"grandfather" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

grandfather sustantivo

sustantivo + grandfather

Kolokacji: 4

grandfather of David • grandfather of Michael • grandfather of Adam • namesake grandfather

grandfather + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 6

grandfather clock • grandfather clause • grandfather paradox • Grandfather Mountain • Grandfather Frost • ...

grandfather + verbo

Kolokacji: 66

grandfather dies • founded by one's grandfather • grandfather says • grandfather tells • grandfather serves • grandfather comes • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 17

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 11

(1) die, come, work, leave, play, ...

Kolokacji: 16

(2) found, start, begin, open, send, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(3) say, tell, call, speak, command

Kolokacji: 5

1. grandfather says = dziadek mówi grandfather says

Grandfather says

2. grandfather tells = dziadek mówi grandfather tells

Grandfather tells

3. grandfather calls = dziadek dzwoni grandfather calls

4. grandfather speaks = dziadek mówi grandfather speaks

We also use could to say that somebody had the general ability or permission to do something: My grandfather could speak five languages.
My grandfather spoke a language so obscure that even a symbologist can't identify it?
It had really been necessary at that time, since grandfather and grandmother spoke exclusively in wolvish.
"When my grandfather spoke of the bank," he used to say, "we usually observed a moment of silence."
I understand that Alex and his grandfather speak Russian through most of the film.
She had never heard her grandfather speak in anything other than calm tones.
My mother used to tell me that my great-great-great grandfather actually spoke to one of the gods who lived under the ground.
He stood on the seashore way up north, in winter, and he heard his grandfather speak to him clear as a bell.
My grandfather doesn't speak a word of English, but he manages to do all his shopping, and somehow communicate with the people around him nevertheless.
He tells how his grandfather spoke Yiddish to the farm animals, who "understood him very well."

5. grandfather commands = dziadek rozkazuje grandfather commands

(4) serve, help, encourage

Kolokacji: 3

(5) build, make, write, establish, invent

Kolokacji: 5

(6) give, take, use, buy, raise, ...

Kolokacji: 11

(7) own, flee, marry

Kolokacji: 3

(8) teach, explain

Kolokacji: 2

(9) live, fight, know, settle, think, ...

Kolokacji: 11

(10) emigrate, immigrate

Kolokacji: 2

(11) like, love

Kolokacji: 2

verbo + grandfather

Kolokacji: 20

name after one's grandfather • kill one's grandfather • live with one's grandfather • inherit from one's grandfather • ...

adjetivo + grandfather

Kolokacji: 17

maternal grandfather • paternal grandfather • great grandfather • Loving grandfather • great-great grandfather • ...

preposición + grandfather

Kolokacji: 14

of one's grandfather • with one's grandfather • to one's grandfather • from one's grandfather • for one's grandfather • ...

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