Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
- (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
- (archaic, transitive) To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.
Substantiivi
- Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
- (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
- (decision theory) The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
- A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
Esimerkit
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- He regretted his words.
- I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
- From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
- I regret having committed that crime.
- I regret to tell you that your pet has died.
- I regret the inconvenience. I won't trouble you again.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | regretted | Imperfekti | regretted |
| Partisiipin preesens | regretting | Monikko | regrets |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | regrets | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | regretteth (vanhahtava) |