grave
An excavation in the earth as a place of burialAn excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
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» We visited our father's grave.
Wir besuchten das Grab unseres Vaters. — samueldora
Мы посетили могилу нашего отца. — odexed
Ми відвідали батькову могилу. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Grab
моги́лаmogíla
моги́лаmohýla, грібhrib
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
(broadly, countable, uncountable)Any place of interment.
(countable, uncountable)Any place containing one or more corpses.
(broadly, uncountable)Death, destruction.
death of a person
(broadly, uncountable)Deceased people; the dead.
A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
(historical)A count, prefect, or person holding office.
(obsolete)A kilogram.
Examples
345 sentencesWe visited our father's grave.
Ми відвідали батькову могилу. — deniko
ruМы посетили могилу нашего отца. — odexed
deWir besuchten das Grab unseres Vaters. — samueldora
I visited my father's grave.
Я відвідав могилу батька. — deniko
deIch habe das Grab meines Vaters besucht. — MUIRIEL
We're all in grave danger.
Ми всі в серйозній небезпеці. — deniko
ruМы все в серьёзной опасности. — marafon
deWir schweben alle in größter Gefahr. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom is digging his own grave.
Том сам собі риє могилу. — deniko
ruТом сам себе роет могилу. — marafon
deTom schaufelt sich sein eigenes Grab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom dug a grave for his dog.
Том вирив могилу для свого собаки. — deniko
ruТом выкопал могилу для своего пса. — odexed
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), frFrom Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.
Inherited from Middle English greyve. Doublet of graaf (borrowed from the Dutch cognate graaf (“count, earl”)) and graf (borrowed from the German cognate Graf (“count, earl”)).
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Forms
plural: gravesSynonyms
5 synonyms- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone):tomb
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation:grave accent
Word family
47 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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