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# foresee

«foresee» in Mova's school dictionary: **to know or guess that it will happen before it does** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (foresee, foresees, foresaw, foreseen, foreseeing)

### meaning for a pupil

To foresee something is to know or guess that it will happen before it does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, planning means trying to foresee problems (rain on sports day, traffic jams). In safety lessons, a risk assessment means foreseeing dangers. In stories, fortune-tellers and prophets claim to foresee the future. Phrases: «foresee a problem», «could not have foreseen», «as far as I can foresee».

### examples

- Nobody could foresee the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x1)
- Do you foresee any problems with the plan? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x2)
- The teacher foresaw that the trip would be muddy and told us to bring boots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x3)
- In the story, the witch foresaw the king's fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x4)
- We couldn't have foreseen the road being closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x5)
- Good planners foresee what might go wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x6)
- “Oh! no, do not go, for if you go home to the King’s palace you will forget me, I foresee that.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/#x7)

### note

Irregular: foresee, foresaw, foreseen (like see, saw, seen). Adjective: foreseeable («in the foreseeable future» = as far ahead as we can guess). Noun: foresight. Spelling: fore- (before), not «forsee».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foresee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.