sit around
sit around · sits around · sat around · sitting around
сидіти, посидіти
сидеть, заседать
rumsitzen, herumsitzen
To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything importantTo spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
» They sat around the table playing cards.
Sie saßen am Tisch und spielten Karten.
Они сидели вокруг стола и играли в карты.
Вони сіли навколо стола, щоб пограти у карти.
Meaning
1 sensesTo spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
herumsitzen, rumsitzen
More definitions
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
Examples
70 sentencesThey sat around the table playing cards.
Вони сіли навколо стола, щоб пограти у карти.
ruОни сидели вокруг стола и играли в карты.
deSie saßen am Tisch und spielten Karten.
I'm not one to sit around.
I just sit around all day.
The children sat around the fire.
deDie Kinder saßen um das Feuer herum.
Tom just sat around and did nothing.
deTom saß nur da und tat nichts.
Translations
1 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
sit idly:
Forms
sits around, sitting around, sat around, sat around| Base form | sit around · to sit around |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | sits around |
| Present participle | sitting around |
| Past simple | sat around |
| Past participle | sat around |
irregular · Lesson
Phrasal verbs
15 phrasal verbs- sit downсісти, сідатиTo assume a sitting position from a standing position.
- sit aroundсидіти, посидітиTo spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
- sit upTo assume a sitting position from a position lying down.
- sit offTo give less than full effort; to let off on energy or pressure.
- sit outTo decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
- sit onTo block, suppress, restrain (something).
- sit inTo attend a class, educational presentation, meeting, etc. for one time, as a visitor.
- sit backTo recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
More 7
- sit overTo move along a seat or bench to make room.
- sit forTo take care of children in the absence of their parents; to work as a babysitter for someone.
- sit throughTo unwillingly stay seated until the end of an event.
- sit aboutSynonym of sit around.
- sit withTo consider (something) slowly and carefully, to reflect on.
- sit bySynonym of sit idly by.
- sit underTo be in the habit of hearing the preaching or teaching of (someone).
Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose:sit
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb