do

Signification (Anglais)

Synonymes

be sufficient

be enough

yield

conduct oneself

engage in

be guilty of

devote oneself to

cause to do

bring to pass

put in order

stay away

make preparations

stop in

travel through

be good

be suited

do so

do the same

earn one’s living

happen to

have sexual intercourse

in the act of doing

keep in order

make ready

make well

do like

trick someone

bring to a conclusion

bring into existence

do vigorously

do badly

be satisfactory

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get something done

produce an effect

to play the part of

pervade to be worth

sufficient enough

be fit

be suitable for

be useful

bridge over

comb out

comply with

comport

follow out

go forward

interested in

like this

Fréquence

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Prononcé comme (IPA)
/duː/
Étymologie (Anglais)

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, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-. The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.g. "Do you like painting?" "Yes, I do"), existing in some form in most Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. 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”).

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