Meaning of brati | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to read (look at and interpret letters or other information)
   transitive
2. to recognize feelings from a face^([→SSKJ])
   transitive
3. to guess, to tell (fortune)^([→SSKJ])
   rare, transitive
4. to gather, to pick
   Eastern, archaic, dialectal, transitive
5. to understand as^([→SSKJ, SP])
   transitive
6. to keep in touch, usually by messages ^([→Sprotni])
   intransitive, reflexive, slang
7. to cost, to consume, to need ^([→Pleteršnik])
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Tedaj so ji zmerom morale dati kaj, ko jim je metala karte in brala srečo iz roke.”

At that time, they always had to give her something when she was putting down cards and telling their luck from their hands.

“Prigodilo pa se je, da je nekoč na Šmarni gori brala jagode nedolžna deklica, po imenu Matjaževa Micka iz Zavrha.”

Once it happened that an innocent girl named Micka from Zavrh was picking strawberries on Šmarna gora.

“Evropska (beri: zahodna) kultura.”

European (i.e. western) culture.

CEFR level