OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 24970

May

/meɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mayo
The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.
All in the merry month of May, / When green leaves they was springing, / This young man on his death-bed lay, / For the love of Barbara Allen.
Holonyms: calendar year; year
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 38

may

/meɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espino • marzoleto
The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
The fire from Lindfield was coming down the grassy hillside to the right between the hedges of may.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
No hay formas
📚 verb • entry_id 37

may

/meɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
poder
To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
may I sit there?
you may smoke outside
poder ser • tal vez
Granting the admissibility of a supposition, in a way that can be semantically either subjunctive or indicative.
Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box.
he may be lying
ojalá que • que
Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
Let us pray that peace may soon return to our war-torn homeland.
may you win; may the weather be sunny; long may your reign last
Word forms