near
Anglais
Étymologie
- Du vieux norrois nær.
Adjectif
Nature | Forme |
---|---|
Positif | near \ˈnɪɹ\ ou \ˈnɪə\ |
Comparatif | nearer \ˈnɪɹ.ɚ\ ou \ˈnɪə.ɹə\ |
Superlatif | nearest \ˈnɪɹ.ɪst\ ou \ˈnɪə.ɹɪst\ |
near \ˈnɪɹ\ (États-Unis), \ˈnɪə\ (Royaume-Uni)
- Près, proche.
As when a sick man very near to death
— (Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, 1855)
Seems dead indeed, […]- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
The sun is low, the night is near, […]
— (Nicolas Gogol, A May Evening, 1887)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
- Près de. Note : la préposition to est sous-entendue.
He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
— (Mary Shelley, Maurice, or The Fisher’s Cot, 1820)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet […]
— (Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug, 1843)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
The star grew—it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.
— (H. G. Wells, The Star, 1897)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
— (H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space, 1927)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
Notes
Quasi-synonymes
- nearby (1)
Dérivés
- near death
- near-death experience
- near-Earth object
- Near East
- near field communication
- nearly
- near-minimal pair
- near miss
- nearness
- near-sighted
Adverbe
near \ˈnɪɹ\ (États-Unis), \ˈnɪə\ (Royaume-Uni)
- (Populaire) Presque.
Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
— (David Hume et Tobias Smollett, The History of England, 1825, p. 263)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
— (Owen Parry, Honor’s Kingdom, 2003, p. 365)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
Synonymes
Verbe
Temps | Forme |
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Infinitif | to near \ˈnɪɹ\ ou \ˈnɪə\ |
Présent simple, 3e pers. sing. |
nears \ˈnɪɹz\ ou \ˈnɪəz\ |
Prétérit | neared \ˈnɪɹd\ ou \ˈnɪəd\ |
Participe passé | neared \ˈnɪɹd\ ou \ˈnɪəd\ |
Participe présent | nearing \ˈnɪɹ.ɪŋ\ ou \ˈnɪə.ɹɪŋ\ |
voir conjugaison anglaise |
Prononciation
- Royaume-Uni : écouter « near [ˈnɪə] »
- États-Unis : écouter « near [ˈnɪɹ] »
- Suisse (Genève) : écouter « near [ˈnɪə] »
- (Région à préciser) : écouter « near [ˈnɪə] »
- Royaume-Uni (Écosse) : écouter « near [Prononciation ?] »
- Texas (États-Unis) : écouter « near [Prononciation ?] »
Anagrammes
Références
- Joan Maling, Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis, dans F. Henry et B. Richards (éds), Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles, vol. 1, 1983, pp. 253-289
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