do
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”).
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, whence Danish du.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The obligatory, meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and—formerly—affirmative sentences, which is unusual in Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic.[1] It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
Doublets include deed, deem, -dom, but not deal.
Other cognates include, via Latin, English feast, festival, fair (“celebration”), via Greek, English theo-, theme, thesis, and Sanskrit दधाति (dadhāti, “to put”), धातृ (dhātṛ, “creator”) and धातु (dhātu, “layer, element, root”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /duː/, enPR: do͞o
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /du/, enPR: do͞o
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /dʉː/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - (unstressed, after a consonant) IPA(key): /də/
- (unstressed, after a vowel) IPA(key): /dʊ/
- (colloquial; for some speakers, when "do" is unstressed and the next word starts with /j/) IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: doo, doux
- Homophones: dew, due (in accents with yod-dropping)
Verb[edit]
do (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done)
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- Do you go there often?
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- I do not go there often.
- Do not listen to him.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 51:
- “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- But I do go sometimes.
- Do tell us.
- It is important that he do come see me.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”
- (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- I play tennis; she does too.
- (nonstandard) They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
- 1930, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Embraceable You”
- Don't be a naughty baby,
- Come to papa, come to papa, do!
- My sweet embraceable you.
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- (transitive) To perform; to execute.
- Synonyms: accomplish, carry out, functionate
- All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
- 1490, Caxton, William, “Prologue”, in Eneydos (in Middle English); republished as Caxton's Eneydos, London: Early English Text Society, 1890, page 2:
- And also my lorde abbot of westmynster ded do shewe to me late, certayn euydences wryton in olde englysshe […]
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VI, stanza 7, page 258:
- Sometimes to do him laugh, ſhe would aſſay / To laugh at ſhaking off the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke […]
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] VVilliam Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:
- Emongſt the reſt a wicked maladie / Raign’d emongſt men, that manie did to die, […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Corinthians 8:1, column 1:
- MOreouer, brethren, wee do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God beſtowed on the Churches of Macedonia, […]
- (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
- it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 51:
- “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
- 1922, Williams, Margery, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- "Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
- (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
- It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
- (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
- The fresh air did him some good.
- (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
- What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- "Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
- To cook.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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[3]:
- 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.
- (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Our Foreign Correspondent”, in Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, OCLC 30743985, page 115:
- We 'did' London to our hearts' 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[4], page 97:
- After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London […]
- 1968, July 22, “Ralph Schoenstein”, in Nice Place to Visit[5], 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 […]
- Let’s do New York also.
- (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
- 1894, Harper's New Monthly Magazine[6], volume 87, page 59, column 1:
- They did me well, I assure you—uncommon well: Bollinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince; […]
- 1928, Sayers, Dorothy L[eigh], “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.
- (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 291:
- The woman-who-did did not do very well, Juliet thought.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Kings 17:34, column 2:
- Vnto this day they doe after the former manners: they feare not the Lord, neither doe they after their Statutes, or after their Ordinances, or after the Law and Commaundement which the Lord commaunded the children of Iacob, whom hee named Iſrael, […]
- (transitive) To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- Synonym: serve
- I did five years for armed robbery.
- (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
- (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- He did a Henry VIII and got married six times.
- He was planning to do a 9/11.
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- Synonyms: do in, murder, off, rub out; see also Thesaurus:kill
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 22:
- Case pulled the .22 out of his pocket and levelled it at Wage's crotch. “I hear you wanna do me.”
- 2003 August 17, George Pelecanos, “Bad Dreams”, in The Wire, season 2, episode 11, HBO, spoken by Omar Little (Michael K. Williams), 43:27 from the start:
- About a year ago, a boy name Brandon got got here in Baltimore. Stuck and burned before he passed. […] Wasn't no need for y'all to do him the way y'all did.
- 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.
- (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place
- Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, […] or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him.
- 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place
- (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
- He got done for speeding.
- Teacher'll do you for that!
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
- Synonyms: go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- c. 1588–1593, [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, OCLC 222241046, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Deme. Villaine what haſt thou done?
A. That which thou canſt not vndoe.
Chiron. Thou haſt vndone our mother.
Aron. Villaine I haue done thy mother.
- 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[9], page 84:
- The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.
- (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
- Synonyms: defraud, diddle, mug off, rip off, scam; see also Thesaurus:deceive
- That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
- 1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton
- He was not to be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.
