Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

    зафре́ндитьzafrɛńditʹ, доба́вить в друзья́dobávitʹ v druzʹjá

    зафре́ндитиzafréndyty

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

    sich anfreunden

    дружи́тьdružítʹ, подружи́тьсяpodružítʹsja

Examples

13420 sentences

  1. You and I are good friends.

    Ми з тобою добрі друзі. — deniko

    ruТы и я - хорошие друзья. — Lenin_1917

    deDu und ich sind gute Freunde. — mauersegler

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  2. Let's shake hands and be friends.

    Давай потиснемо руки і будемо друзями. — deniko

    ruДавай пожмём руки и будем друзьями. — JeNNeR

    deLass uns die Hand reichen und Freunde sein. — mauersegler

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  3. Tom is a friend of mine.

    Том мій друг. — deniko

    ruТом мой друг. — Mauritz

    deTom ist ein Freund von mir. — enteka

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  4. Tom and I are good friends.

    Ми з Томом добрі друзі. — deniko

    ruТом и я — хорошие друзья. — sharptoothed

    deTom und ich sind gute Freunde. — MUIRIEL

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  5. It's for a friend of mine.

    Це для мого друга. — sinichka

    ruЭто для моего друга. — Hellerick

    deEs ist für einen Freund von mir. — Espi

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to add as a friend:
Русский
By meaning 2
to act as the friend of:
to add as a friend:
Deutsch
to act as the friend of:

Origin

From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vr

From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vryend, from Old English frēond, frīond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“friend, loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to please; to love”), roughly equivalent to free + -nd. See also Friday.

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Forms

friends, friending, friended, friended
Base formfriend · to friend
3rd person singularfriends
Present participlefriending
Past simplefriended
Past participlefriended

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfriend
he, she, itfriends

Past simpleLesson

all personsfriended

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill friend

Antonyms

2 antonyms
defriendunfriend

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • best best friend
  • friend of mine
  • best friend
  • a friend of
  • with his friends
  • of my friends
  • have any friends
  • and his friends
  • close friends
  • of his friends
  • friend of yours
  • an old friend

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
frictionFridayA1fridgeA2friendlessfriendlinessB1friendlyB2

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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