Dagens Engelsk ord

read

läsa

Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

read

1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

have you read this book?; he doesn’t like to read

2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.

He read us a passage from his new book.

All right, class, who wants to read next?

3. v. To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.

She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.

I can read his feelings in his face.

4. v. To consist of certain text.

On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".

The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.

5. v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

Arabic reads right to left.

That sentence reads strangely.

6. v. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.

7. v. (informal usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.

8. v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

Do you read me?

9. v. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

I am reading theology at university.

10. v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard

11. v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).

12. v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.

13. v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

14. v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.

15. v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

16. v. past tense of read

17. n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.

18. n. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.

His thrillers are always a gripping read.

19. n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of read, reading, calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.

Svenska > Engelsk

läsa

1. v. to read (text)

Jag läste en rolig bok - I read a funny book

2. v. to study, to read (usually at university)

Jag läser biologi vid Uppsala universitet (more formally: Jag studerar biologi ...) - I am studying biology at the University of Uppsala

Jag skall läsa en kurs i programmering (more commonly: Jag ska ta en kurs ...) - I am going to take a programming course

3. v. to read (interpret, more generally)

läsa ansikten - read faces

Uttal

Exempelmeningar

I read the letter for him.
    Jag läste brevet för honom.
You should read many books when you are young.
    Man bör läsa många böcker när man är ung.
You had read.
    Du hade läst.
I see what is written here. Or do you think that I cannot read?
    Jag ser vad som står här. Eller tror du att jag inte kan läsa?
Some people read the newspaper while watching television.
    En del människor läser tidningen medan de ser på tv.

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