, -bergis, -streymis, -vindis, -viðris, etc.

2. in an intens. sense = before others, very, but not freq.; for-dyld, -góðr, -hagr, -hraustr, -kostuligr, -kuðr, -lítill, -ljótr, -prís, -ríkr, -snjallr.

II. (cp. fyrir, acc., C. IX), in a neg. or priv. sense; a few words occur even in the earliest poems, laws, and writers, e. g. for-að, -átta, -dæða, -nám, -næmi, -sending, -sköp, -verk, -veðja, -viða, -vitni, -ynja, -yrtir; those words at least seem to be original and vernacular: at a later time more words of the same kind crept in:

1. as early as writers of the 13th and 14th centuries, e. g. for-boð, -bænir, -djarfa, -dæma (fyrir-dæma), -taka (fyrir-taka), -þóttr; fyrir-bjóða, -fara, -göra, -koma, -kunna, -líta, -muna, -mæla, -vega, -verða.

2. introduced in some words at the time of the Reformation through Luther’s Bible and German hymns, and still later in many more through Danish, e. g. for-brjóta, -drífa, -láta, -líkast, -merkja, -nema, -sorga, -sóma, -standa, -svara, -þénusta, and several others; many of these, however, are not truly naturalised, being chiefly used in eccl. writings:—it is curious that if the pronoun be placed after the verb (which is the vernacular use in Icel.) the sense is in many cases reversed; thus, fyrir-koma, to destroy, but koma e-u fyrir can only mean to arrange; so also fyrir-mæla, to curse, and mæla fyrir, to speak for; for-bænir, but biðja fyrir e-m, etc.; in the latter case the sense is good and positive, in the former bad and negative; this seems to prove clearly that these compds are due to foreign influence.

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8 ГЛАГОЛ

приемы перевода русских глагольных конструкций на АЯ

1. ГЛАГОЛ повторяется в настоящем, прошедшем и будущем времени, чтобы подчеркнуть непрерывность
@ делаем и будем делать
Мы поддерживали и будем поддерживать прифронтовые государства Африки. –
We have always supported the front-line African states. We are continuing to support the front-line African states. We shall continue to support the front-line African states. We shall continue our support ( глагол заменяется существительным) for the front-line African states. @ не делаем и не сделаем
Россия не ослабляет и не ослабит усилий, направленных на то, чтобы отвести от человечества военную угрозу.
Russia will not slacken its efforts/will persist in its efforts/will continue its efforts to protect mankind from the threat of war. @ не делали и не делаем
Переводится обязательно сложным временем.
Мы никогда не искали и не ищем себе выгод – будь то экономические, политические или иные. – We have never sought profits/advantages for ourselves – be they economic, political, or any other kind. @ делали и делаем
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We are continuing to propose/continue to propose/continue to favor/we have always favored/always proposed agreement on a total nuclear weapons test ban. @ не сделали и не сделаем
Наша страна не допустила и не допустит вмешательства в свои внутренние дела. –
Our country has never allowed/will never allow/will continue to prevent/oppose interference in its internal affairs. @ делали и будем делать
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Я иду-иду, уже сил нет, а все еще далеко до места. – I keep/kept on going, but it is/was still a long distance to/far to the place.
On I went,/I walked and walked, but… *** Он смотрел-смотрел, никак не мог разглядеть. – He kept on looking but/No matter how he looked he could not make it out.
3. передача инфинитива при помощи будущего времени

Дети есть дети. – Children will be children.

4. повелительное наклонение

а) в условном времени

Приди я вовремя, ничего бы не случилось. – If I had come in time nothing would have happened.

б) для выражения протеста против необходимости выполнять нежелательные действия

Тебе хорошо с гостями чаи распивать, а я дома сиди. – You’re having fun drinking tea with the guests while/but I’ve got to stay home.
Сами гулять пойдете, а я пиши. – You can/go off on your own, I’ve got to write/ I’m stuck with the writing.
с) неожиданное или непредвиденное действие

Он меня позвал – я споткнись, чашку разбил. – He called out to me and I stumbled and broke a cup.
Дорога ровная – а он возьми и упади. – The road was flat/even when all of a sudden he fell.
5. Настоящее время, описывающее серию событий в прошлом, переводится прошедшим.

Возвращаюсь я вчера вечером домой, иду по нашей улице, вдруг слышу знакомый голос. – Last night as I was going home, walking down our street, I suddenly heard a familiar voice.

6. Настоящее время переводится и настоящим, и будущим.

Я уезжаю через неделю, завтра я весь день работаю, а вечером сижу дома. – I’m leaving in a week – tomorrow I’ll work/I’m working all day and in the evening I’ll be home.

7. Совершенный вид русских глаголов, выражающих повторное действие, переводится с помощью длительного настоящего времени.

Сегодня мне весь день мешают – то кто-нибудь придет, то телефон зазвонит. – I’m being bothered all day – people keep coming in and the phone keeps ringing.

8. Описание характерного или привычного поведения человека.

Он всегда прибежит, накричит, наскандалит, а потом удивляется, почему его не любят. – He’s always barging in/rushing in screaming/yelling at someone/causing trouble/insulting people/offending people/raising a row and then he wonders why/is surprised that/and then he asks why people don’t like him.

9. В разговорных конструкциях прошедшее время от глаголов «пойти» и «поехать» передается будущим временем.

Я пошел. – I’m about to leave.
Я поехал, буду через два часа. – I’m off/I’ll be going/I’ll be back in two hours.
10. Перевод конструкций типа «то, что» «чтобы»

a) Сокращение и переосмысление

Сложность этого эксперимента заключается в том, что он требует длительного времени. – The problem with this experiment is that it requires a lot of time.
Утешение было только в том, что он уезжал всего на несколько дней. – The only consolation was that he would be away for long/was leaving for only a few days.
б) использование деепричастного оборота (это идиоматичнее и короче)

Мы начали вечер с того, что предложили всем потанцевать. – We started the party/evening by suggesting/with the suggestion that everyone dance.
Он начал с того, что лично познакомился со всеми.- Не began by introducing himself to everyone/by getting personally acquainted with everyone.
в) Порой «чтобы» не переводится, и время глагола определяется контекстом:

Я не видел, чтобы он чистил зубы. - I didn't see him brush his teeth/I never saw him brush his teeth.
Я хочу, чтобы вы меня правильно поняли. - I want you to understand me correctly/to get what I mean.
г) to + infinitive вместо довольно неуклюжей конструкции in order to или so as to

Я вернулся с тем, чтобы предупредить вас. - I came back to warn you.
Я пришел не с тем, чтобы спорить с вами. - I didn't come to argue with you.
д) Иногда можно заменить «чтобы» словами so that:

Говори, чтобы все поняли. - Speak so that everyone understands/gets the point.

11. Придаточные предложения, которые начинаются с «как» или с «как бы», можно перевести на английский с помощью условного наклонения или деепричастия.

Я люблю смотреть, как он выступает. - I like watching him perform/I like to watch him perform/I like watching him performing.
Он боялся, как бы не простудиться. - Не was afraid of catching cold/He was afraid he might/could catch cold.
12. «He + инфинитив + бы» требует don't или see that X doesn't do Y.

He простудиться бы! - Take care/I'll take care not to/See that you don't catch cold.
He забыть бы его адрес! - See you don't/take care not to/be sure you don't/I mustn't/I must take care not to forget his address.
13. перевод вида глагола

а) Переводчик должен постоянно иметь в виду, что в английском языке используются совершенно разные глаголы для передачи смысла обоих членов одной русской видовой пары, как, например, «сделать» и «делать»

Что же делал Бельтов в продолжение этих десяти лет? Все или почти все. Что он сделал? Ничего или почти ничего. -
What did Beltov do during these ten years? Everything or almost everything. What did he achieve? Nothing, or almost nothing.
уверять — try to convince
уверить — convince решать — try to solve решить — solve. учиться — study научиться — learn отыскивать — look for отыскать — find сдавать экзамен - to take an exam сдать экзамен - to pass an exam поступать в университет - to apply to a university поступить в университет - be admitted/get into a university
б) При переводе глаголов несовершенного вида нельзя не подчеркнуть, что речь идет о попытках говорящего или кого-то другого что-либо сделать.

Войска брали крепость целый месяц. - The troops tried for a whole month to take the fortress.
Я к нему долго привыкал, но наконец привык. - For a long time I tried to get used to him, and finally did. He оправдывайся! - Don't try to justify yourselfl/Don't try to make excuses!
с)Существует также целая категория особых глаголов, у которых несовершенный вид указывает на состояние, которое является результатом завершенного действия и передается совершенным видом.

Я «понимаю» is the result of «я понял», and note that English "I understand" translates them both. The formal pair «разобраться/разбираться» are exactly the same; the verb in «я разобрался в этом» is an achievement with the change-of-state meaning characteristic of perfectives, while the verb in «я разбираюсь в этом» signals the state resulting from the achievement. They may both be translated as / understand, but the former means / have figured out (come to understand), while the latter means I understand (as a result of having figured out). These verbs belong to a very large group of perfectives whose change of state is inceptive, whose imperfectives denote the new, resulting state: «понял, понимаю, поверил, верю, понравиться, нравиться».

14. Перевод безличных конструкций

а) Во множественном числе третьего лица безличную конструкцию можно переделать в пассивную:

Посетителей просят оставить верхнюю одежду в гардеробе. -
Visitors are requested/asked to leave/Visitors must leave/check their coats in the coatroom.
б) Можно вставить субъект/подлежащее:

Об этом часто приходится слышать. - I/he/we/they often hear about this.
Чувствовалось, что он доволен. - I/we/they felt/could feel that he was pleased.
в) В некоторых контекстах возвратные глаголы переводятся как переходные с добавлением подлежащего:

Под вакуумом понимается пространство, не содержащее вещества. - A vacuum is defined as space/By a vacuum we mean space/The definition of a vacuum is space/A vacuum is understood to be space free from/not containing/devoid of matter.

В данном случае сложное движение рассматривается как результат двух движений. - In this case complex movement is considered as/considered to be/we see complex movement as/we define complex movement as the result of two movements.

г) Когда русское местоимение является дополнением безличных глаголов, то можно переделать в подлежащее/субъект.

В ушах звенело, во рту пересохло. - His/my ears were ringing, his/my throat was dry.
Меня неудержимо клонило в сон. - I felt an irresistible urge to sleep/I just couldn't stay awake/I felt horribly/terribly/awfully sleepy. Ее потянуло в Париж. - She felt an urge to go to Paris/Paris was calling to her/She felt like going to Paris. Мне жаль мою подругу. - I'm sorry for my girlfriend.
15. Перевод причастий

@ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНОЕ ПРИЧАСТИЕ НАСТОЯЩЕГО ВРЕМЕНИ

1. переводится на английский глагольной формой на -ing.

Девушка, читающая книгу, очень красива - The girl who is reading the book is very pretty.

2. переводится с пропуском причастия, т.е. с помощью короткого оборота с предлогом и краткого придаточного предложения

Группа, имеющая такие блестящие результаты, является гордостью нашего института. - The group with such outstanding results is the pride of our institute.
Вопрос, выходящий за рамки данной статьи. - A matter/issue/question beyond the scope of this article.
***

см. ГЛАГОЛ

@ВОЗВРАТНАЯ ЧАСТИЦА

обычно переводится оборотом с предлогом:

Строящийся завод является одним из новейших в стране. - The factory under construction is one of the newest in the country.

***

см. ГЛАГОЛ

@ПРИНАДЛЕЖАЩИЙ

можно выразить просто притяжательной формой:

Книга, принадлежащая ей. - Her book.

***

см. ГЛАГОЛ

@СТРАДАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ПРИЧАСТНЫЙ ОБОРОТ НАСТОЯЩЕГО ВРЕМЕНИ

1. переводятся с русского языка скорее как прилагательные, чем как причастия.

Проводимая страной политика одобряется всем народом. - The policy pursued (not "which is being pursued") by our country has the backing/approval of the entire people.

2. в некоторых случаях причастие можно просто опустить:

Ясно определились позиции, занимаемые обеими сторонами по таким жизненно важным вопросам. - The positions of both sides on such vitally important questions are now clear.

***

см. ГЛАГОЛ
@
- имеющийся, сложившийся, создавшийся

16. Перевод деепричастий.

а) Прошедшее время из русского языка нередко переходит в английский в качестве деепричастия.

Мы видели, как дети купались в реке. We saw the children swimming in the river.

б) Деепричастие настоящего времени подчас приходится переводить на английский прошедшим:

Раза два в год бывал в Москве и, возвращаясь оттуда, рассказывал об этом. Не would visit/used to visit Moscow a couple of times a year, and after returning home/on his return home tell/would tell about it.

в) Деепричастие прошедшего времени в некоторых случаях становится деепричастием и в настоящем:

Сев за рояль, она заиграла вальс. - Sitting at the piano, she played a waltz.

г) При переводе русских деепричастий бывает необходимым объяснение причинных или временных обстоятельств:

Выслушав меня внимательно, вы быстро меня поймете. If you listen to me carefully, you'll understand quickly.
Почувствовав голод, они решили обедать без гостей. - Because/since they were hungry, they decided to eat without/without waiting for/the guests. Переехав в собственную квартиру, он стал гораздо более самостоятельным человеком. - When/after he moved to his own apartment he became a lot more independent.
д) В описательных деепричастных оборотах можно заменить деепричастие конструкцией «with + имя существительное»:

Он сидел, закрыв глаза. - Не sat/was sitting with his eyes closed.
«Это очень смешно!» — сказал он, засмеявшись. "That's very funny," he said with a laugh.
е) Так называемые «безличные» деепричастия, которые часто встречаются в Русских технических текстах, иногда заменяются существительными или перед ними вставляется предлог.

Используя эти данные, можно приближенно предсказать процесс. - Use of this data allows us to make an approximate prediction of the process/By using this data, we can make...
Изучая эту таблицу, легко видеть, что... - Study of this table makes it clear that.../In studying this table we clearly see that…
17. Сокращение глагольных конструкций

Подчас русское словосочетание выражается одним английским глаголом. Смысл передается при помощи приставки или суффикса en-, un-, -ize, -ate.

утверждать то, что оказалось чистейшей чепухой – to talk utter nonsense
располагать в алфавитном порядке – to alphabetize заставить грубой силой – to bludgeon приводить в систему, распределять по категориям – list, categorize лишать законной силы – to invalidate выводить из строя – to incapacitate поймать в ловушку – to entrap

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9 ГЛАГОЛ

приемы перевода русских глагольных конструкций на АЯ

1. ГЛАГОЛ повторяется в настоящем, прошедшем и будущем времени, чтобы подчеркнуть непрерывность
- делаем и будем делать
- не делаем и не сделаем
- не делали и не делаем
- делали и делаем
- не сделали и не сделаем
- делали и будем делать
2. ГЛАГОЛ, повторенный через дефис
keep + verb
Я иду-иду, уже сил нет, а все еще далеко до места. – I keep/kept on going, but it is/was still a long distance to/far to the place.
On I went,/I walked and walked, but… *** Он смотрел-смотрел, никак не мог разглядеть. – He kept on looking but/No matter how he looked he could not make it out.
3. передача инфинитива при помощи будущего времени

Дети есть дети. – Children will be children.

4. повелительное наклонение

а) в условном времени

Приди я вовремя, ничего бы не случилось. – If I had come in time nothing would have happened.

б) для выражения протеста против необходимости выполнять нежелательные действия

Тебе хорошо с гостями чаи распивать, а я дома сиди. – You’re having fun drinking tea with the guests while/but I’ve got to stay home.
Сами гулять пойдете, а я пиши. – You can/go off on your own, I’ve got to write/ I’m stuck with the writing.
с) неожиданное или непредвиденное действие

Он меня позвал – я споткнись, чашку разбил. – He called out to me and I stumbled and broke a cup.
Дорога ровная – а он возьми и упади. – The road was flat/even when all of a sudden he fell.
5. Настоящее время, описывающее серию событий в прошлом, переводится прошедшим.

Возвращаюсь я вчера вечером домой, иду по нашей улице, вдруг слышу знакомый голос. – Last night as I was going home, walking down our street, I suddenly heard a familiar voice.

6. Настоящее время переводится и настоящим, и будущим.

Я уезжаю через неделю, завтра я весь день работаю, а вечером сижу дома. – I’m leaving in a week – tomorrow I’ll work/I’m working all day and in the evening I’ll be home.

7. Совершенный вид русских глаголов, выражающих повторное действие, переводится с помощью длительного настоящего времени.

Сегодня мне весь день мешают – то кто-нибудь придет, то телефон зазвонит. – I’m being bothered all day – people keep coming in and the phone keeps ringing.

8. Описание характерного или привычного поведения человека.

Он всегда прибежит, накричит, наскандалит, а потом удивляется, почему его не любят. – He’s always barging in/rushing in screaming/yelling at someone/causing trouble/insulting people/offending people/raising a row and then he wonders why/is surprised that/and then he asks why people don’t like him.

9. В разговорных конструкциях прошедшее время от глаголов «пойти» и «поехать» передается будущим временем.

Я пошел. – I’m about to leave.
Я поехал, буду через два часа. – I’m off/I’ll be going/I’ll be back in two hours.
10. Перевод конструкций типа «то, что» «чтобы»

a) Сокращение и переосмысление

Сложность этого эксперимента заключается в том, что он требует длительного времени. – The problem with this experiment is that it requires a lot of time.
Утешение было только в том, что он уезжал всего на несколько дней. – The only consolation was that he would be away for long/was leaving for only a few days.
б) использование деепричастного оборота (это идиоматичнее и короче)

Мы начали вечер с того, что предложили всем потанцевать. – We started the party/evening by suggesting/with the suggestion that everyone dance.
Он начал с того, что лично познакомился со всеми.- Не began by introducing himself to everyone/by getting personally acquainted with everyone.
в) Порой «чтобы» не переводится, и время глагола определяется контекстом:

Я не видел, чтобы он чистил зубы. - I didn't see him brush his teeth/I never saw him brush his teeth.
Я хочу, чтобы вы меня правильно поняли. - I want you to understand me correctly/to get what I mean.
г) to + infinitive вместо довольно неуклюжей конструкции in order to или so as to

Я вернулся с тем, чтобы предупредить вас. - I came back to warn you.
Я пришел не с тем, чтобы спорить с вами. - I didn't come to argue with you.
д) Иногда можно заменить «чтобы» словами so that:

Говори, чтобы все поняли. - Speak so that everyone understands/gets the point.

11. Придаточные предложения, которые начинаются с «как» или с «как бы», можно перевести на английский с помощью условного наклонения или деепричастия.

Я люблю смотреть, как он выступает. - I like watching him perform/I like to watch him perform/I like watching him performing.
Он боялся, как бы не простудиться. - Не was afraid of catching cold/He was afraid he might/could catch cold.
12. «He + инфинитив + бы» требует don't или see that X doesn't do Y.

He простудиться бы! - Take care/I'll take care not to/See that you don't catch cold.
He забыть бы его адрес! - See you don't/take care not to/be sure you don't/I mustn't/I must take care not to forget his address.
13. перевод вида глагола

а) Переводчик должен постоянно иметь в виду, что в английском языке используются совершенно разные глаголы для передачи смысла обоих членов одной русской видовой пары, как, например, «сделать» и «делать»

Что же делал Бельтов в продолжение этих десяти лет? Все или почти все. Что он сделал? Ничего или почти ничего. -
What did Beltov do during these ten years? Everything or almost everything. What did he achieve? Nothing, or almost nothing.
уверять — try to convince
уверить — convince решать — try to solve решить — solve. учиться — study научиться — learn отыскивать — look for отыскать — find сдавать экзамен - to take an exam сдать экзамен - to pass an exam поступать в университет - to apply to a university поступить в университет - be admitted/get into a university
б) При переводе глаголов несовершенного вида нельзя не подчеркнуть, что речь идет о попытках говорящего или кого-то другого что-либо сделать.

Войска брали крепость целый месяц. - The troops tried for a whole month to take the fortress.
Я к нему долго привыкал, но наконец привык. - For a long time I tried to get used to him, and finally did. He оправдывайся! - Don't try to justify yourselfl/Don't try to make excuses!
с)Существует также целая категория особых глаголов, у которых несовершенный вид указывает на состояние, которое является результатом завершенного действия и передается совершенным видом.

Я «понимаю» is the result of «я понял», and note that English "I understand" translates them both. The formal pair «разобраться/разбираться» are exactly the same; the verb in «я разобрался в этом» is an achievement with the change-of-state meaning characteristic of perfectives, while the verb in «я разбираюсь в этом» signals the state resulting from the achievement. They may both be translated as / understand, but the former means / have figured out (come to understand), while the latter means I understand (as a result of having figured out). These verbs belong to a very large group of perfectives whose change of state is inceptive, whose imperfectives denote the new, resulting state: «понял, понимаю, поверил, верю, понравиться, нравиться».

14. Перевод безличных конструкций

а) Во множественном числе третьего лица безличную конструкцию можно переделать в пассивную:

Посетителей просят оставить верхнюю одежду в гардеробе. -
Visitors are requested/asked to leave/Visitors must leave/check their coats in the coatroom.
б) Можно вставить субъект/подлежащее:

Об этом часто приходится слышать. - I/he/we/they often hear about this.
Чувствовалось, что он доволен. - I/we/they felt/could feel that he was pleased.
в) В некоторых контекстах возвратные глаголы переводятся как переходные с добавлением подлежащего:

Под вакуумом понимается пространство, не содержащее вещества. - A vacuum is defined as space/By a vacuum we mean space/The definition of a vacuum is space/A vacuum is understood to be space free from/not containing/devoid of matter.

В данном случае сложное движение рассматривается как результат двух движений. - In this case complex movement is considered as/considered to be/we see complex movement as/we define complex movement as the result of two movements.

г) Когда русское местоимение является дополнением безличных глаголов, то можно переделать в подлежащее/субъект.

В ушах звенело, во рту пересохло. - His/my ears were ringing, his/my throat was dry.
Меня неудержимо клонило в сон. - I felt an irresistible urge to sleep/I just couldn't stay awake/I felt horribly/terribly/awfully sleepy. Ее потянуло в Париж. - She felt an urge to go to Paris/Paris was calling to her/She felt like going to Paris. Мне жаль мою подругу. - I'm sorry for my girlfriend.
15. Перевод причастий

- ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНОЕ ПРИЧАСТИЕ НАСТОЯЩЕГО ВРЕМЕНИ
- ВОЗВРАТНАЯ ЧАСТИЦА
- ПРИНАДЛЕЖАЩИЙ
- СТРАДАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ПРИЧАСТНЫЙ ОБОРОТ НАСТОЯЩЕГО ВРЕМЕНИ
- имеющийся, сложившийся, создавшийся

16. Перевод деепричастий.

а) Прошедшее время из русского языка нередко переходит в английский в качестве деепричастия.

Мы видели, как дети купались в реке. We saw the children swimming in the river.

б) Деепричастие настоящего времени подчас приходится переводить на английский прошедшим:

Раза два в год бывал в Москве и, возвращаясь оттуда, рассказывал об этом. Не would visit/used to visit Moscow a couple of times a year, and after returning home/on his return home tell/would tell about it.

