Meaning

1 senses

  1. (dialectal)To follow.

Examples

34 sentences

  1. There's always something good in human folly.

    У людському божевіллі завжди є щось добре. — aandrusiak

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  2. What a piece of folly!

    Яка дурниця! — deniko

    deWas für eine Dummheit! — Merle

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  3. It's folly to eat so much.

    ruГлупо столько есть. — Hellerick

    deEs ist dumm, so viel zu essen. — Tamy

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  4. It is an act of folly.

    deEs ist ein Akt der Torheit. — Tamy

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  5. My daughter partakes in various follies.

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Forms

follies, follying, follied, follied
Base formfolly · to folly
3rd person singularfollies
Present participlefollying
Past simplefollied
Past participlefollied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfolly
he, she, itfollies

Past simpleLesson

all personsfollied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave follied
he, she, ithas follied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill folly

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
followerB2followingA1fomentfondB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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