Put on put on meaning. “Dress” or “put on” - how to say it correctly, examples of use in various situations

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They put something on someone, they dress someone in something. A simple mnemonic: “Put on Hope, put on clothes.”

Dress - who, what. 1. To clothe someone. to some clothes. Dress a child, the sick, the wounded; Wed dress a doll, mannequin…
Put on - What. 1. To pull, push (clothes, shoes, covers, etc.), covering, enveloping something. Wear a suit, skirt, coat, jacket, shoes, mask, gas mask…
Verb put on comes into combination with animate nouns (and with a small number of inanimate ones, denoting the likeness of a person: doll, mannequin, skeleton);put on - with the inanimate.
To complete the description of the lexico-syntactic connections of our verbs, it should be noted that the verb put on is included (within the 1st meaning) in combinations with inanimate nouns denoting parts of the body, but through the mediation of an animate noun ( whom) and always with a prepositional-case combination of an inanimate noun ( into something - into a new form) or with an inanimate noun in the indirect case ( something - a blanket, a shawl) according to the principle of indirect control. Put on but (within the 1st meaning) has syntactic connections according to the same principle with animate nouns: put on (coat) on whom: for grandfather, for child) and with inanimate: what to put on (on the hand, on the neck), on top of what(over the shirt) why(under the coat).
The difference in the semantics of these words is emphasized by the fact that they form different antonymic pairs: put on - take off, put on - undress.
The semantic originality of each of the verbs is especially clearly revealed when they occur within the same context. In this regard, poetic texts dedicated to the words in question are of great interest. One of the poems was written at the end of the 19th century, by the now forgotten poet V. Krylov, the other - by our contemporary N. Matveeva.
Here is the first poem:
Dear friend, do not forget,
What dress does not mean put on;
There is no need to confuse these expressions,
Each of them has its own meaning.
You can easily remember this:
Verb "dress" we say when
We put clothes on something,
Or we cover something with clothes,
Otherwise we dress in clothes.
Do you want to dress yourself more elegantly?
This is how a new dress should be put on,
And you put on a glove on your hand,
When you put a glove on your hand.
You will dress the child in his dress,
When you put the dress on him.
To whom the native language is both sweet and dear,
He will not tolerate even a trace of mistakes,
And therefore, my friend, never
Don't make such reservations.
As we see, more than a hundred years ago the use of verbs put on And put on was a big problem for native speakers of the Russian language, and then serious attention was paid to this by the guardians of the correctness of the native language. It is also obvious that these humorous (at the same time linguistically quite reasonable) poems are still relevant today.

What is the correct way to say “to put something on” or “to put on”?

1. Which is correct: to dress or to put on a dress?

   One of the reasons for lexical errors in modern speech, oral and written, is the failure to distinguish cognate words, in particular, the verbs to dress (to dress) to put on (to put on). And in live, direct communication between native speakers of the Russian language in loose colloquial speech; and in book speech on radio and television programs, in speeches by politicians at rallies, with various kinds of public statements, by deputies in the State Duma, by officials on one or another official occasion, one can quite often encounter incorrect, erroneous use of lexical units related from the point of view of word formation. For example, they confuse the verbs get used to and get used to, weaken and weaken, adverbs objectivistically and objectively (see From Monitoring violations of speech norms in the media // Gorbanevsky M.V., Karaulov Yu.N., Shaklein V.M. Don’t speak in rough language On violations of the norms of literary speech in electronic and print media / Edited by Yu. A. Belchikov. M., 2000, p. 19137 based on materials from television, radio broadcasts and newspapers), nouns portrait and self-portrait (in the program Field of Miracles, according to ORT channel, August 30, 2002, a participant in the game presented the presenter with a self-portrait of him, which was drawn by his seven-year-old son).
   In the use of cognate words, the most unlucky verbs are to dress (dress) put on (put on) (these verbs belong to paronyms, see the article Subscriber, subscriber, subscription).
   These words are used incorrectly by both the TV presenter (What should you wear to appear under the circus big top // Don’t speak in rough language, p. 29), and the host of the radio program (He put it on himself // Ibid., p. 40), and the TV correspondent ( there will be a good reason to wear the NTV dress uniform, August 29, 2002), and a journalist (Winter has come, you need to wear different shoes // Don’t speak in rough language, p. 28), and a pop star (I can’t wear anything from this collection. / / Ibid., p. 106), see in the capital's Nezavisimaya Gazeta: dated March 12, 1999: We put the modernized watch on the right hand.
   The verbs dress and put on are ambiguous. The meanings in which actions towards a person are indicated are as follows:
   Dress who, what. 1. To clothe someone. to some clothes. Dress the child, the sick, the wounded; Wed dress a doll, mannequin
   Put on what. 1. To pull, push (clothes, shoes, covers, etc.), covering, enveloping something. Wear a suit, skirt, coat, jacket, shoes, mask, gas mask
   The verb to dress comes into combination with animate nouns (and with a small number of inanimate ones, denoting the likeness of a person: doll, mannequin, skeleton); wear with inanimate.
   To complete the description of the lexical-syntactic connections of our verbs, it should be noted that the verb to dress is included (within the 1st meaning) in combinations with inanimate nouns denoting parts of the body, but through the mediation of an animate noun (whom) and necessarily with a prepositional-case combination of an inanimate a noun (into a new form) or with an inanimate noun in the indirect case (than a blanket, a shawl) according to the principle of indirect control. Put on (within the 1st meaning) has syntactic connections according to the same principle with animate nouns: put (coat) on someone: on a grandfather, on a child) and with inanimate nouns: put on what (on a hand, on a neck), on top what (over a shirt), under what (under a coat).
   The difference in the semantics of these words is emphasized by the fact that they form different antonymic pairs: put on, take off, put on, undress.
   The semantic originality of each verb is especially clearly revealed when they occur within the same context. In this regard, poetic texts dedicated to the words in question are of great interest. One of the poems was written at the end of the 19th century. , the now forgotten poet V. Krylov, another by our contemporary N. Matveeva.
   Here is the first poem:
   Dear friend, do not forget,
   What to wear does not mean to wear;
   There is no need to confuse these expressions,
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2. To put on oneself, to dress someone
3. You can dress someone (sometimes something) or yourself: dress a child; dress up.
   But if we are talking about specific clothes and what we do with them, then we are already “putting them on” (you can also put a jacket on someone/something or put a jacket on yourself). In Our Great and Mighty the article of clothing may be omitted, but it is implied, and then the preposition will be an indicator.
   So the point is not “oneself or the other.”
   We need to look at what the word refers to: an item of clothing (we put the item on), or an object that needs to be covered with clothing (we put it on).
4. WEAR something on yourself
   DRESS someone
5. Today I will put on a fluffy dress, and I dressed the child beautifully)
6. This is how I navigate.
   Dress Hope
   Putting on clothes
7. "To put on" or "to put on." Which is correct? "Baby monitor." Available even for teenagers.
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8. Good afternoon, I have a question.
   For example, when you wear flip-flops or sandals, you also wear socks
   As I understand it, the word “dress” is not in Russian? Or is this sentence formed incorrectly?
   Help in this matter
9. Dressing a child, putting on a dress
10. to put on oneself, to dress someone. I think so)
11. the word to dress and to put on they differ in that the word to put on means to put on oneself and the word to put on means to dress someone

