Idiom
- Idiom
- Een zaag spannen/smeren
- Meaning
- Lang en vervelend praten; zeuren
- Dialect
- Leuvens
- ID
- 4965
Properties
Gloss and translation
Mostly acceptable
Een
zaag
spannen/smeren
to talk tediously for a long time, to whine, to nag (Lit.: to tighten/grease a saw)
- Direct object type
- Indefinite
- General structure
- V DO
- Is the DO modified (by an adjective)?
- No
- Aspect
- Simple
- Tense
- Present
- Voice
- Active
Structure
Verbal properties
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