English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English bringen, from Old English bringan (“to bring, lead, bring forth, carry, adduce, produce, present, offer”), from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”) (compare West Frisian bringe, Low German bringen, Dutch brengen, German bringen), from Proto-Indo-European *bhrenk (compare Welsh he-brwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Albanian brengë (“worry, anxiety, concern”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”)).
bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past and past participle brought)
- (transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, The Guardian:
- Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- The closer Jones can really bring it.
Usage notes [edit]
Past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from "bring"
Translations [edit]
to transport toward somebody/somewhere
- Afrikaans: bring (af)
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Ancient Greek: ἄγω (agō), φέρω (pherō)
- Arabic: أَحْضَرَ (ar) (ʾáḥḍara), imperfect: يحضر (ar) (yuḥḍiru)
- Egyptian Arabic: جاب (gāb)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: բերել (hy) (berel)
- Aromanian: aduc (rup)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: trayer (ast), llevar (ast)
- Aymara: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: please add this translation if you can
- Bakhtiari: اوردن (aworden)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: прыносіць (be) (prynósic’) impf.
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: донасям (bg) (donásjam), довеждам (bg) (dovéždam)
- Burmese: ယူလာ (my) (yula)
- Catalan: portar (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏲᎯᏍᏗ (chr) (ayohisdi)
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 帶來 (cmn), 带来 (cmn) (dàilái) (bringer is coming), 帶去 (cmn), 带去 (cmn) (dàiqu) (bringer is going)
- Corsican: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: přinést (cs), přivést (cs), přivézt (cs)
- Danish: bringe (da)
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: brengen (nl)
- Esperanto: alporti (eo)
- Estonian: tooma (et)
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: tuoda (fi)
- French: apporter (fr), amener (fr)
- Friulian: puartâ
- Galician: traer (gl)
- Georgian: მოტანა (ka) (motana)
- German: bringen (de), holen (de)
- Greek: φέρνω (el) (férno)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: lawe mai, hō mai
- Hebrew: הֵבִיא (he) (heví)
- Hindi: लाना (hi) (lānā)
- Hungarian: hoz (hu)
- Icelandic: færa (is)
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: tabhair (ga)
- Italian: portare (it)
- Japanese: 持って来る (ja) (もってくる, motte-kuru) (bringer is coming), 持って行く (ja) (もっていく, motte-iku) (bringer is going)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Jèrriais: emm'ner
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: әкелу (kk) (äkelw)
- Khmer: យក...មក (km) (yɔɔk <something> mɔɔk), នាំ...មក (km) (noam <somebody> mɔɔk)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 가져오다 (ko) (gajyeo-oda)
- Lao: ເອົາມາ (lo) (ao máː), ນຳ (lo) (nam)
- Latin: addō (la), addūcō (la), portō (la)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
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- Luganda: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Low German: bringen (nds)
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: bawa (ms)
- Malayalam: കൊണ്ടുവരിക (ml) (kontuvarika)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bringe (nb), ta med (nb)
- Nynorsk: bringe (nn), ta med (nn)
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: aportar (oc), adúser (oc)
- Old English: bringan (ang)
- Old Portuguese: trager
- Old Saxon: bringan
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آوردن (fa) (âvardan, colloquial: âvordan), اوردن (fa) (ovordan) (colloquial)
- Polish: przynosić (pl) impf., przynieść (pl) pf.
- Portuguese: trazer (pt), levar (pt)
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: aduce (ro)
- Romansch: purtar (rm)
- Russian: приносить (ru) (prinosít’) impf., принести (ru) (prinestí) pf. (to carry a thing); приводить (ru) (privodít’) impf., привести (ru) (privestí) pf. (to accompany a person); привозить (ru) (privozít’) impf., привезти (ru) (priveztí) pf. (on a vehicle, horse, etc.)
- Sanskrit: आनयति (sa)
- Sardinian: poltare (sc), portare (sc), vature (sc)
- Scots: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: thoir (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (intransitive) донети (sh), (transitive) доносити (sh), (transitive) носити (sh), (intransitive) понети (sh), (intransitive) довести (sh), (transitive) доводити (sh), (slang, german origin) дофурати (sh)
- Roman: (intransitive) donijeti (sh), (transitive) donositi (sh), (transitive) nositi (sh), (intransitive) ponijeti (sh), (intransitive) dovesti (sh), (transitive) dovoditi (sh), (slang, german origin) dofurati (sh)
- Sicilian: purtari (scn)
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: priniesť (sk)
- Slovene: please add this translation if you can
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: traer (es), llevar (es)
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: овардан (tg) (ovardan)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: తెచ్చు (te) (teccu), తీసుకొచ్చు (te) (tīsukoccu)
- Thai: นำ (th) (nam), เอามา (th) (ao maa)
- Tok Pisin: bringim (tpi)
- Turkish: getirmek (tr)
- Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: приносити (uk) (prynosýty) impf.
- Urdu: لانا (ur) (lānā)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: cầm lại (vi), đem lại (vi), mang lại (vi), xách lại (vi), đưa lại (vi)
- Volapük: blinön (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: dod â (cy)
- West Frisian: bringe (fy)
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Onomatopeia
Interjection [edit]
bring
- The sound of a telephone ringing.
Statistics [edit]
Danish [edit]
bring
- imperative of bringe
German [edit]
bring
- The imperative of second-person singular of bringen
Etymology [edit]
Old English bringan.
Pronunciation [edit]
tae bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringin, simple past brocht, past participle brocht)
- To bring.