- (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie
- (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
- (UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
- Synonyms: attend, serve, wait on; see also Thesaurus:serve
- 1915, Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections:
- I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
- (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- 1844, Barnes, William, “Evenén in the Village”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
- ...An' the dogs do bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water do roar at mill.
- (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (informal, transitive, ditransitive) To make or provide.
- Synonyms: furnish, give, supply; see also Thesaurus:give
- Do they do haircuts there?
- Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
- (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
- 2010 April 24, “Given stretchered off with suspected broken shoulder”, in The Irish Times[10], retrieved 2015-07-21:
- "Defender Kolo Toure admitted Given will be a loss, but gave his backing to Nielsen. 'I think he's done his shoulder,' said the Ivorian."
- 2014 April 14, Matt Cleary, “What do Australia's cricketers do on holiday?”, in ESPNcricinfo[11], retrieved 2015-07-21:
- "Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla."
- 2014 August 13, Harry Thring, “I knew straight away I'd done my ACL: Otten”, in AFL.com.au[12], retrieved 2015-07-21:
- "'I knew straight away I'd done my ACL, I heard the sound - it was very loud and a few of the boys said they heard it as well,' Otten said."
- (transitive) To take drugs.
- I do cocaine.
- (transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- What's that car doing in our swimming pool?
Usage notes[edit]
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb do had two such forms: dost, in auxiliary uses, and doest, in other uses. The past tense of both forms is didst.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form doth was used as an auxiliary, and the form doeth was used elsewhere.
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | do | ||||||||||
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present participle | doing | ||||||||||
past participle | done | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I do | we do | I am doing | we are doing | I have done | we have done | I have been doing | we have been doing | |||
you do | you do | you are doing | you are doing | you have done | you have done | you have been doing | you have been doing | ||||
he does | they do | he is doing | they are doing | he has done | they have done | he has been doing | they have been doing | ||||
past | I did | we did | I was doing | we were doing | I had done | we had done | I had been doing | we had been doing | |||
you did | you did | you were doing | you were doing | you had done | you had done | you had been doing | you had been doing | ||||
he did | they did | he was doing | they were doing | he had done | they had done | he had been doing | they had been doing | ||||
future | I will do | we will do | I will be doing | we will be doing | I will have done | we will have done | I will have been doing | we will have been doing | |||
you will do | you will do | you will be doing | you will be doing | you will have done | you will have done | you will have been doing | you will have been doing | ||||
he will do | they will do | he will be doing | they will be doing | he will have done | they will have done | he will have been doing | they will have been doing | ||||
conditional | I would do | we would do | I would be doing | we would be doing | I would have done | we would have done | I would have been doing | we would have been doing | |||
you would do | you would do | you would be doing | you would be doing | you would have done | you would have done | you would have been doing | you would have been doing | ||||
he would do | they would do | he would be doing | they would be doing | he would have done | they would have done | he would have been doing | they would have been doing | ||||
imperative | do |
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- bedo
- can do with
- doable
- do a runner
- do as I say and not as I do
- do by
- do by halves
- do down
- doer
- do for
- dogoodery
- do ill
- do in
- do it
- do right by
- done
- do-nothing
- do one's easement
- do-over
- do somebody wrong
- do the decent thing
- do the trick
- do time
- do up
- do well by doing good
- do with mirrors
- do without
- fordo
- misdo
- redo
- overdo
- to do with
- underdo
- undo
Translations[edit]
See also[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
- Synonyms: get-together; see also Thesaurus:party
- We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
- 1980, Jona Lewie; Keef Trouble (lyrics and music), “You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties”, performed by Jona Lewie:
- She was into French cuisine but I ain't no Cordon Bleu / This was at some do in Palmers Green, I had no luck with her
- 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards”, in The Guardian[13]:
- […] ; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
- (informal) A hairdo.
- Nice do!
- 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 464:
- I like the new do.
- Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
- Antonym: don't
- 1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, in Just David[14]:
- With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos."
- (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
- Synonym: to-do
- 1689, John Selden, Table Talk
- A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
Usage notes[edit]
- 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.
- For the party, the term usually implies a social function of modest size and formality.
Translations[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From the name of musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni, who suggested replacing the original ut with an open syllable for ease of singing. First found in Italian .
