might
modal verb
uk
/maɪt/ us
/maɪt/might modal verb (MAY)
past simple of the verb may, used especially when reporting what someone has said, thought, asked, etc.:
- "I thought you might have helped, " she replied peevishly.
- He wrote to me last week regarding a business proposition he thought might interest me.
- Jan hasn't got a ticket but I thought we might sneak her in.
- I suggested that a cup of tea might settle her stomach.
- I've brought with me an article from yesterday's paper that I thought might amuse you.
- accusative
- art
- auxiliary
- bare infinitive
- bent
- continuous
- copula
- finite
- gerund
- modality
- non-finite
- non-progressive
- passive
- passivization
- perfective
- phrasal verb
- subjunctive
- the active voice
- the past continuous
- the past tense
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might modal verb (POSSIBILITY)
A2
- -ible
- able
- accomplishable
- achievable
- attainable
- doable
- feasibility study
- feasible
- feasibly
- humanly
- manageably
- poss
- possible
- practicability
- practicable
- practical
- reach
- running
- viably
- vincible
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might modal verb (PERMISSION)
mainly UK formal US old-fashioned
might modal verb (SUGGESTION)
C1
might modal verb (SHOULD)
- about
- bounce something off someone
- can't
- co-sponsor
- co-sponsorship
- drop
- if you take my meaning idiom
- make noises idiom
- maybe
- move
- mover
- nod
- nomination
- on the table idiom
- proposition
- put ideas into someone's head idiom
- put someone to something idiom
- put something in
- put something up
- resubmission
might modal verb (INTRODUCE)
Grammar
- ahold
- all's well that ends well idiom
- all-powerful
- ascendancy
- authoritarianism
- be above someone's pay grade idiom
- discretionary
- grip
- he who pays the piper calls the tune. idiom
- hegemonic
- hegemonism
- implant
- power structure
- power struggle
- power vacuum
- power-sharing
- predominance
- sway
- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world idiom
- yoke