VERY

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very I. adv.

1. (formează superlativul absolut al adjectivului şi adverbului) foarte, extrem/ deosebit de, cu totul, absolut, din cale afară de;

very good a) foarte bun; b) foarte bine, perfect;

not very nu prea;

you are not very polite nu prea eşti politicos;

very much foarte mult;

thank you very much mulţumesc frumos/ foarte mult/ din suflet;

I'm not so very sure nu sunt chiar aşa sigur;

I took only a very little n-am luat decât un pic / o fărâmă / o fărâmiţă;

are you hungry? - Yes, very! Ţi-e foame? - Da, şi încă cum;

(cu comparativul) I feel very much better mă simt mult mai bine;

it is very much warmer e mult mai cald.

2. (cu superlativul, pentru accentuare) chiar, într-adevăr, cel mai;

it is the very best thing you can do e într-adevăr cel mai bun lucru pe care-l poţi face;

players of the very first order jucători de prima clasă;

at the very most în cel mai bun / fericit caz, cel mult;

at the very least cel puţin, în cel mai rău caz;

at the very latest cel mai tirziu;

the very last cel din urmă;

it was the very last thing I expected e cel din urmă lucru la care mă aşteptam;

the very next day chiar a doua zi.

3. chiar, exact, tocmai; taman;

he used the very same words as I did a folosit chiar / tocmai / exact cuvintele mele;

it was the very opposite to what I expected era exact contrariul aşteptărilor mele;

my very own al meu propriu;

you may keep it for your very own! poţi s-o păstrezi numai pentru tine!

very II. adjectiv

1. adevărat, autentic, real, veritabil;

the veriest coward cel mai autentic poltron/ laş/ fricos;

the very devil dracul gol, un drac împieliţat;

I could not do so for very shame de ruşine n-aş putea face asta!

2. însuşi, chiar, acelaşi, identic;

he lives in this very place locuieşte chiar aici;

in this very house chiar în casa asta;

you are the man I wanted to see tocmai pe dumneata te căutam;

at that very moment chiar în clipa aceea;

come here this very minute vino în clipa asta;

from this very day începând chiar de azi;

these are his very words astea sunt chiar cuvintele lui;

it is the very thing e tocmai ce ne trebuia;

his very absence is eloquent insăşi / chiar absenţa lui e un fapt grăitor, absenţa lui vorbeşte de la sine.

3. exact, precis, tocmai, aidoma;

according to your very wish întocmai după cum ai dorit;

in the very act chiar asupra faptului;

at the very beginning chiar la început;

he lives at the very end of the town locuieşte (chiar) la capătul oraşului;

the took the very shirt from his back i-au luat până şi cămaşa.

4. leit, deplin, aidoma;

the boy is the very picture of his father băiatul e leit taică-său / e taică-său din cap până-n picioare.

5. totuşi, până şi;

the very thought frightens me însuşi gândul acesta mă sperie, mă îngrozesc numai la gândul acesta.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My results are always very much at your service if you care to apply to me for them.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never knew you to be afraid, very much, of anything.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

No, indeed, it looks very nice.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She is herself the very soul of delicacy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bessie answered that I was doing very well.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You must be very, very careful of your health, Cooky. Understand?

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

If a rich admiral were to come in our way, Sir Walter—He would be a very lucky man, Shepherd, replied Sir Walter; that's all I have to remark.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

"It might be a very thick human collar-bone," I said.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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