believe

believe (Englisch)

Verb
Zeitform Person Wortform
simple present I, you, theybelieve
he, she, itbelieves
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] etwas 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] Believe it or not, they believe in UFOs.

Charakteristische Wortkombinationen:

[2] Believe me! - Glaube mir!

Wortbildungen:

believer

Übersetzungen
 [1] etwas glauben
 [2] einer Aussage Glauben schenken
Referenzen und weiterführende Informationen:
[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:

  1. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds. In: Project Gutenberg eBook. Kapitel 1: The eve of the war (URL).
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