в) Деепричастие прошедшего времени в некоторых случаях становится деепричастием и в настоящем:

Сев за рояль, она заиграла вальс. - Sitting at the piano, she played a waltz.

г) При переводе русских деепричастий бывает необходимым объяснение причинных или временных обстоятельств:

Выслушав меня внимательно, вы быстро меня поймете. If you listen to me carefully, you'll understand quickly.
Почувствовав голод, они решили обедать без гостей. - Because/since they were hungry, they decided to eat without/without waiting for/the guests. Переехав в собственную квартиру, он стал гораздо более самостоятельным человеком. - When/after he moved to his own apartment he became a lot more independent.
д) В описательных деепричастных оборотах можно заменить деепричастие конструкцией «with + имя существительное»:

Он сидел, закрыв глаза. - Не sat/was sitting with his eyes closed.
«Это очень смешно!» — сказал он, засмеявшись. "That's very funny," he said with a laugh.
е) Так называемые «безличные» деепричастия, которые часто встречаются в Русских технических текстах, иногда заменяются существительными или перед ними вставляется предлог.

Используя эти данные, можно приближенно предсказать процесс. - Use of this data allows us to make an approximate prediction of the process/By using this data, we can make...
Изучая эту таблицу, легко видеть, что... - Study of this table makes it clear that.../In studying this table we clearly see that…
17. Сокращение глагольных конструкций

Подчас русское словосочетание выражается одним английским глаголом. Смысл передается при помощи приставки или суффикса en-, un-, -ize, -ate.

утверждать то, что оказалось чистейшей чепухой – to talk utter nonsense
располагать в алфавитном порядке – to alphabetize заставить грубой силой – to bludgeon приводить в систему, распределять по категориям – list, categorize лишать законной силы – to invalidate выводить из строя – to incapacitate поймать в ловушку – to entrap

Русско-английский словарь переводчика-синхрониста > ГЛАГОЛ

10 कुम्भः _kumbhḥ

कुम्भः [कुं भूमिं कुत्सितं वा उम्भति पूरयति उम्भ्-अच् शकं˚ Tv.]

1 A pitcher, water-pot, jar; इयं सुस्तनी मस्तकन्यस्तकुम्भा Jag.; वर्जयेत्तादृशं मित्रं विषकुम्भं पयोमुखम् H.1.74; R.2.36; so कुच˚, स्तन˚.

-2 The frontal globe on the forehead of an elephant; इभकुम्भ Māl.5.32; मत्तेभकुम्भदलने भुवि सन्ति शूराः Bh.1.59.

-3 Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac.

-4 A measure of grain equal to 2 droṇas; धान्यं दशभ्यः कुम्भेभ्यो हरतो$भ्यधिकं वधः Ms.8.32.

-5 (In Yoga phil.) Closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing.

-6 The paramour of a harlot.

-7 An urn in which the bones of dead bodies are collected.

-8 A kind of heart-disease.

-9 N. of a plant (and also of its fruit); क्वचिद् बिल्वैः क्वचित्कुम्भैः क्वचिच्चा- मलकमुष्टिभिः Bhāg.1.18.14.

-भा A harlot, a whore.

-भम् A fragrant resin (गुग्गुल).

-Comp. -उदरः one of the attendants of Śiva; अवेहि मां किङ्करमष्टमूर्तेः कुम्भोदरं नाम निकुम्भमित्रम् R.2.35.

-उलूकः a kind of owl; हृत्वा पिष्ट- मयं पूपं कुम्भोलूकः प्रजायते Mb.13.111.11.

-उलूख<?>कम् a medicinal plant (Mar. गुग्गुळ).

-कर्णः 'pitcher-eared', N. of a gigantic Rākṣasa, a brother of Rāvaṇa and slain by Rāma. [He is said to have devoured thousands of beings including sages and heavenly nymphs, and the gods were anxiously waiting for an opportunity to retaliate upon the powerful demon. After Brahmā had inflicted on him a curse for the humiliation to which he subjected Indra and his elephant Airāvata, Kumbhakarṇa began to practise the most rigid austerities. Brahmā was pleased and was about to grant him a boon, when the gods requested Sarasvatī to sit on his tongue and to pervert it. Accordingly when he went to the god, instead of asking Indrapada he asked Nidrāpada which was readily granted. It is said that he slept for six months at a time, and, when roused, was awake for only one day. When Lankā was besieged by the monkey-troops of Rāma, Ravāṇa with great difficulty roused Kumbhakarṇa, desirous of availing himself of his gigantic strength. After having drunk 2 jars of liquor, he took Sugrīva prisoner, besides devouring thousands of monkeys. He was ultimately slain by Rāma.] Rām.6; R.12.8.

-2 an epithet of Śiva; Mb.12.

-कामला a bilious affection.

-कारः 1 a potter; मृद्दण्डचक्रसंयोगात्कुम्भकारो यथा घटम् (करोति) Y.3.146.

-2 a mixed tribe (वेश्यायां विप्रतश्चौर्यात् कुम्भकारः स उच्यते Uśanas; or मालाकारात्कर्मकर्यां कुम्भकारो व्यजायत Parāśara).

-3 a serpent.

-4 a kind of wild fowl.

(-री), -कारिका 1 the wife of a potter.

-2 a kind of collyrium.

-घोणः N. of a town.

-जः, -जन्मन् m.

-योनिः, m.

-संभवः 1 epithets of Agastya; एतदाख्याय रामाय महर्षिः कुम्भसंभवः Rām.7.8.1; प्रससादोदयादम्भः कुम्भयोनेर्महौजसः R.4.21;15.55.

-2 an epithet of Droṇa, the military preceptor of the Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas.

-3 an epithet of Vasiṣṭha.

-दासी a bawd, procuress; sometimes used as a term of reproach or abuse.

-धरः the sign ef the zodiac called Aquarius.

-पञ्जरः a niche in the wall.

-राशिः the sign Aqua- rius.

-रेतस् m. a form of Agni.

-लग्नम् that time of the day in which Aquarius rises above the horizon.

-मण्डूकः 1 (lit.) a frog in a pitcher.

-2 (fig.) an inexperienced man; cf. कूपमण्डूक.

-शाला pottery.

-सन्धिः the hollow on the top of an elephant's head between the frontal globes.

Sanskrit-English dictionary > कुम्भः _kumbhḥ

11 Л-5

ЛАВРЫ чьи, кого HE ДАЙ)Т СПАТЬ (ПОКОЯ) кому VP subj. pres or past) s.o. experiences envy at another's success: лавры X-a Y-y спать не дают = the thought of X's success is keeping Y awake nights (at night) Y can't stand the thought of X's success the thought that X is successful (has won etc) is eating (chewing) Y up (inside).
Apparently, a modif ied loan translation from Latin or Greek. The Athenian statesman Themistocles (527?-460? B.C.) supposedly said, after Miltiades' brilliant victory over the Persians in the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), that he was "kept awake by the trophies of Miltiades" (Plutarch, Life of Themistocles, III, and Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, IV, 19 etc). Occasionally used in the form «Лавры Мильтиада не дают спать».

Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Л-5

12 лавры не дают покоя

• ЛАВРЫ чьи, кого НЕ ДАЮТ СПАТЬ < ПОКОЯ> кому

[VPsubj; pres or past]

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⇒ s.o. experiences envy at another's success:

- лавры X-a Y-y спать не дают≈ the thought of X's success is keeping Y awake nights (at night);

- Y can't stand the thought of X's success;

- the thought that X is successful (has won etc) is eating (chewing) Y up (inside).

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← Apparently, a modified loan translation from Latin or Greek. The Athenian statesman Themistocles (5277-460? B.C.) supposedly said, after Miltiades's brilliant victory over the Persians in the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), that he was "kept awake by the trophies of Miltiades" (Plutarch, Life of Themistocles, III, and Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, IV, 19 etc). Occasionally used in the form "Лавры Мильтиада не дают спать".

Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > лавры не дают покоя

13 лавры не дают спать

• ЛАВРЫ чьи, кого НЕ ДАЮТ СПАТЬ < ПОКОЯ> кому

[VPsubj; pres or past]

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⇒ s.o. experiences envy at another's success:

- лавры X-a Y-y спать не дают≈ the thought of X's success is keeping Y awake nights (at night);

- Y can't stand the thought of X's success;

- the thought that X is successful (has won etc) is eating (chewing) Y up (inside).

—————

← Apparently, a modified loan translation from Latin or Greek. The Athenian statesman Themistocles (5277-460? B.C.) supposedly said, after Miltiades's brilliant victory over the Persians in the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), that he was "kept awake by the trophies of Miltiades" (Plutarch, Life of Themistocles, III, and Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, IV, 19 etc). Occasionally used in the form "Лавры Мильтиада не дают спать".

Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > лавры не дают спать

14 не выходит из головы

не выходит (нейдёт, не идёт) из головы (из памяти, из ума)

one can't help thinking of smb., smth.; one keeps thinking of (about) smb., smth.; smth. never leaves one's mind; one never gets smth. out of one's mind (head)

Анна Петровна....Тяжба-то эта у меня из головы нейдёт, - ночи ведь не сплю. Ну, как дом-то отнимут, куда я денусь? (А. Островский, Бедная невеста) — Anna Petrovna:...I never get that lawsuit out of my head: I actually can't sleep nights. Well, if they take away the house, where can I go?

Старуха думала, что он спит. Но он не спал. Из головы у него не шла лисица. Он успел вполне убедиться, что она попала в ловушку; он даже знал, в которую именно. (В. Короленко, Сон Макара) — His old woman thought he was asleep, but he was awake, and could not get the fox out of his mind. He was now quite sure it had been trapped, even knew in which gin it was caught.

В эти весенние дни образ Олеси не выходил из моей головы. (А. Куприн, Олеся) — Olesya's image never left my mind in those spring days.

- Ничего не могу с собой поделать. Илья не выходит у меня из головы, - сказал Васильев. (Ю. Бондарев, Выбор) — 'I can't help it, I keep thinking about Ilya,' Vasilyev said.

Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не выходит из головы

15 sueño

m.

1 sleep, cyclical resting period, shut-eye, sleeping state.

2 aspiration, dream, hope, dreaming.

3 dream.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: soñar.

* * *

sueño

► nombre masculino

1 (acto) sleep

2 (ganas de dormir) sleepiness

3 (lo soñado) dream

4 figurado (ilusión) dream, illusion

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FRASEOLOGÍA

caerse de sueño figurado not to be able to keep one's eyes open

conciliar el sueño to get to sleep

dar sueño to make sleepy

en sueños figurado in one's dreams

echar un sueño to take a nap

entre sueños while half-asleep

¡ni en sueños! familiar not on your life!

■ no lo haría ni en sueños I wouldn't dream of doing it

perder el sueño por algo to lose sleep over something

quitar el sueño to keep awake

ser un sueño familiar to be a dream

■ es un sueño de piso it's a dream of a flat

tener el sueño ligero to be a light sleeper

tener sueño to feel sleepy, be sleepy

■ tengo mucho sueño I'm feeling really sleepy

sueño dorado figurado cherished dream, greatest dream

* * *

noun m.

1) dream

2) sleep

* * *

SM

1) (=estado) sleep

coger o conciliar el sueño — to get to sleep

• echarse un sueño o un sueñecito * — to have a nap, have a kip *

• en o entre sueños, me hablaste entre sueños — you talked to me but you were half asleep

• tener el sueño ligero — to be a light sleeper

• tener el sueño pesado — to be a heavy sleeper

sueño eterno — eternal rest

sueño invernal — (Zool) winter sleep

sueño paradójico — paradoxical sleep

sueño profundo — deep sleep

sueño REM — REM sleep
dormir 2., 2)
2) (=ganas de dormir)

tienes cara de sueño — you look sleepy

tengo sueño atrasado — I haven't caught up on sleep, I haven't had much sleep lately

• caerse de sueño — to be asleep on one's feet

• dar sueño, su conversación me da sueño — his conversation sends me to sleep

la televisión me da sueño — television makes me sleepy

• morirse de sueño, estar muerto de sueño — to be asleep on one's feet, be so tired one can hardly stand

• quitar el sueño a algn — to keep sb awake

el café me quita el sueño — coffee keeps me awake

ya se me ha quitado el sueño — I'm not sleepy any more

• tener sueño — to be sleepy, be tired

- perder el sueño por algo
vencer
3) (=imagen soñada) dream

anoche tuve un sueño espantoso — I had a horrible dream last night

¿sabes interpretar los sueños? — do you know how to interpret dreams?

¡que tengas dulces sueños! — sweet dreams!

- ¡ni en sueños!

eso no te lo crees tú ni en sueños — don't give me that! **

no pienso volver a hablarle ni en sueños — there's no way I'd ever talk to him again *

sueño húmedo — wet dream

4) (=ilusión) dream

por fin consiguió la casa de sus sueños — she finally got the house of her dreams o her dream home

vive en un mundo de sueños — he lives in a dream world

estas vacaciones son como un sueño — these holidays are like a dream come true

mi sueño dorado es vivir frente al mar — my greatest dream is to live by the sea

el sueño americano — the American Dream

* * *

masculino

1)

a) ( estado) sleep

conciliar el sueño — to get to sleep

oyó un ruido entre sueños — she heard a noise in her sleep

tener el sueño ligero/pesado — to be a light/heavy sleeper

el sueño eterno — (euf) eternal rest (euf)

descabezar or echar un sueñecito — (fam) to have forty winks, have a (little) nap

perder el sueño (por algo) — to lose sleep (over something)

quitarle el sueño a alguien — to keep somebody awake

tener (el) sueño atrasado: tengo sueño atrasado — I have missed out on a lot of sleep

b) ( ganas de dormir)

¿tienes sueño? — are you tired/sleepy?

qué sueño (tengo)! — I'm so sleepy!

me empezó a entrar sueño — I started feeling sleepy

me estoy cayendo or muriendo de sueño — I'm falling asleep on my feet

se me ha quitado el sueño — I've woken up again now, I don't feel sleepy any more

lo venció el sueño — (liter) sleep overcame him, he was overcome by sleep

2)

a) ( representación) dream

que tengas dulces sueños — sweet dreams!

ni en sueños: no pienso prestarle ese dinero ni en sueños — I wouldn't dream of lending him that money

b) ( ilusión) dream

la mujer de sus sueños — the woman of his dreams

sus sueños se hicieron realidad — her dreams came true

ser un sueño — (fam) to be divine (colloq)

•

- sueño dorado

* * *

= wishful thinking, dream, fantasy [phantasy], sleep, vision, slumber, shut-eye.

Ex. I suspect that Mr Byrum's personal opinion that AACR2 will force libraries to close their catalogs is partly wishful thinking.

Ex. The computer, once instructed on the desired filing order, is eminently suitable for filing, achieving a level of consistency which was a remote dream in the days of human filers.

Ex. The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.

Ex. Sleep is the simplest category to deal with as the person asleep is unconscious and can be said therefore to be inactive.

Ex. It appears, however, that the role of security in this vision has not been fully delineated.

Ex. The clock radio came suddenly to life, rousing Jack from his fitful slumber.

Ex. America is raising a nation of sleep-deprived kids, with only 20 percent getting the recommended nine hours of shut-eye on school nights.

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* apnea del sueño = sleep apnoea.

* apnea durante el sueño = sleep apnoea.

* con cara de sueño = bleary-eyed.

* con sueño = drowsily.

* el sueño de toda persona = the stuff dreams are made of.

* el sueño de todos = the stuff dreams are made of.

* el sueño de todo ser viviente = the stuff dreams are made of.

* enfermedad del sueño = sleeping sickness.

* falto de sueño = sleep-deprived.

* hacer realidad un sueño = realise + dream, fulfil + dream, make + vision + a reality, realise + vision, fulfil + vision, make + Posesivo + dream come true.

* hipopnea del sueño = sleep hypopnoea.

* hipopnea durante el sueño = sleep hypopnoea.

* ¡ni en sueños! = no dice!.

* no poder conciliar el sueño = have + trouble sleeping.

* perder el sueño por = lose + sleep over/on.

* robarle tiempo al sueño = burn + the candle at both ends.

* Sueño Americano, el = American Dream, the.

* sueño de los padres = hand-me-down dream.

* sueño despierto = waking dream.

* sueño escapista = dreamscape.

* sueño + hacerse realidad = dream + come true.

* sueño húmedo = wet dream.

* sueño imposible = pipe dream [pipedream], impossible dream.

* sueño profundo = deep slumber, deep sleep, sound night's sleep.

* tener sueño = be sleepy, feel + sleepy.

* un sueño hecho realidad = a dream come true.

* * *

masculino

1)

a) ( estado) sleep

conciliar el sueño — to get to sleep

oyó un ruido entre sueños — she heard a noise in her sleep

tener el sueño ligero/pesado — to be a light/heavy sleeper

el sueño eterno — (euf) eternal rest (euf)

descabezar or echar un sueñecito — (fam) to have forty winks, have a (little) nap

perder el sueño (por algo) — to lose sleep (over something)

quitarle el sueño a alguien — to keep somebody awake

tener (el) sueño atrasado: tengo sueño atrasado — I have missed out on a lot of sleep

b) ( ganas de dormir)

¿tienes sueño? — are you tired/sleepy?

qué sueño (tengo)! — I'm so sleepy!

me empezó a entrar sueño — I started feeling sleepy

me estoy cayendo or muriendo de sueño — I'm falling asleep on my feet

se me ha quitado el sueño — I've woken up again now, I don't feel sleepy any more

lo venció el sueño — (liter) sleep overcame him, he was overcome by sleep

2)

a) ( representación) dream

que tengas dulces sueños — sweet dreams!

ni en sueños: no pienso prestarle ese dinero ni en sueños — I wouldn't dream of lending him that money

b) ( ilusión) dream

la mujer de sus sueños — the woman of his dreams

sus sueños se hicieron realidad — her dreams came true

ser un sueño — (fam) to be divine (colloq)

•

- sueño dorado

* * *

= wishful thinking, dream, fantasy [phantasy], sleep, vision, slumber, shut-eye.

Ex: I suspect that Mr Byrum's personal opinion that AACR2 will force libraries to close their catalogs is partly wishful thinking.

Ex: The computer, once instructed on the desired filing order, is eminently suitable for filing, achieving a level of consistency which was a remote dream in the days of human filers.

Ex: The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.

Ex: Sleep is the simplest category to deal with as the person asleep is unconscious and can be said therefore to be inactive.

Ex: It appears, however, that the role of security in this vision has not been fully delineated.

Ex: The clock radio came suddenly to life, rousing Jack from his fitful slumber.

Ex: America is raising a nation of sleep-deprived kids, with only 20 percent getting the recommended nine hours of shut-eye on school nights.

* apnea del sueño = sleep apnoea.

* apnea durante el sueño = sleep apnoea.

* con cara de sueño = bleary-eyed.

* con sueño = drowsily.

* el sueño de toda persona = the stuff dreams are made of.

* el sueño de todos = the stuff dreams are made of.

* el sueño de todo ser viviente = the stuff dreams are made of.

* enfermedad del sueño = sleeping sickness.

* falto de sueño = sleep-deprived.

* hacer realidad un sueño = realise + dream, fulfil + dream, make + vision + a reality, realise + vision, fulfil + vision, make + Posesivo + dream come true.

* hipopnea del sueño = sleep hypopnoea.

* hipopnea durante el sueño = sleep hypopnoea.

* ¡ni en sueños! = no dice!.

* no poder conciliar el sueño = have + trouble sleeping.

* perder el sueño por = lose + sleep over/on.

* robarle tiempo al sueño = burn + the candle at both ends.

* Sueño Americano, el = American Dream, the.

* sueño de los padres = hand-me-down dream.

* sueño despierto = waking dream.

* sueño escapista = dreamscape.

* sueño + hacerse realidad = dream + come true.

* sueño húmedo = wet dream.

* sueño imposible = pipe dream [pipedream], impossible dream.

* sueño profundo = deep slumber, deep sleep, sound night's sleep.

* tener sueño = be sleepy, feel + sleepy.

* un sueño hecho realidad = a dream come true.

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sueño

masculine

A

1 (estado) sleep

conciliar el sueño to get to sleep

oyó un ruido entre sueños she heard a noise in her sleep o when she was half asleep

tener el sueño ligero/pesado to be a light/heavy sleeper

entregarse al sueño ( liter); to abandon oneself to sleep ( liter)

descabezar or echar un sueñecito ( fam); to have forty winks, have a (little) nap

dormir el sueño de los justos (con la conciencia tranquila) to sleep the sleep of the just; (con un sueño profundo) to sleep deeply

perder el sueño to lose sleep

quitar(le) el sueño a algn to keep sb awake

esas cosas no me quitan el sueño I don't have sleepless nights o lose any sleep over such things, things like that don't keep me awake at night

2

(ganas de dormir): ¿tienes sueño? are you tired/sleepy?

