Difference between revisions of "Way"
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* -- No way! <span style="color:#306;font-size:75%;font-style:italic">C'est pas vrai!</span> <br /> -- Way. <span style="color:#306;font-size:75%;font-style:italic">Si, si.</span> | * -- No way! <span style="color:#306;font-size:75%;font-style:italic">C'est pas vrai!</span> <br /> -- Way. <span style="color:#306;font-size:75%;font-style:italic">Si, si.</span> | ||
'''No way!''' also means <span style="color:#306;font-size:75%;font-style:italic">pas question!</span> | '''No way!''' also means <span style="color:#306;font-size:75%;font-style:italic">pas question!</span> | ||
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| + | ==Derived words== | ||
| + | *underway: ''en cours'' | ||
| + | *layaway: ''achat à livraison différée'', ''achat par anticipation'' | ||
| + | *breakaway: ''échappée'', ''séparatiste'' | ||
| + | *runaway: ''fugueu(r)(se)'', ''galopant'' | ||
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Revision as of 16:45, 14 April 2020
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
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
- underway: en cours
- layaway: achat à livraison différée, achat par anticipation
- breakaway: échappée, séparatiste
- runaway: fugueu(r)(se), galopant
