"father" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

father sustantivo

sustantivo + father
Kolokacji: 44
Church Father • father of several children • father of several sons • father of several daughters • God Father • city father • ...
father + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 59
father figure • Father Christmas • Father Time • father John • Father Ted • ...
father + verbo
Kolokacji: 487
father dies • father owns • father teaches • father insists • father abandons • father stands • father sits • father tells • father retires • ...
verbo + father
Kolokacji: 295
kill one's father • see one's father • tell one's father • know one's father • call one's father • inherit from one's father • ...
adjetivo + father
Kolokacji: 158
biological father • loving father • Devoted father • adoptive father • abusive father • beloved father • late father • dead father • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 46
(3) Devoted, dedicated
Kolokacji: 2
(4) abusive, cruel, harsh
Kolokacji: 3
(5) beloved, dear, adored
Kolokacji: 3
(8) good, intellectual, lousy
Kolokacji: 3
(13) alcoholic, drunken
Kolokacji: 2
(14) proud, grand, wonderful, noble
Kolokacji: 4
(17) spiritual, holy
Kolokacji: 2
(18) poor, wealthy, rich
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Jewish, workaholic
Kolokacji: 2
(22) black, white, African-American
Kolokacji: 3
(23) different, respective, human
Kolokacji: 3
(25) Greek, Norwegian
Kolokacji: 2
(26) Irish, Chinese
Kolokacji: 2
(27) long-lost, founding
Kolokacji: 2
(28) Scottish, British
Kolokacji: 2
(29) strict, stern, indulgent
Kolokacji: 3
1. strict father = surowy ojciec strict father
2. stern father = surowy ojciec stern father
  • She was an irritable, nervous woman brought up to expect high standards by her stern father.
  • Howard Mann is believable as the stern father, a man who can never compensate for the loss of his wife and family.
  • I think of myself as a basically good man: a hard worker, a loving and faithful husband, a stern but doting father.
  • The assumption growing up under his stern father was that he would go into the family business.
  • Always distant from his stern father, a successful furrier, Arthur decided not to enter the family business.
  • She resorts to poison to free herself of her stern father, selfish husband and avaricious brother.
  • He spoke like a stern father, addressing errant children.
  • I blamed myself, you see, for being such a stern father.
  • Octavian and Alexander looked like hard, uncompromising men formed in the image of their stern father.
  • Ted is paid $500 to keep an eye on the children by the stern father, who orders them not to misbehave.
3. indulgent father = pobłażliwy ojciec indulgent father
(33) distant, incestuous
Kolokacji: 2
(35) better, best, wise
Kolokacji: 3
(36) angry, violent, enraged, irate
Kolokacji: 4
(37) Franciscan, sainted, saintly
Kolokacji: 3
(38) Apostolic, Catholic
Kolokacji: 2
(42) bad, legal, invalid
Kolokacji: 3
(43) Indian, Japanese
Kolokacji: 2
(45) first-time, Muslim
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + father
Kolokacji: 44
of one's father • with one's father • to one's father • from one's father • for one's father • ...

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