Bedeutung von do im Deutschen

do Definition und Bedeutung

• 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.