peljati damo v jedilnico k večerji

1) (to include: Literature takes in drama, poetry and the novel.) vključiti

2) (to give (someone) shelter: He had nowhere to go, so I took him in.) sprejeti

3) (to understand and remember: I didn't take in what he said.) dojeti

4) (to make (clothes) smaller: I lost a lot of weight, so I had to take all my clothes in.) zožiti

5) (to deceive or cheat: He took me in with his story.) potegniti (za nos)

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transitive verb sprejeti, vzeti (najemnike, goste itd.); popeljati (k mizi); delati (kaj) za koga; vključiti; zmanjšati, zožiti (obleko); zviti (jadro); figuratively motriti, opaziti, spoznati; colloquially prevarati, oslepariti, ogoljufati; biti naročen, aboniran (na časopis itd.); zavze(ma)ti, okupirati; motoring vzeti (bencin); commerce kupovati (blago); izkupiti, prejeti (denar); (vse) verjeti, za resnico vzeti

she takes in washing — ona pere za druge

to take in gas (E petrol) — vzeti bencin (na črpalki)

to take in a lady in to dinner — peljati damo v jedilnico k večerji