expect
/ɪkˈspɛkt/ verbe A2En français : attendre, s'attendre à, prédire
- To predict or believe that something will happen · when you least expect it· I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.
- To consider obligatory or required.
- To consider reasonably due. · My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.· You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
- To be pregnant, to consider a baby due. · We are expecting our third in June.
Pluriel expect · He/she/it expects · Prétérit expected · Participe passé expected · Forme en -ing expecting
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- expect
- He/she/it
- expects
- Prétérit
- expected
- Participe passé
- expected
- Forme en -ing
- expecting
Dans la bibliothèque
“True, Dantès, I forgot that there was at the Catalans someone who expects you no less impatiently than your father—the lovely Mercédès.”
I’ve always heard that Prince Edward Island was the prettiest place in the world, and I used to imagine I was living here, but I never really expected I would.
“No, no, my dear Edmond—my boy—my son!—no; but I did not expect you; and joy, the surprise of seeing you so suddenly—Ah, I feel as if I were going to die.”
Reynolds replied, that he was; adding, “But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.” How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
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