"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
2. dear father = ojciec kochanego dear father
3. adored father = uwielbiany ojciec adored father
  • "The Porcelain Monkey" is about a woman, a Jewish convert, whose adored father was a concentration camp guard.
  • She quailed at his heartless words, afraid of discovering that her adored father had feet of clay but determined to face the truth.
  • Slowly she reveals that her adored father was sometimes abusive.
  • Theo is trying unsuccessfully to comfort her daughter, Bessie, and to assure the young woman that her adored father will survive his accident.
  • And very early, she learned that even her adored father was part of this malevolence.
  • Julia was devastated by the death of her adored father.
  • So little about her past, her adored father, the mother of whom she never spoke.
  • Countering it was not what she had been trained for by her mentors, chiefly her adored father, Albert.
  • How does a nice middle-class teen-ager deal with the fact that her adored father is a thief and a killer?
(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
(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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