Meaning

2 senses

  1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.

    чири́катьčiríkatʹ

    make high-pitched sounds

  2. To express in a chirping tone.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. The sparrow is cheeping.

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  2. The sparrows are cheeping.

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  3. We are cheeping like sparrows.

    deWir piepsen wie die Spatzen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. The day-old chicks cheeped shrilly as their mother returned to the nest with a beak full of food.

    ruВылупившиеся накануне птенцы пронзительно запищали, когда их мать вернулась в гнездо с клювом, полным еды. — Wezel

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  5. I cannot cheep like a sparrow. I'm a pigeon.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
make high-pitched sounds:

Forms

cheeps, cheeping, cheeped, cheeped
Base formcheep · to cheep
3rd person singularcheeps
Present participlecheeping
Past simplecheeped
Past participlecheeped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycheep
he, she, itcheeps

Past simpleLesson

all personscheeped

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cheep

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cheekA2cheekbonecheekyB2cheerA2cheerfulB1cheerfullyB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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