Значение

значений: 5
  1. (непереходный)To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

    I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.

    c. 1773, John Trumbull, The Progress of Dulness, Exeter, New Hampshire: Henry Ranlet, 1794, Part 1, p. 19, And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath.

    gähnen

    зева́тьzevátʹ, зевну́тьzevnútʹ

    позіха́тиpozixáty, позіхну́тиpozixnúty, зіва́тиziváty

  2. To say while yawning.

  3. To present a wide opening; gape.

    The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.

    Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.

    зия́тьzijátʹ

    be wide open

  4. (устаревшее)To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

  5. (устаревшее)To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.

    to yawn for fat livings

Примеры

предложений: 127
  1. Tom is trying not to yawn.

    Том пытается не зевнуть.

  2. Cover your mouth when you cough, sneeze, or yawn.

    Прикрывай рот, когда кашляешь, чихаешь или зеваешь.

    deHalte die Hand vor den Mund, wenn du hustest, niest oder gähnst.

  3. Put your hand over your mouth when you cough, sneeze or yawn.

    Прикрывайте рот рукой, когда кашляете, чихаете или зеваете.

    deHalten Sie Ihre Hand vor den Mund, wenn Sie husten, niesen oder gähnen!

  4. Tom suppressed a yawn.

    Том подавил зевоту.

  5. I couldn't help yawning.

    Я не мог сдержать зевоту.

Переводы

языков: 9
Українська
По значениям 1
open the mouth and take a deep breath:
Русский
По значениям 2
open the mouth and take a deep breath:
to present a wide opening:
Deutsch
По значениям 1
open the mouth and take a deep breath:

Происхождение

Partly from Middle English yanen, yonen, yenen (“to yawn”), from Old English ġeonian, ġini

Partly from Middle English yanen, yonen, yenen (“to yawn”), from Old English ġeonian, ġinian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *ginōn, from Proto-Germanic *ginōną (“to yawn”); and partly from Middle English gonen (“to gape, yawn”), from Old English gānian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn, from Proto-Germanic *gainōną (“to yawn, gape”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-, *ǵʰeyh₁- (“to yawn, gape”).

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Формы

yawns, yawning, yawned, yawned
Базовая формаyawn · to yawn
3-е лицо ед. числаyawns
Причастие настоящего времениyawning
Прошедшее времяyawned
Причастие прошедшего времениyawned

правильный · Урок

Present simpleУрок

I, you, we, theyyawn
he, she, ityawns

Past simpleУрок

все лицаyawned

Present perfectУрок

I, you, we, theyhave yawned
he, she, ithas yawned

Future simple (will)Урок

все лицаwill yawn

Синонимы

синонимов: 2
Близкие по смыслу

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 4
Связанныеyawneryawning
Производныеyawnableyawningly

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