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: dō, IPA(key): /dəʊ/
- (US) enPR: dō, IPA(key): /doʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
- Homophones: doe, dough, d'oh
Noun[edit]
do (plural dos)
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- Synonym: (archaic) ut
Translations[edit]
See also[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Short for ditto.
Alternative forms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do (not comparable)
Etymology 4[edit]
Shortening of dozen.
Numeral[edit]
do
- The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- do at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams[edit]
Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
Atong (India)[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
do (Bengali script দো)
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.
Bambara[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
References[edit]
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Barai[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
References[edit]
- The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN)
Boko[edit]
Numeral[edit]
do
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m (plural dons)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m (plural dos)
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
do
Central Franconian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old High German dār (“there”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old High German duo (“then”), variant of do, dō. Compare German da, Dutch toen.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /doː/ (traditional)
- IPA(key): /dɔː/ (now sometimes by conflation with etymology 1 under standard German influence)
Adverb[edit]
do
- (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) then; back then (at a certain time in the past)
Etymology 3[edit]
From Old High German du.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
do
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *do.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do + genitive
- into, in (to the inside of)
- Vešel do místnosti. ― He walked into the room.
- Dostala se jí voda do bot. ― Water got in her boots.
- to, in (in the direction of, and arriving at; indicating destination)
- Jdeme do obchodu. ― We are walking to the shop.
- Přiletěli jsme do New Yorku. ― We arrived in New York.
- until (up to the time of)
- Zůstal tam až do neděle. ― He stayed there until Sunday.
- by (at some time before the given time)
- Ať jsi zpátky do desíti! ― Be back by ten o'clock!
- to, in (physical blows "to" a body part)
- to, up to (extreme limit, all the way up to)
Further reading[edit]
- do in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- do in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m or f (plural do's)
Synonyms[edit]
- ut (archaic)
See also[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
do (accusative singular do-on, plural do-oj, accusative plural do-ojn)
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
See also[edit]
- (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo
Etymology 2[edit]
From French donc, likely via apheresis of Latin ad tunc (see adonc). Compare Italian dunque, Romanian atunci, Spanish entonces.
Adverb[edit]
do
Fala[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese do, from de + o.
Preposition[edit]
do m (plural dos, feminine da, feminine plural das)
- contraction of de o (“of the”).
- 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:
- I si “a patria do homi é sua lengua”, cumu idía Albert Camus, o que está claru é que a lengua está mui por encima de fronteiras, serras, rius i maris, de situaciós pulíticas i sociu-económicas, de lazus religiosus e inclusu familiaris.
- And if “a man’s homeland [i.e. “homeland of the man”] is his language”, as Albert Camus said, what is clear is that language is above borders, mountain ranges, rivers and seas, above political and socio-economic situations, of religious and even family ties.
Faroese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do n (genitive singular dos, plural do)
Declension[edit]
Declension of do | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | do | doið | do | doini |
accusative | do | doið | do | doini |
dative | doi | doinum | doum | dounum |
genitive | dos | dosins | doa | doanna |
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m (plural do)
Further reading[edit]
- “do”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + masculine definite article o (“the”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Contraction[edit]
do m (feminine da, masculine plural dos, feminine plural das)
Garo[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- do·o (A·chik)
Etymology[edit]
Glottal stop loss of do·o
Noun[edit]
do (Mandi)
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
Hunsrik[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do
Further reading[edit]
Ido[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do
Irish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Irish ro-, from Old Irish ro-, from Proto-Celtic *ɸro-, influenced by do- of verbs like do·beir (“give”), do·uccus (“I have given”) (with early modern forms like do-bheirim (“I give”), do-ugas (“I gave”)).
Alternative forms[edit]
- d’ (used before vowels and lenited fh-)
Pronunciation[edit]
Particle[edit]
do (triggers lenition)
- (Munster, literary) prefixed before the preterite, imperfect and conditional forms of a verb
- do mhol sé ― he praised
Etymology 2[edit]
Reanalysis of do (“past tense marker”) and the early modern unstressed preverb do- of verbs like do-gheibhim (“I get”), do-chím (“I see”) (and possibly also a- in a-tú (“I am”), a-deirim (“I say”)) in relative clauses as a relative marker.
