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[[t]duː[/t]] 3rd person singular present tense does [[t]daz[/t]]: past tense did [[t]dɪd[/t]]: past participle done [[t]dan[/t]]: negative short forms don't [[t]dount[/t]]doesn't [[t]ˈdaznt[/t]], didn't [[t]ˈdɪdnt[/t]]

1. verb

1) used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements:

Do you smoke?

يُسْتَعْمَل مع الأفعال القِياسِيَّه لِبِناء الأسْتِفْهام والنَّفي

2) used with a more important verb for emphasis; [[t]I did buy a ticket but I must have lost it[/t]]; [[t]Do sit down[/t]]

يُسْتَعْمَل للتَّوْكيد

3) used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before:

I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.

يُسْتَعْمَل لِتَفادي التَّكْرار

4) used with a more important verb after seldom, ～rarely and little:

Little did he know what was in store for him.

يُسْتَعْمل في صيغَة "القَلْب'' مع هذه الكلمات

5) to carry out or perform:

What shall I do?

That was a terrible thing to do.

يفْعَلُ، يَقومُ بِ

6) to manage to finish or complete:

When you've done that, you can start on this

We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.

يُنَفِّذُ، يُنْهي

7) to perform an activity concerning something:

to do the washing

to do the garden / the windows.

يَقومُ بِ

8) to be enough or suitable for a purpose:

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?

يَكْفي، يَفي بالغَرَض

9) to work at or study:

She's doing sums

He's at university doing science.

يشْتَغِل، يَدْرُس

10) to manage or prosper:

How's your wife doing?

My son is doing well at school.

يَنْجَحُ

11) to put in order or arrange:

She's doing her hair.

يُرَتِّبُ

12) to act or behave:

Why don't you do as we do?

يَتَصَرَّف

13) to give or show:

The whole town gathered to do him honour.

يُعْطي، يَمْنَح

14) to cause:

What damage did the storm do?

It won't do him any harm.

يُسَبِّب

15) to see everything and visit everything in:

They tried to do London in four days.

يَزور وَيَرى

2. noun

– plural do's

an affair or a festivity, especially a party:

The school is having a do for Christmas.

حَفْلَه، إحْتِفال