may
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, no past participle, no present participle, obsolete)To be strong; to have power (over).
- 2.
(auxiliary, no past participle, no present participle, obsolete)To be able; can.
- 3.
(intransitive, no past participle, no present participle, poetic)To be able to go.
- 4.
(auxiliary, defective, modal, no past participle, no present participle)(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
you may smoke outside
may I sit there?
Đồng nghĩa: can, could, might
- 5.
(modal auxiliary verb, defective) Granting the admissibility of a supposition, in a way that can be semantically either subjunctive or indicative.
- 6.
(defective, no past participle, no present participle, poetic, present, subjunctive)(subjunctive present, defective, chiefly poetic) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
may you win; may the weather be sunny; long may your reign last
Let us pray that peace may soon return to our war-torn homeland.
Đồng nghĩa: might
- 7.
(auxiliary, defective, modal, no past participle, no present participle)(modal auxiliary verb, defective) Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
- 8.
(intransitive, poetic)To gather may, or flowers in general.
- 9.
(intransitive, poetic)To celebrate May Day.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
- 2.
(archaic)A maiden.
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ine-pro From Middle English magen, mauen, mawe, mawen, mayen, maȝen, mouin, mow, mowen, moȝen, mugen, from Old English magan, from *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą (to be able, may), from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe (to be able), from *megʰ- (to be able).