"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 37

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 46

(1) biological, adoptive, foster, natural

Kolokacji: 4

(2) loving, doting, affectionate, adoring

Kolokacji: 4

(3) Devoted, dedicated

Kolokacji: 2

(4) abusive, cruel, harsh

Kolokacji: 3

(5) beloved, dear, adored

Kolokacji: 3

(6) late, dead, deceased, only, long-dead, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(7) real, true, actual, real-life

Kolokacji: 4

(8) good, intellectual, lousy

Kolokacji: 3

1. good father = dobry ojciec good father

good Father

2. intellectual father = ojciec odznaczający się wysoką kulturą umysłową intellectual father

3. lousy father = zawszony ojciec lousy father

The truth of it is gods make lousy fathers for the most part.
Along the way he sounds other themes, of course: love, lousy fathers, being lost.
A grandfather, but a lousy father, Stoner told himself.
He'd been a lousy father, and he wasn't likely to change now.
Hell, he would have made a lousy father.
Without getting all Oprah about it, he admits he was an alcoholic and a lousy father.
I thought you needed a father, even a lousy father.
He was a lousy father, she said, but could be helpful in emergencies.
How did dealing dope get back at Scott's old man for being a lousy father?
I want to hug my kids and apologize for being such a lousy father, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to help them now.

(9) American, English, Mexican, Irish-American

Kolokacji: 4

(10) old, elderly, aged, revered, venerable

Kolokacji: 5

(11) single, married, unwed, unmarried

Kolokacji: 4

(12) absent, stay-at-home, Augustinian, missing, vengeful, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(13) alcoholic, drunken

Kolokacji: 2

(14) proud, grand, wonderful, noble

Kolokacji: 4

(15) famous, unknown, putative, legendary, illustrious, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(16) new, young, early, Little, teen-age

Kolokacji: 5

(17) spiritual, holy

Kolokacji: 2

(18) poor, wealthy, rich

Kolokacji: 3

(19) Jewish, workaholic

Kolokacji: 2

(20) Italian, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(21) great, expectant, larger-than-life

Kolokacji: 3

(22) black, white, African-American

Kolokacji: 3

(23) different, respective, human

Kolokacji: 3

(24) immigrant, heavenly, earthly, mortal

Kolokacji: 4

(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

(30) African, Nigerian, Kenyan, Ghanaian

Kolokacji: 4

(31) grieving, bereaved, grief-stricken, happy

Kolokacji: 4

(32) overbearing, domineering, tyrannical, authoritarian

Kolokacji: 4

(33) distant, incestuous

Kolokacji: 2

(34) ill, sick, blind, distraught, ailing

Kolokacji: 5

(35) better, best, wise

Kolokacji: 3

(36) angry, violent, enraged, irate

Kolokacji: 4

(37) Franciscan, sainted, saintly

Kolokacji: 3

(38) Apostolic, Catholic

Kolokacji: 2

(39) unemployed, powerful, ineffectual

Kolokacji: 3

(40) overprotective, noncustodial, protective

Kolokacji: 3

(41) Russian, Cuban, Jamaican, Australian

Kolokacji: 4

(42) bad, legal, invalid

Kolokacji: 3

(43) Indian, Japanese

Kolokacji: 2

(44) neglectful, attentive, delinquent

Kolokacji: 3

(45) first-time, Muslim

Kolokacji: 2

(46) hard-working, possible, Eternal

Kolokacji: 3

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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