take a look

take a look

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

take a look (third-person singular simple present takes a look, present participle taking a look, simple past took a look, past participle taken a look)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To examine or observe.

   Synonyms: have a look, take a gander

   Can you take a look at the engine to see what's wrong?

Translations

to examine or observe

Bulgarian: поглеждам (bg) (pogleždam) Catalan: donar un cop d'ull Chinese: Mandarin: 看 (zh) (kàn), 看看 (zh) (kànkàn), (slang) 瞜／䁖 (zh) (lōu), 瞜瞜／䁖䁖 (lōulōu) Finnish: katsoa (fi), vilkaista (fi), (closest equivalents; usually with tulla (“to come”)) French: jeter un œil (fr), jeter un coup d'œil (fr) German: angucken, einen Blick werfen (de) Hungarian: megnéz (hu) Italian: (idiomatic) dare un'occhiata, esaminare (it) Polish: rzucać okiem impf, rzucić okiem (pl) pf Portuguese: dar uma olhada, dar uma vista de olhos Romanian: arunca o privire Russian: посмотре́ть (ru) (posmotrétʹ), взгляну́ть (ru) (vzgljanútʹ) Sicilian: dari n'ucchiata (scn) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: woglědaś se pf Spanish: echar un vistazo, echar una mirada, echar una ojeada Turkish: göz atmak (tr)

See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take