Alternativa stavningar

  • (föråldrada ord) faine

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
ÖversättningKontextUttal
Adverb
1.gärnaarkaistisk
  • Uttal

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. (archaic) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
  2. (archaic) Satisfied; contented.

Adverb

  1. (archaic) With joy; gladly.

Verb

  1. (archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice
  2. (archaic) To gladden

Exempel

  • Thus Gawayne and Ector abode to gyder / For syre Ector wold not awey til Gawayne were hole / & the good knyȝt Galahad rode so long tyll he came that nyghte to the Castel of Carboneck / & hit befelle hym thus / that he was benyghted in an hermytage / Soo the good man was fayne whan he sawe he was a knyght erraunt
  • Men and birds are fain of climbing high.
  • To a busy man, temptation is fain to climb up together with his business.
  • O love, of my death my life is fain,
  • Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
  • O lamentable brother! if those pity thee, / Am I not fain of all thy lone eyes promise me;
  • LEONATO: I would fain know what you have to say.
  • Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,/ But am betroth’d unto your enemy
  • The second thing I fain would have had was a tobacco-pipe, but it was impossible to me to make one…

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipfainedImperfektfained
PresensparticipfainingKomparativmore fain
Superlativmost fainTredje person singular indicativ presensfains