Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /pə.ˈzɛʃ.ən/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.iyelik

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
  2. Something that is owned.
  3. Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
  4. A territory under the rule of another country.
  5. The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
  6. (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
  7. (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.

Verb

  1. (obsolete) To invest with property.

Exempel

  • The car quickly became his most prized possession.
  • I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
  • The car is in my possession.
  • I'm in possession of the car.
  • Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions.
  • Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession.
  • How long hath this possession held the man?
  • The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession.
  • Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.
  • Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable possession — my foot will always be mine.
  • Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticippossessionedImperfektpossessioned
PresensparticippossessioningPluralpossessions
PluralpossesionsTredje person singular indicativ presenspossessions