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Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- (sometimes, with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.
- (obsolete chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
Esimerkit
- The defendant insisted on his innocence.
- I insist that my secretary dresses nicely.
- But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[...]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
- The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellor's resignation.
- The Prime Minister insisted that his Chancellor resign.
- I insist that my secretary dress nicely.
- Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | insisted |
| Imperfekti | insisted |
| Partisiipin preesens | insisting |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | insists |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | insisteth (vanhahtava) |