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μπορεί in English:

1. may


She may come.
I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.
I entered the shop, and a clerk said, "May I help you?"
No matter what your profession, or how happy you may be in it, there are moments when you wish you had chosen some other career.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Come what may, I am determined to accomplish it.
I've been thinking that I may have been too critical.
It is said that the price of wine may go up at any time now.
Blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson would have been 100 years old on May 8th of 2011 if he hadn't died when he was 27 years old.
Our child seems to be brilliant. Of course, we may be prejudiced.
I am determined to put the plan into practice no matter what others may say.
Global climatic changes may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
She hasn't come here yet. I am afraid she may have lost her way.
On condition you are back by ten o'clock, you may go to the dance.
Sometimes it may seem like we're not making any progress.

2. might


This might hurt.
Information is sometimes held back from patients when it is thought it might upset them.
The problem is not as simple as it might seem at first sight.
If I should be suddenly spoken to in English, I might run away.
Sometimes it's just best to avoid topics that might be controversial.
If students today had more free time, they might show more interest in politics.
It's getting easier to find audio files by native speakers for almost any language you might want to study.
I might have done well on yesterday's test, but I do not know the results yet.
Do you know where I might find small cowboy boots?
Education about birth control might help cut down on adolescent pregnancies.
Actually it might be a good idea to start right now.
That might be a little inconvenient for you, don't you think?
Judging from the look of the sky, we might have a shower before nightfall.
You might want to come over and play poker with me and my friends next Friday evening.
It looks like it may rain today. I'm worried that our cherry-blossom-viewing party might be canceled.

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3. maybe


Maybe later.
It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.
Maybe I should add some sentences without translations too. It's a very quick way to improve the rating of your language.
I'm not cut out for gambling. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but working for my pay is more of a sure thing.
Huh? Or maybe did how many of what do what how? What do you think?
Maybe it's his age but his opinions seem a little more grounded in experience than everyone else's.
Mmmmn ... maybe I'll have a hair of the dog. "Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning. You ought to be able to eat this OK."
If every user adds twenty sentences per day on Tatoeba, maybe it would be possible to reach one million sentences by Christmas.
I'm planning my next vacation. Maybe I'll go to Disneyland with my family and friends. How much should I save for it?
Your face looks pale. Are you OK? Maybe it would be better if you went to the hospital, don't you think?
People applaud a singer because he sang well, or maybe because he finally stopped.
A scientist had to know how to ask the correct question and to state it so clearly that the answer would be, in effect, a definite yes or no, not "maybe".
You should practice English with a friend or classmate. Maybe you could join an Internet forum or a language club.

English word "μπορεί"(maybe) occurs in sets:

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