¡qué sueño (tengo)! I'm so sleepy!

me voy a la cama, tengo un sueño que no veo ( fam); I'm going to bed, I'm very tired o I'm falling asleep

sobre las 11 ya me empieza a entrar sueño about 11 o'clock I start feeling sleepy

me estoy cayendo or muriendo de sueño I'm falling asleep on my feet

estoy cansado, pero no tengo sueño I'm tired but I don't feel sleepy

se me ha quitado el sueño I've woken up again o I don't feel sleepy any more

lo venció el sueño ( liter); sleep overcame him, he was overcome by sleep

B

1 (representación) dream

la interpretación de los sueños the interpretation of dreams

anoche tuve un sueño muy raro I had a very strange dream last night

que tengas dulces sueños sweet dreams!

te lo has debido de imaginar en sueños you must have dreamed it

ni en sueños: no pienso prestarle ese dinero ni en sueños I wouldn't dream of lending him that money, there's no way I would lend him that money ( colloq)

2 (ilusión) dream

la mujer de sus sueños the woman of his dreams, his dream woman

sus sueños se hicieron realidad her dreams came true

ser un sueño ( fam); to be divine ( colloq)

tiene una casa que es un sueño her house is gorgeous o divine ( colloq), her house is a dream ( colloq)

Compuestos:

● sueño con REM

rapid-eye-movement o REM sleep

● sueño crepuscular

twilight sleep

● sueño dorado

su sueño dorado es llegar a ser actriz her (greatest) dream is to become an actress

● sueño eterno

eternal sleep

dormir el sueño eterno to sleep the eternal sleep

● sueño guajiro

( Méx) pipe dream

● sueño húmedo

wet dream

● sueño paradójico

rapid-eye-movement o REM sleep

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Del verbo sonar: ( conjugate sonar)

sueno es:

1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

Multiple Entries:
sonar
sueño
sonar ( conjugate sonar) verbo intransitivo
1 [teléfono/timbre] to ring;
[ disparo] to ring out;
◊ el despertador sonó a las cinco the alarm went off at five o'clock;

sueñoon las doce en el reloj the clock struck twelve;
me suenan las tripas (fam) my tummy's rumbling (colloq)
2 (+ compl)
a) [motor/instrumento] to sound;

[ persona] to sound;
◊ suena raro it sounds funny;

sonaba preocupada she sounded worried;
suena a hueco it sounds hollow
b) [palabra/expresión] to sound

3
a) ( resultar conocido) (+ me/te/le etc):

◊ me suena tu cara your face is o looks familiar;

¿te suena este refrán? does this proverb ring a bell (with you) o sound familiar to you?
b) ( parecer) sueño A algo to sound like sth

4 (AmL fam) ( fracasar):
◊ soné en el examen I blew it in the exam (colloq);

sonamos we've blown it now (colloq)
verbo transitivo
1
a) (+ me/te/le etc) ‹ nariz› to wipe

b) ‹ trompeta› to play

2 (Méx fam)
a) ( pegar) ‹ persona› to thump (colloq), to clobber (colloq)

b) ( en competición) to beat, thrash (colloq)

sonarse verbo pronominal: tb
◊ sueñose la nariz to blow one's nose

sueño sustantivo masculino
1
a) ( estado) sleep;

◊ oyó un ruido entre sueños she heard a noise in her sleep;

tener el sueño ligero/pesado to be a light/heavy sleeper;
perder el sueño (por algo) to lose sleep (over sth)
b) ( ganas de dormir):

◊ ¿tienes sueño? are you tired/sleepy?;

el vino me dio sueño the wine made me sleepy;
me empezó a entrar sueño I started feeling sleepy;
se me quitó el sueño I don't feel sleepy any more
2
a) ( cosa soñada) dream;

◊ un mal sueño a bad dream

b) ( ilusión) dream;

◊ la mujer de sus sueños the woman of his dreams;

su sueño dorado es llegar a ser actriz her (greatest) dream is to become an actress
sonar verbo intransitivo
1 (un instrumento, una melodía) to sound: su voz sonaba a preocupación, her voice sounded worried
(un despertador) to ring, buzz
2 (dar una impresión) to sound: lo que dices me suena a chino, what you are saying is Greek to me
eso me suena a problemas, that sounds like trouble
su propuesta no suena mal, I like the sound of her proposal
3 (ser familiar) su cara me suena, his face rings a bell, ese nombre no me suena de nada, that name is completely unknown to me
4 (ser citado, mencionado) su nombre suena como candidato al premio, his name was put forward as a candidate for the prize
sueño sustantivo masculino
1 (estado de dormir) sleep: tengo el sueño ligero/pesado, I'm a light/heavy sleeper
2 (necesidad de dormir) sleepiness: te caes de sueño, you can hardly keep your eyes open
tenía sueño, she felt o was sleepy
3 (lo soñado) dream: tuve un sueño espantoso, I had a nightmare
4 (ilusión, ambición, deseo) dream: se cumplieron sus sueños, her dreams came true
5 (fantasías) fancy, delusion: eso no son más que sueños, that is nothing but dreams
6 sueño eterno, last sleep o eternal rest
♦ Locuciones: conciliar el sueño, to fall asleep
quitar el sueño, to be worried about sthg o sb
' sueño' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cabecear
- comentar
- conciliar
- engañar
- ilusión
- intranquila
- intranquilo
- lograr
- pesada
- pesado
- quitar
- realizar
- repetirse
- romper
- rondar
- satisfacer
- vencer
- atrasado
- dar
- despertar
- despierto
- desvelar
- dormir
- entrar
- espabilar
- imposible
- ininterrumpido
- interpretar
- ligero
- liviano
- muerto
- pesadilla
- profundo
- rendir
- reparador
- repetición
- repetir
- tener
- terrible
English:
American Dream
- broken
- catch up
- come
- deprivation
- disturb
- disturbed
- dream
- drowsy
- feel
- fulfil
- fulfill
- fulfillment
- fulfilment
- lie down
- nourish
- refreshing
- short
- sleep
- sleeper
- sleepy
- snatch
- true
- undisturbed
- vision
- wild
- bleary
- fantasy
- keep
- pipe
- slumber

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sueno etc ver sonar¹

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sueño

m

1 ( estado de dormir) sleep;

tener sueño be sleepy;

echar un sueño grab some sleep, take a nap;

caerse de sueño be dead tired, be out on one’s feet;

quitar el sueño a alguien keep s.o. awake

2 ( fantasía, imagen mental) dream;

ni en sueños fig not in a million years

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sueño nm

1) : dream

2) : sleep

perder el sueño: to lose sleep

3) : sleepiness

tener sueño: to be sleepy

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sueño n

1. (estado de dormir) sleep

necesito ocho horas de sueño I need eight hours' sleep

2. (lo soñado, ilusión) dream

tuvo un sueño muy raro he had a very strange dream

tener sueño to be sleepy

¿no tienes sueño? aren't you sleepy?

Spanish-English dictionary > sueño

16 halb

I Adj.

1. half; halb Deutschland half of Germany; auf halber Höhe halfway (up); halbe Note MUS. minim, Am. half note; halbe Pause MUS. minim (Am. half note) rest; zum halben Preis for half the price, (at) half-price; die halbe Summe half the amount

2. bei Zeitangaben: half; eine halbe Stunde half an hour, a half hour; halb drei ( Uhr) half past two; fünf nach / vor halb twenty-five to / past

3. (teilweise, unvollständig) half; mit halbem Herzen half-hearted(ly); er hörte nur mit halbem Ohr zu he was only half listening, he was listening with only half an ear; sie ist nur noch ein halber Mensch she’s only half the woman she was; keine halben Sachen machen not do anything by halves; nur die halbe Wahrheit only half the truth; jemandem auf halbem Wege entgegenkommen meet s.o. halfway; sich auf halbem Wege einigen meet halfway; nichts Halbes und nichts Ganzes neither one thing nor the other, neither fish nor fowl

4. umg. (fast, so gut wie) half; sie ist ja noch ein halbes Kind she’s still half a child; es dauert eine halbe Ewigkeit it’s taking ages; das weiß schon die halbe Stadt half the town knows it already

II Adv.

1. half; halb leer / offen / voll half-empty / -open / -full; halb so viel half as much; die Zeit ist halb vorbei half the time has gone; halb herausfordernd, halb abwehrend half defiant(ly), half defensive(ly); halb Mensch, halb Tier half-human, half-beast; halb und halb mischen etc.: half and half; umg. überzeugen, wollen etc.: more or less; halb und halb machen mit jemandem go halves with s.o.

2. (teilweise) bekleidet, nackt, verdaut, wach etc.: half-..., präd. half...; flüssig, offiziell etc.: semi-...; halb gar oder durch half-done, underdone, half-cooked; Steak: medium; halb verfault rotting; halb durchsichtig translucent; es war mir nur halb bewusst I was only half aware of it; es ist halb so schlimm oder wild umg. it’s not as bad as all that ( oder as we etc. thought)

3. bes. umg. half; (fast) auch nearly, almost; (so gut wie) auch virtually; halb blind vor Tränen half blinded by tears; halb tot vor Angst half dead with fear; halb erfroren / verdurstet half frozen / parched; halb verhungert starving; ich bin halb erfroren I’m nearly frozen to death; wir sind da drin halb erstickt we nearly suffocated in there; sich halb totlachen (nearly) kill o.s. laughing; das ist ja halb geschenkt that’s more or less a gift; damit war die Sache schon halb gewonnen that was half the battle; ich wünsche halb, dass... I half wish (that)...; ich dachte mir schon halb... I half suspected, I had a feeling...

4. Fußball: halblink..., halbrecht... etc.

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halfway (Adj.); half (Adj.);

(bei Nennung der Uhrzeit) half past (Adv.)

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hạlb [halp]
1. adj

1) (Bruchteil) half; Lehrauftrag etc part-time

ein halber Kuchen/Meter etc — half a cake/metre (Brit) or meter (US) etc

der halbe Kuchen/Tag etc — half the cake/day etc

eine halbe Stunde — half an hour

alle halbe Stunde — every half hour

ein halbes Jahr — six months pl, half a year

ein halbes Dutzend — half a dozen

auf halber Höhe — at half the normal height; (zum Gipfel) halfway up

auf halbem Wege, auf halber Strecke (lit) — halfway; (fig) halfway through

jdm auf halbem Weg entgegenkommen (fig) — to meet sb halfway

das halbe Hundert — fifty, half a hundred (old)

zum halben Preis — (at) half price

den Apfel nur halb essen — to eat only half the apple

Kleid mit halbem Arm — dress with half-length sleeves

2) (MUS)

eine halbe Note — a minim (Brit), a half-note (US)

ein halber Ton — a semitone

halbe Pause — minim (Brit) or half-note (US) rest

3) inv

(Uhrzeit) halb zehn — half past nine

fünf Minuten vor/nach halb zwei — twenty-five (minutes) past one/to two

es schlägt halb — it's striking the half hour

um drei Minuten nach halb — at three minutes past the half hour

um fünf Minuten nach halb — at twenty-five to

4) inv, no art

(bei geografischen Namen) halb Deutschland/London — half of Germany/London

5) (= teilweise, stückhaft) Maßnahmen half; Reformen partial; (= vermindert) Tempo half; Lächeln slight; Licht poor

halbe Arbeit leisten — to do a bad job

die halbe Freude — half the pleasure

die halbe Wahrheit — half of or part of the truth

nichts Halbes und nichts Ganzes — neither one thing nor the other

mit halbem Ohr — with half an ear

ein halber Mensch/eine halbe Frau sein, sich nur wie ein halber Mensch/eine halbe Frau fühlen — not to feel like a complete person/woman

eine halbe Sache machen — not to do it properly

keine halben Sachen machen — not to do things by halves

6) (inf)

(= große Anzahl, großer Teil) die halbe Stadt/Welt/Arbeit — half the town/world/work

sie ist schon eine halbe Schottin — she is already half Scottish

ein halber Elektriker/Mechaniker — something of an electrician/mechanic

(noch) ein halbes Kind sein — to be hardly or scarcely more than a child

2. adv

1) (= zur Hälfte) half

halb gar — half-cooked, half-done; (fig) Idee half-baked

halb links (Sport, spielen) — (at) inside left; (im Theater) sitzen left of centre (Brit) or center (US)

halb links abbiegen — to fork left

die Straße halb links — the left fork

das Auto kam von halb links — the car came from a/the left fork

halb linke(r, s) (Sport) — inside left

die halb linke Abzweigung/Straße — the left fork

halb rechte(r, s) (Sport) — inside right

die halb rechte Abzweigung/Straße — the right fork

halb rechts (Sport, spielen) — (at) inside right; (im Theater) sitzen right of centre (Brit) or center (US)

halb rechts abbiegen — to fork right

die Straße halb rechts — the right fork

das Auto kam von halb rechts — the car came from a/the right fork

halb rechts/links abzweigen (Straße, Fahrer) — to fork ( off) to the right/left, to turn half right/left

halb voll — half-filled; Behälter auch half-full

die Zeit ist halb vorbei — half the time has already gone

2) (= nicht ganz, teilweise) half

halb automatisch — semi-automatic

halb erwachsen — half grown ( up)

halb offen — half-open; Gefängnis open

halb offener Vollzug — daytime release (for prisoners)

halb reif — half-ripe

halb verdaut (lit, fig) — half-digested

halb wach — half awake

in halb wachem Zustand — half awake

halb zivilisiert — half-civilized

halb so gut — half as good

etw nur halb verstehen — to only half understand sth

ich hörte nur halb zu — I was only half listening

das ist halb so schlimm — it's not as bad as all that; (Zukünftiges) that won't be too bad

er weiß alles nur halb — he only knows about things superficially

etw nur halb machen — to only half-do sth (inf)

3) (= fast vollständig) almost, nearly; blind, roh half

halb fertig — half-finished; (Ind) semi-finished; (fig) immature

ich war schon halb fertig — I was almost or nearly finished

halb nackt — half-naked; Arm half-covered

halb tot (lit) — half dead

wir haben uns halb totgelacht — we almost died laughing

ich hätte mich halb totärgern können — I could have kicked myself (inf)

See:

→ frisch

4)

halb lachend, halb weinend — half laughing, half crying

halb Mensch, halb Pferd — half or part man, half or part horse

Wein oder Sprudel? – halb und halb — wine or mineral water? – half and half

5)

mit jdm halbe-halbe machen (inf) — to go halves with sb (Brit), to go 50/50 with sb

gefällt es dir? – halb und halb — do you like it? – sort of (inf) or so-so (inf)

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1) (being (equal to) one of two equal parts (of something): a half bottle of wine.) half

2) (being made up of two things in equal parts: A centaur is a mythical creature, half man and half horse.) half

3) (not full or complete: a half smile.) half

4) (to the extent of one half: This cup is only half full; It's half empty.) half

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halb

[halp]

I. adj

1. (die Hälfte von) half

wir haben den \halben Weg hinter uns we have already done half of the way

Kinder und Pensionisten zahlen den halben Preis children and old-age pensioners pay half-price

ein \halbes Brot half a loaf [of bread]

mit \halber Geschwindigkeit at half speed

\halbe Note minim

zum \halben Preis at half-price

\halber Ton semitone

sich akk auf \halbem Weg treffen (a. fig) to meet halfway

2. (bei Zahlen und Maßen) half

fünf und ein \halbes Prozent five and a half percent

ein \halbes Dutzend half a dozen

ein \halber Liter half a litre [or AM liter]

ein \halber Meter half a metre [or AM meter

3. (bei Zeitbestimmungen)

es ist genau \halb sieben it is exactly half past six

es hat \halb geschlagen the clock has struck half past [or the half-hour]

eine \halbe Stunde half an hour

zehn Minuten nach/vor \halb twenty minutes to/past

4. kein art (ein Großteil von etw)

▪ \halb... half of...

\halb Irland/Österreich/etc. half of Ireland/Austria/etc.

▪ der/die/das \halbe... half the...

das \halbe Dorf half of the village

5. (fig: unvollständig, teilweise) half

er hat nur \halbe Arbeit geleistet he has only done half of the job

eine \halbe Ewigkeit half an eternity

mit \halber Kraft voraus! half speed ahead!

mit \halbem Herzen half-heartedly

\halbe Maßnahmen half-hearted measures

mit \halbem Ohr zuhören to listen with half an ear

\halbe Sachen machen to do something by halves

die \halbe Wahrheit half the truth

6. (fam: fast) something of

du bist ja ein \halber Elektriker you're something of an electrician

er ist ja noch ein \halbes Kind he is still half a child

sie ist nur noch \halb sie selbst she is only a shadow of what she once was

\halbe Portion (pej) sandwich short of a picnic

7.

▶ nichts H\halbes und nichts Ganzes (fam) neither one thing nor the other

II. adv

1. vor vb (zur Hälfte) half

\halb..., \halb... half..., half...

diese Nachricht quittierte sie \halb lachend, \halb weinend she took this news half laughing, half crying

etw nur \halb machen to only half-do sth

er hat die Arbeit nur \halb getan he only did half of the job

\halb so... sein wie to be half as...

er ist nicht \halb so schlau wie sein Vorgänger he's not nearly as crafty as his predecessor

2. vor adj, adv (teilweise) half

▪ nur \halb only half

ich habe nur \halb verstanden, was sie sagte I only half understood what she said

die Straße biegt hier \halb rechts ab the street forks off to the right here

\halb blind half blind

\halb durch/gar KOCHK half-done

\halb fest half solid

\halb leer/voll half-empty/full

\halb nackt half-naked

\halb offen half-open

\halb tot (fam) half-dead

\halb wach half-awake

3. (fast) nearly

sie hat schon \halb zugestimmt she has nearly agreed

mit \halb erstickter Stimme sprechen to be hardly able to speak

\halb fertig nearly finished

sich akk \halb totlachen to nearly kill oneself laughing

\halb verdurstet/verhungert to be nearly dying of thirst/hunger

4.

▶ [mit jdm] \halb und \halb [o \halbe- \halbe] machen (fam) to go halves with sb

▶ das ist \halb so schlimm it's not that bad

▶ \halb und \halb (fam) sort of

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1.
Adjektiv u. Bruchz

1) half

eine halbe Stunde/ein halber Meter/ein halbes Glas — half an hour/a metre/a glass

zum halben Preis — [at] half price

halb Europa/die halbe Welt — half of Europe/half the world

es ist halb eins — it's half past twelve

5 Minuten vor/nach halb — 25 [minutes] past/to; s. auch Weg 4)

2) (unvollständig, vermindert)

die halbe Wahrheit — half [of] or part of the truth

nichts Halbes und nichts Ganzes [sein] — [be] neither one thing nor the other

3) (fast)

[noch] ein halbes Kind sein — be hardly or scarcely more than a child

die halbe Stadt — half the town
2.
adverbial

1)

halb voll/leer — half-full/-empty

halb lachend, halb weinend — half laughing, half crying

2) (unvollständig)

halb gar/angezogen/wach/offen/fertig — half-done or -cooked/half dressed/half-awake/half-open/half-finished

halb links/rechts — (Fußball) [at] inside left/right

3) (fast)

halb blind/verhungert/tot — half blind/starved/dead

halb nackt — half-naked

halb und halb — (ugs.) more or less

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halb

A. adj

1. half;

halb Deutschland half of Germany;

auf halber Höhe halfway (up);

halbe Note MUS minim, US half note;

halbe Pause MUS minim (US half note) rest;

zum halben Preis for half the price, (at) half-price;

die halbe Summe half the amount

2. bei Zeitangaben: half;

eine halbe Stunde half an hour, a half hour;

halb drei (Uhr) half past two;

fünf nach/vor halb twenty-five to/past

3. (teilweise, unvollständig) half;

mit halbem Herzen half-hearted(ly);

er hörte nur mit halbem Ohr zu he was only half listening, he was listening with only half an ear;

sie ist nur noch ein halber Mensch she’s only half the woman she was;

keine halben Sachen machen not do anything by halves;

nur die halbe Wahrheit only half the truth;

jemandem auf halbem Wege entgegenkommen meet sb halfway;

sich auf halbem Wege einigen meet halfway;

nichts Halbes und nichts Ganzes neither one thing nor the other, neither fish nor fowl

4. umg (fast, so gut wie) half;

sie ist ja noch ein halbes Kind she’s still half a child;

es dauert eine halbe Ewigkeit it’s taking ages;

das weiß schon die halbe Stadt half the town knows it already

B. adv

1. half;

halb leer/offen/voll half-empty/-open/-full;

halb so viel half as much;

die Zeit ist halb vorbei half the time has gone;

halb herausfordernd, halb abwehrend half defiant(ly), half defensive(ly);

halb Mensch, halb Tier half-human, half-beast;

halb und halb mischen etc: half and half; umg überzeugen, wollen etc: more or less;

halb und halb machen mit jemandem go halves with sb

2. (teilweise) bekleidet, nackt, verdaut, wach etc: half-…, präd half …; flüssig etc: semi-…;

halb automatisch semi-automatic;

halb fertig half-done, half-finished; TECH semi-finished; fig Person: half-baked;

halb links/rechts spielen play inside left/right;

halb gar oder

durch half-done, underdone, half-cooked; Steak: medium;

halb verfault rotting;

halb durchsichtig translucent;

es war mir nur halb bewusst I was only half aware of it;

es ist halb so schlimm oder

wild umg it’s not as bad as all that ( oder as we etc thought)

3. besonders umg half; (fast) auch nearly, almost; (so gut wie) auch virtually;

halb blind nearly blind, partially blind;

halb blind vor Tränen half blinded by tears;

halb tot vor Angst half dead with fear;

halb erfroren/verdurstet half frozen/parched;

halb erhaben (in) half relief;

halb erwachsen almost grown-up;

halb erwachsene Kinder auch teenage children;

halb reif half-ripe;

halb verhungert starving;

ich bin halb erfroren I’m nearly frozen to death;

wir sind da drin halb erstickt we nearly suffocated in there;

sich halb totlachen (nearly) kill o.s. laughing;

das ist ja halb geschenkt that’s more or less a gift;

damit war die Sache schon halb gewonnen that was half the battle;

ich wünsche halb, dass … I half wish (that) …;

ich dachte mir schon halb … I half suspected, I had a feeling …

4. Fußball: → halblink…, halbrecht… etc

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1.
Adjektiv u. Bruchz

1) half

eine halbe Stunde/ein halber Meter/ein halbes Glas — half an hour/a metre/a glass

zum halben Preis — [at] half price

halb Europa/die halbe Welt — half of Europe/half the world

es ist halb eins — it's half past twelve

5 Minuten vor/nach halb — 25 [minutes] past/to; s. auch Weg 4)

2) (unvollständig, vermindert)

die halbe Wahrheit — half [of] or part of the truth

nichts Halbes und nichts Ganzes [sein] — [be] neither one thing nor the other

3) (fast)

[noch] ein halbes Kind sein — be hardly or scarcely more than a child

die halbe Stadt — half the town
2.
adverbial

1)

halb voll/leer — half-full/-empty

halb lachend, halb weinend — half laughing, half crying

2) (unvollständig)

halb gar/angezogen/wach/offen/fertig — half-done or -cooked/half dressed/half-awake/half-open/half-finished

halb links/rechts — (Fußball) [at] inside left/right

3) (fast)

halb blind/verhungert/tot — half blind/starved/dead

halb nackt — half-naked

halb und halb — (ugs.) more or less

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adj.

half adj.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > halb

17 bene

1. adv well

bene! good!

per bene properly

stare bene di salute be well

di vestito suit

ben ti sta! serves you right!

va bene! OK!

andare bene a qualcuno di abito fit someone

di orario, appuntamento suit someone

di bene in meglio better and better

sentirsi bene feel well

2. m good

fare bene alla salute be good for you

per il tuo bene for your own good

voler bene a qualcuno love someone

( amare) love someone

beni pl assets, property sg

beni pl di consumo consumer goods

beni pl culturali cultural heritage sg

beni pl immobili real estate sg

beni pl pubblici public property sg

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bene s.m.

