"wait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

wait verbo

verbo + wait
Kolokacji: 45
stand waiting • sit waiting • keep waiting • settle to wait • afford to wait • prefer to wait • decide to wait • mind waiting • forced to wait • ...
wait + preposición
Kolokacji: 50
wait for • wait until • wait around • wait outside • wait till • wait out • wait up • ...
wait + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 84
wait long • wait patiently • wait impatiently • hardly wait • wait anxiously • wait expectantly • wait outside • wait quietly • simply wait • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 21
(2) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(3) hardly, barely, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(5) expectantly, hopefully
Kolokacji: 2
(6) outside, inside
Kolokacji: 2
(7) quietly, restlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) simply, merely, well
Kolokacji: 3
(10) nervously, tensely
Kolokacji: 2
(11) politely, courteously
Kolokacji: 2
(12) calmly, coolly
Kolokacji: 2
(13) downstairs, below, upstairs
Kolokacji: 3
(14) indefinitely, clearly
Kolokacji: 2
(15) respectfully, humbly, meekly
Kolokacji: 3
(17) desperately, forlornly
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately wait = rozpaczliwie poczekaj desperately wait
  • When he returns home, he finds Nina desperately waiting for him.
  • The country is desperately waiting for it to act.
  • Go late and on weekends, when it's packed; otherwise, this enormous place is a party desperately waiting to happen.
  • There were four of them actually, and they were desperately waiting for me to come.
  • Much of a talented community lives under this mortal shadow, desperately waiting for a treatment to be developed.
  • Rage was inside him, seething, waiting desperately for something to happen.
  • Remember he's waiting desperately for us to give him an opening!
  • If you had you would realize that they are waiting desperately for our next move.
  • They were a little behind his estimated time schedule and he knew Yvette would be waiting desperately for him.
  • Horn heard it where he waited desperately outside the control room doorway.
2. wait forlornly = poczekaj ze smutkiem wait forlornly
(18) deliberately, purposely
Kolokacji: 2
(19) dutifully, obediently
Kolokacji: 2
(20) endlessly, interminably
Kolokacji: 2
(21) placidly, kindly
Kolokacji: 2

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