"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
(18) deliberately, purposely
Kolokacji: 2
(19) dutifully, obediently
Kolokacji: 2
1. wait dutifully = poczekaj sumiennie wait dutifully
  • I was parked half a block down, but he dutifully waited, pulling out just ahead of me as I came up on his left.
  • For more than two weeks, they toured alliance territory and dutifully waited to interview senior officials.
  • Dutifully waiting outside his door to be picked up, the security police returned.
  • They waited dutifully, but that was not what they were interested in at the moment.
  • Instead, he waited dutifully for the light to change and, when it did, went quickly across the avenue, ignoring the light rain.
  • Reed dutifully waited thirty full minutes before walking slowly back to the scoutship.
  • At the door of the greenhouse Norton was waiting dutifully, going through his pockets, looking for mints.
  • His wife and daughter were waiting dutifully at the end of the platform.
  • The guards at the door presented arms and waited dutifully for the Speaker to pass.
  • I punched the elevator button and he waited with me dutifully.
2. wait obediently = poczekaj posłusznie wait obediently
(20) endlessly, interminably
Kolokacji: 2
(21) placidly, kindly
Kolokacji: 2

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