вспомогательный глагол ↓
- форма прошедшего времени вспомогательного глагола will
- выражает волю, желание, склонность
I would not do it for anything — я ни за что не стану этого делать; я бы ни за что не сделал этого 
he would not help me — он упорно отказывался мне помочь
I would have stayed there forever — я бы с удовольствием остался там навсегда
- выражает предпочтение
I would rather stay at home — я с большим удовольствием остался бы дома
I would rather not speak about it — мне бы не хотелось об этом говорить
- выражает сильное желание
I would I were young again — как я хотел бы вновь стать молодым
- выражает просьбу, приглашение или предложение (в вежливой форме)
would you (kindly) pass the salt? — вы не передадите мне соль?, пожалуйста, передайте (мне) соль
+2 would you like to see it? — вы не хотели бы это посмотреть?
would you like me to show you his room? — хотите, я покажу вам его комнату?
would you mind repeating it? — вас не затруднит повторить это?
- выражает предположение, сомнение
that would be he! — это, наверное /должно быть/, он!
+2 this explanation would seem satisfactory — этого разъяснения, по-видимому, достаточно
it would be in the year 1910 — это было, вероятно, в 1910 году
who is the man you want to speak to? — You wouldn’t know him
- выражает часто повторяющееся или привычное действие
he would often call on us — он, бывало, часто заходил к нам
she would get up very early — она, как правило, вставала очень рано
that’s exactly like you — you would loose the keys
- в придаточном дополнительном служит для выражения будущего времени, согласованного с прошедшим временем в главном предложении
he told me he would be there — он сказал мне, что он там будет
- служит для образования форм 2-го и 3-го л. сослагательного наклонения в главном предложении при придаточном условия
he would come if you invited him — он бы пришёл, если бы вы его пригласили
+2 if he were in your place he would do it — он бы сделал это, будь он на вашем месте
they would have helped us if they had been there — они бы нам помогли, если бы они там были
it would be impossible — это было бы невозможно
существительное
- книжн. тяга, смутное желание или стремление
- (the would) воля (в противоп. долгу или необходимости)
Мои примеры
В выражениях, идиомах и прочем
it would seem — казалось бы
the best plan would be… — самое лучшее было бы…
it would seem so — по всей видимости, так
would that! — хотелось бы мне, чтобы; о если бы!
Примеры с переводом
He would do it.
Он непременно хотел это сделать.
Would you like a mint?
Хотите мятную конфетку?
Would you like a drink?
Хочешь что-нибудь выпить?
That would be her cat.
Это, вероятно, её кошка.
I would fain do it.
Я бы охотно это сделал.
That would be overkill.
Это было бы излишне.
He told us he would come.
Он сказал нам, что придёт.
He would not hurt a fly.
Он и мухи не обидит.
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IPA: /wʊd/
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IPA: wʊd: वुड
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An example use of would in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… noticed in the careful the people would be watching the rest of us …”
meanings of would
verb:
- Used to give a conditional or potential «softening» to the present; might, might wish.
- Used with bare infinitive to form the «anterior future», indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Wished, desired (something).
- Used to impart a sense of hesitancy or uncertainty to the present; might be inclined to. Now sometimes colloquially with ironic effect.
- (heading) As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.
- (heading) As a past-tense form of will.
- Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality (with a bare infinitive); indicating an action or state that is conditional on another.
- Might wish ( + verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of «if only».
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?.
- Wanted to ( + bare infinitive).
- Might desire; wish (something).
- Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
- Was determined to; loosely, could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone’s character etc.).
noun:
- Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
would frequency in english — A1 level of CEFR
the word would occurs in english on average 2552 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics would can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that would can be often used in the following areas:
1) communication, information, and media;
2) people, society, and culture;
words with pronunciation similar to would
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words that rhyme with would
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Mar 8, 2017 | How to pronounce English words correctly, Pronunciation Question of the Week, Pronunciation Training
Learn how to pronounce the English words SHOULD, WOULD, COULD correctly with this American English pronunciation lesson. They are pronounced SH-ooh-D, C-ooh-D, W-ooh-D. Yes, the L is a silent letter and is not pronounced.
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