Meaning

11 senses
  1. (transitive)To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.

    We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.

    vertrauen

    доверя́тьdoverjátʹ

    довіря́тиdovirjáty

    have confidence or faith in

  2. (intransitive)To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.

    In God We Trust

  3. (transitive)To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

  4. (transitive)To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

    I trust you have cleaned your room?

  5. (transitive)To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.

  6. (transitive)To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.

  7. (transitive)To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

    Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

    anschreiben

  8. (intransitive, with to)To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

    to trust to luck

    Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.

    confer a trust upon

  9. (intransitive)To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

  10. (archaic, transitive)To risk; to venture confidently.

  11. (archaic, intransitive)To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Examples

3409 sentences
  1. I can't trust what she says.

    Я не можу довіряти тому, що вона говорить.

    ruЯ не могу доверять тому, что она говорит.

    deIch kann mich nicht darauf verlassen, was sie sagt.

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  2. We can't trust what she says.

    Ми не можемо довіряти тому, що вона каже.

    ruМы не можем доверять тому, что она говорит.

    deWir können uns nicht darauf verlassen, was sie sagt.

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  3. You're the only one I trust.

    Ти єдиний, кому я довіряю.

    ruТы единственный, кому я доверяю.

    deDu bist der einzige, dem ich vertraue.

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  4. I know you don't trust us.

    Я знаю, що ти нам не довіряєш.

    ruЯ знаю, что ты нам не доверяешь.

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  5. I thought I could trust Tom.

    Я думав, що можу Тому довіряти.

    ruЯ думал, что могу Тому доверять.

    deIch glaubte, Tom vertrauen zu können.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to place confidence in:
Русский
By meaning 1
to place confidence in:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to place confidence in:
to give credit to:

Origin

From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from O

From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).

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Forms

trusts, trusting, trusted, trusted
Base formtrust · to trust
3rd person singulartrusts
Present participletrusting
Past simpletrusted
Past participletrusted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrust
he, she, ittrusts

Past simpleLesson

all personstrusted

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trust

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • trust anyone
  • can't trust
  • trust each other
  • have to trust
  • can be trusted
  • trust anybody
  • trust your instincts
  • can't be trusted
  • not to trust
  • no one trusts
  • never trusted
  • can't trust anyone

See also

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