"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

(4) serve, help, encourage

Kolokacji: 3

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

Kolokacji: 5

1. grandfather builds = budowy ciała dziadka grandfather builds

built by one's grandfather

2. grandfather makes = dziadek robi grandfather makes

3. grandfather writes = dziadek pisze grandfather writes

4. established by one's grandfather = założony przez czyjś dziadek established by one's grandfather

grandfather establishes

5. grandfather invents = dziadek wynajduje grandfather invents

His grandfather invented the electric vaporizer.
My grandfather invented a specific process for creating a certain kind of moire brocade that is still ours alone.
It runs as follows: At the age of eighty your grandfather invents a time machine.
My grandfather invented it eight years ago, but we've never been allowed to use it.
("Oh yes, I know it; my grandfather invented it!")
She has a pilot's license and synesthesia, and her grandfather invented the backless vest.
My great grandfather invented the Crays.
Her maternal grandfather, the late Fessenden Seaver Blanchard, invented platform tennis.
His grandfather, for whom he was named, invented the perforated, oil-filled cylinder that made the Burroughs adding machine add and invariably get the right answer.
In Iraq, she said, "I'm finding another population very much like the people who needed a dialysis machine when my grandfather invented it."

(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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