1 good: il bene e il male, good and evil; questo ti farà bene, this will do you good; augurare del bene a qlcu., to wish s.o. well; dire bene di qlcu., to speak well of s.o.; opere di bene, good works; fare del bene, to do good // a fin di bene, to a good purpose; lo ha fatto a fin di bene, he meant well // ogni ben di Dio, (fig.) all sorts of good things // per il tuo bene, ( per amor tuo) for your sake // Sommo Bene, ( Dio) Summum Bonum

2 (affetto, amore) fondness, affection: voler bene a qlcu., to be fond of s.o.; volersi bene, to be fond of each other (o of one another); le vuole un bene dell'anima, he loves her with all his heart

3 ( persona amata) beloved person, darling; (innamorato, innamorata) sweetheart: mio bene, (my) darling (o my sweetheart o my love)

4 ( vantaggio) sake, good; ( benessere) welfare: per il bene del popolo, for the welfare of the people; per il tuo bene, for your own good

5 ( dono) gift; blessing: la salute è il più grande dei beni, health is the greatest of blessings // ogni ben di Dio, all sorts of good things

6 (spec. pl.) goods (pl.), property, possession: persero i loro beni durante la guerra, they lost all their possessions during the war; avere dei beni al sole, to be a man of property // (comm.): beni all'estero, property abroad; beni pubblici, collective (o public) goods; beni reali, ( non monetari) real assets; beni strumentali, auxiliary capital (o industrial goods); beni superflui, superfluities; beni superiori, superior goods; beni di prestigio, positional goods; beni di prima necessità, necessaries; beni utilitari, utility goods; beni di rifugio, shelter goods; beni e servizi diversi, sundry goods and services; beni alternativi, succedanei, rival commodities; beni bloccati ( per ordine del tribunale), frozen assets; beni capitali, di produzione, capital goods; soggetti all'imposta di registro, goods that are liable to stamp duty; beni commerciabili internazionalmente, tradeables; beni complementari, complementary goods (o complements); beni di consumo, consumer goods (o consumables); beni di consumo deperibili, soft (o perishable) goods (o perishables); beni di consumo durevoli, consumer durable goods, durable (o hard) goods; beni di consumo non durevoli, non durables (o non durable goods); beni di consumo semidurevoli, semi-durable goods; beni di investimento, investment goods; beni di lusso, voluttuari, luxury goods (o luxuries); beni economici, goods; beni finali, final goods; beni fungibili, fungible (o replaceable) goods; beni immateriali, intangibles (o intangible assets o non-material goods) // (dir.): beni dotali, dowry; beni ereditari, estate hereditaments; beni demaniali, public domain; beni pignorabili, seizable chattels (o goods); beni impignorabili, privileged from execution goods; beni mobili, personal property (o movables o goods and chattels); beni mobili facenti parte dell'abitazione, household; beni immobili, real estate (o immovables o real assets); beni immateriali, incorporeal property (o intangible assets); beni rubati, stolen property.

bene avv.

1 (in modo giusto, correttamente) well; properly: parla molto bene l'inglese, he speaks English very well; comportarsi bene, to behave well; trattare bene qlcu., to treat s.o. well; una persona bene educata, a well-mannered person; una cosa ben fatta, something well done; se ben ricordo, se ricordo bene, if I remember well // sa fare molto beneil suo lavoro, he's a good worker // non sta bene, it's not nice (o it isn't polite) // hai fatto bene, you did the right thing // sono persone per bene, they're respectable people // lo hanno sistemato per bene, (iron.) they made a fine mess of him

2 ( completamente) properly; thoroughly: hai chiuso bene la porta?, have you closed the door properly?; non hai inserito bene la spina, you haven't plugged it in properly; ricordati di lavare bene l'insalata, remember to wash the lettuce thoroughly // mi hai sentito bene?, did you hear what I said?

3 (in modo conveniente, piacevole): avete mangiato bene?, did you have a good meal?; guadagnare bene, to make a lot of money (o to earn good money); quella persona veste molto bene, that person dresses very well // stare bene ( di salute) to be well (o in good health); (di abito ecc.) to fit, to suit: ''Come stai?'' ''Abbastanza bene'', ''How are you?'' ''Quite well''; questa giacca non mi sta bene this jacket doesn't suit me // star bene a soldi, to be well off // ti sta bene (o ben ti sta), it serves you right // mi è andata bene, I made it // bene o male, somehow (or other) // di bene in meglio, better and better // né bene né male, so-so

4 ( con valore rafforzativo): è ben difficile che arrivi in orario, he's very unlikely to be on time // saremo ben lieti se..., we'll be delighted if...; era ben lontano dal pensare che..., he was far from thinking that...; ''Pensi che accetterà?'' ''Lo spero bene'', ''Do you think he'll agree?'' ''I hope so''; vorrei ben vedere..., I'd like to see...; lo credo bene!, I should think so!; abbiamo ben cento pagine di storia da studiare, we've got a good hundred pages of history to study; ho pagato ben 4 milioni di spese condominali, I spent a good 4 million on condominium expenses; si tratta di ben altro, it's quite a different matter // ben bene, well, properly: copritelo ben bene, fa molto freddo, wrap him up well, it's bitterly cold; l'abbiamo sgridato ben bene, we gave him a good telling off

5 ( in espressioni esclamative): bene, continua così!, good, keep it up!; ma bene, è questo il modo di comportarsi?, come along, that's no way to behave!

6 ( con valore conclusivo): bene, ora possiamo incominciare, well then, now we can begin; bene, non parliamone più, well, let's say no more about it

◆ agg. ( di alto livello sociale) upper-class: la società, la gente bene, upper-class society, the upper classes // frequenta i locali bene della città, he goes to all the best places in town.

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['bɛne]
1. avv

1) (gen) well, (funzionare) properly, well

faresti bene a studiare — you'd do well o you'd be well advised to study

hai fatto bene — you did the right thing

ben fatto! — well done!

guida bene — he drives well, he's a good driver

parla bene l'italiano — he speaks Italian well, he speaks good Italian

parlare bene di qn — to speak well of sb

gente per bene — respectable people

sto poco bene — I'm not very well

ha preso bene la notizia — he took the news well

se ben ricordo; se ricordo bene — if I remember correctly

sto bene — I'm fine

va bene — all right, okay

2)

(con attenzione, completamente) ascoltami bene — listen to me carefully

ben bene — thoroughly

ho legato il pacco ben bene — I've tied the parcel securely

hai capito bene? — do you understand?

chiudi bene la porta — close the door properly

per bene — thoroughly

ho sistemato le cose per bene — I've sorted things out properly

3) (molto: + aggettivo) very, (+ comparativo, avverbio) (very) much

ben contento — very pleased

è ben difficile — it's very difficult

ben più caro — much more expensive

ben più lungo — much longer

4)

(rafforzativo: appunto) lo credo bene — I'm not surprised

te l'avevo ben detto io che... — I DID tell you that..., I certainly did tell you that...

sai bene che non dovresti uscire — you know perfectly well you shouldn't go out

come tu ben sai — as you well know

lo so ben io; lo so fin troppo bene — I know only too well

lo spero bene — I certainly hope so

5) (addirittura, non meno di) at least

hai fatto ben 7 errori — you've made at least 7 mistakes

sono ben 3 giorni che non la vedo — I haven't seen her for at least 3 days

6)

(in esclamazioni) ho finito — bene! — I've finished — good!

bene, allora possiamo partire — right then, we can go

bene, puoi continuare da solo — all right, you can continue on your own

bene bene! — good (good)!

7)

(fraseologia) né bene né male — so-so

di bene in meglio — better and better

tutto è bene quel che finisce bene — all's well that ends well

2. agg inv

la gente bene — (ricca, snob) well-to-do people

la Roma bene — the Roman bourgeois

3. sm

1) good

far del bene — to do good

fare del bene a qn — to do sb a good turn

fare bene a — (salute) to be good for

quella vacanza ti ha fatto bene — that holiday has done you good

a fin di bene — for a good reason

sul tavolo c'era ogni ben di Dio — there were all sorts of good things on the table

l'ho fatto per il suo bene — I did it for his own good

è stato un bene — it was a good thing

volere un bene dell'anima a qn — to love sb very much

vuole molto bene a suo padre — he loves his father very much, he's very fond of his father

2)

beni smpl (proprietà) (anche) Dir — possessions, property sg, Econ goods

- beni ambientali

- beni di consumo

- beni culturali

- beni rifugio

- beni immobili

- beni mobili

- beni patrimoniali

- beni privati

- beni pubblici

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I 1. ['bɛne]
avverbio

1) (in modo giusto, corretto, soddisfacente) [trattare, comportarsi, esprimersi, ballare, scegliere] well; [ funzionare] properly; [compilare, interpretare] correctly

andare bene — [festa, operazione, affari] to go well

la macchina non va bene — the machine is not functioning properly

un lavoro ben pagato — a well-paid job

bene o male — somehow

parla bene spagnolo — he speaks good Spanish

non parlava molto bene l'inglese — she didn't speak much English

non ci sente bene — he doesn't hear well

se ben ricordo — if I remember correctly o right

andare bene a scuola — to do well at school

andare bene in matematica — to be good at maths

faremmo bene ad andare — we'd better be going

hai fatto bene a dirmelo — you did well o right to tell me

non sta bene fare — it's not done to do, it is bad form o manners to do

va tutto bene — that's all very well, that's all well and good

va tutto bene? — is everything all right? are you OK?

gli è andata bene che — it was just as well for him that

domenica (ti) va bene? — does Sunday suit you? is Sunday OK?

2) (completamente) [lavare, mescolare] thoroughly; [riempire, asciugare] completely; [leggere, ascoltare, guardare] carefully

3) (piacevolmente, gradevolmente) [dormire, mangiare] well; [ vestire] well, smartly; [ vivere] comfortably

una casa ben arredata — a well-decorated o well-appointed house

andare o stare bene insieme [colori, mobile] to go together, to be a good match; quel cappello ti sta bene you look good in that hat; stare bene con qcn. — to get along well o to be well in colloq. with sb

4) (in buona salute)

star bene — [ persona] to feel all right

"come stai?"- "abbastanza bene" — "how are you?" - "pretty well"

5) (con valore rafforzativo)

si tratta di ben altro — that's quite another matter

ben più di 200 — well over 200

ben 10.000 persone — as many as 10,000 people

ben volentieri — with great pleasure

ben sveglio — wide awake

6) (con uso pleonastico)

lo credo bene! — I can well o quite believe it!

come ben sai... — as you know full well..., as you well know

7) di bene in meglio better and better

8) per bene perbene
2.
aggettivo invariabile

la gente bene — high society, the upper classes

i quartieri bene — the posh neighbourhoods
3.
interiezione good, fine

bene! Vediamo il resto — good! Let's see the rest

bene, bravo! — well done! excellent!

ma bene! — iron. ah, that's fine!

va bene! — OK! fair enough!

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ben detto! — neatly put! well said!

ti sta bene! ben ti sta! — it serves you right!

non mi sta bene — I don't agree

tutto è bene quel che finisce bene — prov. all's well that ends well
II ['bɛne]
sostantivo maschile

1) (ciò che è buono)

il bene e il male — good and evil, right and wrong

opere di bene — charitable acts

non è bene fare — (cosa opportuna) it is not nice to do

2) (beneficio, vantaggio)

è un bene che tu sia venuto — it's a good thing you came

3) (interesse, benessere, felicità)

il bene comune, pubblico — the common good

per il bene di — for the good of

fare del bene a qcn. — to do sb. good

fare bene a — to be good for [persona, salute, pelle]

4) gener. pl.

-i — (proprietà) possessions, belongings, property, goods; (patrimonio) assets

comunione dei -i — community of goods

5) (sentimento)

volersi bene — to love (each other)

voler bene a qcn. — to love sb

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- i di consumo — consumer o expendable goods

- i durevoli — durables

- i immobili — real estate

- i di lusso — luxury goods

- i mobili — content, movables

- i personali — personal property

- i di prima necessità — essential goods, necessaries

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avere ogni ben di Dio — to live like fighting cocks

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bene¹

/'bεne/

I avverbio

1 (in modo giusto, corretto, soddisfacente) [trattare, comportarsi, esprimersi, ballare, scegliere] well; [ funzionare] properly; [compilare, interpretare] correctly; andare bene [festa, operazione, affari] to go well; la macchina non va bene the machine is not functioning properly; un lavoro ben pagato a well-paid job; bene o male somehow; parla bene spagnolo he speaks good Spanish; non parlava molto bene l'inglese she didn't speak much English; non ci sente bene he doesn't hear well; se ben ricordo if I remember correctly o right; andare bene a scuola to do well at school; andare bene in matematica to be good at maths; faremmo bene ad andare we'd better be going; hai fatto bene a dirmelo you did well o right to tell me; non sta bene fare it's not done to do, it is bad form o manners to do; va tutto bene that's all very well, that's all well and good; va tutto bene? is everything all right? are you OK? gli è andata bene che it was just as well for him that; domenica (ti) va bene? does Sunday suit you? is Sunday OK?

2 (completamente) [lavare, mescolare] thoroughly; [riempire, asciugare] completely; [leggere, ascoltare, guardare] carefully

3 (piacevolmente, gradevolmente) [ dormire, mangiare] well; [ vestire] well, smartly; [ vivere] comfortably; una casa ben arredata a well-decorated o well-appointed house; andare o stare bene insieme [ colori, mobile] to go together, to be a good match; quel cappello ti sta bene you look good in that hat; stare bene con qcn. to get along well o to be well in colloq. with sb.

4 (in buona salute) star bene [ persona] to feel all right; "come stai?"- "abbastanza bene" "how are you?" - "pretty well"

5 (con valore rafforzativo) si tratta di ben altro that's quite another matter; ben più di 200 well over 200; ben 10.000 persone as many as 10,000 people; ben volentieri with great pleasure; ben sveglio wide awake

6 (con uso pleonastico) lo credo bene! I can well o quite believe it! come ben sai... as you know full well..., as you well know...

7 di bene in meglio better and better

8 per bene → perbene

II aggettivo invariabile

la gente bene high society, the upper classes; i quartieri bene the posh neighbourhoods

III interiezione

good, fine; bene! Vediamo il resto good! Let's see the rest; bene, bravo! well done! excellent! ma bene! iron. ah, that's fine! va bene! OK! fair enough!

IDIOMS

ben detto! neatly put! well said! ti sta bene! ben ti sta! it serves you right! non mi sta bene I don't agree; tutto è bene quel che finisce bene prov. all's well that ends well.

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bene²

/'bεne/

sostantivo m.

1 (ciò che è buono) il bene e il male good and evil, right and wrong; opere di bene charitable acts; non è bene fare (cosa opportuna) it is not nice to do

2 (beneficio, vantaggio) è un bene che tu sia venuto it's a good thing you came

3 (interesse, benessere, felicità) il bene comune, pubblico the common good; per il bene di for the good of; fare del bene a qcn. to do sb. good; fare bene a to be good for [persona, salute, pelle]

4 gener. pl. -i (proprietà) possessions, belongings, property, goods; (patrimonio) assets; comunione dei -i community of goods

5 (sentimento) volersi bene to love (each other); voler bene a qcn. to love sb.

IDIOMS

avere ogni ben di Dio to live like fighting cocks

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COMPOUNDS

- i di consumo consumer o expendable goods; - i durevoli durables; - i immobili real estate; - i di lusso luxury goods; - i mobili content, movables; - i personali personal property; - i di prima necessità essential goods, necessaries.

Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > bene

18 quitar

v.

1 to remove.

quitar la mesa to clear the table (peninsular Spanish)

quitarle algo a alguien to take something away from somebody

quita tus cosas de en medio clear your things up (out of the way)

de quita y pon removable; detachable (capucha)

2 to take away, to relieve.

María quita los muebles Mary removes the furniture.

el aperitivo me ha quitado el hambre I don't feel hungry after that snack

3 to take up (time).

me quitan mucho tiempo los niños the children take up a lot of my time

4 to take, to steal.

me han quitado la cartera someone has taken o stolen my wallet

5 to switch off.

6 to eliminate, to suppress, to abstract.

María quita el reglamento Mary eliminates the rules.

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quitar

► verbo transitivo

1 (separar) to remove, take off

■ le quitó la piel a la pera he peeled the pear

■ quita la tapa remove the lid

2 (sacar) to take off, take out; (prendas) to take off; (tiempo) to take up

■ el médico quitó los puntos al enfermo the doctor took out the patient's stitches

■ quítate los zapatos take your shoes off

3 (apartar) to take away, take off

■ quita eso de ahí clear that away

4 (hacer desaparecer) to remove; (dolor) to relieve; (sed) to quench

■ si lo comes te quitará el apetito if you eat it, it will spoil your appetite

■ eso te quitará el hambre that'll stop you feeling hungry

■ el café me quita el sueño coffee keeps me awake

5 (despojar) to take; (robar) to steal

■ me han quitado la cartera my wallet's been stolen

■ le quitó la vida he killed him

6 (restar) to subtract; (descontar) to take off

7 (prohibir) to forbid, rule out

■ me han quitado el alcohol I've been told to cut out alcohol

8 (impedir) to prevent

■ eso no quita para que se lo diga that's no reason not to tell him

9 (disminuir) to take away

■ eso no le quita mérito a la obra that doesn't take anything away from the work

10 familiar (radio, agua, etc) to turn off

► verbo pronominal quitarse

1 (desaparecer) to go away, come out

■ se me han quitado las ganas I don't feel like it any more

■ esa mancha no se quita that stain won't come out

2 quitarse de (del juego, bebida, etc) to give up

■ se quitó de fumar she gave up smoking

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FRASEOLOGÍA

de quita y pon (que se desprende) removable, detachable 2 (no permanente) temporary

¡quita/quítate de ahí! move!, get away!

quitando... except...

quitar de delante to clear away

quitar el hipo figurado to take one's breath away

quitar el sueño (desvelar) to keep awake 2 (preocupar) to worry

■ eso no me quitará el sueño I won't lose any sleep over that

quitar importancia a algo to play something down

quitar la mesa to clear the table

quitar las ganas a alguien to put somebody off

quitarse algo/a alguien de encima to get rid of something/somebody

quitarse años figurado to lie about one's age

quitarse la vida eufemístico to commit suicide 2 (admirar) to admire

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verb

1) to remove

2) take off

3) clear

4) rob

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- quitarse
- quitarse a alguien
- quitarse algo de encima
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1. VT

1) (=sacar) [gen] to remove; [+ ropa, zapatos] to take off; [+ póster, estantes] to take down

le quitaron las vendas — they took her bandages off, they removed her bandages

tardaron dos días en quitar los escombros — it took two days to clear o remove the rubble

quitaron las banderas de los balcones — they took the flags down from the balconies, they removed the flags from the balconies

quita eso de allí — get that away from there

querían quitarle de su puesto — they wanted to remove him from his post

• quitar la mesa — to clear the table

- quitar de en medio a algn

- no quitarle ojo a algn

2) (=arrebatar) [gen] to take away; [para robar] to take, steal; [+ vida] to take

su hermana le quitó la pelota — his sister took the ball away from him

me quitaron la licencia — I had my licence taken away

le quitaron la cartera en el tren — someone took his wallet on the train, he had his wallet stolen on the train

me quitó la novia — he stole my girlfriend

• quitar el sitio a algn — to steal sb's place

3) (=eliminar) [+ mancha] to remove, get rid of; [+ dolor] to relieve, stop; [+ felicidad, ilusión, ganas] to take away; [+ preocupaciones, temores] to allay

me quitó las ganas de comer — it took my appetite away

trataba de quitarme esa idea de la cabeza — she tried to make me change my mind

• quitar el hambre, un par de rodajas deben quitar el hambre — a couple of slices should stop you feeling hungry

no alimenta mucho, pero quita el hambre — it's not very nutritious, but it's filling

• quitar la sed — to quench one's thirst

el vino no quita la sed — wine doesn't quench your thirst, wine isn't thirst-quenching

• quitar el sueño, el café me quita el sueño — coffee stops me sleeping

ese asunto no me quita el sueño — I'm not losing any sleep over that matter

4) (=restar)

no quita nada de su valor — it does not detract at all from its value

no le quiero quitar méritos — I don't want to detract from him

eso le quita la razón — that shows he's wrong, that proves him wrong

quiero quitar unos cuantos centímetros a mi cintura — I want to lose a few centimetres from around the waist

me quita mucho tiempo — it takes up a lot of my time

quitar extensión a un campo — to reduce the size of a field

• quitar importancia a algo — to play sth down

• quitando el postre comimos bien — apart o aside from the dessert we had a good meal

quitando tres o cuatro, van a ir todos — except for three or four (people), everybody is going

5) (=impedir)

quitar a algn de hacer algo — to stop o prevent sb (from) doing sth

6) (Mat) to take away, subtract

7) [+ golpe] to ward off; (Esgrima) to parry

8) ** [+ dinero] to make

2.

VI

¡quita!, ¡quita de ahí! — (=¡aparta!) get out of the way!; (=¡qué va!) get away!, come off it!

eso no quita —

eso no quita para que me ayudes — that doesn't stop o prevent you helping me, that doesn't mean you can't help me

eso no quita que eche de menos a mi mujer — that doesn't mean I don't miss my wife

- ni quito ni pongo
quita
3.

See:

quitarse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) (apartar, retirar)

quítalo de aquí! — get o take it out of here!

quita esa silla de en medio! — get that chair out of the way!

quita tus cosas de mi escritorio — take your things off my desk

quitó los obstáculos de mi camino — he removed the obstacles from my path

quitar la mesa — (Esp) to clear the table; (+ me/te/le etc)

quítame las manos de encima! — take your hands off me!

le quitó la piel al pollo — he skinned the chicken

me quitó una pelusa del hombro — she picked a bit of fluff off my shoulder

no le puedo quitar la tapa — I can't get the top off

b) <prenda/anillo> (+ me/te/le etc) to take off

quítale los zapatos — take his shoes off

2) (+ me/te/le etc)

a) ( de las manos)

le quitó la pistola al ladrón — he got o took the gun off the thief

se lo quitó de un manotazo — she swiped it out of his hand

le quité el cuchillo — I took the knife (away) from her

b) ( privar de)

la policía le quitó el pasaporte — the police took his passport away

c) ( robar)

me quitaron la cartera del bolsillo — someone took o stole my wallet from my pocket

me quitó el asiento — he took my seat

3) ( restar) (+ me/te/le etc)

me estás quitando autoridad — you're undermining my authority

me quita mucho tiempo — it takes up a lot of my time

no le quites méritos — give him his due

quitarle años a alguien — to take years off somebody

quitarle importancia a algo — to play something down

le quita valor/credibilidad — it detracts from its value/credibility

4) ( hacer desaparecer) < mancha> to remove, get... out; < dolor> to relieve, get rid of; < sed> to quench; < apetito> to take away; (+ me/te/le etc)

eso te quitará el hambre — that will stop you feeling hungry

hay que quitarle esa idea de la cabeza — we must get that idea out of his head

5) quitando (ger) (fam) except for
2.
quitar vi

1) (Esp fam)

quita (de ahí)! — get out of the way!

quita ya! eso no se lo cree nadie! — oh come off it, nobody believes that!

2) (en locs)

de quita y pon — <funda/etiqueta> removable

eso no quita que...: pero eso no quita que se pueda hacer de otra manera but that doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of doing it; ni quitar ni poner (fam): yo aquí ni quito ni pongo I don't count o my opinion doesn't count around here; quien quita y... (Méx fam): quien quita y me saco la lotería maybe I'll even win the lottery; quien quita y lo encontramos — we might still find it
3.
quitarse v pron

1) ( desaparecer) mancha to come out; dolor go (away); viento to die down; (+ me/te/le etc)

se me quitó el dolor — I got rid of the pain

ya se me quitaron las ganas — I don't feel like it any more

2) (apartarse, retirarse) to get out of the way

quítate de mi vista! — get out of my sight!

3) (refl)

a) <prenda/alhaja/maquillaje> to take off

b) <dolor/resfriado> to get rid of; < miedo> to overcome, get over

se quita años or la edad — she lies about her age

quitarse algo DE algo: quítate el dedo de la nariz! stop picking your nose!; quítate las manos de los bolsillos! take your hands out of your pockets!; quitarse algo/a alguien de encima/en medio to get rid of something/somebody; te has quitado veinte años de encima — you look twenty years younger

* * *

= remove, take off, take away, strip away, roll back, strip, trim off, strip off, take down, commandeer, get off.

Ex. Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.

Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

Ex. For example, books close to the door and the circulation desk may be intended for the user who merely wishes to make a swift selection of items to take away and read elsewhere.

