FAIN

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Traducere în limba română

fain¹ I. adjectiv pred. (mai ales poetic)

1. fain to / of bucuros că, dispus să, gata de.

2. fain to obligat să;

he was fain to comply a fost nevoit să încuviinţeze.

fain¹ II. adverb

bucuros, cu dragă inimă;

he would fain come ar veni bucuros.

fain² verb tr. şi intr.

şi fains;

fains I! nu vreau! (formulă folosită de un copil care vrea să se descotorosească de o îndeletnicire neplăcută);

fain I fielding! nu vreau să strâng mingile!

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Then I would fain ask,” cried one of the French squires, “as to which may hope to conquer in these wars betwixt the English and ourselves.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To answer this I would fain lay hand upon one whose thoughts turn strongly to this castle which you have named.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would fain know, fair lady, how all things are at Twynham Castle, and above all how my sweet lady employs herself.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Fair and sweet I would fain be for your dear sake, my lord, but old I am and ugly, and the knights would laugh should you lay lance in rest in such a cause.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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