Meaning of смесвам | Babel Free
[ˈsmɛsvɐm]Definitions
- to mix, to blend, to stir (two or more things into one)
- to add, to admix (one thing to another)
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to confuse, to mix up (mistake one thing or person for another) colloquial, figuratively
Equivalents
Examples
“Купи два вида бонбони. Като се върна, смеси ги заедно в бонбониерата.”
He bought two kinds of candy. When he returned, he mixed them together in the candy box.
“Той реши да пренесе фия, да го овършее с вършачката и да смеси сламата му с ечемичената, за да стане по-вкусна и по-спорна.”
He decided to transport the vetch, thresh it with the threshing machine and mix its straw with the barley one, to make it tastier and more yielding.
“Седи в кръчмата и пази да не смесват вода в ракията.”
He sits in the pub and watches out so they don't mix water into the rakia.
“Тя ще всякога да смеси в житеното брашно и малко кукурузено.”
She would always mix a little cornmeal into the wheat flour.
“Кумичката излезе и смеси високия си смях с разговорите в коридора.”
The godmother went out and mingled her high laugh with the conversations in the corridor.
“Почна да забравя песните. Почне, да речем, за хайдут Сидер и Черен Арап, кара, кара, па като я смеси с Болен Дойчиновата.”
He began to forget the songs. He starts, let's say, [the song] about haydut Sider and Cheren Arap, he goes on and on, and then he mixes it up with Bolen Doychin's.
“Има доста голяма разлика между вашите и нашите грижи — гневно забеляза той. — Не ги смесвайте.”
"There is quite a big difference between your troubles and ours" — he noted angrily. — "Don't mix them up."
“Той смесва два различни въпроса.”
He is confusing two different issues.
CEFR level
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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