grád (fevdalen, utrjen) castle; (kraljev, knežji) palace; castle; (graščina) manor; (podeželski) country seat
grádovi na reki Loire Loire-valley chateaus (ali chateaux), chateaus on the Loire
Versajski grád the palace of Versailles
zidanje grádov v oblake (figurativno) wishful thinking; building (of) castles in the air
obljubljati komu zlate grádove to promise someone the earth
sesuti se kot grád iz kart to collapse like a house of cards
zidati grádove v oblake to build castles in the air (ali in Spain)
ne zidaj grádov v oblake! don't count your chickens before they're hatched!, arhaično sell not the bear's skin before you have caught the bear
Zadetki iskanja
- graščína manor, manor house; country seat; mansion, mansion house
- inozémstvo foreign countries pl, foreign country
v inozémstvu abroad
iz inozémstva from abroad
novice iz inozémstva news from abroad
iti v inozémstvo to go abroad
potovati v inozémstvu to travel in foreign countries (ali foreign parts) - kmetíca countrywoman, peasant woman; country girl
- malomeščán provincial; inhabitant of a small town; person of countrified manners (ali appearance, views); country cousin; figurativno narrow-minded townsman, bourgeois, philistine; ZDA (Mr.) Babbitt, John Citizen; lowbrow
- nižína lowland; low country
- okupátor occupier; enemy who occupies a country
- optírati to opt to be a citizen of a chosen country
po osvoboditvi je optiral za Slovenijo after liberation he opted for Slovenia - prekmórec inhabitant of an overseas country
- provínca province; countryside; country outside the capital
- provinciálec provincial; inhabitant of a province; country cousin
- raván plain, plateau; table, tableland; level country
- tujína foreign country, foreign parts pl
v tujíni abroad
biti v tujíni to be abroad
iti v tujíno to go abroad
živeti v tujíni to live abroad - višávje highland; high country
Škotsko višávje the Highlands pl - vrtáča geologija sinkhole; funnel-shaped hole occurring in limestone country (in the Karst region)
- vselíti se to move in; to immigrate, to settle in a new country; to colonize
- zaméjstvo foreign countries pl, foreign country
v zaméjstvu abroad
odšel je v zaméjstvo he went abroad
živeti v zaméjstvu to live abroad - adoption [ədɔ́pšən] samostalnik
prisvojitev; posvojitev, adopcija; usvojitev, privzem; izposojenka (beseda), tujka; posinovljenje, pohčerjenje
brother by adoption po pol brat
country of adoption nova domovina - adoptíven adoptive
adoptívna (nova) domovina country of adoption
adoptíven otrok adoptive child - all1 [ɔ:l] pridevnik
cel, ves, celoten
all the country vsa dežela
all very cushy udoben, prijeten
all day long ves dan
at all events v vsakem primeru
on all fours po vseh štirih
to be on all fours with s.o. povsem se s kom strinjati
to all intents and purposes v vsakem pogledu
all my life vse življenje
by all means vsekakor
once for all enkrat za vselej
to sit up till all hours of the night dolgo bedeti
all sorts (ali kinds) of vse mogoče
to turn in all standing leči popolnoma oblečen
not for all the world za nič na svetu