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(kijken)

(regarder) 

watch

I. 

'kijken naar, bekijken, toekijken, gadeslaan'

'fixer des yeux, observer'

'to keep the eyes fixed on, to look at attentively, to observe, to monitor' 

1.
NP___naar NP

2.
NP___

3.
>>> 6. 

4.
>>> 6. 

5.
>>> 6.

6.
NP___wh Pfin

7.
NP___of Pfin 

1. 
NP___NP

2.
NP___

3.
>>> 6. 

4.
>>> 6. 

5.
>>> 6.

6.
NP___wh Pfin

7.
NP___si Pfin 

1. 
NP___NP

2.
NP___

3.
NP___NP Pinf2

4.
NP___NP Pger2

5.
NP___NP Ped2

6.
NP___wh Pfin

7.
NP___if Pfin 

II. 

'uitkijken voor, oppassen voor'

'faire attention à, prendre garde'

'to be careful with, to take heed, to watch out for, to pay attention to' 

1.
>>> uitkijken / oppassen

2.
>>> uitkijken / oppassen

3.
>>> uitkijken / oppassen


4.
>>> uitkijken / oppassen 

1. 
>>> faire (attention à)

2.
>>> faire (attention à)

3.
>>> faire (attention à) / prendre (garde de)

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>>>  faire (attention à) 

1. 
NP___NP

2.
NP___for NP

3.
NP___that Pfin


4.
NP___wh Pfin 

III. 

'uitkijken naar, wachten op'

'guetter, surveiller l'apparition de'

'to wait and be ready for something, to look out for' 

1.
>>> uitkijken / wachten


2.
>>> wachten

3.
>>> wachten

1. 
>>> guetter /
attendre / surveiller

2.
>>>
attendre

3.
>>>
attendre

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NP___for NP

 

2.
NP___to Pinf1

3.
>>> NP___for NP to Pinf2 

IV. 

'in het oog houden, waken over, bewaken, zorgen voor'

'veiller sur/à, garder, surveiller, s'occuper de'

'to look after, to take care of, to keep under observation' 

1.
>>> (in het oog) houden

2.
>>> (in het oog) houden 

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>>> garder

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>>> garder 

1. 
NP___NP

2.
NP___over NP 

V. 

'schaduwen, volgen, bespioneren, bespieden'

'surveiller, observer, espionner'

'to spy on, to keep under surveillance' 

1.
>>> (in de gaten) houden

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>>> surveiller 

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NP___NP


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voorbeelden - exemples - examples

NL

I.1.
U keek naar het 8­uur­journaal van maandag 20 januari.
Volgens de stichting kijken veel oorlogsslachtoffers uit zelfbehoud al weken niet meer naar beelden uit Joegoslavië.
En wanneer u nu naar deze beelden kijkt, dan heeft u meteen de verwachting voor de komende 45 dagen.
In de Willem 1 kazerne in Den Bosch werd met spanning gekeken naar het Journaal.

I.2.
Even nog blijft Menno kijken.
Er kwamen veel mensen kijken want de vloot hield ook een open dag.
Kijkt u zelf maar.

I.6.
Vandaag werd er een ramp in scène gezet om te kijken hoe het de hulpverleners vergaat als er echt iets zou gebeuren.
Winkeliers kijken wat er over is na de talloze plunderingen door zwarte jongeren.

I.7.
Daarom werd iedereen die mee wilde gecontroleerd. Om te kijken of er niemand stiekum meeging.
Vandaag deed de jury dus uitspraak: Een milieuonderzoek om te kijken of de waterkrachtcentrale het leefgebied van de indianen verwoest.
Soldaten mogen zonder van te voren te waarschuwen huizen binnenvallen, om te kijken of groepen daar stiekem acties bedenken tegen de regering.


FR

I.1.
Elle a regardé les personnes âgees dans les rues. 

I.2.
Le polar a le mérite d'être fédérateur: toute la famille regarde. 

I.6.
Le film permet de regarder, comme avec une loupe, comment sont associés les infirmières, les malades, les familles dans le choix. 

I.7.
Je le savais : jen'avais nullement l'intention d'y boire, mais de regarder si Éponine s'y trouvait. (Bataille, Frantext)

 


EN

I.1.
He stood in the middle of the room, watching her every move.
Neil watched her young, earnest face lovingly, but with the shadow in his dark eyes which was often there when his face was in repose and when he was watching Jane.
He looked round angrily and then glanced at Mary who was watching him with an odd, rather anxious smile.
Watching him from the fireside, Helen was suddenly wildly elated.
Today, kids are watching TV, listening to headphones or playing with computers.
Everybody who is watching that particular channel at that particular time has tuned in to watch the cricket. 

I.2.
He hesitated at the stairs, knowing they had turned to watch.
They were standing back and watching intently, some down at the cut, others up at the top of the tree.
Julian, who had watched in such helpless, petrified amazement that he had been unable to move, ran forward with Elizabeth and Hanson.
They never mentioned Parnell, but he seemed to be there; in the back seat, his forearms on their seats, watching with amusement.
You watch and see exactly where it falls!
 

