govern deutsch
EN[ˈɡʌvɚn] [-ʌvə(ɹ)n]US
Dregieren
- VerbSGgovernsPRgoverningPT, PPgovernedSUF-ern
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (transitive) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- Mehr Beispiele
- Wird in der Mitte des Satzes verwendet
- During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.
- And yet, certain unarguables remain: one's first response to an event is rarely one's most mature or reasonable, and yet this is the response that governs any spontaneous outpouring.
- ...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame...
- Wird in der Mitte des Satzes verwendet
Definition of govern in English Dictionary
- Wortart Hierarchie
- Verben
- Intransitive Verben
- Transitive Verben
- Intransitive Verben
- Verben
- en government
- en governor
- en governed
- en governments
- en governess
Source: Wiktionary