Meaning

1 senses

  1. To sing a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.

    vom Blatt singen

Examples

2 sentences

  1. If it's a simple tune, I can sight-sing it.

    deWenn es eine einfache Melodie hat, kann ich es vom Blatt singen. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. If it's a simple piece of music, I can sight-sing it.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
to sing a musical piece while reading it for the first time:

Origin

From sight + sing.

From sight + sing.

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Forms

sight sings, sight singing, sight sang, sight sung
Base formsight sing · to sight sing
3rd person singularsight sings
Present participlesight singing
Past simplesight sang
Past participlesight sung

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysight sing
he, she, itsight sings

Past simpleLesson

all personssight sang

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sight sung
he, she, ithas sight sung

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sight sing

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsight read

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sighB2sightA1sightingsightseesignA1

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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