Ex. Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.

Ex. Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.

Ex. Pluto, scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.

Ex. If you repeatedly deadhead - trim off the spent flowers - the plant goes into overdrive.

Ex. They gathered a whole sackful, stripped off the husks, and filled the sack again.

Ex. State officials urge people to take down bird feeders after recent reports of sick and dead birds, according to a news release.

Ex. He was left without a scratch and pursued the shooter on foot until the gunman commandeered a passing car.

Ex. The full-length, two-direction zipper makes it easy to get on and off, and the bottom is easy to unzip for diaper changes.

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* de quita y pon = burn-'em-down-build-'em-up, removable.

* hablar a calzón quitado = lay + Posesivo + cards on the table, put + Posesivo + cards on the table.

* hasta el cuarenta de mayo no te quites el sayo = cast no clout till May is out.

* no poder quitarse Algo de la cabeza = can't get it out of my mind.

* pala de quitar nieve = snow shovel.

* pala para quitar nieve = snow shovel.

* poner y quitar = get on and off.

* que se puede quitar = detachable, removable.

* quita o pon = give or take.

* quitar Algo = take + Nombre + out of + Posesivo + hands.

* quitar con pala = shovel.

* quitar con un cepillo = brush away.

* quitar con un golpe = knock off.

* quitar de las manos = snap up.

* quitar el deseo = suffocate + desire.

* quitar el estigma = destigmatise [destigmatize, -USA].

* quitar el interés = take + the shine off things.

* quitar el mérito a Algo = belittle.

* quitar el poder = disempower.

* quitar el polvo = dust.

* quitar el sufijo a una palabra = strip + suffix.

* quitar el valor = render + valueless.

* quitar frotando = rub off, rub.

* quitar importancia = de-emphasise [de-emphasize, -USA], understate, trivialise [trivialize, -USA], minimise + importance, downplay, gloss over, negate, soft-pedal.

* quitar importancia a un problema = trivialise + trouble.

* quitar la credibilidad = destroy + credence.

* quitar la humedad = dehumidify.

* quitar la idea = wipe away + idea.

* quitar la marca = unmark.

* quitar la mesa = clear away + the things, clear + the table.

* quitar las escamas = scale.

* quitar las ganas de = kill + the momentum.

* quitar las telarañas = dust off + the cobwebs.

* quitarle el sentido = render + meaningless.

* quitarle importancia a las cosas = make + light of things.

* quitarle mérito = obscure + fact.

* quitar mérito = detract from.

* quitar pintura mediante chorro de arena a presión = sandblast.

* quitar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.

* quitarse = take off, doff, take off.

* quitarse a Alguien de encima = keep + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back, get + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back.

* quitarse de encima = shake off.

* quitarse de en medio = take + Nombre + out.

* quitarse del medio = run for + cover.

* quitarse el sombrero ante = hats off to + Nombre, take + Posesivo + hat off to.

* quitar(se) la ropa = undress.

* quitarse la vida = take + Posesivo + (own) life.

* quitársele a Uno las ganas = put off.

* quitarse una mala reputación = clean up + bad reputation.

* quitarse un (buen) peso de encima = get + a (real) weight off + Posesivo + chest.

* quitarse un peso de encima = take + a weight off + Posesivo + mind, take + a load off + Posesivo + mind.

* quitar una preocupación = allay + concern.

* quitar un peso de encima = remove + burden from shoulders.

* quitar un peso de encima a Alguien = lift + a weight off + Posesivo + shoulders.

* quitar valor = devalue, deflate.

* tener + que quitarse el sombrero = have to hand it to + Nombre.

* ya lo quitas, ya lo pones = burn-'em-down-build-'em-up.

* * *
1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) (apartar, retirar)

quítalo de aquí! — get o take it out of here!

quita esa silla de en medio! — get that chair out of the way!

quita tus cosas de mi escritorio — take your things off my desk

quitó los obstáculos de mi camino — he removed the obstacles from my path

quitar la mesa — (Esp) to clear the table; (+ me/te/le etc)

quítame las manos de encima! — take your hands off me!

le quitó la piel al pollo — he skinned the chicken

me quitó una pelusa del hombro — she picked a bit of fluff off my shoulder

no le puedo quitar la tapa — I can't get the top off

b) <prenda/anillo> (+ me/te/le etc) to take off

quítale los zapatos — take his shoes off

2) (+ me/te/le etc)

a) ( de las manos)

le quitó la pistola al ladrón — he got o took the gun off the thief

se lo quitó de un manotazo — she swiped it out of his hand

le quité el cuchillo — I took the knife (away) from her

b) ( privar de)

la policía le quitó el pasaporte — the police took his passport away

c) ( robar)

me quitaron la cartera del bolsillo — someone took o stole my wallet from my pocket

me quitó el asiento — he took my seat

3) ( restar) (+ me/te/le etc)

me estás quitando autoridad — you're undermining my authority

me quita mucho tiempo — it takes up a lot of my time

no le quites méritos — give him his due

quitarle años a alguien — to take years off somebody

quitarle importancia a algo — to play something down

le quita valor/credibilidad — it detracts from its value/credibility

4) ( hacer desaparecer) < mancha> to remove, get... out; < dolor> to relieve, get rid of; < sed> to quench; < apetito> to take away; (+ me/te/le etc)

eso te quitará el hambre — that will stop you feeling hungry

hay que quitarle esa idea de la cabeza — we must get that idea out of his head

5) quitando (ger) (fam) except for
2.
quitar vi

1) (Esp fam)

quita (de ahí)! — get out of the way!

quita ya! eso no se lo cree nadie! — oh come off it, nobody believes that!

2) (en locs)

de quita y pon — <funda/etiqueta> removable

eso no quita que...: pero eso no quita que se pueda hacer de otra manera but that doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of doing it; ni quitar ni poner (fam): yo aquí ni quito ni pongo I don't count o my opinion doesn't count around here; quien quita y... (Méx fam): quien quita y me saco la lotería maybe I'll even win the lottery; quien quita y lo encontramos — we might still find it
3.
quitarse v pron

1) ( desaparecer) mancha to come out; dolor go (away); viento to die down; (+ me/te/le etc)

se me quitó el dolor — I got rid of the pain

ya se me quitaron las ganas — I don't feel like it any more

2) (apartarse, retirarse) to get out of the way

quítate de mi vista! — get out of my sight!

3) (refl)

a) <prenda/alhaja/maquillaje> to take off

b) <dolor/resfriado> to get rid of; < miedo> to overcome, get over

se quita años or la edad — she lies about her age

quitarse algo DE algo: quítate el dedo de la nariz! stop picking your nose!; quítate las manos de los bolsillos! take your hands out of your pockets!; quitarse algo/a alguien de encima/en medio to get rid of something/somebody; te has quitado veinte años de encima — you look twenty years younger

* * *

= remove, take off, take away, strip away, roll back, strip, trim off, strip off, take down, commandeer, get off.

Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.

Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

Ex: For example, books close to the door and the circulation desk may be intended for the user who merely wishes to make a swift selection of items to take away and read elsewhere.

Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.

Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.

Ex: Pluto, scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.

Ex: If you repeatedly deadhead - trim off the spent flowers - the plant goes into overdrive.

Ex: They gathered a whole sackful, stripped off the husks, and filled the sack again.

Ex: State officials urge people to take down bird feeders after recent reports of sick and dead birds, according to a news release.

Ex: He was left without a scratch and pursued the shooter on foot until the gunman commandeered a passing car.

Ex: The full-length, two-direction zipper makes it easy to get on and off, and the bottom is easy to unzip for diaper changes.

* de quita y pon = burn-'em-down-build-'em-up, removable.

* hablar a calzón quitado = lay + Posesivo + cards on the table, put + Posesivo + cards on the table.

* hasta el cuarenta de mayo no te quites el sayo = cast no clout till May is out.

* no poder quitarse Algo de la cabeza = can't get it out of my mind.

* pala de quitar nieve = snow shovel.

* pala para quitar nieve = snow shovel.

* poner y quitar = get on and off.

* que se puede quitar = detachable, removable.

* quita o pon = give or take.

* quitar Algo = take + Nombre + out of + Posesivo + hands.

* quitar con pala = shovel.

* quitar con un cepillo = brush away.

* quitar con un golpe = knock off.

* quitar de las manos = snap up.

* quitar el deseo = suffocate + desire.

* quitar el estigma = destigmatise [destigmatize, -USA].

* quitar el interés = take + the shine off things.

* quitar el mérito a Algo = belittle.

* quitar el poder = disempower.

* quitar el polvo = dust.

* quitar el sufijo a una palabra = strip + suffix.

* quitar el valor = render + valueless.

* quitar frotando = rub off, rub.

* quitar importancia = de-emphasise [de-emphasize, -USA], understate, trivialise [trivialize, -USA], minimise + importance, downplay, gloss over, negate, soft-pedal.

* quitar importancia a un problema = trivialise + trouble.

* quitar la credibilidad = destroy + credence.

* quitar la humedad = dehumidify.

* quitar la idea = wipe away + idea.

* quitar la marca = unmark.

* quitar la mesa = clear away + the things, clear + the table.

* quitar las escamas = scale.

* quitar las ganas de = kill + the momentum.

* quitar las telarañas = dust off + the cobwebs.

* quitarle el sentido = render + meaningless.

* quitarle importancia a las cosas = make + light of things.

* quitarle mérito = obscure + fact.

* quitar mérito = detract from.

* quitar pintura mediante chorro de arena a presión = sandblast.

* quitar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.

* quitarse = take off, doff, take off.

* quitarse a Alguien de encima = keep + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back, get + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back.

* quitarse de encima = shake off.

* quitarse de en medio = take + Nombre + out.

* quitarse del medio = run for + cover.

* quitarse el sombrero ante = hats off to + Nombre, take + Posesivo + hat off to.

* quitar(se) la ropa = undress.

* quitarse la vida = take + Posesivo + (own) life.

* quitársele a Uno las ganas = put off.

* quitarse una mala reputación = clean up + bad reputation.

* quitarse un (buen) peso de encima = get + a (real) weight off + Posesivo + chest.

* quitarse un peso de encima = take + a weight off + Posesivo + mind, take + a load off + Posesivo + mind.

* quitar una preocupación = allay + concern.

* quitar un peso de encima = remove + burden from shoulders.

* quitar un peso de encima a Alguien = lift + a weight off + Posesivo + shoulders.

* quitar valor = devalue, deflate.

* tener + que quitarse el sombrero = have to hand it to + Nombre.

* ya lo quitas, ya lo pones = burn-'em-down-build-'em-up.

* * *

quitar [A1 ]

vt

A

1

(apartar, retirar): ¡quita esa silla de en medio! get that chair out of the way!

quita tus cosas de mi escritorio take o get your things off my desk

quitó todos los obstáculos de mi camino he removed all the obstacles from my path

quitar la mesa ( Esp); to clear the table

(+ me/te/le etc): ¡quítame las manos de encima! take o get your hands off me!

le quitó la piel al pollo he skinned the chicken

me quitó una pelusa del hombro she picked a bit of fluff off my shoulder

no le puedo quitar la tapa I can't get the top off

2 ‹prenda/anillo› (+ me/te/le etc) to take off

quítale los zapatos take his shoes off

B ‹juguete/dinero› (+ me/te/le etc):

le quité el cuchillo I took the knife (away) from her

la policía le quitó el pasaporte the police took his passport away

me quitaron la cartera del bolsillo someone took o stole my wallet from my pocket

le quitó la pistola al ladrón he got o took the gun off the thief

se lo quitó de un manotazo she swiped it out of his hand

bailar

C (restar) (+ me/te/le etc):

quítale 26 a 84 take 26 away from 84

no me quites autoridad delante de los niños don't undermine my authority in front of the children

los niños me quitan mucho tiempo the children take up a lot of my time

no es que quiera quitarte la razón pero … I'm not saying you're wrong but …

no le quites méritos give him his due

ese peinado te quita años that hairstyle takes years off you

hay que quitarle un poco de ancho it needs to be taken in a bit

trataba de quitarle importancia al asunto he tried to play the matter down

le quita valor a la casa it detracts from the value of the house

D (hacer desaparecer) ‹mancha› to remove, get … out; ‹dolor› to relieve, get rid of

(+ me/te/le etc): te quita el hambre pero no te alimenta it stops you feeling hungry but it isn't very nourishing

te voy a quitar las ganas de volver a mentirme when I've finished with you, you'll think twice about lying to me again

a ver si le quitas esa idea de la cabeza why don't you try to get that idea out of his head?

E ( fam) (prohibir) (+ me/te/le etc):

el médico me ha quitado la sal/el vino the doctor's told me I mustn't have any salt on my food/I mustn't drink wine

F quitando ger ( fam) except for

quitando a los más chicos todos pueden entrar they can all go in except for the very youngest ones

quitando que tuvimos que esperar mucho rato apart from the fact that we had to wait a long time

■ quitar

vi

A

( Esp fam): ¡quita (de ahí)! get out of the way!

¡quita ya! ¡eso no se lo cree nadie! oh come off it, nobody believes that!

B ( en locs):

de quita y pon ‹funda/etiqueta› removable

tiene una capucha de quita y pon it has a detachable hood

una fe de quita y pon ( iró); a very flexible o convenient sort of faith ( iro)

eso no quita que …: yo lo hago así, eso no quita que se pueda hacer de otra manera I do it like this but that doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of doing it

ni quitar ni poner ( fam): pregúntaselo a él, yo aquí ni quito ni pongo ask him about it, I don't count o my opinion doesn't count around here

en ese asunto él ni quita ni pone he doesn't have any say in that matter

quien quita y … ( Méx fam): quien quita y me lo regrese pronto I hope she brings it back soon

■ quitarse

v pron

A (desaparecer) «mancha» to come out; «dolor» to go, go away; «viento» to die down

(+ me/te/le etc): no hay forma de que se me quite este dolor de cabeza I just can't get rid of this headache

ya se me han quitado las ganas de ir I don't feel like going any more

B (apartarse, retirarse) to get out of the way

¡quítate de mi vista! get out of my sight!

he vendido el negocio, quiero quitarme de problemas I've sold the business, I want to be rid of all this trouble o ( colloq) to be shot of all this hassle

C ( refl)

1 ‹prenda/alhaja/maquillaje› to take off

quítate la chaqueta take your jacket off

2 (deshacerse de) ‹dolor› to get rid of

se quitaban el frío saltando they jumped up and down to warm themselves up o to get warm

me tengo que quitar este miedo ridículo a los aviones I have to overcome o get over this ridiculous fear of flying

3 (retirar) quitarse algo DE algo:

me tuve que quitar una pestaña del ojo I had to get an eyelash out of my eye

¡quítate el dedo de la nariz! stop picking your nose!

¡quítate las manos de los bolsillos! take your hands out of your pockets!

quitarse a algn de en medio to get rid of sb

4 ‹años›

te has quitado veinte años de encima you look twenty years younger

se quita años or la edad she lies about her age

* * *

quitar ( conjugate quitar) verbo transitivo
1 (apartar, retirar):
◊ ¡quítalo de aquí! get it out of here!;

quité la silla de en medio I got the chair out of the way;
quita tus cosas de mi escritorio take your things off my desk;
quitar la mesa (Esp) to clear the table;
¡quítame las manos de encima! take your hands off me!;
no le puedo quitar la tapa I can't get the top off;
le quitó los zapatos she took his shoes off
2 (+ me/te/le etc)
a) ( de las manos):

◊ le quitó la pistola al ladrón he got o took the gun off the thief;

le quité el cuchillo I took the knife (away) from her
b) ( privar de) ‹pasaporte/carnet de conducir› to take away

c) ‹cartera/dinero› to take, steal;

‹asiento/lugar› to take
3 ( restar) (+ me/te/le etc):
◊ me quita mucho tiempo it takes up a lot of my time;

quitarle años a algn to take years off sb;
quitarle importancia a algo to play sth down;
le quita valor it detracts from its value
4 ( hacer desaparecer) ‹ mancha› to remove, get … out;
‹ dolor› to relieve, get rid of;
‹ sed› to quench;
‹ apetito› to take away;
(+ me/te/le etc)
◊ eso te quitará el hambre that will stop you feeling hungry;

hay que quitarle esa idea de la cabeza we must get that idea out of his head
5
◊ quitando ( ger) (fam) except for

verbo intransitivo
1 (Esp fam):
◊ ¡quita (de ahí)! get out of the way!

2 ( en locs)
◊ de quita y pon ‹funda/etiqueta› removable;

eso no quita que … that doesn't mean that …
quitarse verbo pronominal
1 ( desaparecer) [ mancha] to come out;
[ dolor] to go (away);
◊ ya se me quitaron las ganas I don't feel like it any more

2 (apartarse, retirarse) to get out of the way;
◊ ¡quítate de mi vista! get out of my sight!

3 ( refl)
a) ‹prenda/alhaja/maquillaje› to take off

b) ‹dolor/resfriado› to get rid of;

‹ miedo› to overcome, get over;
◊ se quita la edad she lies about her age;

quitarse algo/a algn de encima to get rid of sth/sb
quitar
I verbo transitivo
1 (retirar, separar) to remove: quita todas esas cajas de aquí, get all those boxes out of here
quitar la mesa, to clear the table
2 (ropa, gafas, etc) to take off
3 (eliminar) (la sed) to quench
(el hambre) to take away: el té me quita el sueño, tea keeps me awake
4 (una mancha) to remove, get out
5 (el dolor) to relieve
6 (arrebatar, privar de) le quitó el lápiz, he took the pencil away from him
nos quitaron el asiento, they took our seats
(robar) to steal
7 Mat (restar) to substract
figurado quitar importancia a algo, to play sthg down
figurado quitar las ganas a alguien, to put sb off
figurado le quita mucho tiempo, it takes up a lot of her time
II verbo intransitivo ¡quita!, get away
♦ Locuciones: de quita y pon, removable
fam (excepción hecha de) quitando, except for
' quitar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
aclarar
- aligerar
- allanar
- careta
- desenmascarar
- desollar
- despejar
- despepitar
- despintar
- despuntar
- hipo
- restar
- sueño
- truco
- alisar
- arrebatar
- aspereza
- coger
- cortar
- desarmar
- descuidar
- espabilar
- espátula
- mancha
- manchar
- minimizar
- polvo
- retirar
- sacar
- soplete
English:
bleach
- bone
- brush off
- clear
- clear away
- clutter
- de-ice
- discourage
- dust
- fillet
- flick
- from
- get off
- get out
- graffiti
- mess
- peel off
- play down
- pull off
- push off
- removable
- remove
- scrub away
- scrub off
- shift
- snatch
- spoil
- strip
- strip off
- sweat off
- table
- take
- take away
- take off
- take out
- trim
- upstage
- wash away
- wash off
- wash out
- whatsit
- whip off
- wipe off
- wrestle
- brush
- clean
- detach
- detachable
- dull
- get

* * *

quitar

♦ vt

1. [retirar, extraer, apartar] to remove;
[ropa, zapatos] to take off; Esp
quitar la mesa [despejar] to clear the table;

al quitar la tapa de la olla salió un delicioso olor when she took the lid off the pot, a delicious smell came out;

le han quitado un tumor del pecho they've removed a tumour from her breast;

quita tus cosas de la cama take your things off the bed;

quita tus cosas de en medio clear your things up (out of the way);

voy a quitar el polvo de los muebles I'm going to dust the furniture;

quitarle algo a alguien [arrebatar, privar de] to take sth away from sb;

me quitó la carta de las manos she took the letter from my hands;

durante la guerra le quitaron la casa they took her house away from her during the war;

le han quitado la custodia de los niños they've taken away custody of the children from her;

eso fue lo que dijo, sin quitar ni poner nada that's what he said, word for word;

Comp

por un quítame allá esas pajas for no reason, over nothing;

Comp
Méx
no quitar el dedo del renglón to keep coming back to the same point

2. [eliminar, suprimir] to remove;

quité la mancha con jabón I removed the stain o got the stain out with soap;

han quitado mi programa favorito de la tele they've taken my favourite programme off the TV;

ese ministerio lo han quitado they've done away with o got rid of that ministry;

el médico me ha quitado el tabaco [prohibido] the doctor has told me to stop smoking

3. [robar] to take, to steal;

me han quitado la cartera someone has taken o stolen my wallet;

le quitaron el puesto they've taken his job away from him

4. [mitigar del todo] [dolor, ansiedad] to take away, to relieve;
[sed] to quench;
el aperitivo me ha quitado el hambre I don't feel hungry after that snack

5. [ocupar] [tiempo, espacio] to take up;

me quitan mucho tiempo los niños the children take up a lot of my time;

el trabajo me quita tiempo para el deporte my job doesn't leave me much time for sport;

el armario va a quitar mucho sitio ahí the wardrobe's going to take up a lot of space there

6. [restar] to take away;

a esa cifra quítale el 20 por ciento take away 20 percent from that figure;

no quiero quitar mérito o [m5] valor a lo que ha hecho I don't want to take away from o detract from what she has done;

le quitó importancia al hecho he played it down

7. [impedir]
esto no quita que sea un vago that doesn't change the fact that he's a layabout;

que me mude de ciudad no quita que nos sigamos viendo just because I'm moving to another city doesn't mean we won't still be able to see each other

8. [exceptuar]
quitando el queso, me gusta todo apart from cheese, I like everything

9. [desconectar] [aparato] to switch off;

quita el gas antes de salir turn the gas off before leaving

♦ vi

1. [apartarse] to get out of the way;

¡quita (de ahí), que no veo! get out of the way, I can't see!

2.
de quita y pon [asa, tapa, capucha] removable

3. Fam [expresando incredulidad]
¡quita!, ¡quite! don't talk rubbish!;

¿casarme yo? ¡quita, quita, estoy muy bien como estoy! me, get married? you must be joking, I'm quite happy as I am!;

¡quita, yo no me lo creo! pull the other one o come off it, you don't expect me to believe that, do you?

♦ See also the pronominal verb quitarse

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quitar

I v/t ropa take off, remove; obstáculos remove;

quitar el polvo dust;

quitar algo a alguien take sth (away) from s.o.;

quitar la mesa clear the table;

de quita y pon fam removable

II v/i

:

¡quita! get out of the way!

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quitar vt

1) : to remove, to take away

2) : to take off (clothes)

3) : to get rid of, to relieve

♦ See also the reflexive verb quitarse

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quitar vb

1. (en general) to take off [pt. took; pp. taken] / to take down

quita los pies del sofá take your feet off the sofa

quítate el abrigo take your coat off

2. (eliminar manchas) to get out / to remove

no puedo quitar la mancha I can't get the stain out

3. (robar cartera, dinero) to take [pt. took; pp. taken]

me han quitado la cartera somebody's taken my wallet

¿quién me ha cogido el lápiz? who's taken my pencil?

¡quita! / ¡quita de ahí! get out of the way!

quitar el sueño to keep awake

quitar la mesa to clear the table

quitar la sed to quench your thirst

Spanish-English dictionary > quitar

19 ya

adv.

1 already.

ya me lo habías contado you had already told me

¿llamaron o han llamado ya? have they called yet?

