Translations for „count upon“ in the English » German Dictionary

count upon VB trans usu form

count upon PHRVB count on

See also count on

count on VB intr

1. count on (depend on):

to count on sb/sth

auf jdn/etw zählen

to count on sb doing sth [or on sb to do sth]

sich acc darauf verlassen, dass jd etw tut

2. count on (reckon with):

I'm counting on getting away for a few days next week

ich hoffe schwer, dass ich mir nächste Woche ein paar Tage freinehmen kann inf

to count on sb doing sth

davon ausgehen, dass jd etw tut

sb did not count on ...

jd hat nicht damit gerechnet, dass ...

I didn't count on it raining

ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass es regnen würde

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

upon the count of three, start running

bei drei lauft ihr los

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

We can not count upon the bureaucracys peacefully and voluntarily renouncing itself in behalf of socialist equality.

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He was one of the very few leaders that one can easily count upon during crisis.

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However, the scale of industrialisation envisaged by the document does fundamentally count upon foreign players and in all likelihood it needs a largescale remodelling in case they are discounted.

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Today, we know how much of petro-dollars we can count upon.

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Years ago, we could always count upon seeing lots of cherry and plum and magnolia trees in full flower, but not this year.

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The bottom line is that the majority of consumers in developed countries still believe (it would seem) that a professional whom they can count upon is valuable to them.

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