Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive)To play on a flute.

    flöten

  2. (intransitive)To make a flutelike sound.

    pfeifen

  3. (transitive)To utter with a flutelike sound.

    flöten

  4. (transitive)To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).

    riffeln, furchen, kannelieren

    form flutes in

Examples

137 sentences

  1. A girl is playing the flute.

    Дівчина грає на флейті. — shanghainese

    ruДевушка играет на флейте. — odexed

    deEin Mädchen spielt Querflöte. — Fingerhut

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  2. Do you still play the flute?

    Ти все ще граєш на флейті? — deniko

    deSpielst du immer noch Flöte? — Melang

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  3. He is able to play the flute.

    Він уміє грати на флейті. — deniko

    deEr kann Flöte spielen. — Manfredo

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  4. Tom is able to play the flute.

    Том уміє грати на флейті. — deniko

    deTom kann Flöte spielen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Tom plays the flute better than Mary.

    Том грає на флейті краще за Мері. — deniko

    ruТом играет на флейте лучше Мэри. — marafon

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to play flute:
to make a flutelike sound:
to form flutes:

Origin

From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Proven

From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:

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Forms

flutes, fluting, fluted, fluted
Base formflute · to flute
3rd person singularflutes
Present participlefluting
Past simplefluted
Past participlefluted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyflute
he, she, itflutes

Past simpleLesson

all personsfluted

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill flute

Word family

5 related words
Relatedflute aroundchampagne fluteflautistflutedfluting

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
flushflusterflutterB2flux

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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