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1 probably
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2 likely
likely [ˈlaɪklɪ]1. adjectivea. [result, consequences] probable• it is likely that... il est probable que... + subj• it is not likely that... il est peu probable que... + subj• it's hardly likely that... il est peu probable que... + subjb. he is likely to... il est bien possible qu'il... + subj• to be likely to win/succeed [person] avoir de fortes chances de gagner/réussir━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to be likely to fail/refuse [person] risquer d'échouer/de refuser• she is likely to arrive at any time elle va probablement arriver d'une minute à l'autre ; (unwelcome) elle risque d'arriver d'une minute à l'autrec. ( = plausible) plausible• a likely story! elle est bonne, celle-là !d. ( = promising) he's a likely candidate c'est un candidat qui promet• he glanced round for a likely-looking person to help him il chercha des yeux une personne susceptible de l'aider2. adverba. (US) ( = probably) probablement• some prisoners will likely be released soon certains prisonniers seront probablement bientôt libérésb. very or most likely très probablement• it will very or most likely rain il va sûrement pleuvoir• are you going? -- not likely! tu y vas ? -- sûrement pas !* * *['laɪklɪ] 1.1) ( probable) probable; [explanation] plausibleit is ou seems likely that — il est probable que
it is not ou hardly likely that — il y a peu de chances que (+ subj)
a likely story! — iron à d'autres! (colloq)
2) ( promising) [person, candidate] prometteur/-euse3) ( potential) [client, candidate] potentiel/-ielle2.not likely! — (colloq) GB que tu crois! (colloq)
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3 should
should [∫ʊd]a. ( = ought to)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• shouldn't you go and see her? est-ce que vous ne devriez pas aller la voir ?what should I do? qu'est-ce que je dois faire ?• should I go too? -- yes you should est-ce que je dois y aller aussi ? -- oui tu devraisb. (past time)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he thought I should tell her, so I'm going to il pensait que je devais lui dire, alors je vais le faire━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should have implies that something did not happen, it is translated by the conditional of avoir + dû.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should have means that something probably has happened, it is translated by the present tense of devoir.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he should have finished by now ( = probably has) il doit avoir terminé à l'heure qu'il est ; ( = but he hasn't) il aurait dû terminer à l'heure qu'il estc. ( = would)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should has conditional meaning, it is translated by the conditional of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I should go if he invited me s'il m'invitait, j'irais• we should have come if we had known si nous avions su, nous serions venus• will you come? -- I should like to est-ce que vous viendrez ? -- j'aimerais bien• why should he suspect me? pourquoi me soupçonnerait-il ?• how should I know? comment voulez-vous que je le sache ?• he's coming to apologize -- I should think so too! il vient présenter ses excuses -- j'espère bien !• and who should come in but Paul! et devinez qui est entré ? Paul bien sûr !* * *[ʃʊd, ʃəd]1) ( ought to)as it should be — ( in order) en ordre
...which is only as it should be —...ce qui est parfaitement normal
2) ( in conditional sentences)had he asked me, I should have accepted — s'il me l'avait demandé, j'aurais accepté
I don't think it will happen, but if it should... — je ne pense pas que cela arrive, mais si toutefois cela arrivait...
if you should change your mind,... — si vous changez d'avis,...
3) ( expressing purpose)4) ( in polite formulas)5) (expressing opinion, surprise)‘how long?’ - ‘an hour, I should think’ — ‘combien de temps?’ - ‘une heure, je suppose’
I should think she must be about 40 — à mon avis, elle doit avoir 40 ans environ
and then what should happen, but it began to rain! — et devine quoi - il s'est mis à pleuvoir!
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