Pronunciation[edit]
Particle[edit]
do (triggers lenition)
- (Munster, literary) relative marker (in direct relative clauses)
- an cailín do mholann sé ― the girl that he praises
Usage notes[edit]
Before vowel sounds takes the form d’ and is often preceeded by the reduced form a: a dh’, a d’:
- an té a dh’éiríonn go moch, bíonn an rath air ― he who raises early has the prosperity; the early bird catches the worm
Etymology 3[edit]
From Old Irish do, from Proto-Celtic *do (“to, for”).
Alternative forms[edit]
- d’ (used before vowel sounds)
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /d̪ˠɔ/, /d̪ˠə/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ɡə/ (as if spelled go; do and go (“to, up to, until”) have largely become conflated in this dialect)
Preposition[edit]
do (plus dative, triggers lenition)
- to, for
- do chara ― to a friend, for a friend
- used with the possessive determiners mo, do, bhur to indicate the direct object of a verbal noun, in place of ag after a form of bí in the progressive aspect
- Tá sé do mo ghortú. ― It’s hurting me.
- Bhí sé do d’fhiafraí. ― He was inquiring about you sg.
- Bhí sibh do bhur gcloí. ― You pl were being overthrown.
Inflection[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
an (“the sg”) | na (“the pl”) | mo (“my”) | do (“your”) | a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár (“our”) | ar (“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) | |
de (“from”) | den | de na desna* |
de mo dem* |
de do ded*, det* |
dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* |
do mo dom* |
do do dod*, dot* |
dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh | |
fara (“along with, beside”) | fairis an | fairis na | fara mo | fara do | farana | faranár | faranar | faranarb | faranarbh | |
i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* |
i do id*, it* |
ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh | |
le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* |
le do led*, let* |
lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh | |
ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* |
ó mo óm* |
ó do ód*, ót* |
óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh | |
trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh | |
*Dialectal. |
See also: Category:Irish phrasal verbs with particle (do)
Etymology 4[edit]
From Old Irish do, from Proto-Celtic *tou- (“your, thy”); compare Welsh dy, Cornish dha, Breton da.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Determiner[edit]
do (triggers lenition)
- your (singular)
- Cá bhfuil do charr? ― Where is your car?
See also[edit]
Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) |
Disjunctive (emphatic) |
Possessive determiner |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before vowel sounds | |
Second | tú (tusa)1 |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before vowel sounds | |
Third masculine | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
Third feminine | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | |
Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
Second | sibh (sibhse)1 |
bhur E | ||
Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E |
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- "do" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “do” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “do” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (rare) dò
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
Etymology 2[edit]
Clipping of Doni, the surname of Giovanni Battista Doni. Coined in the 17th century to replace ut.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m
Anagrams[edit]
References[edit]
do in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
do
Ladin[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”). The reduplication was lost in Latin in the present tense, but is preserved in the other Italic languages. A root aorist (from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃t) is preserved in Venetic 𐌆𐌏𐌕𐌏 (doto); the other Italic perfect forms reflect a reduplicated stative, *dedai. However, the root aorist possibly served as the source of the Latin present forms.[1]
Cognates include Ancient Greek δίδωμι (dídōmi), Sanskrit ददाति (dádāti), Old Persian 𐎭𐎭𐎠𐎬𐎢𐎺 (dā-).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dō (present infinitive dare, perfect active dedī, supine datum); first conjugation, irregular
- I give
- Synonym: dōnō
- Tertium non datur.law of excluded middle
- A third [possibility] is not given: .
- I impart, offer, render, present with
- Synonym: dōnō
- c. 200 BC, Plautus Captivi ("the captives") (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. ("I offer labour to you, Aristophontes…)
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 14:
- I afford, grant
- Synonym: dōnō
- 44 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics , 1.22.7:
- Non igitur provocatio ista lege datur, sed duae maxime salutares leges quaestionesque tolluntur. Quid est aliud hortari adulescentis ut turbulenti, ut seditiosi, ut perniciosi cives velint esse?
- It is not, therefore, a right of appeal that is afforded by that law, but two most salutary laws and modes of judicial investigation that are abolished. And what is this but exhorting young men to be turbulent, seditious, mischievous citizens?
- Non igitur provocatio ista lege datur, sed duae maxime salutares leges quaestionesque tolluntur. Quid est aliud hortari adulescentis ut turbulenti, ut seditiosi, ut perniciosi cives velint esse?
