Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

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Översättning
Adjektiv
1.emin
Interjektioner
2.hayhay

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
  2. Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
  3. Certain to act or be a specified way.
  4. (obsolete) Free from danger; safe; secure.
  5. (obsolete) Betrothed; engaged to marry.

Adverb

  1. (modal adverb) Without doubt.

Interjektioner

  1. Yes, of course.

Exempel

  • This investment is a sure thing.   The bailiff had a sure grip on the prisoner's arm.
  • The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
  • He was sure she was lying.   I am sure of my eventual death.   John was acting sure of himself but in truth had doubts.
  • Be sure to lock the door when you leave.
  • Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that we are sure enough.
  • The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.
  • I presume [...] that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife.
  • Sure he's coming! Why wouldn't he?
  • "Did you kill that bear yourself? ―"I sure did!"
  • Are you sure?

Böjningsformer

Komparativsurer
Komparativmore sure
Superlativsurest
Superlativmost sure