Way
From Creolista!
When I had journeyed half of our life's way
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita.
Dante, Inferno
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[hide]Path
- Which way should we go to get back to the hotel?
- I got some bread on the way back home.
- I'm on my way.
- highway, motorway, tollway,
- skyway, freeway, etc.
Method
- That's not the way I do it. cf. That's not how I do it.
- What's the best way to keep bugs from eating your tomatoes?
Manner
- That's no way to speak to your (mother) / (father) / (boss) / (employees)!
- The way (that) she talks, you would think (that) she was the boss.
- That's just the way (that) things have always been done.
Degree Modifier
(Here way is a very informal equivalent of much or far...)
- That's way too much work.
- That's way too big.
No way!
- -- No way! C'est pas vrai!
-- Way. Si, si.
No way! also means pas question!
Derived words
- away: particule qui décrit un éloignement
- breakaway: échappée, séparatiste
- castaway: someone taken by the sea, stranded on an island
- layaway: achat à livraison différée, achat par anticipation
- railway: chemin de fer
- runaway (n. / adj.): fugueu(r)(se), galopant
- runway: piste
- underway: en cours
- the wayback machine is run by the Internet Archive
Expressions / idioms
- "She tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a farewell and began to make her way through the crowd." (Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery (1948), New Yorker podcast (2008, republished in 2020))
