0 to be successful by defeating others in a competition, sport, or election -- vinne
They were determined to win. De var fast bestemte på å vinne.
Do you think he can win the election? Tror du han kan vinne valget?
2 to be given sth as a prize -- vinne
They just won a million dollars! De vant akkurat en million dollar!
4 indicates whatever you do, you will not be successful -- du/jeg/vi er håpløs(e)
5 an occasion when sb wins in a competition, sport, or election -- seier [ masculine ]
a convincing win en overbevisende seier
For this it won international appreciation and prestige.
If a candidate wins a majority of the total votes cast in the district in the first round, he or she is elected.
As always in times of retrenchment, elected officials have needed to win the goodwill of voters and interest groups for these unpopular cutbacks.
And it is not just that music has traditionally won, but along with it, a dramatic and representational vocabulary subservient to the music.
The evidence suggests, therefore, that won has no subject-number feature at all, rather than that it is ambiguous between singular and plural.
If they both show the same side, the first agent wins, otherwise the second agent wins.
This can occur if it is possible for one of the losing candidates to win a seat when the other losing candidate(s) is dropped.
The underlying idea is that whoever wins the verbal argument will also be ethically right.