Strictly speaking, this error is not directly related to sewing and is relevant for everyone without exception. However, people who sew and are interested in fashion still have to use these verbs a little more often. Quite often we hear “Put on your hat!”, “Put on this dress,” “I won’t wear that.” Let's figure out what's the catch here!

By the way, the problem is so significant that the Russian poet Novella Matveeva even dedicated an entire poem to it!

“Put on”, “put on”... Two words

We confuse so stupidly!

It was a frosty dawn,

The old grandfather dressed in a fur coat.

And the fur coat, therefore, is on.

“Put it on”, “put it on”... Let’s take a look:

When to wear and what to wear.

I guess it's like my grandfather

Three fur coats can be worn.

But I don't think that grandfather

Can be worn on a fur coat!

What do dictionaries say?

So, both of these words have every right to exist, however, despite the similarities, they are used slightly differently. According to Ozhegov's dictionary, the word "dress" has the following meanings:

1. someone into something or with something. Cover someone with some kind of clothing or blanket. For example, dressing a child in a coat.

2. whom (what). Provide clothes. For example, dressing someone with taste.

Concerning "put on", the values ​​are:

1. Fasten something to something, attach, attach something to something. For example, put a ring on a finger.

2. Cover the body or part of the body with some clothing. For example, putting a sweater on a child.

On the one hand, it is useful to know the exact dictionary meanings, but on the other hand, we must admit that they do not completely clarify the situation! The meanings are as similar as the words themselves, and ultimately it is not entirely clear which option is correct, “I wore a dress” or “I put on a dress.”

To help those who doubt

Many people may remember a simple tip from their school days: we dress others, we put them on ourselves. But this formulation can be deceiving! For example, the phrase “I put a Panama hat on a child” is wrong, although one can be indignant at how wrong it is if I put the Panama hat on someone else, not myself!

It is better to use another version of the “remembrance”: Hope is put on, clothes are put on. The example about Nadezhda is very successful, because it tells us another feature, the difference between two verbs: “to dress” is used with animate nouns (and with inanimate likenesses of a person: doll, mannequin, etc. and with body parts, for example, “to dress hand into a glove"), and “put on” - with inanimate ones.

Let’s put the rule into practice: “I put on dress(inanimate)", "I put on Panama hat(inanimate) on the child" and "I dressed baby(soul.)".

If you suddenly forget the rule itself, remember that Nadezhda is dressed, and clothes are put on, and that the point here is animation.

And, of course, do not forget that speech errors do not determine our personality, character, and, especially, professionalism in the field of sewing, but every new day is a chance to become better than yesterday in a variety of areas.

Notorious verbs put on And put on They are so treacherously consonant that in everyday communication they are often not distinguished at all, considering them synonyms. Although colloquial speech does not require a high syllable, nevertheless, it will only benefit from observing the rules of the Russian language, lexical norms in particular.

