believe
believe (Englisch)
Verb
Zeitform | Person | Wortform |
---|---|---|
simple present | I, you, they | believe |
he, she, it | believes | |
simple past | believed | |
present participle | believing | |
past participle | believed |
Worttrennung:
- be·lieve, Partizip Perfekt: be·lieved, Partizip Präsens: be·liev·ing
Aussprache:
- IPA: […]
- Hörbeispiele:
believe (US-amerikanisch) (Info)
Bedeutungen:
- [1] an etwas (z.B. Ufos) glauben
- [2] einer Aussage Glauben schenken
Synonyme:
- [2] trust
Beispiele:
- [1] "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."[1]
- [2]
Charakteristische Wortkombinationen:
- [2] Believe me! - Glaube mir!
Wortbildungen:
- believer
Übersetzungen
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Referenzen und weiterführende Informationen:
- [1, 2] Oxford English Dictionary „believe“
- [1, 2] Macmillan Dictionary: „believe“ (britisch), „believe“ (US-amerikanisch)
- [1, 2] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary „believe“
- [2] Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus „believe“
- [1, 2] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „believe“
- [1, 2] PONS Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „believe“
- [1, 2] dict.cc Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „believe“
- [1, 2] LEO Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „believe“
Quellen:
- H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds. In: Project Gutenberg eBook. Kapitel 1: The eve of the war (URL).
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