Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

    spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

  2. (intransitive, slang, transitive)To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

    verpfeifen

  3. (transitive)To cover with grass or with turf.

    cover with grass

  4. (transitive)To feed with grass.

    feed with grass

  5. (transitive)To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

  6. (transitive)To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Examples

545 sentences
  1. Let's sit here on the grass.

    Сядьмо тут на траві. — deniko

    ruДавайте сядем здесь на траву. — Balamax

    deSetzen wir uns hier aufs Gras! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I sometimes lie on the grass.

    Я іноді лежу на траві. — deniko

    ruЯ иногда лежу на траве. — marafon

  3. He is lying on the grass.

    Він лежить на траві. — deniko

    ruОн лежит на траве. — Wezel

    deEr liegt auf dem Rasen. — wolfgangth

  4. They were lying on the grass.

    Вони лежали на траві. — deniko

    ruОни лежали на лужайке. — sharptoothed

    deSie lagen auf der Wiese. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. She laid herself on the grass.

    Вона лягла на траву. — iskra

    ruОна легла на траву. — Balamax

    deSie legte sich auf das Gras. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to inform on:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras,

Inherited from Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

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Forms

grasses, grassing, grassed, grassed
Base formgrass · to grass
3rd person singulargrasses
Present participlegrassing
Past simplegrassed
Past participlegrassed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrass
he, she, itgrasses

Past simpleLesson

all personsgrassed

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grass

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

48 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgrasser

Collocations

5 patterns
  • on the grass
  • in the grass
  • off the grass
  • the grass and
  • eat grass

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
grass — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto