"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

The hanged man, Richard Puckett, was his great-great uncle.
We came to stay with my great-great uncle, who lives right on the beach, on the eighth floor of this big apartment building.
Percy Harrison Fawcett - Pendergast's great-great uncle on his mother's side.
Family connections may have influenced Mr. Rockefeller's decision: he is the great-great uncle of three Hackley students.
His great-great uncle was the judge George Jessel, his brother.
Penny is intrigued by her past, so her great-great uncle tells her about her past.
His great-great uncle, William Pilch, played first-class cricket for Kent.
He also has a mischievous sense of humour, not least about his great-great uncle (who was exonerated of any wrong-doing in relation to the Titanic).
His father was a medallist in the family business which was founded in London by Pinches' great-great uncle in 1840.
"Oh, yes, my great-great uncle wrote all about it," she had said.

4. distant uncle = daleki wuj distant uncle

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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