English
Verb
make friends (third-person singular simple present makes friends, present participle making friends, simple past and past participle made friends)
- (intransitive) To create friendships with others
- He doesn't make friends easily at his new school.
- (construed with with) to befriend
- He made friends with his new neighbour.
Translations
to create friendships
- Bulgarian: сприятелявам се (sprijateljávam se)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 結交 (zh), 结交 (zh) (jiéjiāo), 交友 (zh), 交友 (zh) (jiāoyǒu), 交朋友 (zh) (jiāo péngyǒu)
- Wu: 軋朋友, 轧朋友 (gaq ban hhieu)
- Dutch: bevriend raken
- Estonian: sõbrunema
- Finnish: saada ystäviä
- French: se faire des amis, se lier d'amitié
- German: Freunde finden, sich anfreuden
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to befriend, to become closer
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 交朋友 (zh) (jiāo péngyǒu), 成朋友 (chéng péngyǒu)
- Finnish: ystävystyä (fi)
- German: sich anfreunden
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- Japanese: 仲よくなる (なかよくなる, nakayoku naru), 親しむ (したしむ, shitashimu)
- Maori: takahoa
- Russian: подружи́ться (ru) pf (podružítʹsja), сдружи́ться (ru) pf (sdružítʹsja), сбли́зиться (ru) pf (sblízitʹsja)
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