Polyglot Dictionary

tun

/tuːn/

verb A2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

present (3rd sg.)
tut
past
tat
perfect
hat getan

Meaning

  1. to do

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive

Similar words

machen

Near-total overlap in "to do," but machen leans toward producing or creating something concrete ("ein Foto machen" — to take a photo), while tun is the more abstract, general-purpose "to do" ("das tut mir leid" — I'm sorry, literally "that does me pain").

Practice

1 What does tun mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das ___ mir leid.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches tun?

See also

verbirregularcore-vocabulary

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