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buy

/baɪ/ verbe A1

En français : gober, acheter

  1. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods. (transitive) · Who'd Father buy the car for? He bought it for me, not for you.
  2. To obtain, especially by some sacrifice. (transitive) · I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.· You just bought yourself an assault charge!
  3. To bribe. (transitive) · He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.
  4. To be equivalent to in value. (transitive) · The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.
  5. to accept as true; to believe (informal, transitive) · I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!
  6. To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift) (intransitive) · She buys for Federated.· Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.
  7. To make a bluff, usually a large one. (slang, transitive) · Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff.

Pluriel buy · He/she/it buys · Prétérit bought · Participe passé bought · Forme en -ing buying

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
buy
He/she/it
buys
Prétérit
bought
Participe passé
bought
Forme en -ing
buying

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Dans la bibliothèque

When I asked him if he had bought it, he answered that it was a present from a certain gracious lady in whose interests he had once been fortunate enough to carry out a small commission.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 40 · B2
A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 46 · B2
“Then how could he buy—”
The Valley of Fear, p. 15 · C1
A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 87 · B2

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