fish
A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help…A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
» Do you think fish can hear?
Glaubst du, dass Fische hören können?
Думаешь, рыба может слышать?
Ты думаешь, рыбы могут слышать?
Как думаешь, рыбы слышат?
Гадаєш, риби чують?
Meaning
22 senses(countable)A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
Salmon is a fish.
The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
Fisch, Fiisch, Fusch (Vorderpfälzisch)
ры́баrýba
ри́баrýba
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
(countable, uncountable)Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
(Newfoundland, countable, uncountable)Cod; codfish.
(uncountable)The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
Fisch
ры́баrýba
ри́баrýba
the flesh of fish used as food
(countable, uncountable)An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
(uncountable)A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
(countable, slang)An easy victim for swindling.
лохlox, лопу́хlopúx, фра́ерfrájer
(countable, slang)A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
(countable)A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
(countable, uncountable)A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(countable, slang)A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
(countable, uncountable)The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
ры́баrýba, ры́быrýby
ри́биrýby
Examples
2189 sentencesDo you think fish can hear?
Гадаєш, риби чують? — deniko
ruДумаешь, рыба может слышать? — Hellerick
deGlaubst du, dass Fische hören können? — MUIRIEL
This fish has a bad smell.
Ця рибра погано пахне. — deniko
deDieser Fisch riecht schlecht. — samueldora
This is how I cook fish.
Ось як я готую рибу. — Anjy
ruВот как я готовлю рыбу. — Biga
I like meat better than fish.
М'ясо мені подобається більше, ніж риба. — deniko
ruМясо мне нравится больше, чем рыба. — sharptoothed
deIch mag lieber Fleisch als Fisch. — MUIRIEL
I caught a big fish yesterday.
Вчора я пiймав велику рибу. — rmdas
ruЯ поймал вчера большую рыбу. — Lenin_1917
deGestern habe ich einen großen Fisch gefangen. — MUIRIEL
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 6
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk,From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *piskós (“fish”).
Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).
Borrowed from French fiche (“peg, mark”).
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Forms
plural: fish / fishesSynonyms
7 synonymsWord family
467 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Food and drink — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- eat fish
- eat raw fish
- raw fish
- lot of fish
- caught more fish
- caught a fish
- catch any fish
- caught three fish
- fish for dinner
- kind of fish
- more fish than
- like a fish