"give" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Usually, the children of these marriages are given their father's surname.
- Children are given the mother's surname, especially after divorce or single motherhood.
- Male children are given the mother's surname, and female children the father's.
- The couple had given them their surname, although they were too old by then to legally adopt.
- The child of an unwed mother is given his mother's surname.
- She was a pretty young widow with a small son, and Thomas went to law to give the little boy his own surname.
- He legally adopted her children and gave them his surname.
- The couple adopted young Paul and gave him their own surname.
- An older woman, Justyna, did not want to give her surname.
- Diana's birth was never registered and they were all given their mother's surname.
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