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English term or phrase:	grow on you
Arabic translation:	تبدأ في استلطافه
Entered by:	WalidmUK

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08:16 Jun 11, 2009

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

English term or phrase: grow on you

Something will grow on somebody

WalidmUK KudoZ activity Questions: 46 (5 open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 413
Local time: 20:55

تبدأ في استلطافه

Explanation:
تعتاد عليه

Selected response from:

Mona Helal
Local time: 05:55

Grading comment

Thank you
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Summary of answers provided

4 +5

تبدأ في استلطافه

Mona Helal

5 +1

يزداد وضوحاً لك بالتدريج / يزداد قبولاً أو يزداد لذةً لك بالتدريج

Jafar Filfil

تبدأ في قبوله / تعتاده / تألفه

Dalia Youssef

تتعود عليه ( ايجابياَ بمرور الوقت )

Leann

مزروع في كياني./..كيانه

Mohammad Gornas

تحبه شيئًا فشيًا/تحبه أكثر فأكثر

Muhammad Essam

يزيد في حبه بمرور الأيام

Mahmoud Salim

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

تبدأ في استلطافه

Explanation:
تعتاد عليه

Mona Helal
Local time: 05:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thank you

9 mins confidence:

تحبه شيئًا فشيًا/تحبه أكثر فأكثر

Explanation:
if something grows on you, you gradually like it more and more

Muhammad Essam
Egypt
Local time: 21:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

13 mins confidence:

يزيد في حبه بمرور الأيام

Explanation:
According to the following definition

grow on sb [no passive] if sb/sth grows on you, you start to like them or it more and more: The neighbourhood was beginning to grow on me. * This song is really growing on me.

Example sentence(s):

This song is really growing on me.
The neighbourhood was beginning to grow on me.

Mahmoud Salim
Egypt
Local time: 21:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic

33 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

يزداد وضوحاً لك بالتدريج / يزداد قبولاً أو يزداد لذةً لك بالتدريج

Explanation:
grow on or upon
To become gradually more evident to: A feeling of distrust grew on me.
To become gradually more pleasurable or acceptable to: a taste that grows on a person.
see: http://www.answers.com/topic/grow
and: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/growing on

Jafar Filfil
Bulgaria
Local time: 22:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 8

45 mins confidence:

مزروع في كياني./..كيانه

Explanation:
it goes like that

Mohammad Gornas
Sudan
Local time: 22:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic

16 hrs confidence:

تتعود عليه ( ايجابياَ بمرور الوقت )

Explanation:
If I had a nickle !!!

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Note added at 16 hrs (2009-06-12 00:54:11 GMT)
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Example: A- I really don't like the name of that new baby.
B- It will grow on you, give it time.

Leann
United States
Local time: 15:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English

5 days confidence:

تبدأ في قبوله / تعتاده / تألفه

Explanation:
Cambridge defines the phrase as "If someone or something grows on you, you like them more and more although you did not like them at first"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=34728&dict=CA...

Example sentence(s):

At first I did not llike this type of music, but it really grows on you!

Dalia Youssef
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 23:55
Native speaker of:

Arabic

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