- 44 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics , 1.23.4:
- Quid, quod obrogatur legibus Cæsaris, quae iubent ei qui de vi itemque ei qui maiestatis damnatus sit aqua et igni interdici? quibus cum provocatio datur, nonne acta Cæsaris rescinduntur? Quae quidem ego, patres conscripti, qui illa numquam probavi, tamen ita conservanda concordiae causa arbitratus sum ut non modo, quas vivus leges Cæsar tulisset, infirmandas hoc tempore non putarem, sed ne illas quidem quas post mortem Cæsaris prolatas esse et fixas videtis.
- What more? Is not this a substitution of a new law for the laws of Cæsar, which enact that every man who has been convicted of violence, and also every man who has been convicted of treason, shall be interdicted from fire and water? And, when those men have a right of appeal granted them, are not the acts of Cæsar rescinded? And those acts, O conscript fathers, I, who never approved of them, have still thought it advisable to maintain for the sake of concord; so that I not only did not think that the laws which Cæsar had passed in his lifetime ought to be repealed, but I did not approve of meddling with those even which since the death of Cæsar you have seen produced and published.
- Quid, quod obrogatur legibus Cæsaris, quae iubent ei qui de vi itemque ei qui maiestatis damnatus sit aqua et igni interdici? quibus cum provocatio datur, nonne acta Cæsaris rescinduntur? Quae quidem ego, patres conscripti, qui illa numquam probavi, tamen ita conservanda concordiae causa arbitratus sum ut non modo, quas vivus leges Cæsar tulisset, infirmandas hoc tempore non putarem, sed ne illas quidem quas post mortem Cæsaris prolatas esse et fixas videtis.
- I bestow, confer (on or upon)
- Synonym: dōnō
- I concede, surrender, yield
- I put
- I adduce (e.g., a witness)
Conjugation[edit]
In Vulgar Latin, dō becomes *dao, by analogy with the root vowel -a-, but also by some elided third conjugation verbs like *vao, *vare (< vadō, vadere).
This table includes an archaic present subjunctive conjugation on a du- root that appears in the works of Plautus and Terence.
Conjugation of dō (first conjugation, irregular short a in most forms except dās and dā) | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | dō | dās | dat | damus | datis | dant, danunt |
imperfect | dabam | dabās | dabat | dabāmus | dabātis | dabant | |
future | dabō | dabis | dabit | dabimus | dabitis | dabunt | |
perfect | dedī | dedistī | dedit | dedimus | dedistis | dedērunt, dedēre | |
pluperfect | dederam | dederās | dederat | dederāmus | dederātis | dederant | |
future perfect | dederō | dederis | dederit | dederimus | dederitis | dederint | |
passive | present | dor | daris, dare |
datur | damur | daminī | dantur |
imperfect | dabar | dabāris, dabāre |
dabātur | dabāmur | dabāminī | dabantur | |
future | dabor | daberis, dabere |
dabitur | dabimur | dabiminī | dabuntur | |
perfect | datus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | datus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | datus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | dem, duim |
dēs, duās, duīs |
det, duit |
dēmus | dētis | dent, duint |
imperfect | darem | darēs | daret | darēmus | darētis | darent | |
perfect | dederim | dederīs | dederit | dederīmus | dederītis | dederint | |
pluperfect | dedissem | dedissēs | dedisset | dedissēmus | dedissētis | dedissent | |
passive | present | der | dēris, dēre |
dētur | dēmur | dēminī | dentur |
imperfect | darer | darēris, darēre |
darētur | darēmur | darēminī | darentur | |
perfect | datus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | datus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | dā | — | — | date | — |
future | — | datō | datō | — | datōte | dantō | |
passive | present | — | dare | — | — | daminī | — |
future | — | dator | dator | — | — | dantor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | dare | dedisse | datūrum esse | darī | datum esse | datum īrī | |
participles | dāns | — | datūrus | — | datus | dandus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
dandī | dandō | dandum | dandō | datum | datū |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aragonese: dar
- Aromanian: dau, dari
- Asturian: dar
- Corsican: dà
- Dalmatian: dur
- Emilian: dèr
- Friulian: dâ
- Istriot: dà
- Interlingua: dar
- Istro-Romanian: dåu
- Ladin: dé, dèr
- Ligurian: dâ
- Lombard: da, daa
- Navarro-Aragonese: dar
- Aragonese: dar
- Neapolitan: dà
- Italian: dare
- Old Leonese: dar
- Old Portuguese: dar
- Old Occitan: dar
- Old Spanish: dar
- Piedmontese: dé
- Romagnol: dê
- Romanian: da, dare
- Romansch: dar, der
- Sabir: dar, dara
- Sardinian: dàe, dai, dare
- Sicilian: dari, rari
- Tarantino: dare
- Venetian: dar
Further reading[edit]
- do in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- do in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- do in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
References[edit]
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Ligurian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- dro (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Contraction[edit]
do
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *do.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do (with genitive)
- to, into
- 1998, Erwin Hannusch, Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bauzten: Domowina, →ISBN, p. 30:
- Jana chójźi hyšći do šule, wóna jo wuknica.
