"uncle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

uncle sustantivo

sustantivo + uncle
Kolokacji: 3
uncle of the bride • uncle of the bridegroom • bachelor uncle
uncle + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 102
Uncle Sam • Uncle Tom • Uncle John • Uncle Ben • Uncle Joe • ...
uncle + verbo
Kolokacji: 61
uncle says • uncle dies • uncle takes • uncle tells • raised by one's uncle • ...
verbo + uncle
Kolokacji: 32
live with one's uncle • kill one's uncle • see one's uncle • tell one's uncle • inherit from one's uncle • ...
(1) live, tell, know, name
Kolokacji: 5
(2) kill, murder
Kolokacji: 2
(5) join, marry
Kolokacji: 2
(6) work, belong, go
Kolokacji: 5
1. work for one's uncle = praca dla czyjś wuj work for one's uncle
2. belong to one's uncle = należeć czyjś wuj belong to one's uncle
  • The house belongs to Sarah's uncle and to their luck has allowed them to use his house for the summer while he is gone.
  • At age 17, Hamelin embarked on a trade ship belonging to his uncle as a young marine to learn sailing.
  • "Have you seen those jewels that once belonged to your uncle?"
  • Buller's love of the sport developed in the flooded and frozen vacant lot belonging to his uncle.
  • It had belonged to his uncle, and wasn't a large place, at all.
  • Harry learned that Bruce was living alone, in an old mansion which had belonged to his uncle.
  • The house belonged to the friend's deceased uncle, a retired teacher from Turin.
  • Her gift to her son is an old baseball glove, which she proudly tells him belonged to his uncle.
  • It did not belong to your uncle.
  • This at the mega-house that belongs to your uncle?
5. go to one's uncle = idź do czyjś wuj go to one's uncle
(7) look, help
Kolokacji: 2
(8) send, follow, accompany
Kolokacji: 3
adjetivo + uncle
Kolokacji: 33
maternal uncle • paternal uncle • great uncle • old uncle • rich uncle • ...
preposición + uncle
Kolokacji: 17
of one's uncle • with one's uncle • to one's uncle • from one's uncle • for one's uncle • ...

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