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Collocations for new - adj.

1. recently built/made

VERBS

be, look
The car still looks new.

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ADVERB

brand, spanking
a scratch on my brand new car
very proud of their spanking new kitchen
fairly, relatively

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2. different/not familiar

VERBS

be
These ideas are not entirely new.

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ADVERB

very
fairly
completely, entirely, quite, wholly
dramatically, radically
fundamentally
genuinely, truly
genuinely new approaches to data recording
supposedly
hardly, not exactly
City-based exhibitions are hardly new.

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PREPOSITION

to
It was all very new and strange to me.
She's still quite new to the job and needs a lot of help.

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PHRASES

nothing new about sth, nothing new in sth
There is nothing new in teenagers wanting to change the world.

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New is used with these nouns:
acquaintance, acquisition, addition, album, allegation, appointment, appreciation, approach, arrangement, arrival, baby, bandage, batch, beginning, believer, biography, blueprint, book, boyfriend, brand, breakthrough, breed, bride, building, business, car, century, chairman, challenge, civilization, client, clothes, coat, collection, complexion, concept, conception, confidence, constitution, construction, context, contract, controversy, convert, crackdown, craze, currency, customer, cut, dawn, demand, democracy, departure, design, development, dimension, direction, discipline, discovery, document, drug, economy, edition, election, emphasis, employee, enthusiasm, entrant, environment, epoch, era, evidence, extreme, eye, face, facet, facility, fad, fashion, father, favourite, feature, find, finding, focus, footing, form, freedom, friend, friendship, frontier, gadget, generation, gimmick, girlfriend, government, graduate, growth, guest, guideline, haircut, hardware, height, high, hire, home, hope, horizon, husband, idea, identity, impetus, incarnation, infection, influx, information, initiative, inmate, innovation, insight, instruction, intake, invention, investment, job, kind, knowledge, lead, leaf, legislation, line, look, low, magazine, mandate, method, model, moon, mother, motto, move, mum, mythology, nation, neighbour, novel, obsession, occurrence, offering, opening, openness, opportunity, order, orthodoxy, outbreak, outfit, owner, ownership, page, paragraph, parent, parliament, perspective, phase, phenomenon, plan, position, possibility, post, posting, potato, precedent, premises, procedure, project, prospect, publication, range, realm, recipe, record, recording, recruit, reform, regime, regulation, release, religion, report, republic, research, residence, respect, restriction, revelation, rival, road, round, rule, ruler, self, self-confidence, series, shoot, shopping centre, single, skill, skyscraper, slant, slogan, sneaker, snow, snowfall, society, sound, source, species, spin, standard, start, stock, strain, study, style, submission, subscriber, subscription, surge, surroundings, system, tack, talent, target, technique, technology, terminology, territory, theory, thinking, threat, title, tool, town, toy, trainee, trend, turn, twist, university, urgency, use, variety, venture, version, vigour, vocabulary, voter, wardrobe, wave, way, wealth, well, wife, wine, world, year

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