¿habrán llegado ya? will they have arrived yet o by now?

ya en 1926 as long ago as 1926

Ya hemos estado aquí antes We have already been here before...

2 now (ahora).

bueno, yo ya me voy right, I'm off now

¡ya voy! I'm coming!

3 at once (inmediatamente).

hay que hacer algo ya something has to be done now o at once

4 right now, at once, now, right away.

intj.

1 right now, right away.

2 that's enough.

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ya

► adverbio

1 already

■ esa película ya la he visto I've already seen that film

■ ¿que ya se han casado? what! they've got married already?

■ el domingo ya no estaremos aquí we'll already have left by Sunday

■ eso ya no lo veré yo I won't live to see that

2 (más tarde) later

■ ya lo haré I'll do it later

■ ya te llamaré I'll give you a ring

3 (ahora mismo) at once, right now, straightaway

■ tienes que mandarlo ya you must send it at once

■ ¡ya voy! I'm coming!

4 (ahora) now

■ ya viven en el piso nuevo they're living in the new flat now

5 (uso enfático)

■ ya lo sé I know that

■ es facilísimo, ya verás it's dead easy, you'll see

■ y ya no es por el dinero... and it's not the money that matters...

6 (denota satisfacción)

■ ¡ya tenemos coche nuevo! we've got the new car!

■ ¡ya están aquí! they're here!

7 (con tono amenazante)

■ ¡ya verás ya! just you wait!

8 (con indignación)

■ ¡ya está bien! enough is enough!

9 (para tranquilizar)

■ ya encontrarás trabajo, ya verás como sí you'll find a job, you'll see

10 (para afirmar) I know, yes

■ tienes que estudiar -- ya, pero... you have to study -- I know, but...

► interjección

1 irónico oh yes!

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FRASEOLOGÍA

ya... ya... now... now...

■ ya ríe, ya llora now she laughs, now she weeps

■ fantasmas que ya surgen, ya se esfuman ghosts which first appear and then vanish

■ ya fueran católicos, ya protestantes whether they be Catholic or Protestant

ya entiendo I see

ya era hora about time too

¡ya está! there we are!, all done!

ya nos veremos see you soon

ya que since, seeing that

■ ya que estás aquí, quédate a cenar seeing that you're here, why don't you stay for supper?

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adv.

1) already

2) now

3) anymore, no longer

4) later, soon

•

- ya que

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1. ADV

1) [con acción pasada] already

lo hemos visto ya — we've seen it already

ya han dado las diez — it's past ten already

¿ya has terminado? — have you finished already?

¿ya habías estado antes en Valencia? — had you been to Valencia before?

ya me lo suponía — I thought as much

ya se acabó — it's all over now

ya en el siglo X — as early as the tenth century

2) [con verbo en presente]

a) [con una acción esperada]

ya es la hora — time's up

ya es hora de irnos — it's time for us to go now

ya está aquí — he's here already

ya viene el autobús — here's the bus

ya puedes irte — you can go now

ya podéis ir pasando al comedor — you can start going through into the dining room now

estos zapatos ya me están pequeños — these shoes are too small for me now

¿ya anda? — is she walking yet?

b) [expresando sorpresa]

¿ya te vas? — are you leaving already?

c) (=ahora) now

lo quiero ya — I want it (right) now

¡cállate ya! — oh, shut up!

¡ya voy! — coming!

• desde ya (mismo) Esp —

lo que quiero es empezar desde ya — I want to start right now o away

una estrategia que empiezo a poner en marcha desde ya mismo — a strategy which I will start to adopt as of now o as of this very moment

• ya mismo — esp Cono Sur * (=en seguida) at once; (=claro) of course, naturally

3) [con acción futura]

ya te llegará el turno a ti — you'll get your turn

ya lo arreglarán — it'll get fixed sometime

ya iré cuando pueda — I'll try and make it when I can

ya verás como todo se arregla — it'll all work out, don't you worry

ya veremos — we'll see (about that)

4)

• ya no — not any more, no longer

ya no vive aquí — he doesn't live here any more, he no longer lives here

ya no viene a visitarnos — he doesn't come to see us any more, he no longer comes to see us

ya no quiero más — I don't want any more

ya no lo volverás a ver — you won't see it any more

Javier ya no es tan alto como su hermano — Javier isn't as tall as his brother any more, Javier is no longer as tall as his brother

5) [expresando que se ha entendido o se recuerda algo]

ya entiendo — I see

¡ya lo sé! — I know!

-¿no te acuerdas de ella? es la hija de Ricardo -¡ah, ya! — "don't you remember her? she's Ricardo's daughter" - "oh yes, of course!"

6) [expresando acuerdo o incredulidad]

ya, pero... — yes, but...

¡ya, ya! — iró yes, yes!, oh, yes!, oh, sure!

ya, y luego viste un burro volando ¿no? — iró sure, and pigs might fly!

esto ya es un robo — this really is robbery

7) [con valor enfático]

pues ya gasta ¿eh? — he really does spend a lot, doesn't he?

¿una hora tardas en llegar al trabajo? pues ya está lejos ¿eh? — it takes you an hour to get to work? it must be quite some way away!

ya lo creo que estuvimos allí — you bet we were there

¿que no se ha casado? ya lo creo que sí — you say she hasn't got married? I think you'll find she has

es más pobre que Haití, que ya es decir — it's poorer than Haiti, and that's saying something

¡murió con 104 años, que ya es decir! — she was 104 when she died, which is no mean achievement!

pues si él no viene, ya me dirás qué hacemos — you tell me what we'll do if he doesn't come

• ¡ya está! — that's it

rellena el impreso y ya está — fill in the form and that's it

¡ya está bien! — that's (quite) enough!

¡ya me gustaría a mí poder viajar! — I wouldn't mind being able to travel either!

¡ya era hora! — about time too!

¡ya podían haber avisado de que venían! — they could have said they were coming!

¡ya puedes ir preparando el dinero! — you'd better start getting the money ready!

2. CONJ

1) [uso distributivo]

ya por una razón, ya por otra — whether for one reason or another

ya te vayas, ya te quedes, me es igual — whether you go or stay is all the same to me

ya dice que sí, ya dice que no — first he says yes, then he says no, one minute he says yes, the next he says no

• no ya — not only

no ya aquí, sino en todas partes — not only here, but everywhere

debes hacerlo, no ya por los demás, sino por ti mismo también — you should do it, not just for everyone else's sake but for your own sake too

2)

• ya que — (seeing) as, since

ya que no viene, iremos nosotros — (seeing) as o since she's not coming, we'll go

ya que ha dejado de llover, ¿por qué no salimos a dar una vuelta? — (seeing) as o since it's stopped raining, why don't we go for a walk?

ya que no estudia, por lo menos podía ponerse a trabajar — seeing as she isn't studying, the least she could do is get a job

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I
adverbio [Both the simple past ya terminé and the present perfect ya he terminado are used to refer to the recent indefinite past. The former is the preferred form in Latin America while in Spain there is a tendency to use the latter]

1)

a) ( en frases afirmativas o interrogativas) already

¿ya te has gastado todo el dinero? — have you spent all the money already?

ya terminé — I've (already) finished

ya te dije que no — I've already said no

¿ya ha llegado Ernesto? — has Ernesto arrived yet?, did Ernesto arrive yet? (AmE)

ya lo sé — I (already) know

aprietas este botón y ya está! — you press this button, and that's it!

le teníamos tanta fe y ya ves, nos ha defraudado — we had such faith in him and look what happened, he's let us down

b) ( expresando que se ha comprendido) yes, sure (colloq)

dile que venga - ya, pero ¿si no quiere? — tell her to come - yes, but what if she doesn't want to?

me he pasado el día estudiando - ya, ya! — (iró) I spent the whole day studying - oh sure! (iro)

2)

a) ( en frases negativas) any more

ese color ya no se lleva — nobody wears that color any more

ya ni siquiera me escribe — he doesn't even write (to) me any more

estaba muy segura pero ya no sé qué pensar — I was very sure about it, but now I don't know what to think

creo que ya no vienen — I don't think they'll come now

b)

no ya... sino — not (just)... but

estamos hablando no ya de cambios sino de una total reestructuración — we are not (just) talking about changes but about a total restructuring

3) (enseguida, ahora) right now

ya voy! — coming!

la comida ya va a estar — the meal's almost ready

preparados listos ya! — on your mark(s), get set, go!

ya puedes ir haciéndote a la idea — you'd better start getting used to the idea

desde ya te digo que no puede ser — (esp AmL) I can tell you right now that it's not possible

ya mismo — (esp AmL) right away, straightaway (BrE)

4) ( con verbo en futuro)

ya te contaré — I'll tell you all about it

ya lo entenderás — you'll understand one day

5) ( en comparaciones)

éste ya no me gusta tanto — I don't like this one so much

pintado de blanco ya es otra cosa — it really does look much better painted white

6) ( uso enfático)

ya quisiera yo! — I should be so lucky!

ya era hora — about time (too)!

ya me tienes harta! — I'm (just about) fed up with you!

¿te parece que allí se vive mejor? - ya lo creo! — do you think people live better there? - you bet! (colloq)

7)

ya que — since, as

ya que estás aquí — since o as you're here

ya que estoy, limpio éste también — while I'm at it I may as well clean this one too
II
conjunción

ya por tierra, ya por mar — (liter) whether by land or by sea

se puede solicitar ya sea en persona o por teléfono — it can be ordered either in person or by telephone

* * *

= already, by now.

Ex. Some revisions have already been announced.

Ex. It will be evident by now that the microcomputer market is a complex place.

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* algo ya muy conocido y usado = old nag.

* basta ya = enough is enough.

* estar aquí ya = be upon us.

* hace ya mucho tiempo que = gone are the days of.

* hace ya tiempo = long since.

* no ser así ya = be no longer the case.

* ¡Preparados, listos, ya! = On your mark, get set, go!, ready, set, go!.

* ser hora ya de que = be about time (that), be high time (that/to/for).

* ser ya hora de que = it + be + well past the time for, be high time (that/to/for).

* ya ¡venga ya! = on your bike!.

* ya basta = enough is enough.

* ya cortado en lonchas = pre-sliced [presliced].

* ya cortado en rodajas = pre-sliced [presliced].

* ya de por sí escaso = already-scarce.

* ya en + Expresión Temporal = as far back as + Expresión Temporal.

* ya en + Fecha = as early as + Fecha.

* ya era hora = not a moment too soon, not a minute too soon.

* ya es bastante = enough is enough.

* ya es hora (de que) = it's about time (that).

* ya existente = pre-existing [preexisting].

* ya hace algún tiempo = for quite some time.

* ya hace bastante tiempo = for quite a while now.

* ya hemos hablado bastante de = so much for.

* ya ir siendo hora de que = be high time (that/to/for), be about time (that).

* ya + lleva + desde hace + Expresión Temporal = have + now + been + for + Expresión Temporal.

* ya lo quitas, ya lo pones = burn-'em-down-build-'em-up.

* ya mencionado = aforementioned.

* ya no = any longer, no longer, not... anymore.

* ya parte de la empresa = on board.

* ya perforado = pre-drilled.

* ya preparado = preformatted [pre-formatted].

* ya que = as, for, since, in that, seeing that/as.

* ya que estamos en ello = while we're at it.

* ya sea... o... = whether... or....

* ya ser hora de que = be about time (that), be high time (that/to/for).

* ya tradicional = long-established.

* ya usado = second-hand [secondhand].

* * *
I
adverbio [Both the simple past ya terminé and the present perfect ya he terminado are used to refer to the recent indefinite past. The former is the preferred form in Latin America while in Spain there is a tendency to use the latter]

1)

a) ( en frases afirmativas o interrogativas) already

¿ya te has gastado todo el dinero? — have you spent all the money already?

ya terminé — I've (already) finished

ya te dije que no — I've already said no

¿ya ha llegado Ernesto? — has Ernesto arrived yet?, did Ernesto arrive yet? (AmE)

ya lo sé — I (already) know

aprietas este botón y ya está! — you press this button, and that's it!

le teníamos tanta fe y ya ves, nos ha defraudado — we had such faith in him and look what happened, he's let us down

b) ( expresando que se ha comprendido) yes, sure (colloq)

dile que venga - ya, pero ¿si no quiere? — tell her to come - yes, but what if she doesn't want to?

me he pasado el día estudiando - ya, ya! — (iró) I spent the whole day studying - oh sure! (iro)

2)

a) ( en frases negativas) any more

ese color ya no se lleva — nobody wears that color any more

ya ni siquiera me escribe — he doesn't even write (to) me any more

estaba muy segura pero ya no sé qué pensar — I was very sure about it, but now I don't know what to think

creo que ya no vienen — I don't think they'll come now

b)

no ya... sino — not (just)... but

estamos hablando no ya de cambios sino de una total reestructuración — we are not (just) talking about changes but about a total restructuring

3) (enseguida, ahora) right now

ya voy! — coming!

la comida ya va a estar — the meal's almost ready

preparados listos ya! — on your mark(s), get set, go!

ya puedes ir haciéndote a la idea — you'd better start getting used to the idea

desde ya te digo que no puede ser — (esp AmL) I can tell you right now that it's not possible

ya mismo — (esp AmL) right away, straightaway (BrE)

4) ( con verbo en futuro)

ya te contaré — I'll tell you all about it

ya lo entenderás — you'll understand one day

5) ( en comparaciones)

éste ya no me gusta tanto — I don't like this one so much

pintado de blanco ya es otra cosa — it really does look much better painted white

6) ( uso enfático)

ya quisiera yo! — I should be so lucky!

ya era hora — about time (too)!

ya me tienes harta! — I'm (just about) fed up with you!

¿te parece que allí se vive mejor? - ya lo creo! — do you think people live better there? - you bet! (colloq)

7)

ya que — since, as

ya que estás aquí — since o as you're here

ya que estoy, limpio éste también — while I'm at it I may as well clean this one too
II
conjunción

ya por tierra, ya por mar — (liter) whether by land or by sea

se puede solicitar ya sea en persona o por teléfono — it can be ordered either in person or by telephone

* * *

= already, by now.

Ex: Some revisions have already been announced.

Ex: It will be evident by now that the microcomputer market is a complex place.

* algo ya muy conocido y usado = old nag.

* basta ya = enough is enough.

* estar aquí ya = be upon us.

* hace ya mucho tiempo que = gone are the days of.

* hace ya tiempo = long since.

* no ser así ya = be no longer the case.

* ¡Preparados, listos, ya! = On your mark, get set, go!, ready, set, go!.

* ser hora ya de que = be about time (that), be high time (that/to/for).

* ser ya hora de que = it + be + well past the time for, be high time (that/to/for).

* ya ¡venga ya! = on your bike!.

* ya basta = enough is enough.

* ya cortado en lonchas = pre-sliced [presliced].

* ya cortado en rodajas = pre-sliced [presliced].

* ya de por sí escaso = already-scarce.

* ya en + Expresión Temporal = as far back as + Expresión Temporal.

* ya en + Fecha = as early as + Fecha.

* ya era hora = not a moment too soon, not a minute too soon.

* ya es bastante = enough is enough.

* ya es hora (de que) = it's about time (that).

* ya existente = pre-existing [preexisting].

* ya hace algún tiempo = for quite some time.

* ya hace bastante tiempo = for quite a while now.

* ya hemos hablado bastante de = so much for.

* ya ir siendo hora de que = be high time (that/to/for), be about time (that).

* ya + lleva + desde hace + Expresión Temporal = have + now + been + for + Expresión Temporal.

* ya lo quitas, ya lo pones = burn-'em-down-build-'em-up.

* ya mencionado = aforementioned.

* ya no = any longer, no longer, not... anymore.

* ya parte de la empresa = on board.

* ya perforado = pre-drilled.

* ya preparado = preformatted [pre-formatted].

* ya que = as, for, since, in that, seeing that/as.

* ya que estamos en ello = while we're at it.

* ya sea... o... = whether... or....

* ya ser hora de que = be about time (that), be high time (that/to/for).

* ya tradicional = long-established.

* ya usado = second-hand [secondhand].

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ya¹

adverb

[ Both the simple past ya terminé and the present perfect ya he terminado are used to refer to the recent indefinite past. The former is the preferred form in Latin America, while in Spain there is a tendency to use the latter.]

A

1

(en frases afirmativas o interrogativas): ¿ya te has gastado todo el dinero que te di? have you spent all the money I gave you already?

ya terminé I've (already) finished

ya te dije que no I've already said no, I already said no

¿ya ha llegado Ernesto? has Ernesto arrived yet?, did Ernesto arrive yet? ( AmE)

a las nueve ya estaban durmiendo by nine o'clock they were already asleep

¿ya estás molestando a tu hermana otra vez? are you bothering your sister again?

ya lo sé, me lo dijo Sonia I (already) know, Sonia told me

luego aprietas este botón ¡y ya está! then you press this button, and that's it! o that's that! o there you are!

le teníamos tanta fe y ya ves, nos ha defraudado we had such faith in him and look what happened, he's let us down

2 (expresando que se ha comprendido) yes, sure ( colloq)

tú le dices que venga — ya, pero ¿si no quiere? you tell her to come — yes, but what if she doesn't want to?

me he pasado el día estudiando — ¡ya, ya! ( iró); I spent the whole day studying — oh sure! ( iro)

3

(buscando acuerdo): te vas a portar bien ¿ya? you're going to be a good boy, okay? o ( BrE) aren't you?

B

1 (en frases negativas) any more, no longer

ya no trabaja aquí he doesn't work here any more, he no longer works here

ese estilo de zapatos ya no se lleva nobody wears shoes like that any more

ya ni siquiera me escribe he doesn't even write (to) me any more, he no longer even writes (to) me

estaba muy segura pero ya no sé qué pensar I was very sure about it, but now I don't know what to think

son las once, yo creo que ya no vienen it's eleven o'clock, I don't think they'll come now

si perdemos este tren ya no llegamos if we miss this train we won't get there in time

2

no ya … sino not (just) … but

estamos hablando no ya de cambios sino de una total reestructuración we are not (just) talking about changes but about a total restructuring

C (enseguida, ahora) right now

¡Pilar! — ¡ya voy! Pilar! — coming!

¿le falta mucho a la comida? — no, ya va a estar will lunch be long? — no, it's almost ready

preparados or prontos or en sus marcas, listos ¡ya! on your mark(s), get set, go!

ya puedes ir despidiéndote de ese dinero you can kiss that money goodbye

este fin de semana no sales, así que ya puedes ir haciéndote a la idea you're not going out this weekend, so you'd better start getting used to the idea

desde ya te digo que lo veo muy difícil ( esp AmL); I can tell you right now I think it's going to be pretty difficult

ya mismo ( esp AmL); right away, straightaway ( BrE)

D

(expresando promesa, esperanza, amenaza): ya te contaré cuando nos veamos I'll tell you all about it next time we meet

ya lo entenderás cuando seas mayor you'll understand one day, when you're older

E

(en comparaciones): éste es precioso, éste ya no me gusta tanto this one is beautiful, but I don't like this one so much

pintado de blanco ya es otra cosa it really does look much better painted white

F

(uso enfático): ¡ya quisiera yo! I should be so lucky!, chance would be a fine thing! ( BrE)

¡ya era hora! about time (too)!

ya es hora de que empieces a buscar trabajo it's (about) time you started to look for a job

¡ya me tienes harta con tus quejas! I'm just about fed up with your complaining all the time!

¿te parece que allí se vive mejor? — ¡ya lo creo! do you think people live better there? — you bet! ( colloq)

ya me dirás or contarás qué hacía él en un sitio así what on earth he was doing in a place like that, I don't know ( colloq)

G

ya que since, as

ya que estás aquí since o as you're here

ya que estoy, lo limpio por dentro también while I'm at it I may as well clean the inside too

ya²

conjunction

ya por tierra, ya por mar ( liter); whether by land or by sea

se puede solicitar ya sea en persona o por teléfono it can be ordered either in person or by telephone

* * *

ya adverbio Both the simple past
◊ ya terminé and the present perfect ya he terminado are used to refer to the recent indefinite past. The former is the preferred form in Latin America while in Spain there is a tendency to use the latter

1
a) ( en frases afirmativas o interrogativas) already;

◊ ¿ya te has gastado todo el dinero? have you spent all the money already?;

ya terminé I've (already) finished;
¿ya ha llegado Ernesto? has Ernesto arrived yet?, did Ernesto arrive yet? (AmE);
aprietas este botón ¡y ya está! you press this button, and that's it!
b) ( expresando que se ha comprendido) yes, sure (colloq)

2
a) ( en frases negativas) any more;

◊ ese color ya no se lleva nobody wears that color any more

b)

◊ no ya … sino not (just) … but

3 (enseguida, ahora) right now;
◊ desde ya te digo que no puede ser (esp AmL) I can tell you right now that it's not possible;

ya mismo (esp AmL) right away, straightaway (BrE);
¡ya voy! coming!;
preparados listos ¡ya! on your mark(s), get set, go!
4 ( con verbo en futuro):
◊ ya te contaré I'll tell you all about it;

ya lo entenderás you'll understand one day
5 ( uso enfático):
◊ ¡ya quisiera yo! I should be so lucky!;

ya era hora about time (too)!;
¡ya me tienes harta! I'm (just about) fed up with you!
6
◊ ya que since, as;

ya que estás aquí since o as you're here
■ conjunción:
◊ se puede solicitar ya sea en persona o por teléfono it can be ordered either in person or by telephone

ya
I adverbio
1 already
2 (presente) ya lo sé, I already know
ya puedes empezar, you can start now
(inmediatamente) now: decídelo ya, decide right now
3 (pasado) already: ya entonces nos conocíamos, we already knew each other
ya en 1213, as early as 1213
4 (futuro) ya veré lo que hago, I'll see
ya tendremos tiempo para hacerlo, we'll have time to do it later ➣ Ver nota en already
5 (con frases negativas) ya no lo soporto más, I can't bear him any more
ya no trabaja aquí, she no longer works here
6 (uso enfático) ya era hora, about time too
¡ya está bien!, enough is enough!
II conj ya que, since: llámale hoy, ya que mañana se irá de viaje, call him today, because tomorrow he'll be away
Como regla general, cuando ya se refiere al pasado se traduce por already: Ya lo he hecho. I've already done it. Cuando hace referencia al presente se traduce por now (ya podemos irnos, we can go now) y en el futuro se traduce por later o no se traduce: Ya hablaremos. We'll talk about it ( later).

