Meaning

1 senses
  1. (UK, dialectal)Steeply.

Examples

14436 sentences
  1. I'm sorry, I can't stay long.

    Вибачте, я не можу залишитися надовго. — ChickenKiev

    ruИзвините, я не могу остаться надолго. — Lenin_1917

    deEs tut mir leid, ich kann nicht lange bleiben. — MUIRIEL

  2. How long will you stay here?

    Як довго ти тут будеш? — deniko

    ruКак долго ты будешь здесь? — afyodor

    deWie lange werdet ihr hierbleiben? — MUIRIEL

  3. I would rather stay at home.

    Я би краще залишився вдома. — deniko

    deIch würde lieber zu Hause bleiben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. We plan to stay a week.

    Ми плануємо залишитися на тиждень. — deniko

    ruМы планируем остаться на неделю. — marafon

    deWir planen, eine Woche zu bleiben. — Vortarulo

  5. Can't you stay a little longer?

    Чи не могли би ви ще трохи побути? — deniko

    ruВы не можете остаться ещё ненадолго? — marafon

    deKannst du nicht noch etwas länger bleiben? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

From Middle English *steȝe, from Old English *stǣġe, an apocopated variant of stǣġel (“ste

From Middle English *steȝe, from Old English *stǣġe, an apocopated variant of stǣġel (“steep, abrupt”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigil (“steep”), see sty.

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Forms

stayer/more stay, stayest/most stay
Comparativestayer / more stay Lesson
Superlativestayest / most stay

regular

Collocations

12 patterns
  • to stay in
  • planning to stay
  • stay at home
  • planning on staying
  • to stay here
  • want to stay
  • have to stay
  • stay home
  • stay away from
  • going to stay
  • stay in bed
  • need to stay

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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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