MA'AM

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Traducere în limba română

ma'am substantiv

presc. de la madam; doamnă.

No, ma'am, he did not mention no particular family; but he said his master was a very rich gentleman, and would be a baronight some day.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Yes, ma'am—but she looks such a tinkler.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Dear ma'am, only look at her face at this moment; how different from what it was the two last dances!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“Is it Murdstone, ma'am?” I said.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Yes'm, thank you, ma'am," he said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It's a fast age, and I don't know what we are coming to, ma'am.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I always thought it such a sweet place, ma'am! (turning to Mrs. Dashwood) but you have made it so charming!

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Very well, I thank you, ma'am.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And do not you think him a very handsome gentleman, ma'am?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Pretty well, ma'am in the fifteen years of my marriage; though many women have done more.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)