A1verb · transitive · frequent

straight

straight · straights · straighted · straighting

To straightenTo straighten.

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/stɹeɪt/

» Let's go straight to the beach.

Lass uns gleich an den Strand gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Пойдём прямо на пляж. — odexed

Пойдёмте прямо на пляж. — odexed

Ходімо просто на пляж. — deniko

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Examples

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Let's go straight to the beach.
Ходімо просто на пляж. — deniko
ruПойдём прямо на пляж. — odexed
deLass uns gleich an den Strand gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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He drew a straight line on the wall.
Він намалював на стіні пряму лінію. — deniko
ruОн начертил на стене прямую линию. — odexed
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Go straight down this street and turn right at the third light.
Їдьте прямо цією вулицею і поверніть праворуч на третьому світлофорі. — aandrusiak
ruИдите по этой улице прямо и на третьем светофоре сверните направо. — sharptoothed
deGehen Sie diese Straße entlang geradeaus und biegen Sie an der dritten Ampel rechts ab. — Zaghawa
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Tom came straight up to me.
Том пішов відразу до мене. — deniko
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I have straight hair.
У мене пряме волосся. — deniko
ruУ меня прямые волосы. — marafon
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Origin

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stre

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic strekkti (“stretched”), Norwegian strekte (“stretched”), Swedish sträckte (“stretched”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed.

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Forms

straights, straighting, straighted, straighted

Base form	straight · to straight
3rd person singular	straights
Present participle	straighting
Past simple	straighted
Past participle	straighted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	straight
he, she, it	straights

Past simpleLesson

all persons

straighted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have straighted
he, she, it	has straighted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will straight

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle

Collocations

12 patterns

go straight
went straight home
straight home
straight home after
straight a student
went straight to
a straight face
the record straight
facts facts straight
got straight a's
a straight a
keep a straight