- Jana still goes to school; she is a schoolgirl.
- do Chóśebuza ― to Cottbus
- do jsy ― to the village, into the village
- do wognja ― into the fire
- do njebja ― to heaven
- 1998, Erwin Hannusch, Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bauzten: Domowina, →ISBN, p. 30:
Further reading[edit]
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “do”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “do”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Luxembourgish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *þar.
Adverb[edit]
do
- there, in that place
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
Nias[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq. Compare Malay darah, Ilocano dara.
Noun[edit]
do (mutated form ndro)
References[edit]
- Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 52.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Possibly an abbreviation of "do-hūs" ("do house") from Middle Low German dōn.
Noun[edit]
do m or n (definite singular doen or doet, indefinite plural doer or do, definite plural doene or doa)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m
- do (the musical note)
References[edit]
- “do” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Possibly an abbreviation of "do-hūs" ("do house") from Middle Low German dōn.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m or n (definite singular doen or doet, indefinite plural doar or do, definite plural doane or doa)
Etymology 2[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do
Derived terms[edit]
For other terms please refer to do (Bokmål) for the time being.
Etymology 3[edit]
From the name of musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni, who suggested replacing the original ut with an open syllable for ease of singing. First found in Italian.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m (definite singular do-en, indefinite plural do-ar, definite plural do-ane)
- (music) do, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
Coordinate terms[edit]
Etymology 4[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
References[edit]
- “do” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *do (“to”), from Proto-Indo-European *de. Unrelated to the prefix to-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do (with dative; triggers lenition of a following consonant-initial noun.)
- to, for
- indicates the subject of a verbal noun
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97d10
- Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doïb di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.
- It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that Good would not give it to them, and [even] that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97d10
Inflection[edit]
Person | Normal | Emphatic |
---|---|---|
1st person sing. | dom, dam | domsa, damsa |
2d person sing. | duit, dait, d(e)it | duitsiu, de(i)tsiu, duitso, détso |
3d sing. masc./neut., dative | dó(u), dáu | dos(s)om |
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative | ||
3d sing. fem., dative | dí | dis(s)i |
3d sing. fem., accusative | ||
1st person pl. | dún(n), duún, dúun, dúin | dúnn(a)i |
2d person pl. | dúib | dúibsi |
3d person pl., dative | do(a)ib, duaib, dóib | doïbsom, doaibsem, dóibsem |
3d person pl., accusative |
Combinations with a definite article:
Combinations with a possessive determiner:
Combinations with a relative pronoun:
- dia· (“to/for whom/which”)
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
do
- Alternative spelling of dó
Adverb[edit]
do
- Alternative spelling of dó
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 do”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003)D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 274, 506
Pennsylvania German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do
- here
- Heit iss en Feierdaag do in Amerikaa.
- Today is a holiday here in America.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *do, from Proto-Indo-European *de, *do, whence English to.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do
- (+ genitive) to, towards (indicates an intended end-point or location)
- Zwykle jeżdżę do pracy pociągiem. ― I usually go to work by train.
- Chcę wrócić do domu. ― I want to go home. (literally, “I want to return to home.”)
- Synonym: (sometimes) na
- (+ genitive) into, in (indicates movement towards the interior of something)
- Proszę włożyć mleko do lodówki. ― Please put the milk in the fridge.
- (+ genitive) for, to (indicates an intended use or purpose, often analyzable as an verbal adjective or attributive noun in English)
- Zapomniałem szczoteczki do zębów. ― I forgot my toothbrush (literally, “I forgot brush for teeth.”)
- Masz ochotę na coś do picia? ― Do you fancy something to drink?
- (+ genitive) to (indicates the subject of an address or action)
- Napisałam do ciebie list. ― I wrote you a letter.
