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GOVERN

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Traducere în limba română

govern verb A. tranzitiv

1. a guverna, a conduce, a cârmui, a domni peste (o ţară); a conduce, a administra (o instituţie, o întreprindere).

2. a exercita o influenţă asupra (cu gen.), a stăpâni, a ţine în frâu (o pasiune, o patimă, o pornire).

3. (tehn.) a regla, a ajusta.

govern verb B. intranzitiv

1. a fi la putere, a deţine conducerea, a ţine cârma.

2. (gram.) a cere o concordanţă, a necesita un acord.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She had an excellent heart;—her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

So am I, but a kind word will govern me when all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't, said Jo, trying to say a kind word for her friend, who seemed to get out of one scrape only to fall into another.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

When she thought of her mother, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections there had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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