modal verb
- used to express possibility or probability
- used to ask for or give permission
- used to express a wish or hope
Usage: formal
noun
- the fifth month of the year
- the flowers of the hawthorn tree
Usage: chiefly British
Examples
- It may rain this afternoon.
- You may leave early today.
- May I borrow your pen?
- May you have a wonderful birthday!
- My birthday is in May.
- The children picked may from the hedgerows.
- She may not understand the instructions.
- May we sit here?