would

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.

   “On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.”

2. fiil Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)

   “When we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.”

3. fiil Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.

   “I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.”

4. fiil Wanted to.

   “And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel.”

5. fiil Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.

   “At which time he told me, he would to London that week, and so to Oxford.”

6. fiil Wished, desired (something).
7. fiil Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.

   “If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.”

8. fiil Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.

   “I would love to come and visit.”

9. fiil Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.

   “I would ask you all to sit down.”

10. fiil Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.

    “It's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I would write and complain.”

11. fiil Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.

    “She looked as if she would be sick.”

12. fiil Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).

    “Sorry, officer, I wouldn't know anything about the crime, since I was nowhere near the scene.”

13. fiil Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?

    “Would you pass the salt, please?”

14. fiil Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".

    “PARIS My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.”

15. fiil Might desire; wish (something).

    “What dost thou professe? What would’st thou with vs?”

16. isim Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

    “When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.”

17. ünlem Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.