Meaning

1 senses

  1. (childish)To sleep.

Examples

1118 sentences

  1. Tom told me he wasn't sleepy.

    Том сказав мені, що не хоче спати. — deniko

    ruТом сказал мне, что не хочет спать. — marafon

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  2. Tom says he's feeling very sleepy.

    Том каже, що він дуже хоче спати. — deniko

    ruТом говорит, что ему очень хочется спать. — marafon

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  3. Tom said he's not sleepy yet.

    Том сказав, що ще не хоче спати. — deniko

    ruТом сказал, что ещё не хочет спать. — marafon

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  4. Tom said he isn't sleepy yet.

    Том сказав, що ще не хоче спати. — deniko

    ruТом сказал, что ещё не хочет спать. — marafon

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  5. You don't look like you're sleepy.

    Не схоже, що ти хочеш спати. — deniko

    ruНе похоже, чтобы ты хотел спать. — marafon

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Origin

From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)),

From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), dialectal Dutch slapig, slepig (“sleepy”), German Low German slapig, släpig, slöpig (“sleepy”), archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”).

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Forms

sleepies, sleepying, sleepied, sleepied
Base formsleepy · to sleepy
3rd person singularsleepies
Present participlesleepying
Past simplesleepied
Past participlesleepied

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysleepy
he, she, itsleepies

Past simpleLesson

all personssleepied

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sleepy

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • be very sleepy
  • feel sleepy
  • getting sleepy
  • looked sleepy
  • too sleepy to
  • a little sleepy
  • to be sleepy
  • often feel sleepy
  • would be sleepy
  • seem very sleepy
  • kind of sleepy
  • was too sleepy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sleeplessA2sleepoversleepwalksleepwalkersleepyheadsleetsleeveB1

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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