Bedeutung von do auf Englisch

• 0 used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements -- Hilfsverb in Fragen und bei Verneinung

  • Do you smoke?

  • I don’t know where he lives.

• 1 used with a more important verb for emphasis -- Hilfsverb zur Betonung

  • I did buy a ticket but I must have lost it

  • Do sit down

• 2 used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before -- statt Wiederholung des Verbs

  • I thought she wouldn’t come, but she did.

• 3 used to make question tags -- zur Formulierung von question tags

  • She lives in New York, doesn’t she?

• 4 used with a more important verb after seldom, rarely and little -- bei Inversion

  • Little did he know what was in store for him.

• 5 to carry out or perform -- tun

  • What shall I do?

  • That was a terrible thing to do.

• 6 to manage to finish or complete -- schaffen

  • When you’ve done that, you can start on this

  • We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.

• 7 to perform an activity concerning something -- machen

  • I’ve still got to do the washing

  • We need to do the garden – it’s becoming overgrown.

• 8 to be enough or suitable for a purpose -- genügen

  • Will this piece of fish do two of us?

  • That’ll do nicely

  • Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?

  • Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?

• 9 to work at or study -- sich beschäftigen mit

  • She’s doing sums

  • He’s at university doing science.

• 10 to manage or prosper -- sich befinden

  • How’s your wife doing?

  • My son is doing well at school.

• 11 to put in order or arrange -- herrichten

  • She’s doing her hair.

• 12 to act or behave -- sich verhalten

  • Why don’t you do as we do?

• 13 to give or show -- erweisen

  • The whole town gathered to do him honour.

• 14 to cause -- zufügen

  • What damage did the storm do?

  • It won’t do him any harm.

• 15 to see everything and visit everything in -- erledigen

  • They tried to do London in four days.

• 16 an affair or a festivity, especially a party -- das Fest

  • The school is having a do for Christmas.

• 17 to treat fairly or properly -- Gerechtigkeit widerfahren lassen

  • It would not be doing him justice to call him lazy when he’s so ill.

• 18 to fulfil/fulfill the highest possibilities of; to get the best results from; to show fully or fairly -- gerecht werden

  • I was so tired that I didn’t do myself justice in the exam.