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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Noun 1.1.2.1 Usage notes 1.1.2.2 Synonyms 1.1.2.3 Translations 1.1.3 Verb 1.1.3.1 Derived terms 1.1.3.2 Translations 1.1.3.3 See also 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Alternative spellings 1.2.2 Pronunciation 1.2.3 Noun 1.2.3.1 Synonyms 1.2.3.2 Translations 1.2.4 See also 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Abbreviation 1.4 Anagrams 2 Albanian 2.1 Verb 3 Bosnian 3.1 Preposition 4 Catalan 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Noun 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Noun 5 Croatian 5.1 Preposition 6 Czech 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Preposition 7 Dutch 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Pronunciation 7.3 Noun 7.3.1 Synonyms 7.3.2 See also 8 Esperanto 8.1 Adverb 9 French 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Noun 9.2.1 Synonyms 10 Galician 10.1 Etymology 10.2 Contraction 11 Ido 11.1 Adverb 12 Irish 12.1 Pronunciation 12.2 Particle 12.2.1 Usage notes 12.2.2 Related terms 12.3 Preposition 12.3.1 Inflection 12.3.2 Usage notes 12.3.3 Related terms 12.4 Pronoun 12.4.1 Usage notes 12.4.2 Related terms 13 Italian 13.1 Alternative spellings 13.2 Verb 13.3 Noun 13.4 Anagrams 14 Japanese 14.1 Noun 15 Latin 15.1 Etymology 15.2 Pronunciation 15.3 Verb 15.3.1 Conjugation 15.3.2 Synonyms 15.3.3 Derived terms 15.3.4 Descendants 16 Lojban 16.1 Pronoun 17 Norwegian 17.1 Etymology 1 17.1.1 Noun 17.1.1.1 Compounds 17.1.1.2 Synonyms 17.2 Etymology 2 17.2.1 Noun 18 Polish 18.1 Pronunciation 18.2 Etymology 18.3 Preposition 19 Portuguese 19.1 Etymology 19.2 Contraction 20 Saterland Frisian 20.1 Article 21 Scottish Gaelic 21.1 Pronoun 21.1.1 Usage notes 21.2 Preposition 21.2.1 Usage notes 21.2.2 Synonyms 21.2.3 Derived terms 22 Serbian 22.1 Pronunciation 22.2 Preposition 22.2.1 Cyrillic spelling 23 Slovak 23.1 Preposition 24 Slovene 24.1 Preposition 25 Spanish 25.1 Etymology 25.2 Adverb 25.3 Noun 25.3.1 See also 25.4 Pronoun 25.5 Derived terms 26 Turkish 26.1 Noun 27 Volapük 27.1 Conjunction 28 Welsh 28.1 Adverb 29 West Frisian 29.1 Pronoun 29.2 Noun

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English dōn, from Proto-West-Germanic *dôn, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeH₁- ‘put, place, do, make’.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: do͞o, IPA: /duː/, SAMPA: /du:/
• (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA: /du/, SAMPA: /du/
• (Aus) IPA: /dʉː/, SAMPA: /d}:/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -uː

[edit] Noun

do (plural dos)

1. (colloquial) A function, celebration, party.

   We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.

2. (informal) A hairdo.

   Nice do!

3. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
4. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).

[edit] Usage notes

For the plural of the noun, the spelling dos would be correct; do’s is often used for the sake of legibility, but is sometimes considered incorrect.

[edit] Synonyms

• (period of confusion or argument): to-do

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to do (third-person singular simple present does, (archaic) doth, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done)

• Another archaic form is the second-person singular present tense dost.

1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in questions.

   Do you go?

2. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations.

   I do not go.

3. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis.

   But I do go.

4. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker to avoid repetition of an earlier verb.

   I play tennis; he does too.

5. (transitive) To perform; to execute.

   All you ever do is surf the internet.

6. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.

   It’s not the best broom, but it will have to do.

   This will do me, thanks.

7. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.

   It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.

8. (transitive) To have (as an effect).

   The fresh air did him some good.

9. (transitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.

   Our relationship isn't doing very well.

   How do you do?

10. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.

    What do you do?

11. To cook.

    I'll just do some eggs.

    • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In a Boat:

      It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.

    • 1944, “News from the Suburbs”, Punch:

      We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.

    • 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page 99:

      Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.

12. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.

    Let’s do New York also.

    • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, 1957 ed.:

      We 'did' London to our heart's content, thanks to Fred and Frank, and were sorry to go away, […]

    • 1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder^[1], page 97:

      After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London […]

    • 1968 July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, “Nice Place to Visit”, New York Magazine, page 28:

      No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker […]

13. To treat in a certain way.
    • 1894, Harper's^[2], page 59:

      They did me well, I assure you — uncommon well: Bellinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince; […]

    • 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in Lord Peter Views the Body,

      Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.

    • 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This^[3], ISBN 068804560X, page 50:

      "Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."

14. (transitive) To spend (time) in jail.

    I did five years for armed robbery.

15. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.

    They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.

16. (transitive, slang) To kill.
    • 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics Is the Greatest Game: A Johannesburg Liberal Lampoon^[4], ISBN 1857565665, page 314:

      He's gonna do me, Jarvis. I kid you not, this time he's gonna do me proper.

    • 2007, E.J. Churchill, The Lazarus Code, page 153:

      The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.

17. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
    • 1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page 81:

      […] one day I did her on the kitchen table, and several times on the dining-room table.

    • 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill^[5], page 84:

      The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.

18. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.

    That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!

19. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.

    The novel has just been done into English.

    I'm going to do do this play into a movie.

20. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.

    Aren't you done yet?

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

[edit] Etymology 2

From Italian do.

[edit] Alternative spellings

• doh

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dəʊ/, SAMPA: /d@U/, enPR: dō
• (US) IPA: /doʊ/, SAMPA: /doU/, enPR: dō
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: doe, dough

[edit] Noun

do (plural dos)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

[edit] Synonyms

• ut (archaic)

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

[edit] Etymology 3

Short for ditto.

[edit] Abbreviation

do

1. (rare) ditto

[edit] Anagrams

• od, OD

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[edit] Albanian

[edit] Verb

do

1. To want.
2. To like.
3. To love.

   Të dua.

   I love you.

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[edit] Bosnian

[edit] Preposition

do genitive case

1. by
2. next to
3. until

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[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin donum (“‘gift’”)

[edit] Noun

do m. (plural dons)

1. gift
2. talent

[edit] Etymology 2

From Italian do

[edit] Noun

do m. (plural dos)

1. (music) do (first note of diatonic scale)

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[edit] Croatian

[edit] Preposition

do

1. by
2. next to
3. until
4. up to
5. till

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Preposition

do

1. into, in, to, until
2. by (at some time before the given time)

   Ať jsi zpátky do desíti! — Be back by ten o'clock!

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Etymology

From Italian do (“‘the note’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /do/, SAMPA: /do/

  Rhymes: -o

[edit] Noun

do m. and f. (plural do's, no diminutive)

1. do, the musical note
2. (Belgium) C, the musical note

[edit] Synonyms

• ut (archaic)

[edit] See also

• bee
• fa
• kruis
• la
• mi
• mol
• re
• si
• sol

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Adverb

do

1. then, indeed, however

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /do/, SAMPA: /do/

  Rhymes: -o

[edit] Noun

do m. (plural dos)

1. do, the musical note

[edit] Synonyms

• ut

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From contraction of preposition de (“‘of, from’”) + masculine definite article o (“‘the’”)

[edit] Contraction

do m. (feminine da, masculine plural dos, feminine plural das)

1. of the; from the

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Adverb

do

1. so, therefore

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• (particle): IPA: [d̪ˠɔ], [d̪ˠə]
• (preposition): IPA: [d̪ˠɔ], [d̪ˠə]
  • (Connemara and the Aran Islands) IPA: [ɡə]
• (pronoun): IPA: [d̪ˠə]

[edit] Particle

do

1. (Munster) Marker of the past tense.

   do mhol sé

   he praised

[edit] Usage notes

Triggers lenition of a following consonant. The variant form, d', is required before verbs beginning with a vowel sound:

d'ól sé

he drank

d'fhreastail sé

he served

[edit] Related terms

• d' (used before a vowel sound, required)

[edit] Preposition

do

1. to, for

   do chara

   to a friend, for a friend

[edit] Inflection

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.	dom	domsa
2d person sing.	duit	duitse
3d sing. masc.	dó	dósan
3d sing. fem.	di	dise
1st person pl.	dúinn	dúinne
2d person pl.	daoibh	daoibhse
3d person pl.	dóibh	dóibhsean

[edit] Usage notes

Triggers lenition of a following consonant. Used only before consonant sounds.

