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I'm here again. I'm often confuse in the usage of the verbs 'take' and 'bring'. Can anyone give me examples to learn the handling of these verbs, please?

Hiya, 'bring' is a word that means 'carry' or 'go with' and is more or less a synonym for 'take' - I take my ball (with me)/ I bring my ball (with me).
However, 'take' has more meanings in which you can't use 'bring', for example:
I take photos.
Also, 'take' would be used for choosing or selecting something - I take a cookie (to eat) or I take a newspaper and in these cases, the action is done immediately and no 'carrying' is done, that is, you aren't taking the cookies or newspapers anywhere.
Bring can almost always be replaced by take, but this is not the same the other way about.

I hope this made sense and hopefully somebody will reply as well to help! :smile:

(also, it's 'confused' in this case)

Reply 4781

Ronove

Original post by Kallisto

I'm here again. I'm often confuse in the usage of the verbs 'take' and 'bring'. Can anyone give me examples to learn the handling of these verbs, please?

aasvogel's advice is good but from experience I'm guessing you're struggling with it in a different way - my Danish other half gets them wrong all the time and I have to keep correcting him.

Which you use if it's in the sense of bringing something with you somewhere usually depends on who is talking and where they are in relation to the item to be taken/brought.

For example, the other day my other half told me, from his workplace, to go to the bank and bring ID so I could pick up my bank card. This made no sense unless he was at the bank at that point, or would be meeting me there and I'd be bringing my ID with me to meet him at the bank. What he should have said is take ID with you, because he was talking about me going somewhere that wasn't where he was. Similarly, if he wanted me to take some food to his workplace for him, he would ask me to bring him lunch. If I were to tell someone else about this, I would say I was taking him some food, unless that person was at his workplace or would be there when I got there, in which case I would say I was bringing him some food, because I'd be taking it towards the person I'm talking about it to.

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Reply 4782

L'Evil Fish

Original post by Ronove

Damn, this was going to be my explanation :yep:

Reply 4783

Kolya

Original post by EmilyJayne14

中国是很好! 很多中国人不讲许多英语, or that's what it seemed like when I went to China! We did tend to go to some less-touristy places though :smile:

Read this: http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/ASG17BLH

是 usually connects two nouns. There's no need for it if you are using a noun and an adjective. So you should say 中国很好. I think.

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Reply 4784

constantmeowage

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Ha, silly person :teehee:

I'm liking Russian :ahee:

Ты можешь говорить по-русский? :biggrin:

Missed a soft sign :wink:

I hate how much of a mouthful the words are but then I feel so proud of myself when I get it right :redface:

Reply 4785

EmyJ14

I'm in Wales right now :colone:

The only Welsh I know is 'dim siarad', 'yscol', 'diloch yn fawr' and 'rwy'n dy garu' :tongue:

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Reply 4786

L'Evil Fish

Original post by constantmeowage

Missed a soft sign :wink:

I hate how much of a mouthful the words are but then I feel so proud of myself when I get it right :redface:

Damn it

I hate how they all mush into one word..

Original post by EmilyJayne14

I'm in Wales right now :colone:

The only Welsh I know is 'dim siarad', 'yscol', 'diloch yn fawr' and 'rwy'n dy garu' :tongue:

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Diolch* ysgol* :colone:

Reply 4787

constantmeowage

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Damn it

I hate how they all mush into one word..

Diolch* ysgol* :colone:

Oh and it's по-русски without a Й because I think that's the accusative declension :s

Reply 4788

EmyJ14

Original post by Gilo98

Hoping my mfl teacher doesnt make me do my french and german CA at the same time, think ill just crawl to a corner and cry.....

Because Italian is an extra language at my school, we kept almost having clashes with our French and Italian CAs :L But they usually manage to make sure that there aren't any clashes, we have quite a few dual linguists :smile:

At least French and German are significantly different, rather than doing sonething like Spanish and Italian CAs at the same time!

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Duolingo is dying on me...

It's showing different words to the sentence I'm meant to make :frown:

That's annoying :s-smilie:

I don't have the app on my phone, only on my iPod, and I can't get mobile Internet on there, so... I might have to download it :wink:

Original post by sunfowers01

I'm frustrated with my language learning. I don't seem to be progressing that much with my Spanish.

Stick with it- progression at the start seems slow but after a period of time you can really see the improvement :smile:

Original post by aasvogel

Picked up a wee book full of Italian verbs and conjugations and the French version of 'Candide' (reading the English atm) for £3.
How I love second-hand bookshops.

Sounds awesome! My friend managed to get me a 3 inch thick, very detailed Italian dictionary for free on work experience!! It even has colour shades and flags and labelled pictures (e.g of power tools, and other random things) in English and Italian!! I'll probably never use half of it, but still! :tongue:

Original post by Kolya

Ah okay, I think I've heard that somewhere before!! Thank you for reminding me :smile:

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Reply 4789

Kallisto

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Original post by Ronove

I guess I got it. I take my food from my home to a certain place, but I bring my food from a certain place home. From this point of view a worker takes the food to the work place, but he brings the food from the work place home. But as far as I can see it depends on the perspective. So I take my food at home, but I bring the food at home for someone.

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Reply 4790

EmyJ14

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Diolch* ysgol* :colone:

As was implied, my Welsh is limited :colone:

I even asked my Welsh relatives if the spellings were right and they said yes :tongue:

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Reply 4791

L'Evil Fish

Original post by constantmeowage

Oh and it's по-русски without a Й because I think that's the accusative declension :s

Aah, whatever :hand:

Original post by EmilyJayne14

As was implied, my Welsh is limited :colone:

I even asked my Welsh relatives if the spellings were right and they said yes :tongue:

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But they weren't :tongue:

Reply 4792

constantmeowage

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Aah, whatever :hand:

But they weren't :tongue:

it's un-brush-aside-able, you know! :redface:

Reply 4793

L'Evil Fish

Original post by constantmeowage

it's un-brush-aside-able, you know! :redface:

I'm not gonna be fluent in Russian any time soon anyway :colone:

Reply 4794

Ronove

Original post by Kallisto

Exactly - you only bring it home with you if you're telling someone at home about it. If, say, you were to write a little story where there was no dialogue and no other characters besides the protagonist, he/she/it would only ever be taking things anywhere.

Reply 4795

username976741

In Italian, what would be the difference between 'I have men's books' and 'I have books from the men.'

I got this on DuoLingo, said the latter and was marked wrong.

Reply 4796

L'Evil Fish

Original post by aasvogel

In Italian, what would be the difference between 'I have men's books' and 'I have books from the men.'

I got this on DuoLingo, said the latter and was marked wrong.