B2verb · transitive · common

fate

fate · fates · fated · fating

приректи, прирікати

осуждать, осудить, обречь

verurteilen, verdammen

To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitableTo foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

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/feɪt/

» I'll accept my fate.

Я прийму свою долю.

Meaning

1 senses

To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

More definitions

decree or designate beforehand

Examples

346 sentences

I'll accept my fate.
Я прийму свою долю. — deniko
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It was fate.
Це була доля. — deniko
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This is my fate.
Це моя доля. — deniko
ruЭто моя судьба. — marafon
deDas ist mein Schicksal. — Yorwba
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I will accept my fate.
Я прийму свою долю. — deniko
ruЯ приму мою судьбу. — odexed
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She had to accept her fate.
deSie musste ihr Schicksal akzeptieren. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Origin

From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“sp

From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

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Forms

fates, fating, fated, fated

Base form	fate · to fate
3rd person singular	fates
Present participle	fating
Past simple	fated
Past participle	fated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	fate
he, she, it	fates

Past simpleLesson

all persons

fated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have fated
he, she, it	has fated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will fate

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Close in meaning

decree or designate beforehand:destine doom designate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle

Collocations

3 patterns

our fates are
believe in fate
fate is sealed