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Common lookups: again all any are as be before best can come day do each even first from go good happy have he her in it just know last me merry must my of on over please right some take that up very what would you

Suggest a change / proposez une modification

1. do Verb, transitive

(a) (perform a miscellaneous activity) faire; to ~ the washing up faire la vaisselle; what are you ~ing? qu'est-ce que tu fais?; what have you done with it?, what have you done to it? qu'est-ce que tu en a fait?; to ~ sth again refaire qch
(b) (fig) to have sth to ~ with sth avoir qch à voir avec qch; it's got nothing to ~ with computers ça n'a rien à voir avec les ordinateurs; it's got nothing to ~ with you ça ne te/vous regarde pas
(c) (Cookery etc: prepare, cook) faire, préparer; will you ~ me a coffee? tu me fais un café?
(d) (grant, cause to experience) faire; it'll ~ you good ça te fera du bien; to ~ (sb) harm faire du mal (à qn); to ~ sb a favour rendre un service à qn

2. do Verb, intransitive

(a) (act) faire; ~ as I ~ faites comme moi
(b) (Infml: be sufficient) aller, suffire (neutral), faire l'affaire f; that'll ~ for now ça ira pour l'instant; (expressing anger) "that'll ~!" "ça suffit!"
(c) (slightly Infml) être satisfait (with, de); I could ~ with a coffee je prendrais bien un café; (Infml) I can't ~ with him je ne le supporte pas; (Infml) I can't ~ with it (any more)! (ça suffit,) j'en ai marre!

3. do Verb

(a) (phrasal uses) to ~ away with abolir, supprimer; (Slang) to ~ in descendre qn; to ~ up (of shoe laces) attacher, faire; (Infml: restore, renovate) refaire; to ~ without se passer de; I can't ~ without her je ne peux pas me passer d'elle
(b) (used to support inversion with non-auxiliaries in English) what ~ you want? qu'est-ce que tu veux?, que veux-tu?, qu'est-ce que vous voulez?, que voulez-vous? (frm), tu veux quoi? (Slang); ~ you smoke? est-ce que vous fumez?; where ~ you come from? d'où venez-vous?
(c) (frm: with inversion in non-interrogative after a negative; subject-verb word order maintained in French) never did I think it was possible jamais je ne l'avais cru possible
(d) (in tags, or to stand for a previous verb: verb repeated or another construction used) she doesn't like the films that I ~ elle n'aime pas les mêmes films que moi; she never eats when I ~ elle ne mange jamais en même temps que moi; you somoke, don't you?- no I don't/yes I do tu fumes, non (or) n'est-ce pas?- non, je ne fume pas/oui, je fume; you don't smoke, ~ you?- yes I ~! tu ne fumes pas, non?- si (je fume)! (etc); may I smoke?- please ~! puis-je fumer?- faites (or) allez-y, je vous en prie!

4. do Noun

(Infml) soirée f; to go to a ~ aller à une soirée