- Szymon w każdą sobotę dzwoni do mamy. ― Simon calls his mother every Saturday.
- (+ genitive) until, till, to
- Do zeszłego miesiąca mieszkałem całe życie w Łodzi. ― Until last month I had lived in Łódź my entire life.
- Pracujemy od dziewiątej do piątej. ― We work from nine to five.
- (+ genitive) up to, as many as
- Grozi mu do sześciu lat więzienia. ― He could get up to six years' imprisonment.
- Nasz syn ma tylko pięć lat, a już umie liczyć do stu. ― Our son is only five and can already count to 100.
- (+ genitive) by (indicates an intended deadline)
- Mój szef chce, żebym do jutra skończył raport. ― My boss wants me to finish the report by tomorrow.
Further reading[edit]
- do in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- do in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- d'o (dated)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese do, from de (“of”) + o (“the”). Akin to Spanish del and French du.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /du/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /do/
- (Azores, Madeira) IPA(key): /dø/
- Hyphenation: do
- Rhymes: -u
Contraction[edit]
do (plural dos, feminine da, feminine plural das)
- Contraction of de o (“pertaining or relating to the”); of the; from the (masculine singular)
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 184:
- Eu estava na esperança de encontrá-lo antes do jantar!
- I was hoping to meet you before dinner!
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:do.
See also[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m (plural do)
- do (musical note)
Declension[edit]
Saterland Frisian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Cognates include West Frisian de and German die.
Article[edit]
do (unstressed de)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Frisian thā, from Proto-Germanic *þan. Cognates include West Frisian dan and German dann.
Adverb[edit]
do
References[edit]
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “die”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “do”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Irish do. Cognates include Irish do.
Determiner[edit]
do (triggers lenition)
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Irish do. Cognates include Irish do.
Preposition[edit]
do (+ dative, triggers lenition)
- to
- Bha e a' siubhal do Shasainn an-uiridh. ― He travelled to England last year.
- for
- Do dh'ar beatha, dhut, dhèanainn e. ― For our life, for thee, I would do it.
Inflection[edit]
Personal inflection of do | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
Singular | 1st | dhomh | dhòmhsa | ||||||
2nd | dhut | dhutsa | |||||||
3rd m | dha | dhàsan | |||||||
3rd f | dhi | dhìse | |||||||
Plural | 1st | dhuinn | dhuinne | ||||||
2nd | dhuibh | dhuibhse | |||||||
3rd | dhaibh | dhaibhsan |
Usage notes[edit]
- Before a word beginning with a vowel or fh, the form do dh' may be used:
- Tha sinn a' dol do dh'Ìle. ― We are going to Islay.
- If the definite article in the singular follows, it combines with do into don or dhan:
- Fàilte don dùthaich. ― Welcome to the country.
- Tha mi a' dol dhan bhùth. ― I'm going to the shop.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle Irish ro-, from Old Irish ro-, from Proto-Celtic *ɸro-.
Particle[edit]
do (triggers lenition)
- indicates the past tense of a verb
- An do sgrìobh thu litir? ― Did you write a letter?
- Cha do bhrist mi an uinneag. ― I did break the window.
Usage notes[edit]
- Becomes dh' before a word beginning with a vowel or a lenited fh followed by a vowel.
- Dh'fhàg an t-òran brònach mi. ― The song made me sad.
- Dh'òl e am pinnt. ― He drank the pint.
- An do dh'innis mi thu mar-thà. ― Did I not already tell you.
