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NIGH
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Traducere în limba română
nigh (înv. poetic) I. adverb
1. aproape, în apropiere, în preajmă, în vecinătate.
2. aproape.
nigh (înv. poetic) II. prepoziție
lângă.
nigh (înv. poetic) III. adjectiv
apropiat, alăturat.
nigh (înv. poetic) IV. verb intranzitiv
(înv.) a se apropia.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Ere the words were past the other's lips he was beside him, his face nigh touching, and his breath hot upon his cheeks.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I got nigh the place as I had been told of, I began to think within my own self, “What shall I do when I see her?””
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
People can't die, along the coast, said Mr. Peggotty, except when the tide's pretty nigh out.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
“The servant went to it, and come from it, and went to it again. When he went to it again, Em'ly was nigh him. The t'other was inside. He's the man.”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)