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might [maɪt]1. modal verba. ( = may)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When might expresses present, future or past possibility, it is often translated by peut-être, with the appropriate tense of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = could)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you might have told me you weren't coming! tu aurais pu me prévenir que tu ne viendrais pas !might I suggest that...? puis-je me permettre de suggérer que... ?c. ( = should) I might have known j'aurais dû m'en douter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. (emphatic) and, I might add, it was entirely his fault et j'ajouterais que c'était entièrement de sa faute• why did he give her his credit card? -- you might well ask! mais pourquoi lui a-t-il donné sa carte de crédit ? -- va savoir !• one might well ask whether... on est en droit de se demander si...• try as he might, he couldn't do it il a eu beau essayer, il n'y est pas arrivé2. noun* * *I [maɪt]1) ( indicating possibility)‘will you come?’ - ‘I might’ — ‘tu viendras?’ - ‘peut-être’
you might have guessed that... — vous aurez peut-être deviné que...
try as I might, I can't do it — j'ai beau essayer, je n'y arrive pas
he was thinking about what might have been — il pensait à ce qui se serait passé si les choses avaient été différentes
if they had acted quickly he might well be alive — s'ils avaient agi plus vite il serait peut-être encore en vie
4) sout ( when making requests)and who, might I ask, are you? —
and who might you be? — ( aggressive) on peut savoir qui vous êtes?
5) ( when making suggestions)6) (when making statement, argument)one might argue ou it might be argued that — on pourrait dire or faire valoir que
as you ou one might expect — comme de bien entendu
7) (expressing reproach, irritation)I might have known ou guessed! — j'aurais dû m'en douter!
8) ( in concessives)II [maɪt]they might not be fast but they're reliable — ils ne sont peut-être pas rapides mais on peut au moins compter sur eux; well I 2. 2
1) ( power) puissance f2) ( physical strength) force f -
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♦ might (1) /maɪt/v. modalemight, come tutti i verbi modali, ha caratteristiche particolari:● ha significato di condizionale;● non ha forme flesse (-s alla 3a pers. sing. pres., - ing, -ed), non è mai usato con ausiliari e non ha quindi tempi composti;● forma le domande mediante la semplice posposizione del soggetto;● l'infinito che segue non ha la particella to;1 ( esprime eventualità, probabilità) – You might be right, potresti aver ragione; It might prove difficult, la cosa potrebbe dimostrarsi difficile; He might not agree, potrebbe non essere d'accordo; You might have underestimated her, potresti averla sottovalutata2 ( nel discorso indiretto) – He said he might be late, (rif. al futuro) ha detto che potrebbe tardare; (rif. al pass.) disse che avrebbe potuto tardare; We thought you might have already left, pensavamo che tu potessi essertene già andata3 ( dopo i verbi di timore, speranza, ecc., al passato) – I was afraid he might hurt himself, temevo che si facesse (o che si sarebbe fatto) male; I hoped he might succeed, speravo che riuscisse; I feared she might have been arrested, temevo che potessero averla arrestata4 ( esprime possibilità non realizzata) – I might have been killed, avrei potuto essere ucciso; If we hadn't given the alarm, there might have been casualties, se non avessimo dato l'allarme, ci sarebbero potute essere (o forse ci sarebbero state) delle vittime5 ( esprime un suggerimento) – We might go to the cinema, potremmo andare al cinema; You might like to have a look at this, forse ti interessa dare un'occhiata a questo6 (antiq. o form.) ( esprime richiesta cortese) – Might I ask you your name?, posso chiederle come si chiama?; Might I make a suggestion?, potrei suggerire una cosa?; Might I ask you what you're doing here?, potrei sapere che cosa ci fate qui?; che cosa fate qui, se è lecito?7 ( esprime una concessione) – She might be clever, but…, sarà intelligente, ma…; He might have lots of money, but his manners are atrocious, sarà anche pieno di soldi, ma ha maniere pessime8 (esprime rammarico o rimprovero per qc. di non avvenuto) – He might at least apologize, potrebbe almeno chiedere scusa; You might have told me, avresti potuto dirmelo● might as well ► well (2) □ They might well change their minds, potrebbero benissimo cambiare idea □ as you might expect, come ci si potrebbe aspettare □ as you might imagine, come puoi immaginare □ as well he [she, etc.] might (be), a buon diritto; comprensibilmente □ I might have guessed (o I might have known)!, avrei dovuto immaginarlo!; me lo sarei dovuto aspettare!NOTA D'USO: - might o may?- might (2) /maɪt/n.forza; potenza; potere; vigore: He fought with all his might, ha lottato con tutte le sue forze● (prov.) Might is right, la ragione è del più forte; contro la forza la ragion non vale. -
