Do
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English
Pronunciation
- doo͞, /duː/, /du:/
Verb
- To perform, to execute
- Refers to a verb previously mentioned.
- to type and to do it quickly.
- (colloquial) to attack someone.
Translations
- Arabic: عَمَل (ʕamal)
- Catalan: fer
- CJK Characters: 做
- Chinese: 做
- Dutch: doen
- Esperanto: fari
- Finnish: tehdä
- French: faire
- German: tun
- Greek: κάνει (kánei)
- Hindi: करना
- Indonesian: melakukan
- Interlingua: facer
- Italian: fare
- Japanese: する (suru), やる (yaru), なさる (nasaru) (polite), 致す (itasu) (humble)
- Korean: 하다 (hada)
- Latin: facere
- Persian: كَردَن (kærdæn), كُن (kon) (present tense)
- Portuguese: fazer, executar, realizar
- Russian: сделать (sdelat')
- Spanish: hacer
- Turkish: yapmak, etmek
- Urdu: کرنا
- Volapük: dunön
Auxiliary verb
do (did)
- Used as a syntactic marker in questions (Do you go?), negations (I do not go), for emphasis (I do go) and to avoid repeating an earlier verb (I play tennis; he does too)
Noun
do
Etymology 1
- (Music) A syllable used in sol-fa to represent the tonic of a major scale
Synonym
Related terms
Etymology 2
do (the plural is strictly dos but do's is more commonly used for legibility)
- (colloquial) function, celebration, party
- We're having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
- (also colloquial) a period of confusion or argument. (also called a 'to-do')
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /do/
- SAMPA: /do/
Noun
do f
- Musical note
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /do/
- SAMPA: /do/
Noun
do f
- Musical note
Synonyms
Frisian
Personal Pronoun
do
Noun
do
Italian
Verb form
do
- First-person singular indicative present of dare
Synonym
Noun
do m
- Musical note
Latin
Pronunciation
- AHD: dŏ′ ŏ
Verb
dō
- "I give" : first person singular, present tense conjugation of dare.
Polish
Preposition
- to, towards
Usage
+ genetive
Turkish
Noun
- The musical note C
Volapük
Conjunction
do