Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "gedra" is:

(werkwoord)

1. Om op 'n bepaalde manier op te tree; om op 'n sekere manier op te tree of te reageer, veral in ooreenstemming met sosiale norme, reëls of verwagtinge.\nVoorbeeld: Die kinders is tydens die skoolbyeenkoms aangesê om op te tree.
2. Om gedrag te openbaar of te openbaar; om aksies of reaksies te vertoon wat 'n aanduiding is van 'n bepaalde houding, ingesteldheid of karakter.\nVoorbeeld: Die hond het aggressief teenoor die vreemdeling opgetree.
3. Om op 'n bepaalde manier te funksioneer of opereer; om te presteer of te werk soos verwag.\nVoorbeeld: Die rekenaar tree vreemd op; dit bly vries.
4. Om jouself te bestuur of te beheer; om saamgesteld of ordelik op te tree.\nVoorbeeld: Ten spyte van die uitdagende situasie, het sy probeer om kalm op te tree.
5. (van 'n ding) Om te reageer of op 'n spesifieke manier te presteer onder gegewe omstandighede.\nVoorbeeld: Die enjin het in koue weer wisselvallig gedra.

(selfstandige naamwoord)

1. (verouderd) Gedrag; gedrag; houding.\nVoorbeeld: Sy edele gedrag het hom bewondering van almal gewen.

Let wel: Die definisie en gebruik van woorde kan verskil na gelang van die konteks, streek en spesifieke woordeboek waarna verwys word.

Sentence Examples

1. She had to behave as any other House member might when presented with his assertions.

2. The first day he joined me in the store, he just naturally knew how to behave when strangers came and went.

3. When I enter a room, no one continues to behave as they did before I arrived.

4. Despite any misgivings he might have about Tarkyn being considered a member of a woodfolk family, the sorcerer was determined to behave correctly.

5. I came, I saw, I conquered, and I made her stay quiet and behave herself, for nothing but north winds blew for more than a week.

6. What they say and how they behave are two very different things.

7. Why all the bowing and draping shawls over our shoulders in the horrible heat when men behave like that?

8. CAM HAD BEEN REHEARSING how he planned to behave when Jessie arrived.

9. Unless the people in question were simple minded or already inclined to behave the way he wanted them to.

10. My master heard me with great appearances of uneasiness in his countenance because doubting or not believing, are so little known in this country, that the inhabitants cannot tell how to behave themselves under such circumstances and I remember, in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representation, it was with much difficulty that he comprehended what I meant, although he had otherwise a most acute judgment.