Zeitform Person Wortform
simple present I, you, they believe
he, she, it believes
simple past   believed
present participle   believing
past participle   believed

Worttrennung:

be·lieve, Partizip Perfekt: be·lieved, Partizip Präsens: be·liev·ing

Aussprache:

IPA: []
Hörbeispiele:   believe (US-amerikanisch) (Info)
Reime: -iːv

Bedeutungen:

[1] etwas glauben
[2] einer Aussage Glauben schenken

Synonyme:

[2] trust

Beispiele:

[1] "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."[1]
[2] Believe it or not, they believe in UFOs.

Charakteristische Wortkombinationen:

[2] Believe me! - Glaube mir!

Wortbildungen:

believer

Übersetzungen

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[1, 2] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary „believe
[2] Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus „believe
[1, 2] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „believe
[1, 2] PONS Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „believe
[1, 2] dict.cc Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „believe
[1, 2] LEO Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „believe

Quellen:

  1. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds. In: Project Gutenberg eBook. Kapitel 1: The eve of the war (URL).