tag along

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tag along - go along with, often uninvited; "my younger brother often tagged along when I went out with my friends"

accompany - go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere"

Translations

يَلْحَق شَخْصا آخر دون أن يكونَ مَرْغوبا

přidat se k

hæfte sig på

fylgja á eftir

pridať sa k

w>tag along

vi (unwillingly, unwanted) → mittrotten (inf) → or -zockeln (inf); to tag along behind somebody → hinter jdm herzockeln (inf) → or -trotten (inf); why don’t you tag along? (inf) → warum kommst/gehst du nicht mit?

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tag

(tӕg) noun

1. a label. a price-tag; a name-tag.

2. a saying or quotation that is often repeated. a well-known Latin tag.

3. something small that is added on or attached. a question-tag such as `isn't it?'

4. a children's game in which one player chases the others and tries to touch one of them. to play tag.

verb – past tense, past participle tagged –

to put a tag or label on something. All the clothes have been tagged.

tag along (often with behindor with)

to follow or go (with someone), often when one is not wanted. We never get away from him – everywhere we go, he insists on tagging along (with us)!

tag on

1. (usually with at or to) to attach (something) to something. These comments weren't part of his speech – he just tagged them on at the end.

2. to follow (someone) closely. The child always tags on to his elder brother.

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Tom said we better jump out and tag along after them, because they was going our way and it wouldn't be comfortable to run across the ghost all by ourselves.

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