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# pregnant

«pregnant» in Mova's school dictionary: **pregnant when a baby (or babies) is growing inside her…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (pregnant; pregnancy — noun)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A woman or female animal is pregnant when a baby (or babies) is growing inside her body before it is born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#m1)

2) A pregnant pause is a silence full of meaning, when everyone waits for what comes next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday life: families say «Mum is pregnant» when a new baby is coming; buses and trains have priority seats for pregnant women. In science, pupils learn that in mammals the baby grows inside the mother; a human pregnancy lasts about nine months, a cat's about two months, an elephant's nearly two years. In stories it signals that a baby is on the way. Phrases: pregnant with twins, get pregnant, a pregnant cat.

### examples

- My aunt is pregnant, and the baby is due in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x1)
- Please give your seat to the pregnant lady. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x2)
- Our cat is pregnant and will have kittens soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x3)
- A human baby grows for about nine months while the mother is pregnant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x4)
- Pregnant women should not lift very heavy things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x5)
- There was a pregnant pause before the teacher read out the winner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x6)
- Elephants stay pregnant for almost two years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pregnant/#x7)

### note

Adjective only: «She is pregnant», not «she pregnants». The noun is «pregnancy» (plural pregnancies). Only females can be pregnant. It is polite to let a pregnant person sit; it is not polite to guess that someone is pregnant if they have not told you.

### In the corpora

- [When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/0/)
- [Grown-ups often say "we're expecting" instead of "pregnant".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/1/)
- ["Expecting" means pregnant; it is polite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/18/)
- ["In the family way" means pregnant; it is old-fashioned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/19/)
- ["A bun in the oven" means pregnant; it is a joking phrase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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