[edit] Related terms

• d' (used before a vowel sound)

[edit] Pronoun

do possessive pronoun

1. your (singular)

   Cá bhfuil do charr?

   Where is your car?

[edit] Usage notes

Triggers lenition of a following consonant. Used only before consonant sounds.

[edit] Related terms

• d' (used before a vowel sound)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Alternative spellings

• dò

[edit] Verb

do

1. First-person singular indicative present tense of dare.

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia ^it

do m.

1. do, the musical note
2. C (the musical note or key)

[edit] Anagrams

• od

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

do (hiragana ど)

1. 度: degree; times

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“‘to give’”). Cognates include Ancient Greek δίδωμι (didōmi), Sanskrit ददाति (dádāti), Old Persian 𐎭𐎭𐎠𐎬𐎺 (dā-).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /doː/

[edit] Verb

present active dō, present infinitive dare, perfect active dedī, supine datum.

1. I give
2. I offer, render
   • Captivi ("the captives") by Plautus (English and Latin text)

     Do tibi operam, Aristophontes, si quid est quod me velis.

     I’m at your service, Aristophontes, if there’s anything you want of me.

3. I yield, surrender, concede

[edit] Conjugation

[edit] Synonyms

• (give): dōnō
• (offer, render): dōnō

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Descendants

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Pronoun

do

1. you

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology 1

Possibly abbreviated form of "do-hus" (do house) from Low German don (do).

[edit] Noun

do m. (definite singular doen; indefinite plural doer; definite plural doene)
do n. (definite singular doet; indefinite plural do/doer; definite plural doa/doene)

1. toilet

[edit] Compounds

• dodraug
• dolukt
• dopapir
• dorull
• dosete
• klappedo
• utedo

[edit] Synonyms

• dass
• toalett

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Noun

do

1. do, the musical note

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /dɔ/

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *do, from Proto-Indo-European *do-, *de-.

[edit] Preposition

do followed by the genitive

1. to, towards, into
2. until

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[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Etymology

Contraction of the preposition de and the definite article o or the demonstrative pronoun o.

[edit] Contraction

do

1. of the
2. from the

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[edit] Saterland Frisian

[edit] Article

ju plural

1. the

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronoun

do

1. your (informal singular)

   Bha iongantach do ghràdh dhomh. - Wonderful was thy love for me.

[edit] Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.
• Before a word beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel it takes the form d'.

  Bidh cuimhn’ agam ort, air d’ anam ghrinn. - I will remember thee, thy dear soul.

[edit] Preposition

do

1. to

   Bha e a' siubhal do Shasainn au-uiridh. - He travelled to England last year.

2. for

   Do ar beatha, dhut, dhèanainn e. - For our life, for thee, I would do it.

[edit] Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.
• Before a word beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel it takes the form do dh'.

  Tha sinn a' dol do dh'Ile. - We are going to Islay.

• If the definite article in the singular follows, it combines with do into don:

  Fàilte don dùthaich. - Welcome to the country.

[edit] Synonyms

• a

[edit] Derived terms

• an dèidh do
• 's urrainn do
• The following prepositional pronouns:

Combining pronoun	Prepositional pronoun	Prepositional pronoun (emphatic)
mi	dhomh	dhomhsa
tu	dhut	dhutsa
e	dha	dhasan
i	dhi	dhise
sinn	dhuinn	dhuinne
sibh	dhuibh	dhuibhse
iad	dhaibh	dhaibhsan

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[edit] Serbian

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Preposition

do genitive case

1. by
2. next to
3. until

[edit] Cyrillic spelling

• до

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[edit] Slovak

[edit] Preposition

do

1. into, in, to, until

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Preposition

do

1. by (some time before the given time)

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

Old Spanish do, short for donde

[edit] Adverb

do

1. where

[edit] Noun

do m. (plural dos)

1. do (musical note)

[edit] See also

• (notes): do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si

[edit] Pronoun

do

1. where

[edit] Derived terms

• doquier

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[edit] Turkish

[edit] Noun

do

1. C, the musical note

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[edit] Volapük

[edit] Conjunction

do

1. though, although, even though

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[edit] Welsh

[edit] Adverb

do

1. Did (as opposed to naddo, didn’t).

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[edit] West Frisian

[edit] Pronoun

do personal pronoun

1. you (informal second-person singular subject)

[edit] Noun

do

1. pigeon, dove