wait
/weɪt/ verbo A1En español: esperar, aguardar, bancar, aguantar
- To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. · Wait here until your car arrives.· I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you..
- To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. · She used to wait in this joint.
- To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
Plural wait · He/she/it waits · Pasado waited · Participio pasado waited · Forma en -ing waiting
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- wait
- He/she/it
- waits
- Pasado
- waited
- Participio pasado
- waited
- Forma en -ing
- waiting
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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He ran about the room, now here, now there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floor and waited to see what would happen.
At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.
The owner did not wait for a second invitation.
I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?”
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