I.3.
She watched him reach up to the high mantelshelf and take a pipe from out of a wooden rack, then he turned to his mother.
Betty felt a strange sensation as she looked out of the window and watched the figures of Kay and Bill diminish, and then disappear from view.
In the meanwhile we watch him perform marvels of cooking and, generally at the same time, listen to him delivering the most purple and familiar patches of Shakespeare.
 

I.4.
I watched the sous-lieutenant deploying his soldiers through the trees.
Ahead of him a man on crutches stood watching the houses being torn down.
I think it's very exciting though to watch someone like that doing physically strenuous work

I.5.
We went to him for judgements, and watched our own opinions first drawn out and then appraised.
As soldiers stand in silence and watch the pyre set alight, the smoke which rises from it recalls the flow of great rivers, the Don and the Irtish, and symbolizes the overpowering domination of nature when artificial restraints are removed. 

I.6.
Waiting her turn, trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse, Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her.
Seneca wrote that "when we want to reach a city or marketplace, we watch where the people are going and we follow them; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction."
She spends her whole life looking out the window watching who's going up and down

I.7.
"Tie it," Trent yelled again but without time to watch if the man obeyed his instructions.
"Watch whether anything remains uncleansed," Baal Firenze had said. 

EN

II.1.
"Watch that bus," he said sharply, as Lane shot forward.
He would have to watch that Teng. He was getting above himself. Thinking himself better than the other men. He would have to bring him down a level. Teach him better manners.
O.K, Bob, but watch your step.
"Watch your steering, blast you!" he growled at the weary helmsman.
If you're watching your weight the ideal period between weigh-ins is one to two weeks, says Dr Tom Sanders, Lecturer in Nutrition at the University of London.
"Watch yourselves," he yelled, doubting if the men could hear

II.2.
"It's nicer walking here than on the strand. There's a lovely spring in the turf." "Except you have to watch for the rabbit holes. You could twist an ankle like nobody's business."
"Watch for ants, falling Brazil nuts, poisonous snakes and never go anywhere after midday without a torch."
 

II.3.
If you want to use the stocking stitch edge (see Diagram 3) watch that the edge stitches knit off properly.
Watch that Brett doesn't touch anything on the table. 

II.4.
I had to watch where I put my feet in case I fell.
"You should watch what you say!"
"I'll have to go." "Okay watch how you go." 

EN

III.1.
The early country stations had been supplied with small lookout towers rising above the roof of the building to enable railway employees to watch for approaching trains over the horizon.
Christmas was eagerly awaited for, but the day itself meant chiefly watching for the postman, disappointment, chapel, a heavy dinner and crackers, some squabbling comparisons of our presents, tea...
As he had always suspected, she was just waiting and watching for an opportunity to rip him to pieces.
 

III.2.
Watch to see how long the shade persists; if sunlight reaches the area for at least half the day, plants listed as tolerating partial shade will thrive there.
I don't think they were listening to a word I was saying, they were just watching to see what Dawn was going to do next.
A more critical international audience will be watching to learn whether Krens and his powerful curatorial team are willing to take a lead in the current debate surrounding contemporary art.
Fon watched to fling down the Bible and run from the house and from the responsibilities that were suddenly hers.
 

III.3.
He watches for me to say something, but I won't do what is expected of me.
Holroyd Smith was called back to overhaul the tramway in 1894, and he was shocked by what he found: faulty insulators were identified by flooding the conduit with salt water and watching for the smoke to rise!
At about 7 a.m. he walked towards his house and hid in the bushes across the road and watched for his dad to leave for work

EN

IV.1.
What many of them use now to get their highs are solvents which can and do kill. It's worth reminding readers who are parents of this with the start of the school holidays next month - apparently it's the prime time for solvent abuse. So - please - do watch your kids extra carefully.
Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched, but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls?
You mentioned that there is follow up testing taking place. What form does this take? This is simply watching the patient who has been given the medicines.
 

IV.2.
The country worker who came to town lost much of his independence, in spite of the long-established guilds, which had existed from the past to watch over the workers' interests.
"Let us thank our God-Emperor who watches over us - for the purification of this planet, for its redemption from alien evil..."
Convoys half a mile long are watched over by scattered Afghan army outposts on the hills by the road.
 

EN

V.1.
The team, five of them, had been watching this farmhouse for two months. They knew it was used as one of the stagingposts for the IRA.
Scores of officers, many of them armed went in to this caravan site at dawn. They were looking for 4 men. They'd been watching the site for some time.
The 2 had been watched by police and were arrested shortly afterwards at their homes in Gloucester and Ruscombe near Stroud.
"How long have you been watching me?" "Just a few hours." "I thought I saw you following me a couple of days ago."
 

 

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