"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

detective sustantivo

sustantivo + detective
Kolokacji: 31
police detective • homicide detective • narcotics detective • Manhattan detective • lead detective • ...
detective + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 41
detective story • detective work • detective novel • detective agency • detective fiction • detective sergeant • ...
detective + verbo
Kolokacji: 98
detective investigates • detective says • detective finds • detective goes • detective working • ...
verbo + detective
Kolokacji: 13
tell detectives • play detective • detective assigned • hire a detective • detective called • ...
adjetivo + detective
Kolokacji: 42
private detective • undercover detective • fictional detective • retired detective • young detective • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(1) private, undercover, black
Kolokacji: 3
(3) retired, off-duty
Kolokacji: 2
(5) great, good, famous, best
Kolokacji: 4
(6) amateur, professional
Kolokacji: 2
(7) female, fellow, male
Kolokacji: 3
(8) senior, British, junior
Kolokacji: 3
(10) local, medical
Kolokacji: 2
(11) hard-boiled, tough
Kolokacji: 2
(12) Belgian, French, American
Kolokacji: 3
1. French detective = Francuski oficer śledczy French detective
2. Belgian detective = Belgijski oficer śledczy Belgian detective
3. American detective = Amerykański oficer śledczy American detective
  • An American detective would know plenty about that, but even he was theorizing.
  • Clyde Wilson (1923-2008) was an American detective and private investigator.
  • Simon said he was particularly interested in the demythification of the American detective.
  • The American detective novel tends to demand a little more characterization.
  • On the television, the American detectives were breaking down the door of a flat in a poor tenement.
  • Two detectives, American and Japanese, are trading insults at a bar.
  • Its plot involves an American detective being sent to Britain to track down a major international criminal.
  • During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective.
  • Is there a quota of American detectives for the article?
  • Simon, who became a consultant and producer with the series, said he was particularly interested in the demythification of the American detective.
(13) Savage, cynical, dogged
Kolokacji: 3
(14) forensic, literary
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + detective
Kolokacji: 6
to detectives • of detectives • with detectives • for detectives • from detectives • ...

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