would

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  1. Would on ehtomuoto, jota käytetään ilmaisemaan kohteliaisuutta, mahdollisuutta tai tahtoa menneisyydessä.

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Would on englannin kielen modaaliverbi, joka ilmaisee ehtoa, toivetta tai kohteliaisuutta. Sitä käytetään usein muodossa 'would like' (haluaisin) ilmaisemaan toivetta tai mieltymystä. Englanninkielisessä kieliopissa would on menneen aikamuoto verbistä will, ja se voi myös ilmaista hypotettisia tilanteita tai tulevaisuuden mahdollisuuksia menneessä kontekstissa.

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englanti

Use the conditional puhekieltä As a past-tense form of (term).
puhekieltä wished Wished, desired (something). (defdate)
puhekieltä wanted Wanted to ( + bare infinitive). (defdate)
1852, James Murdock, trans. Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, II.7.iii:

The Greeks, especially those who would be thought adepts in mystic theology, ran after fantastic allegories(nb..).
used Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. (defdate)
(quote-book)
2009, "Soundtrack of my life", The Guardian, 15 March:
When we were kids we would sit by the radio with a tape recorder on a Sunday, listening out for the chart songs we wanted to have.
Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. (defdate)
1867, (w), (w), Ch.28:
That her Lily should have been won and not worn, had been, and would be, a trouble to her for ever.
(RQ:BLwnds TLdgr)
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly on a newspaper he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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puhekieltä Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. (defdate)
1724, (w), (w), Penguin p.107:
He sat as one astonish'd, a good-while, looking at me, without speaking a Word, till I came quite up to him, kneel'd on one Knee to him, and almost whether he would or no, kiss'd his Hand(nb..).
1846, "A New Sentimental Journey", Blackwoods Magazine, vol.LX, no.372:
If I could fly, I would away to those realms of light and warmth – far, far away in the southern clime(nb..).
Was determined to; loosely, could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). (defdate)
1835, (w), (w), V:
Then he took to breeding silk-worms, which he would bring in two or three times a day, in little paper boxes, to show the old lady(nb..).
2009, "Is the era of free news over?", The Observer, (nowrap)
The free access model, the media magnate said last week, was "malfunctioning". Well he would, wouldn't he?
puhekieltä As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.
Used to give a conditional or potential "softening" to the present; might, might wish. (defdate)
2008, Mark Cocker, "Country Diary", The Guardian, 3 November:
It's a piece of old folklore for which I would love to find hard proof.
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality (with a bare infinitive); indicating an action or state that is conditional on another. (defdate)
2010, The Guardian, 26 February:
Warnock admitted it would be the ideal scenario if he received a Carling Cup winners' medal as well as an England call-up(nb..).
puhekieltä Might wish ( + verb in past subjunctive); often used (with or without (term)) in the sense of "if only". (defdate)
1859, (w), (w),
I presently wished, would that I had been in their clothes! would that I had been born Peter! would that I had been born John!
1868, Sir (w), (w), Ch.23:
I would she had retained her original haughtiness of disposition, or that I had a larger share of Front-de-Bœuf's thrice-tempered hardness of heart!
Used to impart a sense of hesitancy or uncertainty to the present; might be inclined to. Now sometimes colloquially with ironic effect. (defdate)
2009, Nick Snow, The Rockets Trail'', p.112:
“Those trials are being run by the American army so surely you must have access to the documents?” “Well, yeah, you’d think.”
2010, (w), "My case for a euthanasia tribunal", The Guardian, (nowrap)
Departing on schedule with the help of a friendly doctor was quite usual. Does that still apply? It would seem so.
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? (defdate)

(ux)

puhekieltä Might desire; wish (something). (defdate)
1608, (w), (w), I.4:
What dost thou professe? What would’st thou with vs?
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
1996, Fred Shoemaker, Extraordinary Golf: The Art of the Possible (page 88)
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.
2010, Shushona Novos, The Personal Universal: A Guidebook for Spiritual Evolution (page 395)
Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life.

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