How to dress or put on correctly - look at the root

... and into the console. It is the difference in prefixes that sends the same root put on And put on to different concepts:

• Console O- in a word put on indicates an action taking place around. The words clothe, envelop are formed according to the same principle. To dress - to envelop, clothe, wrap oneself in clothes.
• Console on the- in a word put on speaks of action directed at the surface. To put on means just to cover, to pull something on.

We are looking for someone to wear and what to wear

Free yourself forever from the erroneous use of verbs put on And put on very easy. To do this, just remember the following rules:

• Dress always used with animate nouns, put on only with the inanimate. Simply put, they dress someone, put something on. For comparison, dress your son in a suit, but put your son in a suit.
• If somebody dressed– it’s possible undress, if something put on, this is only possible take off. For example, a lid placed on a jar can only be removed, but not undressed. But a child who has fallen asleep with his clothes on needs to be undressed.
• Verb in speech put on always directly associated with a thing, clothing, without necessarily indicating who is wearing it. Dress, on the contrary, always directly indicates the one who is being dressed or who is getting dressed.

For reference. In situations where it is necessary to put clothes on an inanimate object, but related to the image of a person, the verb to dress is also used. Dress a baby doll in a pink suit, a mannequin in a fashionable coat, a scarecrow in old pants.

Put on and dress the doll

Clearly understand the difference between the meanings of verbs put on And put on shows the game with bibabo doll. The entertainment will be useful not only for children, but also for adults who want to learn to distinguish paronyms. All actions with the toy must be spoken out loud:

• Take the glove doll and pull it onto your hand. We say: “ The doll is put on“.
• We put a hat, scarf or dress on the doll. We say: “ The doll is dressed“.
• We pull the bibabo from our hands with the words: “ The doll was removed“.
• We remove the dress, scarf, and hat from the toy. We comment: “ The doll was stripped“.

For those who find the game too simple, the task can be complicated by calling the doll Odette.

How to dress or put on correctly - memos

Associations help you remember any information faster and easier. To mentally record the correct values put on And put on There are several popular mnemonic phrases - memos:

• “Grandfather is dressed, his sheepskin coat is on.”
• “I put on Nadezhda, I put on clothes.”

Don’t be upset if the first time working with your own speech and memory brings nothing but internal tension from constant self-examination. Ease and naturalness will come with daily practice and mastering the correct meanings of paronyms.

Summer is just around the corner - a time of long-awaited rest and vacations, and in honor of this, the Literary Workshop is somewhat slowing down the pace of publishing new articles. Don’t blame me – soon everything will return to normal, it’s just that each of us needs a little rest at least sometimes...

Today, as part of the “Literacy Minute” section, we will discuss the very pressing issue of the correct use of verbs put on And put on. And if most of us, I’m sure, learned the main principle of their use back in school, then an author who ignores this issue risks being ridiculed at any moment by a more prepared public. Agree that there is an extremely high chance that a reader (and even more so an editor at a publishing house or a respected critic), having noticed such an error in the text, will simply close this creation and never return to it. Therefore, in order not to get into trouble, today we will repeat the rules for using verbs put on And put on.

The essence of the problem

It is quite obvious that the incorrect use of verb forms is equally characteristic of both oral and written speech. The main reason for such speech errors is the failure to distinguish words with the same root. For example, verbs are often confused get used to it And get used to, loosen And let loose, adverbs objectivist And objectively… In the use of cognate words, it was our heroes who were most “unlucky”: verbs dress (dress) - put on (put on). These verbs belong to the so-called paronyms - words that are similar in sound but different in meaning. The correct use of verbs put on And put on in a given situation is the stumbling block that we must learn to overcome.

Rules of use

To understand the issue of the correct use of our verbs, the first thing you need to remember is that verbs put on And put on- polysemantic. In order not to cause unnecessary confusion, we will consider the most common first values:

Dress- who, what. 1. Dress someone in some kind of clothing. For example: Dress a son, dress a sick person, dress a doll.

Put on- What. 1. Pull, pull (clothing, shoes, cover, etc.), covering, enveloping something. For example: Put on your coat, put on your hat, put on your mask, put on your boots.

In general, it is in the meanings of these verbs that the main rule of their use lies.

As we see, the verb put on combines well with animate nouns and with some inanimate ones, denoting the likeness of a person ( doll, mannequin, skeleton). The verb put on used exclusively with inanimate nouns.

It is important to note that the verb put on can be combined with inanimate nouns denoting body parts. This happens through the mediation of an animate noun and necessarily with the prepositional-case combination of an inanimate noun ( Put your hand in a glove).

Verb put on has syntactic connections according to the same principle as with animate nouns ( put a coat on a child), and with inanimate ( put a glove on your hand, put a sweater under your jacket).

The difference in the semantics of our verbs is also emphasized by the fact that they form different antonymic pairs: put on - take off, put on - undress.

In general, the main thing we need to remember is that the verb put on used in relation to any person or part of the body (meaning clothe). Put on same means pulling, pushing on some item of clothing.

That's all for today. I hope you have successfully refreshed your memory of the school curriculum and reliably insured yourself against childhood mistakes in texts. Subscribe to blog updates. See you soon!