"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 • ...

adjetivo + uncle

Kolokacji: 33

maternal uncle • paternal uncle • great uncle • old uncle • rich uncle • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 6

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 9

(1) maternal, paternal, eccentric, Dutch, adoptive

Kolokacji: 5

(2) great, great-great, famous, honorary, distant, ...

Kolokacji: 6

1. great uncle = wielki wuj great uncle

2. famous uncle = sławny wuj famous uncle

3. great-great uncle = wielki-wielki wuj great-great uncle

4. distant uncle = daleki wuj distant uncle

But in her absence it emerged that only one had been: a distant uncle.
Yunnanozoon may be more a distant uncle than a great-grandfather of Homo sapiens.
A distant and austere uncle perhaps, but still a family member.
After their mother died, the sisters left the village to live with a distant uncle.
He seemed to her more like a distant uncle whom "my mother had bragged to all about me."
In 1929, he was briefly deposed and succeeded by Sheikh Mani bin Rashid, a distant uncle.
A necessary set of stripped card decks ($6.50) makes beginners feel as if Houdini were a distant uncle.
He abhors terms like "visitation," which he says reduces the status of fathers to distant uncles with open wallets.
And I told him that technology wasn't mature enough, but he's determined-" "Iones-a distant uncle.
Viola is to get a job in Berkshire as a receptionist for a distant uncle of hers who is a GP there.

5. honorary uncle = honorowy wuj honorary uncle

6. drunken uncle = pijany wuj drunken uncle

(3) old, young, elderly, elder, aged

Kolokacji: 5

(4) rich, wealthy, childless, grand, indulgent

Kolokacji: 5

(5) favorite, beloved

Kolokacji: 2

(6) late, deceased, dead

Kolokacji: 3

(7) loving, Devoted, doting

Kolokacji: 3

(8) wicked, evil

Kolokacji: 2

(9) long-lost, benevolent

Kolokacji: 2

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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