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1) ( expressing possibility)that old bridge \might be dangerous die alte Brücke könnte gefährlich sein;I \might go to the cinema tonight vielleicht gehe ich heute Abend ins Kino;( could)someone phoned at six, it \might have been him um sechs rief jemand an, das könnte er gewesen sein;he is closing his door so that he \might have a little peace and quiet er schließt seine Tür, damit er etwas Ruhe hat;let's not answer the phone so that we \might talk undisturbed lass uns nicht ans Telefon gehen, damit wir ungestört reden können;if he keeps studying so hard he \might even get a first in his final exams wenn er weiterhin so eifrig lernt, könnte er sogar der Beste bei den Abschlussprüfungen werden2) ( conceding a fact)the village \might be in the middle of nowhere but I like such places das Dorf kann ruhig mitten im Nirgendwo sein, ich mag solche Orte;Leeds \might be an excellent team, but... Leeds mag eine hervorragende Mannschaft sein, aber...\might I...? dürfte ich [vielleicht]...?;\might I ask a question? dürfte ich eine Frage stellen?;how \might I help you? wie kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein?;\might I ask what you think you're doing in my seat? könnten Sie mir vielleicht sagen, was sie auf meinem Sitz zu suchen haben?;and who \might you be? und was glaubst du wohl, wer du bist?I thought you \might like to join me for dinner ich dachte, du hättest vielleicht Lust, mit mir zu Abend zu essen;she \might as well tell the truth - they'll find it out anyway sie könnte ebenso gut die Wahrheit sagen - sie werden es ohnehin herausfinden5) ( in reproach)you \might have at least made an effort du hättest zumindest einen Versuch machen können;you \might have told me about the job! du hättest mir eigentlich von dem Job erzählen müssen!;I \might have known that you'd lie to me ich hätte es eigentlich wissen müssen, dass du mich anlügen würdestwith \might and main aus Leibeskräften;with all one's \might mit aller KraftPHRASES:\might is right ( saying) Macht geht vor Recht -
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Ⅰmight [maɪt] vshe said she might arrive at six она́ сказа́ла, что мо́жет прие́хать в шесть
2) выражает сомнение, предположение, неуверенность ( с простым инфинитивом относится к настоящему и будущему, с перфектным инфинитивом — к прошедшему):we might see her again, or we might not возмо́жно, мы её ещё уви́дим, а мо́жет быть и нет
;the car nearly hit me. I might have been killed. I had a narrow escape автомоби́ль чуть бы́ло не нае́хал на меня́. Я мог бы поги́бнуть, чу́дом уцеле́л
3) в вопр. предложениях выражает просьбу в вежливой форме:might I keep your book for a day or two? — Yes, you may могу́ я подержа́ть Ва́шу кни́гу день и́ли два? — Мо́жете
you might write letters to your mother once a month at least Вы могли́ бы писа́ть Ва́шей ма́тери хотя́ бы раз в ме́сяц
5) употр. как вспомогательный глагол с простым или с перфектным инфинитивом для образования сложной формы сослагательного наклонения, относящегося к настоящему ( будущему) или к прошедшему времени:if it were summer now, our friends might invite us to come to their country place е́сли бы сейча́с бы́ло ле́то, друзья́ могли́ бы пригласи́ть нас к себе́ на да́чу
;but for the TV, we might not have known about it е́сли бы не телеви́дение, мы бы не зна́ли об э́том
Ⅱmight [maɪt] n1) могу́щество; мощь2) эне́ргия; си́ла;with might and main изо все́х си́л
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Might go in and look the joint over. — Надо будет сходить с вами, поглядеть. Well, we might as well… — Остается только… The song of the Pearl That Might Be — Песнь в честь Жемчужины, в честь Той, что вдруг найдется -
6 might (just) as well
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7 might-have-been
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might-have-been /ˈmaɪtəvbi:n/n. (pl. might-have-beens) -
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12 might-have-been
might-have-been [ˊmaɪtəvˏbi:n] n1) упу́щенная возмо́жность2) неуда́чник3) attr. неосуществи́вшийся, несбы́вшийся -
13 might is right
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14 might I ask you a question?
might I ask you a question?zou ik u een vraag mogen stellen? -
15 might-have-beens
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might мочь, вероятно, см. также may -
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19 might need to
might need to, вероятно, должен -
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