dictionnaire Italien - Anglais

italiano - English

potrebbe Anglais:

1. might


This might hurt.
Information is sometimes held back from patients when it is thought it might upset them.
The problem is not as simple as it might seem at first sight.
If I should be suddenly spoken to in English, I might run away.
Sometimes it's just best to avoid topics that might be controversial.
If students today had more free time, they might show more interest in politics.
It's getting easier to find audio files by native speakers for almost any language you might want to study.
I might have done well on yesterday's test, but I do not know the results yet.
Do you know where I might find small cowboy boots?
Education about birth control might help cut down on adolescent pregnancies.
Actually it might be a good idea to start right now.
That might be a little inconvenient for you, don't you think?
Judging from the look of the sky, we might have a shower before nightfall.
You might want to come over and play poker with me and my friends next Friday evening.
It looks like it may rain today. I'm worried that our cherry-blossom-viewing party might be canceled.

Anglais mot "potrebbe"(might) se produit dans des ensembles:

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2. could


I wish I could.
The policeman talked to the children in as friendly a manner as he could.
The dying man made an effort to say something, but could not.
The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.
An international trade ban could be the last straw for that country's economy.
I'm so embarrassed I could dig a hole and crawl into it.
Tom pressed his ear against the wall to see if he could hear what his parents were discussing in the next room.
Tom can already play the drums better than I could at his age.
What kind of woman could love a guy like Tom?
According to some scholars, a major earthquake could occur at any moment now.
Would I only work on weekends if I could? Of course, I would.
He believed that blacks could win their fight for equal rights without violence.
The grenade blew up before the terrorist could throw it, and his arm was blown off!
A good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.
I could stand here with you forever, just gazing off into the sea.

3. may


She may come.
I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.
I entered the shop, and a clerk said, "May I help you?"
No matter what your profession, or how happy you may be in it, there are moments when you wish you had chosen some other career.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Come what may, I am determined to accomplish it.
I've been thinking that I may have been too critical.
It is said that the price of wine may go up at any time now.
Blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson would have been 100 years old on May 8th of 2011 if he hadn't died when he was 27 years old.
Our child seems to be brilliant. Of course, we may be prejudiced.
I am determined to put the plan into practice no matter what others may say.
Global climatic changes may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
She hasn't come here yet. I am afraid she may have lost her way.
On condition you are back by ten o'clock, you may go to the dance.
Sometimes it may seem like we're not making any progress.