'ya' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abrigar
- achacosa
- achacoso
- aclimatarse
- acreditar
- adiós
- ajustar
- altura
- amañarse
- ambientarse
- antaño
- anterioridad
- avisar
- bañera
- barbaridad
- bien
- bote
- caber
- cabeza
- caer
- canción
- cara
- celo
- cerca
- colocar
- como
- coña
- constructor
- constructora
- creer
- cuento
- deber
- despedirse
- desventura
- devolución
- dicha
- dicho
- distraerse
- don
- doña
- Ecuador
- empezar
- emplazamiento
- enferma
- enfermo
- enfriar
- entrada
- entrado
- ser
- escacharrar
English:
about
- act
- act up
- advertise
- ago
- alive
- already
- antics
- any
- as
- asleep
- can
- care
- clog up
- come off
- cut out
- damage
- day
- decide
- do
- elderly
- enough
- far
- foregone
- forenamed
- format
- fuck
- gazumping
- given
- go
- go off
- gone
- have
- he's
- high
- inflammation
- it
- just
- knack
- lay off
- let up
- like
- long
- more
- move
- neither
- nervous
- no
- now
- obtainable

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ya

♦ adv

1. [en el pasado] already;

ya me lo habías contado you had already told me;

¿llamaron o [m5] han llamado ya? have they called yet?;

¿habrán llegado ya? will they have arrived yet o by now?;

ya dejó de llover it has stopped raining;

ya en 1926 as long ago as 1926

2. [expresando sorpresa] already;

¿ya has vuelto? are you back already?;

son las siete – ¿ya? it's seven o'clock – already?

3. [en presente] now;

bueno, yo ya me voy right, I'm off now;

ya es hora de cenar it's time for dinner;

ya eres mayor para esas cosas you're too old for that sort of thing;

¡ya voy! I'm coming!

4. [inmediatamente] at once;

hay que hacer algo ya something has to be done now o at once;
Fam
desde ya right now;

hay que empezar desde ya we have to start right now o away;

desde ya considérate invitado consider yourself invited as of now;

ya mismo right away

5. [en frases negativas]
yo ya no estaba segura de nada I was no longer sure of anything;

ya no es así it's not like that any more, it's no longer like that;

ya no me duele it doesn't hurt any more, it no longer hurts;

para entonces ya no quedarán entradas there won't be any tickets left by then

6. [en el futuro]
ya te llamaré I'll call you o Br give you a ring some time;

ya hablaremos we'll talk later;

ya nos habremos ido we'll already have gone;

ya me dirás si te gustó you can tell me later if you liked it;

ya verás you'll (soon) see;

ya verás cuando se enteren just wait till they find out;

¡ya te agarraré yo a ti! I'll get you sooner or later!

7. [con valor enfático o intensivo]
ya entiendo/lo sé I understand/know;

sin el uniforme ya parece otro he looks completely different without his uniform on;

¡ya está! ¿ves qué fácil? that's it o there you are, see how easy it is?;

¡ya no aguanto más! I can't take any more!, I've had enough!;

¿es éste tu coche? – ¡ya me gustaría a mí! o [m5]¡ya quisiera yo! is this your car? – I wish! o if only!;

ya podías haberlo dicho antes you could have said so before;

ya puedes hacer las maletas y largarte I suggest you pack your bags and leave;

¿qué haces despierto? – ya ves, que no puedo dormir what are you doing awake? – well, I can't get to sleep, you see;

te matas a trabajar y, ya ves, luego se olvidan de ti you work yourself to death and then what happens…? they forget about you

♦ conj

1. [distributiva]
ya sea por unas cosas ya sea por otras, siguen pasando hambre for one reason or another, they are still going hungry;

manden sus datos ya sea por carta o por correo electrónico send in your details (either) by post or by e-mail

2. [adversativa]
ya no… sino…, no ya… sino… not only… but…;

confían no ya en clasificarse sino en llegar a la final they are not only confident of qualifying but also of reaching the final

♦ interj
[indica asentimiento] right!; [indica comprensión] yes!;
¡ya! no me eches más leche that's enough milk, thanks!;

preparados, listos, ¡ya! ready, steady, go!, on your marks, get set, go!;
Irónico
¡ya, ya! sure!, yes, of course!

♦ ya que loc conj

since;

ya que has venido, ayúdame con esto since you're here, give me a hand with this;

ya que te pones, podías hacer también la cena you could get dinner ready while you're at it;

ya que eres tan listo, dime… if you're so clever o since you're so smart, tell me…

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ya

adv

1 already;

ya lo sé I know

2 ( ahora mismo) now;

ya viene she’s coming now

3

:

¿lo puede hacer? - ¡ya lo creo!; can she do it ? – you bet!;

¡ya! incredulidad oh, yeah!, sure!; comprensión I know, I understand; asenso OK, sure; al terminar finished!, done!;

¡ah, ya! al acordarse oh, of course!

4 en frases negativas

:

ya no vive aquí he doesn’t live here any more, he no longer lives here;

ya no lo tengo I don’t have it any more, I no longer have it

5

:

ya que since, as

6

:

ya … ya … either … or …

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ya adv

1) : already

ya terminó: she's finished already

2) : now, right now

¡hazlo ya!: do it now!

ya mismo: right away

3) : later, soon

ya iremos: we'll go later on

4) : no longer, anymore

ya no fuma: he no longer smokes

5) (used for emphasis)

¡ya lo sé!: I know!

ya lo creo: of course

6)

no ya : not only

no ya lloran sino gritan: they're not only crying but screaming

7)

ya que : now that, since

ya que sabe la verdad: now that she knows the truth

ya conj

ya... ya : whether... or, first... then

ya le gusta, ya no: first he likes it, then he doesn't

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ya¹ adv

1. (en general) already

ya lo he hecho I've already done it

¿ya te vas? are you going already?

2. (ahora) now

ya deben estar allí they must be there now

no grites, ya voy don't shout, I'm coming

3. (luego) later

ya veremos we'll see

ya lo haré I'll do it later

4. (uso enfático)

ya lo sé I know

ya entiendo I see

ya te lo dije I told you so

ya está that's it

ya no no longer / not any more

ya no vive aquí she no longer lives here / she doesn't live here any more

ya que since

ya que te has ofrecido since you offered

ya² interj yes / of course

Spanish-English dictionary > ya

20 tenir

tenir [t(ə)niʀ]

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1. transitive verb

2. intransitive verb

3. indirect transitive verb

4. impersonal verb

5. reflexive verb

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► Lorsque tenir fait partie d'une locution comme tenir compagnie, tenir chaud, reportez-vous aussi à l'autre mot.

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1. <

   a. (avec les mains) to hold

• la clé qu'il tient à la main the key that he's holding

• la clé qu'il tient dans sa main the key that he's holding

• il tient son fils par la main he's holding his son's hand

• tenir la porte à qn to hold the door open for sb

   b. ( = maintenir dans un certain état) to keep

• tenir les yeux ouverts to keep one's eyes open

• le café le tient éveillé coffee keeps him awake

• tenir qch en place to keep sth in place

• tenir une note (Music) to hold a note

   c. ( = gérer) [+ hôtel, magasin, comptes, maison, ménage] to keep

   d. ( = détenir) to have

• si je le tenais ! just let me get my hands on him!

• nous le tenons we've got him

• parfait, je tiens mon article great, now I have my article

• qu'est-ce qu'il tient ! (inf) ( = il est ivre) he's plastered (inf!) ; ( = il est idiot) he's such an idiot!

• en tenir pour qn (inf) ( = l'aimer) to have a crush on sb (inf)

   e. ( = contrôler) [+ enfant, classe] to have under control

   f. ( = organiser) [+ séance, réunion, conférence] to hold

   g. ( = occuper) [+ place, largeur] to take up ; [+ rôle] to have ; [+ emploi] to hold

• ça tient trop de place it takes up too much room

• il tenait sa droite [conducteur] he was keeping to the right

• elle a bien tenu son rôle de chef she was a good manager

• elle tient le rôle d'Ophélie she plays the role of Ophelia

   h. ( = contenir) [récipient] to hold

   i. ( = résister à) tenir l'alcool (inf) to be able to hold one's drink

• tenir le coup [personne] to survive ; [chose] to last

• avec tout ce travail, est-ce qu'il pourra tenir le coup ? with all that work will he be able to cope?

   j. ( = respecter) [+ promesse, pari, planning] to keep to

• tenir le rythme to keep up the pace

   k. (locutions)

► tenir qn/qch pour ( = considérer comme) to regard sb/sth as

• je le tenais pour un imbécile I regarded him as an idiot

• elle le tient pour responsable de l'accident she holds him responsible for the accident► tenir qch de qn to get sth from sb

• il tient cela de son père he gets that from his father► tiens ! (en donnant) here you are!

• tiens, voilà mon frère ! oh, there's my brother!

• tiens, tiens ! well, well!

2. <

   a. ( = rester en place) [objet fixe, nœud, clou] to hold ; [objets empilés, échafaudage] to stay up

• ce chapeau ne tient pas sur ma tête this hat won't stay on my head

• la branche est cassée mais elle tient encore the branch is broken but it's still attached to the tree

• il tient bien sur ses jambes he's very steady on his legs

   b. ( = durer) [accord, beau temps, coiffure] to hold ; [couleur] to be fast ; [mariage, fleurs] to last

• ça tient toujours, notre pique-nique ? (inf) is our picnic still on?

• il n'y a pas de match qui tienne there's no question of going to any match

   c. ( = résister) to hold out

• tenir bon to hold out

• il fait trop chaud, on ne tient plus ici it's too hot - we can't stand it here any longer

   d. ( = pouvoir être contenu) to fit ( dans into)

• ils ne tiendront pas dans la voiture they won't fit into the car

• à cette table, on peut tenir à huit this table can seat eight

• son discours tient en quelques pages his speech is just a few pages long

3. <

• tenir à ( = être attaché à) [+ réputation, opinion de qn] to care about ; [+ objet, personne] to be fond of ; ( = avoir pour cause) to be due to

• il ne tenait plus à la vie he had lost his will to live

• tu veux aller au cinéma ? -- je n'y tiens pas do you want to go to the cinema? -- not particularly

• il tient beaucoup à vous connaître he's very anxious to meet you

• elle tenait absolument à parler she insisted on speaking

• il tient à ce que nous sachions... he is anxious that we should know...

• tu viens avec nous ? -- si tu y tiens are you coming with us? -- if you really want me to

• ça tient au climat it's because of the climate

• son succès tient à peu de chose his success hangs on very little

• à quoi ça tient ? why is that?

• tenir de ( = ressembler à) [+ parent] to take after

• il tient de son père he takes after his father

• il a de qui tenir it runs in the family

4. <

( = dépendre de) to depend

• il ne tient qu'à vous de décider it's up to you to decide

► qu'à cela ne tienne ! no problem!

5. <

   a. (avec les mains) to hold

• il se tenait le ventre de douleur he was holding his stomach in pain

• se tenir à qch to hold onto sth

• ils se tenaient par la main they were holding hands

• ils se tenaient par la taille they had their arms round each other's waists

   b. ( = être dans une position) se tenir debout to be standing up

• tiens-toi droit (debout) stand up straight ; (assis) sit up straight

• redresse-toi, tu te tiens mal stand up straight, you're slouching

• tenez-vous prêts à partir be ready to leave

• elle se tenait à sa fenêtre she was standing at her window

   c. ( = se conduire) to behave

• il ne sait pas se tenir he doesn't know how to behave

• se tenir tranquille to be quiet

• tiens-toi tranquille keep still

• se tenir mal (à table) to have bad table manners ; (en société) to behave badly

• il n'a qu'à bien se tenir ! he'd better behave himself!

   d. ( = avoir lieu) [conférence, réunion] to be held ; [festival] to take place

   e. ( = être cohérent) [raisonnement] to hold together

• tout se tient it's all connected

   f. (locutions)

► tiens-toi bien ! wait till you hear the next bit!

• tu sais combien elle a gagné ? tiens-toi bien: 3 millions ! do you know how much she won? you won't believe it! - 3 million!► s'en tenir à ( = se limiter à) to confine o.s. to ; ( = se satisfaire de) to content o.s. with

• nous nous en tiendrons là pour aujourd'hui we'll leave it at that for today

• il aimerait savoir à quoi s'en tenir he'd like to know where he stands

• je sais à quoi m'en tenir sur son compte I know the sort of man he is► se tenir pour ( = se considérer comme)

il se tient pour responsable he holds himself responsible

• tenez-vous-le pour dit ! (avertissement) you've been warned!

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təniʀ
1.

verbe transitif

1) ( serrer) to hold

tiens-moi ça — hold this (for me)

tenir quelqu'un par la main — to hold somebody's hand

tenir la rampe — to hold onto the banisters

tiens! — ( voici) here you are!; ( écoute-moi) look!

tiens! c'est pour toi — ( voici un cadeau) here, it's for you; ( voici une gifle) take that!

si je le tenais! — if I could get my hands on him!

bien tenir — to hold on to

2) ( avoir sous son contrôle) to keep [somebody] under control

il nous tient — he's got a hold on us

3) Armée to hold

4) ( avoir attrapé) to hold

je te tiens! — I've caught ou got you!

pendant que je te tiens — fig whilst I've got you

tenir une grippe — (colloq) to have flu GB ou the flu US

5) ( posséder) to have [renseignements]

de qui tenez-vous ce renseignement? — where did you get that information?

elle tient ses bijoux de sa mère — she inherited her jewels from her mother

6) ( avoir la charge de) to hold [emploi]; to run [boutique, maison, journal]; to be in charge of [standard, bureau d'accueil]

bien tenir sa maison — to keep one's house spick and span

tenir la comptabilité — to keep the books

7) ( garder) to keep

tenir quelqu'un occupé — to keep somebody busy

‘tenir hors de portée des enfants’ — ‘keep out of reach of children’

tenir une note — Musique to hold a note

8) ( conserver une position)

tenir sa tête droite — to hold one's head upright

tenir les yeux baissés — to keep one's eyes lowered

9) ( maintenir en place) to hold down [chargement]; to hold up [pantalon, chaussettes]

tenir la porte fermée avec son pied — to hold the door shut with one's foot

10) ( ne pas s'écarter de) to keep to [trajectoire]

11) ( résister)

tenir la mer — [navire] to be seaworthy

tenir le coup — (physiquement, moralement) to hold out

tenir le choc — [matériel] to withstand the impact; [personne] to stand the strain

12) ( contenir) to hold [quantité, litres]

13) ( occuper) [objet] to take up [espace, volume]; [personne] to hold [rôle, position]

14) ( considérer)

tenir quelqu'un/quelque chose pour responsable — to hold somebody/something responsible

je tiens mes renseignements pour exacts — I consider my information to be correct

tenir quelqu'un pour mort — to give somebody up for dead

tenir pour certain que — to regard it as certain that

2.

tenir à verbe transitif indirect

1) ( avoir de l'attachement pour)

tenir à — to be fond of, to like

tenir à sa réputation/à la vie — to value one's reputation/one's life

il tient à son argent — he can't bear to be parted from his money

tenir à son indépendance — to like one's independence

2) ( vouloir)

j'y tiens — I insist

tenir à faire — to want to do

je ne tiens pas à faire — I'd rather not do

tenir à ce que quelqu'un fasse — to insist that somebody should do

je ne tiens pas à ce qu'elle y aille — I'd rather she didn't go

je tiens beaucoup à la revoir — I'd really like to see her again

nous tenons absolument à vous avoir à dîner bientôt — you really must come to dinner soon

3) ( être dû à)

tenir à — to be due to

3.

tenir de verbe transitif indirect

1) ( ressembler à)

tenir de — to take after

il a de qui tenir — (colloq) you can (just) see who he takes after ou where he gets it from

de qui peut-elle tenir pour être si méchante? — where does she get her nastiness from?

2) ( s'apparenter à)

tenir de — to border on

4.

verbe intransitif

1) ( rester en place) [attache, corde, étagère, barrage, soufflé] to hold; [timbre, colle, sparadrap] to stick (à to); [assemblage, bandage] to stay in place; [coiffure] to stay tidy; [mise en plis] to stay in

ces chaussures ne me tiennent pas aux pieds — these shoes won't stay on my feet

2) ( résister)

tenir (bon) — ( surmonter les conditions) to hold out; ( refuser de capituler) gén to hang on; Armée to hold out; ( ne pas relâcher sa prise) [personne] to hang on

tenir sans cigarettes jusqu'à la fin de la réunion — to last without cigarettes till the end of the meeting

j'espère que ma voiture va tenir (bon) — I hope my car will last out

il n'y a pas de télévision qui tienne — (colloq) there's no question of watching television

3) ( durer)

le plan tient-il toujours? — is the plan still on?

la neige tient — the snow is settling

les fleurs n'ont pas tenu — the flowers didn't last long

la couleur n'a pas tenu — the colour [BrE] has faded

4) ( rester valable) [théorie, argument] to hold good; [alibi] to stand up

5) ( être contenu) [personnes, objets] to fit ( dans into)

faire tenir six personnes dans une voiture — to fit six people into a car

mon article tient en trois pages — my article takes up only three pages

tenir en hauteur/largeur/longueur — to be short enough/narrow enough/short enough ( dans for)

tenir en hauteur dans une pièce — to fit into a room (heightwise)

ne pas tenir en hauteur — to be too tall ( dans for)

5.

se tenir verbe pronominal

1) ( soi-même) to hold

se tenir la tête de douleur — to hold one's head in pain

2) ( l'un l'autre)

se tenir par le bras — to be arm in arm

ils se tenaient par la taille — they had their arms around each other's waists

se tenir par la main — to hold hands

3) ( s'accrocher) to hold on

se tenir par les pieds — to hold on with one's feet

tiens-toi or tenez-vous bien — (colloq) fig prepare yourself for a shock

4) ( demeurer)

se tenir accroupi/allongé — to be squatting/stretched out

se tenir sans bouger — to stay still

se tenir prêt — to be ready

se tenir tranquille — ( immobile) to keep still; ( silencieux) to keep quiet; ( dans la légalité) to behave oneself

se tenir immobile — ( debout) to stand still

5) ( se comporter) to behave

savoir se tenir — to know how to behave

tiens-toi bien! — behave yourself!

6) ( avoir une posture)

se tenir bien/mal — to have (a) good posture/(a) bad posture

tiens-toi droit! — ( debout) stand up straight!; ( assis) sit straight!

7) ( avoir lieu) [manifestation, exposition] to be held

8) ( être liés) [événements] to fit together

9) ( être cohérent) [raisonnement, œuvre] to hold together

ça se tient — it makes sense

10) ( se considérer)

se tenir pour — to consider oneself to be

tenez-vous le pour dit! — (colloq) I don't want to have to tell you again!

11) ( être fidèle)

s'en tenir à — to stand by

12) ( se limiter)

s'en tenir à — to keep to

s'en tenir aux ordres — to stick to orders

s'en tenir là — to leave it there

ne pas savoir à quoi s'en tenir avec — not to know what to make of

6.

verbe impersonnel

il ne tient qu'à toi de partir — it's up to you to decide whether to leave

qu'à cela ne tienne! — never mind!

7.

tiens exclamation oh!

tiens (donc), vous voilà! — oh, there you are!

tiens, vous croyez? — do you think so?

tiens donc! — iron fancy that!

tiens tiens (tiens)! — well, well!

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t(ə)niʀ
1. vt

1) (avec sa main) to hold

Tu peux tenir la lampe, s'il te plaît? — Can you hold the torch, please?

Il tenait un enfant par la main. — He was holding a child by the hand.

2) (= gérer) [magasin, hôtel] to run

tenir les comptes — to keep the books

tenir un rôle — to play a part

3) [promesse, engagement] to keep

4) (= considérer)

tenir qn pour — to take sb for

5) (= occuper)

tenir de la place — to take up space

6) (= résister à)

tenir l'alcool — to be able to hold a drink

tenir le coup — to hold out

7) (= garder, maintenir)

tenir sa langue fig — to hold one's tongue

tenir au chaud — to keep hot

tenir à l'abri — to keep under cover

tenir prêt — to have ready

Tenez votre chien en laisse. — Keep your dog on the lead.

8) (= avoir reçu)

tenir qch de qn [histoire] — to have heard sth from sb, [qualité, défaut] to have inherited sth from sb, to have got sth from sb

2. vi

1) (= ne pas se défaire) [noeud, joint] to hold

2) (= ne pas disparaître) [neige, gel] to last

3) (= résister) (= survivre) to survive

tenir bon — to stand fast

tenir 3 jours — to last 3 days

4) (en donnant quelque chose)

tiens, voilà le stylo! — there's the pen!

5) (exclamatif)

Tiens, c'est Alain là-bas! — Look, that's Alain over there!

tiens? (surprise) — really?

6)

tenir à [ami, objet] — to be attached to, to care for

Il tient beaucoup à elle. — He's very attached to her., (= avoir pour cause) to be due to, to stem from, (= dépendre de)

ça ne tient qu'à lui — it is entirely up to him

tenir à faire — to really want to do, to be determined to do

Elle tient à y aller. — She's determined to go.

tenir à ce que qn fasse qch — to really want sb to do sth

7)

tenir de (= relever de) — to partake of, (= ressembler à) to take after

Il tient de son père. — He takes after his father.

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tenir verb table: venir

A vtr

1 ( serrer) to hold [objet, personne, animal]; tiens-moi ça hold this (for me); tiens-moi hold me; tiens-moi la main hold my hand; tenir qn par la main/le bras to hold sb's hand/arm; tenir un enfant contre sa poitrine to hold a child to one's breast; tenir qch à la main/dans ses mains to hold sth in one's hand/in one's hands; tenir un couteau par le manche to hold a knife by the handle; tenir la rampe to hold onto the banister; tenir son chien to hold one's dog; tenir fermement qch to hold sth firmly ou tightly; tenir qch serré sous le bras to hold sth firmly ou tightly under one's arm; tiens!, tenez! ( voici) here you are!; ( écoutez-moi) look!; tiens! c'est pour toi ( voici un cadeau) here, it's for you; ( voici une gifle) take that!; si je le tenais! if I could get or lay my hands on him!; bien tenir to hold on to [portefeuille, chien]; faire tenir une lettre/un message à qn† to dispatch a letter/a message to sb; ⇒ deux;

2 ( avoir sous son contrôle) to keep [sb] under control [élèves, enfants]; tenir sa classe to control one's class well; tenir son cheval Équit to keep one's horse well in hand; il nous tient he's got a hold on us;

3 Mil (occuper, contrôler) to hold [colline, pont, ville]; tenir la première place Sport to be in first place;

4 ( avoir attrapé) to hold [animal, coupable, meurtrier]; je te tiens! I've caught ou got you!; pendant que je te tiens fig whilst I've got you; tenir une grippe○ to have flu GB ou the flu US;

5 ( posséder) to have [preuves, renseignements]; il tient le sujet de son prochain roman he's got the subject of his next novel; tenir qch de qn to get sth from sb [trait physique, caractère, information]; il tient ses yeux bleus de son père he gets his blue eyes from his father; il tient ses informations d'un ami he got his information from a friend; je tiens cette nouvelle de Paul I got this news from Paul; d'où or de qui tenez-vous ce renseignement? where did you get that information?; d'où tenez-vous cette certitude? what makes you so certain?; elle tient ses bijoux de sa mère she inherited her jewels from her mother;

6 ( avoir la charge de) to hold [emploi, poste, assemblée]; to run [café, boutique, maison, journal, municipalité]; to be in charge of, to be on duty on [standard, bureau d'accueil]; bien tenir sa maison to keep one's house spick and span; tenir la comptabilité to keep the books;

7 ( garder) to keep; tenir qn occupé to keep sb busy; tenir sa chambre propre to keep one's room tidy; tenir les aliments au frais to keep food in a cool place; ‘tenir hors de portée des enfants’ ‘keep out of reach of children’; tenir un accord secret to keep an agreement secret; tenir la porte fermée to keep the door closed; tenir une note Mus to hold a note; tenir un article† to carry an item; tenir les cours† Fin to maintain prices;

8 ( conserver une position) tenir sa tête droite/immobile to hold one's head upright/still; tenir les bras écartés to hold one's arms apart; tenir les mains/les bras en l'air to hold up one's hands/one's arms; tenir les yeux ouverts/baissés to keep one's eyes open/lowered; tenir les poings serrés to keep one's fists clenched;

9 ( maintenir en place) to hold down [chargement]; to hold up [pantalon, chaussettes]; tenir la porte fermée avec son pied to hold the door shut with one's foot;

10 ( ne pas s'écarter de) to keep to [trajectoire]; to keep [rythme] ; tenir sa droite/sa gauche to keep to the right/to the left; tenir le large to stay in open waters;

11 ( résister) ne pas tenir la comparaison not to bear comparison; tenir l'eau to be waterproof; tenir la mer [navire] to be seaworthy; tenir le coup (physiquement, moralement) to hold out; tenir le choc lit [matériel, appareil, verre] to withstand the impact; [personne] to stand the strain;

12 ( contenir) to hold [quantité]; tenir vingt litres to hold twenty litres^GB; ma voiture ne tient que deux personnes there's room for only two people in my car;

13 ( occuper) [objet] to take up [espace, place, volume]; [personne] to hold [rôle, position]; tenir peu de place not to take up much room; tenir la place de deux personnes to take up as much room as two people; le monument tient le centre de la place the monument stands in the centre^GB of the square;

14 ( considérer) tenir qch pour sacré to hold sth sacred; tenir qn pour responsable to hold sb responsible; je le tiens pour un lâche I consider him (to be) a coward; je tiens mes renseignements pour exacts I consider my information to be correct; tenir qn pour mort to give sb up for dead; tenir pour certain que to regard it as certain that.

