they’d
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]Forme de verbe
[modifier le wikicode]they’d \ðeɪd\ contraction
- Contraction de they had. ils avaient, elles avaient.
Mom and Dad told us how they’d made it to Phoenix only to find that Mom’s laundry-on-the-clothesline ploy hadn’t kept out intruders.
— (Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, 2005, 2010, ISBN 9780748115563, p. 121)
- Contraction de they would. Ils, elles + conditionnel ou imparfait.
They’d say they loved you, but they were always after something.
— (Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, 2005, 2009, ISBN 9781439156964, p. 200)
Notes
[modifier le wikicode]Prononciation
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