- Usually omitted before a consonant except after particles such as an, cha etc.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *do, from Proto-Indo-European *de, *do.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
dȍ (Cyrillic spelling до̏)
- only, except
- ni(t)ko do ja ― nobody but me, only me
- ne jede ništa do komad hljeba/hleba ― he eats nothing except a piece of bread
- around, approximately
- do dva metra ― around two meters
- do 5 kila ― around five kilograms
- due to, because of
- to je do hrane ― that's due to the food
Preposition[edit]
dȍ (Cyrillic spelling до̏) (+ genitive case)
- up to, to, until, as far as, by
- od Zagreba do Beograda ― from Zagreb to Belgrade
- od jutra do mraka / od 5 do 10 sati ― from morning to night / from 5 to 10 o'clock
- od vrha do dna ― from top to bottom
- do r(ij)eke ― as far as the river
- sad je pet do sedam ― now it's five minutes to seven
- do poned(j)eljka ― by Monday
- do sada ― so far, thus far, till now
- do nedavna ― until recently
- do dana današnjega ― to this very day
- sve do ― as far as up to, all the way to
- do kuda ― how far
- do tuda ― thus far, up to here
- before (= prȉje/prȅ)
- do rata ― before the war
- beside, next (to)
- s(j)edi do mene ― sit next to me
- jedan do drugoga ― side by side
- (by extension, idiomatic and figurative meanings) up to one; interested in; feel like
- nije mi do toga ― I don't feel like doing that
- nije mi do sm(ij)eha ― I don't feel like laughing
- njemu je samo do seksa ― he is only interested in sex
- nije mi puno stalo do toga ― I'm not very much interested in that
- nije do mene ― it's not up to me, it's no me to lame
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *dolъ.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dȏ m (Cyrillic spelling до̑)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dȏ m (Cyrillic spelling до̑) (indeclinable)
References[edit]
Slovak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *do.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do (+ genitive)
Further reading[edit]
- do in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Slovene[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *do.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
do
Further reading[edit]
- “do”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
do m (plural dos)
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From a prefixation of Old Spanish o (“where”) with de (“of, from”).
Adverb[edit]
do
Pronoun[edit]
do
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “do”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Taworta[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
Further reading[edit]
Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages
Turkish[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
- C (musical note)
Venetian[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
- first-person singular present indicative of dar (“I give”)
Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Sino-Vietnamese word from 由.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zɔ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [jɔ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jɔ˧˧]
Audio (Ho Chi Minh City) (file)
Preposition[edit]
do
- (neutral passive voice marker) by
- Hầu hết các mô hình dưỡng lão đều do nhà nước bảo trợ, […]
- Most of the aged care models are sponsored by the state, […]
- because of; due to
Related terms[edit]
Volapük[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
do
Welsh[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adverb[edit]
do
Usage notes[edit]
- Used to express an affirmative answer to verbs in the past tense.
Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
do | ddo | no | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
- Soft mutation of to.
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
to | do | nho | tho |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
West Frisian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Frisian thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
do
Inflection[edit]
Number | Person | Nominative | Objective | Possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal | Reflexive | Determiner | Pronoun | ||||
Singular | First | ik | my | mysels | myn | mines | |
Second | Informal | do/dû1 | dy | dysels | dyn | dines | |
Formal | jo | jo | josels | jo | jowes | ||
Third | Masculine | hy | him | himsels | syn | sines | |
Feminine | sy/hja1 | har | harsels | har | harres | ||
Neuter | it | it | himsels | syn | sines | ||
Plural | First | wy | ús | ússels | ús | uzes | |
Second | jim(me) | jim(me) | jimsels/jinsels | jim(me) | jimmes | ||
Third | sy/hja1 | har(ren) | harsels | har(ren) | harres | ||
1. Now mostly archaic and unused |
Alternative forms[edit]
- dû (Wood)
Further reading[edit]
- “do (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Frisian *dūve, from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do c (plural dowen, diminutive doke)
Further reading[edit]
- “do (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
do c (plural do's)
- do (musical note)
Further reading[edit]
- “do (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
West Makian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
do
- (transitive) to find
- (transitive) to obtain, get hold of
- (transitive) to receive
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of do (action verb) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | todo | modo | ado | |
2nd person | nodo | fodo | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ido | dodo | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nodo, do | fodo, do |
References[edit]
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[15], Pacific linguistics
Yoruba[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From do used in solfège to represent the first tonic of a major scale.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dò
- The syllable used to represent the low-tone and its diacritic (`)
- Ẹ bá mi fàmì sí "pàtàkì"
pà-tà-kì dò-dò-dò- Help me tone mark "pàtàkì"
pà-tà-kì low-tone, low-tone, low-tone
- Help me tone mark "pàtàkì"
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dó
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dó
- (transitive) to settle; to found a settlement
- Synonym: tẹ̀ dó
- Àwọn Àwórì ló kọ́kọ́ dó sí Èkó. ― The Awori people settled Lagos first.
- (transitive) to colonise
Derived terms[edit]
Zazaki[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to Persian دوغ (duğ) and Tajik дуғ (duġ).
Noun[edit]
do ?
Zoogocho Zapotec[edit]
Noun[edit]
do
References[edit]
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)[16] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 367
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