Czech English Dictionary

český jazyk - English

konec in English:

1. finish finish


Let me finish.
I wish I could figure out how to finish this project without asking for help.
When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
What do you want to do after you finish college?
My supervisor is making me do this so I'm in no hurry to finish.
She helped her younger brother finish his picture.
If we begin early, we can finish by lunch.
Tom told Mary that he wouldn't be able finish the job in the amount of time she'd given him.
I found this book interesting from start to finish.
We don't have time to finish checking the figures now, but we can go over them after lunch.
It's doubtful if we'll finish in time for Christmas.
We cannot finish it before Saturday even if everything goes well.
Apply two coats of the paint for a good finish.
It was such a hard test that we did not have time to finish.
The sooner we start, the sooner we'll finish.

2. end end


It's a dead end.
Killing your spouse is one way to end a marriage. However, it's frowned upon.
It may seem like a lot of trouble to go through, but in the end, you'll be happy you did it.
Whatever happens, I'll stick to my principles to the bitter end.
If I happen to end up going abroad, I'd probably go for France.
How did you end up on your own?
When I'm with a crying baby, I end up wanting to cry myself!
Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.
Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.
The baseball game was so exciting that everyone stayed until the very end.
The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.
I hate it when I work late and end up missing an episode of a show I'm following.
In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.
Relationships built on money will end when the money runs out.
World War One did not end quickly or easily.

English word "konec"(end) occurs in sets:

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3. demise demise


Cherington shoulders blame for Sox' demise, empathizes with Valentine.
how will our contacts through these sights be notified of our demise?
t would foolish to conflate enthusiasm about the impact of that marginalisation with unthinking cheerleading for cash’s total demise,” he says.
The economy of Eastern European countries has improved since the demise of communism
the demise of the upper class
By any rational standard, modern States are the last and greatest remaining predators – and that the danger has not abated with the demise of communism and fascism.

English word "konec"(demise) occurs in sets:

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