B tenir à vtr ind

1 ( avoir de l'attachement pour) tenir à to be fond of, to like [personne, objet]; tenir à sa réputation/à la vie to value one's reputation/one's life; il tient à son argent he can't bear to be parted from his money; tenir à son indépendance to like one's independence; tenir au corps [aliment] to be nourishing;

2 ( vouloir) j'y tiens I insist; si vous y tenez if you insist; tenir à faire to want to do; elle tient à vous parler she insists on speaking to you; je ne tiens pas à faire I'd rather not do; tenir à ce que qn fasse to insist that sb should do; je ne tiens pas à ce qu'elle fasse I'd rather she didn't do; je tiens beaucoup à la revoir I'd really like to see her again; il tient à rentrer avant la nuit he's anxious to get home before dark; nous tenons absolument à vous avoir à dîner bientôt you really must come to dinner soon; ne reste pas si tu n'y tiens pas don't stay if you don't want to;

3 ( être dû à) tenir à to be due to; la mauvaise récolte tient au manque d'eau the poor harvest is due to a lack of water; tes erreurs tiennent à ton inexpérience your mistakes are due to your lack of experience.

C tenir de vtr ind

1 ( ressembler à) tenir de to take after; tenir de sa mère/son père to take after one's mother/one's father; il a de qui tenir○ you can (just) see who he takes after ou where he gets it from; de qui peut-elle tenir pour être si méchante? where does she get her nastiness from?;

2 ( s'apparenter à) tenir de to border on; tenir du délire to border on madness.

D vi

1 ( rester en place) [clou, attache, corde, étagère, barrage, soufflé] to hold; [timbre, colle, sparadrap] to stick; [assemblage, bandage] to stay in place; [coiffure] to stay tidy; [mise en plis] to stay in; tenir au mur avec de la colle/des épingles ( adhérer) to stick to the wall with glue/pins; tenir sur une jambe/un pied to stand on one leg/one foot; ces chaussures ne me tiennent pas aux pieds these shoes won't stay on my feet;

2 ( résister) tenir (bon) ( surmonter les conditions) [personne, matériel] to hold out; ( refuser de capituler) gén to hang on, to hold out; Mil to hold out; ( ne pas relâcher sa prise) [personne] to hang on; tenir sans cigarettes jusqu'à la fin de la réunion to last ou go without cigarettes till the end of the meeting; tenir jusqu'à la fin de la réunion to hold out until the end of the meeting; tenir économiquement to hold ou last out in economic terms; j'espère que ma voiture va tenir (bon) I hope my car will last out; on a voulu me renvoyer mais j'ai tenu (bon) they wanted to fire me but I hung on; je ne peux plus (y) tenir I can't stand it any longer; il n'y a pas de télévision qui tienne○ there's no question of watching television;

3 ( durer) le plan tient-il toujours? is the plan still on?; leur mariage tient encore their marriage is still holding together; le soleil n'a pas tenu longtemps the sun didn't last long; la neige tient/ne tient pas the snow is settling/is not settling; les fleurs n'ont pas tenu the flowers didn't last long; la couleur n'a pas tenu the colour^GB has faded; tenir au lavage [couleur] not to run in the wash GB ou laundry US;

4 ( rester valable) [théorie, argument] to hold good; ton alibi ne tient plus your alibi no longer stands up; ‘ça tient toujours pour demain?’ ‘is it still all right for tomorrow?’;

5 ( être contenu) [personnes, véhicule, meubles, objets] to fit (dans into); mes vêtements tiendront dans une valise my clothes will fit into one suitcase; tenir à six dans une voiture to fit six into a car; faire tenir six personnes dans une voiture to fit six people into a car; mon article tient en trois pages my article takes up only three pages; tenir en hauteur/largeur/longueur to be short enough/narrow enough/short enough (dans for); tenir en hauteur dans une pièce to fit into a room (heightwise); ne pas tenir en hauteur/largeur/longeur to be too tall/wide/long (dans for); ne pas tenir en largeur dans un espace to be too wide for a space.

E se tenir vpr

1 ( soi-même) [personne] to hold [tête, ventre, bras]; se tenir la tête de douleur to hold one's head in pain; se tenir la tête à deux mains to hold one's head in one's hands;

2 ( l'un l'autre) se tenir par le bras [personnes] to be arm in arm; ils se tenaient par la taille they had their arms around each other's waists; se tenir par la main [personnes] to hold hands;

3 ( s'accrocher) to hold on; se tenir par les pieds to hold on with one's feet; se tenir à une branche/à la rampe to hold onto a branch/onto the banisters; se tenir d'une main à qch to hold onto sth with one hand; tiens-toi or tenez-vous bien○ fig prepare yourself for a shock;

4 ( demeurer) se tenir accroupi/allongé/penché/courbé/à genoux to be squatting/stretched out/leaning/bent over/kneeling; se tenir au milieu/à la porte ( debout) to be standing in the middle/at the door; se tenir caché/sans bouger/au chaud to stay hidden/still/in the warm; se tenir prêt to be ready; se tenir tranquille ( immobile) to keep still; ( silencieux) to keep quiet; ( dans la légalité) to behave oneself; se tenir immobile ( debout) to stand still;

5 ( se comporter) to behave; se tenir bien/mal to behave well/badly; savoir se tenir to know how to behave; tiens-toi bien! behave yourself!;

6 ( avoir une posture) se tenir droit or bien/mal to have (a) good posture/(a) bad posture; tiens-toi droit! ( debout) stand up straight!; ( assis) sit straight!;

7 ( avoir lieu) [manifestation, exposition] to be held; la réunion se tiendra au Caire the meeting will be held in Cairo;

8 ( être liés) [événements] to fit together;

9 ( être cohérent) [exposé, raisonnement, œuvre] to hold together; il n'y a rien à dire, tout se tient there's nothing to be said, it all holds together; ça se tient it makes sense;

10 ( se considérer) se tenir pour to consider oneself to be; je me tiens pour satisfait des résultats I consider myself to be satisfied with the results; tenez-vous le pour dit○! I don't want to have to tell you again!;

11 ( être fidèle) s'en tenir à to stand by; je m'en tiendrai à ma promesse/notre accord/leur décision I will stand by my promise/our agreement/their decision;

12 ( se limiter) s'en tenir à to keep to; s'en tenir au minimum/au sujet to keep to a minimum/to the point; s'en tenir aux ordres to stick to orders; s'en tenir là to leave it there; ne pas savoir à quoi s'en tenir avec qn/qch not to know what to make of sb/sth.

F v impers il ne tient qu'à toi de partir it's up to you to decide whether to leave; qu'à cela ne tienne! never mind!

G tiens excl oh!; tiens (donc), vous voilà! oh, there you are!; tiens, je parie que c'est ta mère! oh! I bet it's your mother; tiens, vous croyez? do you think so?; tiens, tu es invité aussi? oh! so you've been invited as well?; tiens, tu n'étais pas au courant? didn't you know?; tiens donc! iron fancy that!; tiens tiens (tiens)! well, well!

Idiome

en tenir pour qn to have a crush on sb.

[tənir] verbe transitif

A.[AVOIR DANS LES MAINS]

1. [retenir] to hold (on to)

tenir la main de quelqu'un to hold somebody's hand

je tenais mal la bouteille et elle m'a échappé I wasn't holding the bottle tightly enough and it slipped

2. [manier] to hold

tu tiens mal ta raquette/ton arc you're not holding your racket/your bow properly

B.[CONSERVER]

1. [maintenir - dans une position] to hold, to keep ; [ - dans un état] to keep

enlève les vis qui tiennent le panneau undo the screws which hold the panel in place

tiens-lui la porte, il est chargé hold the door open for him, he's got his hands full

tenez-lui la tête hors de l'eau hold her head above the water

elle tient ses chiens attachés she keeps her dogs tied up

tenir chaud to keep warm

je veux une robe qui tienne chaud I'd like a warm dress

tenez-le prêt (à partir) make sure he's ready (to leave)

2. [garder - note] to hold

tenir l'accord to stay in tune

‘tenez votre droite’

a. [sur la route] ‘keep (to the) right’

b. [sur un Escalator] ‘keep to the right’

3. (vieilli) [conserver - dans un lieu] to keep

4. (Belgique) [collectionner] to collect

C.[POSSÉDER]

1. [avoir reçu]

tenir quelque chose de quelqu'un [par hérédité] to get something from somebody

les propriétés que je tenais de ma mère [par héritage] the properties I'd inherited from my mother

2. [avoir capturé] to have caught, to have got hold of

[avoir à sa merci] to have got

ah, ah, petit coquin, je te tiens! got you, you little devil!

si je tenais celui qui a défoncé ma portière! just let me get ou lay my hands on whoever smashed in my car door!

elle m'a tenu une heure avec ses histoires de divorce I had to listen to her going on about her divorce for a whole hour

pendant que je vous tiens (au téléphone), pourrais-je vous demander un service? since I'm speaking to you (on the phone), may I ask you a favour?

3. [détenir - indice, information, preuve] to have ; [ - contrat] to have, to have won ; [ - réponse, solution] to have (found) ou got

je crois que je tiens un scoop! I think I've got a scoop!

tenir quelque chose de [l'apprendre] to have (got) something from

il a eu des troubles psychologiques — de qui tenez-vous cela? he's had psychological problems — who told you that?

nous tenons de source sûre/soviétique que... we have it on good authority/we hear from Soviet sources that...

tenir quelque chose de [le tirer de]: je tiens mon autorité de l'État I derive my power from the state

qu'est-ce que je tiens comme rhume! (familier) I've got a stinking (UK) ou horrible cold!

elle en tient une couche! (familier) she's as thick as two short planks (UK), what a dumb bell! (US)

il en tient une bonne ce soir (familier) he's had a skinful (UK) ou he's three sheets to the wind tonight

qu'est-ce qu'il tient!

a. (familier) [il est stupide] what a twit (UK) ou blockhead!

b. [il est ivre] he's really plastered!

c. [il est enrhumé] he's got a stinking (UK) ou horrible cold!

4. [transmettre]

nous vous ferons tenir une copie des documents (soutenu) we will make sure you receive a copy of the documents

D.[CONTRÔLER, AVOIR LA RESPONSABILITÉ DE]

1. [avoir prise sur, dominer] to hold

quand la colère le tient, il peut être dangereux he can be dangerous when he's angry

la jalousie le tenait jealousy had him in its grip, he was gripped by jealousy

ce rhume me tient depuis deux semaines I've had this cold for two weeks

MILITAIRE to control

[avoir de l'autorité sur - classe, élève] to (keep under) control

2. [diriger, s'occuper de - commerce, maison, hôtel] to run ; [ - comptabilité, registre] to keep

tenir la caisse to be at the cash desk, to be the cashier

elle tient la rubrique artistique à "Madame" she has a regular Arts column in "Madame"

le soir, il tenait le bar at night he used to serve behind the bar

tenir la marque JEUX & SPORT to keep score

3. [donner - assemblée, conférence, séance] to hold, to have

le tribunal tiendra audience dans le nouveau bâtiment the court hearings will be held in the new building

4. [prononcer - discours] to give ; [ - raisonnement] to have ; [ - langage] to use

il me tint à peu près ce langage La Fontaine (allusion) here's roughly what he said to me

tenir des propos désobligeants/élogieux to make offensive/appreciative remarks

comment peux-tu tenir un tel raisonnement? how can you possibly think this way?

5. [astreint à]

être tenu à quelque chose: être tenu au secret professionnel to be bound by professional secrecy

nous sommes tenus à la discrétion we're obliged to be very discreet

je me sens tenu de la prévenir I feel morally obliged ou duty-bound to warn her

6. THÉÂTRE [rôle] to play, to have

tenir un rôle dans (figuré) to play a part in

7. ÉQUITATION [cheval] to keep in hand

E.[EXPRIME UNE MESURE]

1. [occuper] to take up (separable), to occupy

le fauteuil tient trop de place the armchair takes up too much room

tenir une place importante to have ou to hold an important place

2. [contenir] to hold

F.[ÊTRE CONSTANT DANS]

1. [résister à] (to be able) to take

il tient l'alcool he can take (especially UK) ou hold his drink

tenir le coup

a. (familier) [assemblage, vêtements] to hold out

b. [digue] to hold (out)

c. [personne] (to be able) to take it

le soir, je ne tiens pas le coup I can't take late nights

tenir la route [véhicule] to have good road-holding (UK), to hold the road well

ton raisonnement ne tient pas la route (figuré) your argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny

2. [respecter] to keep to, to stand by, to uphold

tenir une promesse to keep ou to fulfil a promise

[s'engager dans - pari]

je tiens la gageure ou le pari! I'll take up the challenge!

tenu!, je tiens! JEUX you're on!

G.[CONSIDÉRER] (soutenu) to hold, to consider

tenir quelqu'un/quelque chose pour to consider somebody/something to be, to look upon somebody/something as

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[tənir] verbe intransitif

1. [rester en position - attache] to hold ; [ - chignon] to stay up, to hold ; [ - bouton, trombone] to stay on ; [ - empilement, tas] to stay up

tenir en place to stay in place

mets du gel, tes cheveux tiendront mieux use gel, your hair'll hold its shape better

la porte du placard ne tient pas fermée the cupboard door won't stay shut

tout ça tient avec de la colle all this is held together with glue

le porridge vous tient au corps ou à l'estomac porridge keeps you going

faire tenir quelque chose avec de la colle/des clous to glue/to nail something into position

tenir à

a. [être fixé à] to be fixed on ou to

b. [être contigu à] to be next to

[personne]

il ne tient pas encore bien sur sa bicyclette/ses skis/ses jambes he's not very steady on his bike/his skis/his legs yet

je ne tiens plus sur mes jambes [de fatigue] I can hardly stand up any more

cet enfant ne tient pas sur sa chaise this child can't sit still ou is always fidgeting in his chair

elle ne tient pas en place she can't sit still

2. [résister - union] to last, to hold out ; [ - chaise, vêtements] to hold ou to last out ; [ - digue] to hold out ; [ - personne] to hold ou to last out

je ne tiens plus au soleil, je rentre I can't stand the sun any more, I'm going in

le cœur ne tiendra pas his heart won't take it

tes arguments ne tiendront pas longtemps face à la réalité your arguments won't hold for very long when faced with reality

tenir bon ou ferme

a. [s'agripper] to hold firm ou tight

b. [ne pas céder] to hold out

tenez bon, les secours arrivent hold ou hang on, help's on its way

il me refusait une augmentation, mais j'ai tenu bon he wouldn't give me a rise but I held out ou stood my ground

le dollar tient toujours bon the dollar is still holding firm

ne pas y tenir, ne (pas) pouvoir y tenir: n'y tenant plus, je l'appelai au téléphone unable to stand it any longer, I phoned him

ça sent si bon le chocolat, je ne vais pas pouvoir y tenir there's such a gorgeous smell of chocolate, I just won't be able to resist it

3. [durer, ne pas s'altérer - fleurs] to keep, to last ; [ - tissu] to last (well) ; [ - beau temps] to last, to hold out ; [ - bronzage] to last ; [ - neige] to settle, to stay

aucun parfum ne tient sur moi perfumes don't stay on me

4. [être valable, être d'actualité - offre, pari, rendez-vous] to stand ; [ - promesse] to hold

ça tient toujours pour demain? is it still on for tomorrow?

il n'y a pas de... qui tienne: il n'y a pas de congé qui tienne there's no question of having leave

il n'y a pas de "mais ma tante" qui tienne, tu vas te coucher! there's no "but Auntie" about it, off to bed with you!

5. [pouvoir être logé] to fit

le compte rendu tient en une page the report takes up one page

tenir en hauteur/largeur (dans) to fit vertically/widthwise (in)

on tient facilement à cinq dans la barque the boat sits five in comfort

son histoire tient en peu de mots his story can be summed up in a few words

6. (locution)

en tenir pour quelqu'un (familier) to have a crush on somebody

en tenir pour quelque chose

a. (familier) [aimer] to be hooked on something

b. [ne considérer que] to stick to something

elle en tient vraiment pour l'hypothèse de l'assassinat she seems convinced it was murder

tiens, tenez [en donnant quelque chose] here

tiens, tenez [pour attirer l'attention, pour insister]: tiens, le tonnerre gronde listen, it's thundering

tiens, rends-toi utile here, make yourself useful

tenez, je ne vous ferai même pas payer l'électricité look, I won't even charge you for the electricity

s'il est intéressé par le salaire? tiens, bien sûr que oui! is he interested in the salary? you bet he is!

tiens, tenez [exprime la surprise, l'incrédulité]: tiens, Bruno! que fais-tu ici? (hello) Bruno, what are you doing here?

tiens, je n'aurais jamais cru ça de lui well, well, I'd never have expected it of him

elle a refusé? tiens donc! (familier & ironique) she said no? you amaze me! ou surprise, surprise!

un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras (proverbe) a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (proverbe)

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tenir à verbe plus préposition

1. [être attaché à - personne] to care for, to be very fond of ; [ - objet] to be attached to ; [ - réputation] to care about ; [ - indépendance, liberté] to value

si tu tiens à la vie... if you value your life...

2. [vouloir]

tenir à faire quelque chose to be eager to do ou to be keen on doing something

je tiens à être présent à la signature du contrat I insist on being there when the contract is signed

tu veux lui parler? — je n'y tiens pas vraiment would you like to talk to him? — not really ou not particularly

tenir à ce que: je tiens à ce qu'ils aient une bonne éducation I'm most concerned that they should have a good education

tiens-tu à ce que cela se sache? do you really want it to become known?

je voudrais t'aider — je n'y tiens pas I'd like to help you — I'd rather you didn't

venez dîner, j'y tiens absolument! come and have dinner, I insist!

3. [résulter de] to stem ou to result from, to be due to, to be caused by

le bonheur tient parfois à peu de chose sometimes it's the little things that give people the most happiness

à quoi ça tient? (familier) what's the reason for it?, what's it due to?

qu'à cela ne tienne never mind, fear not (humoristique)

4. (tournure impersonnelle) [être du ressort de]

il ne tient qu'à toi de mettre fin à ce désordre it's entirely up to you to sort out this shambles

s'il ne tenait qu'à moi if it was up to me ou my decision

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tenir de verbe plus préposition

1. [ressembler à] to take after

ce chien tient à la fois de l'épagneul et du setter this dog is a sort of cross between a spaniel and a setter

elle est vraiment têtue/douée — elle a de qui tenir! she's so stubborn/gifted — it runs in the family!

2. [relever de]

sa guérison tient du miracle his recovery is something of a miracle

des propos qui tiennent de l'injure remarks verging on the insulting

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se tenir verbe pronominal (emploi réciproque)

ils marchaient en se tenant la main they were walking hand in hand

se tenir par le cou/la taille to have one's arms round each other's shoulders/waists

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se tenir verbe pronominal (emploi passif)

[se dérouler - conférence] to be held, to take place ; [ - festival, foire] to take place

le festival se tient en plusieurs endroits there are several venues for the festival

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se tenir verbe pronominal transitif

se tenir la tête à deux mains to hold ou to clutch one's head in one's hands

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se tenir verbe pronominal intransitif

1. [se retenir] to hold on (tight)

se tenir à

a. to hold on to

b. [fortement] to cling to, to clutch, to grip

2. [se trouver - en position debout] to stand, to be standing ; [ - en position assise] to sit, to be sitting ou seated

se tenir (légèrement) en retrait to stand back (slightly)

se tenir debout to be standing (up)

se tenir droit

a. [debout] to stand up straight

b. [assis] to sit up straight

tiens-toi mieux sur ta chaise sit properly on your chair

c'est parce que tu te tiens mal que tu as mal au dos you get backaches because of bad posture

se tenir aux aguets to be on the lookout, to watch out

se tenir coi to remain silent

3. [se conduire] to behave

bien se tenir to behave oneself

mal se tenir to behave oneself badly

4. [être cohérent]

se tenir (bien)

a. [argumentation, intrigue] to hold together, to stand up

b. [raisonnement] to hold water, to hold together

je voudrais trouver un alibi qui se tienne I'm looking for a plausible excuse

[coïncider - indices, événements] to hang together, to be linked

5. (locution)

s'en tenir à: tenez-vous-en aux ordres confine yourself to carrying out orders

d'abord ingénieur puis directrice d'usine, elle ne s'en est pas tenue là she started out as an engineer, then became a factory manager, but she didn't stop there

je ne m'en tiendrai pas à ses excuses I won't be content with a mere apology from him

ne pas se tenir de [joie, impatience] to be beside oneself with

on ne se tenait plus de rire we were in absolute fits (of laughter)

tiens-toi bien, tenez-vous bien: ils ont détourné, tiens-toi bien, deux millions d'euros! they embezzled, wait for it, 2 million euros!

elle a battu le record, tenez-vous bien, de plus de deux secondes! she broke the previous record and by over two seconds, would you believe!

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se tenir pour verbe pronominal plus préposition

1. [se considérer comme]

je ne me tiens pas encore pour battu I don't reckon I'm ou I don't consider myself defeated yet

se tenir pour satisfait to feel satisfied

je ne me tiens pas pour un génie I don't regard myself as ou think of myself as ou consider myself a genius

2. (locution)

je ne supporterai pas tes insolences, tiens-le-toi pour dit! I'll say this only once, I won't put up with your rudeness!

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