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convenient adjectiv

1. potrivit, indicat, convenabil, comod;

if it is convenient to you dacă vă convine, dacă vă aranjează.

2. (fam.) la îndemână, accesibil.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I did not anticipate that you would yourself make use of this empty house and this convenient front window.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

We shall be very glad to see you at Fullerton, whenever it is convenient.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express a particular business they are to discourse on.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Elizabeth saw what he was doing, and at the first convenient pause, turned to him with an arch smile, and said: You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I was very sorry for her; but there were moments when it would have been more agreeable, I thought, if Mrs. Gummidge had had a convenient apartment of her own to retire to, and had stopped there until her spirits revived.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Lady Bertram had been telling her niece in the evening to write to her soon and often, and promising to be a good correspondent herself; and Edmund, at a convenient moment, then added in a whisper, And I shall write to you, Fanny, when I have anything worth writing about, anything to say that I think you will like to hear, and that you will not hear so soon from any other quarter.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Two material advantages of Bath over London had of course been given all their weight: its more convenient distance from Kellynch, only fifty miles, and Lady Russell's spending some part of every winter there; and to the very great satisfaction of Lady Russell, whose first views on the projected change had been for Bath, Sir Walter and Elizabeth were induced to believe that they should lose neither consequence nor enjoyment by settling there.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I should be glad, Lestrade, if you could make it convenient to meet us at Baker Street at six o’clock this evening.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She ventured, when next alone with Eleanor, to express her wish of being permitted to see it, as well as all the rest of that side of the house; and Eleanor promised to attend her there, whenever they should have a convenient hour.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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