freckle
To cover with frecklesTo cover (someone; or something, such as the skin) with freckles (noun sense 1 and noun sense 2).
» Tom doesn't have freckles.
У Тома нет веснушек. — odexed
У Тома немає веснянок. — deniko
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2 senses(transitive)To cover (someone; or something, such as the skin) with freckles (noun sense 1 and noun sense 2).
(intransitive)To become covered with freckles.
mark with freckles
Examples
65 sentencesTom doesn't have freckles.
У Тома немає веснянок. — deniko
ruУ Тома нет веснушек. — odexed
I don't have freckles.
У мене немає веснянок. — deniko
ruУ меня нет веснушек. — marafon
deIch habe keine Sommersprossen. — Luiaard
Tom doesn't have any freckles.
У Тома немає веснянок. — deniko
ruУ Тома нет веснушек. — odexed
deTom hat keine Sommersprossen. — wolfgangth
Tom has freckles.
Том має веснянки. — deniko
ruУ Тома есть веснушки. — odexed
deTom hat Sommersprossen. — Zaghawa
I have freckles.
У меня веснянки. — deniko
ruУ меня есть веснушки. — Balamax
deIch habe Sommersprossen. — Luiaard
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleThe noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). Doublet of spark, sprack, and spry.
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Forms
freckles, freckling, freckled, freckledWord family
2 related wordsLessons 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