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Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

Käännös
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Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
  2. To return to a previous state of being.
  3. (transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
  4. {lb|en|transitive}} To adjust to a previous setting.
  5. (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.

Esimerkit

  • Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back to the office.
  • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
  • Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
  • The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
  • In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
  • I love that song: turn back to it!
  • When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
  • We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, / When we have soiled them.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiturned back
Imperfektiturned back
Partisiipin preesensturning back
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensturns back

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