Live on the bright side. What is the difference between the words dress and put on?

These words are used very often in speech. There is not much difference between them, and when using them, many simply do not know how to correctly and when to use this or that verb. These words can be used with the same nouns in sentences. For example: put on a ring and put on a ring. But it turns out that this is not so. These words are , they are very similar in sound and spelling, but have different meaning. It is when paronyms are used incorrectly that errors in speech often occur. To avoid unpleasant situations, you need to remember the rules for using the above-described verbs in certain cases.

Put on or dress properly

Both of these words are verbs, they are consonant, but they are used in different situations and answer different questions. When using these words, it is important to understand which noun will it refer to? given verb, and ask a question from it. If, when posing a question, the question arises “who?”, then it is written “to dress.” The word is used with all animate nouns (answering the question “who?”). For example, to dress “who?”:

There is a slight exception if object denotes the likeness of a person, then the verb “to dress” is also applied to it. At the same time, these words will be asked the question “what?”, and not “who?”. Like what?":

• doll;
• dummy.

The word "dress" means a manipulation that is performed by one object for another. The word “put on” is used if they are going to pull something on, push it on (put on a hat, socks), i.e. the movement is performed primarily in relation to oneself (pull clothes on oneself).

What techniques can you use to make it easier to remember?

You need to choose several methods that will help you quickly, without hesitation, use this or that verb in the Russian language. There are several such techniques. The simplest way that will not allow you to make a mistake in choosing a verb is choose antonyms to them. This option is considered error-free for the right choice words. Eg:

1. The verb to dress is the antonym of undress.
2. Dress your son - undress your son.
3. Dress the doll - undress the doll.
4. For the verb put on, the antonym is take off.
5. Put on a hat - take off the hat.

It becomes much more difficult to confuse. It would be ugly to say “take off your hat”; it sounds stupid and ugly. The next way is using reminder phrases. The most common phrase applied to this rule during school years. Once you remember it, it will always be easy to say correctly: “they put on Nadezhda, they put on clothes.” There is another way to remember. To do this, you need to remember that “dress” refers to reflexive verbs, i.e. these are those that can be used with the suffix “-sya” at the end. For example:

• dress warmly;
• get dressed quickly;
• dress nicely.

If the indicated verbs in the context are used with the preposition “on”, then it will be unmistakable to say “put on”. For example:

• put boots on your feet, a hat on your head;
• put the bracelet on your hand.

And another little trick, it will push you to choose how to correctly say the verb being described, with the prefix on or not. You just need to remember that put something on someone(or something if exceptions apply) and dress themselves. For example:

1. Masha got dressed and went for a walk with the dog.
2. Nastya put on her favorite trousers.
3. Vasya dressed beautifully.
4. Grandma put on a gorgeous hat.
5. The child got dressed for kindergarten.

When to use this or that verb

The same rules and recommendations apply here as in the case of the words “dress” or “put on”, i.e. if the verb is used with animate objects (or with exceptions), then “dress” is written, and if we're talking about about inanimate objects, then the verb is written with “to”. For example:

• dressing my son for school;
• dressing your granddaughter for the holiday;
• put a thimble on your finger, your favorite red dress, a coat on your shoulders;
• dress the bride for the wedding.

When using the word “put on” in relation to yourself, you need to clarify what exactly (dress, fur coat, skirt, trousers). IN spoken language the difference in the use of these words is not so noticeable, and very often making such mistakes, the interlocutor may not notice it.

Paying more attention to your speech will help you speak and write beautifully and competently. Knowing the difference between these verbs and in what context this or that word is applicable will eliminate errors in speech. The correct and appropriate use of these verbs in Russian makes speech richer and more attractive to others.

Despite all the rules that exist on this issue, there are still disputes about the correct use of the analyzed verbs. Some believe that the word without the prefix “na” is applicable to most words, even those that are excluded by the rules of the Russian language.

There are rules that everyone seems to know, but they still make mistakes all the time. These include -tsya and -tsya, zhi- and shi-, the declension of the word “coffee”, as well as the long-suffering WEAR a hat or should we wear it, damn it?
Are you also confused about these two words? Then I’ll tell you a couple of little grammatical tricks, using which you will always use these words correctly.

The main difference between these two verbs is that they always dress someone, but not themselves. In those cases when they dress themselves, they say: “I am dressing,” which means “I am dressing myself.” After all, you will never say: “I’ll get dressed soon!” - it sounds simply ridiculous. So, the first thing to remember: ALWAYS DRESS someone else - a child, a dog, a doll, a mannequin.
But if you pull on, throw on, try on something, some specific thing, then you WEAR it, and that’s the only way. I WILL wear a dress, you WEAR new shoes, he will never WEAR that terrible tie.

This is the fundamental difference. When you say DRESS, you may not indicate any item or even mention clothing at all, but you must indicate exactly who you are DRESSING. Therefore: “She dressed her daughter for half an hour.” And vice versa: when you say WEAR, you always indicate what exactly, what thing, but you may not specify who exactly WEARED them. Like this: “Don’t wear so many things, you’ll get tired.”

But what to do when in one sentence there is both a person who needs to be dressed in something and the item of clothing itself? How then to choose regular verb? Everything here is also not difficult, if you figure it out. If you are talking about someone you want to dress up, then say DRESS. For example: “She didn’t play with the doll so much as dress it up in different outfits.”
If you are describing a thing that someone dressed in, then say WEAR. So: “Mom put a hat on her son.” Here the preposition NA will serve as a clue. Remember, you can’t “put it on” - only PUT IT ON.

Still confused? Then, perhaps, two hint rhymes will come to your aid (or your children), having learned them, you can quickly remember correct usage words.

The first poem was written at the end of the 19th century by the poet V. Krylov:

Dear friend, do not forget,
What to wear does not mean to wear;
There is no need to confuse these expressions,
Each of them has its own meaning.
You can easily remember this:
We use the verb “to dress” 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?
So you should put on a new dress,
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.

And the second was composed by our contemporary, poet and singer-songwriter Novella Matveeva:

“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 believe that on my grandfather
Three fur coats can be worn.
But I don't think that grandfather
Can be worn on a fur coat!

Dress up or put on...These two words appear quite often in Russian colloquial and written speech.

However, some believe that there is absolutely no difference between them. What to put on a ring, what to put on a ring - everything is the same.

But is it really so and is there at least some significant difference between these two words? Let's try to figure it out.

And I really hope that after this article you will say exactly what you should do with the ring - put it on or put it on.

Both of these words - “put on” and “dress” - are verbs.

And everyone knows this very well, they taught it back in primary school. And remember - in one of the textbooks on the Russian language it was even described in detail and even drawn, who exactly is being dressed and what exactly is being put on. Let's try to refresh that knowledge in our memory.

Verb to dress

This verb denotes an action that is performed by someone in relation to someone or to any inanimate object. For example, it is worth giving the following expressions:

1. Dress the child

2. Dress the old man

3. Dress the doll

4. Dress up the girl

If you look closely at these sentences, you can see that between the word “dress” and the word, for example, “doll” Can I ask who? or what? Let's give a few more examples.

1. Dress (whom?) brother in clean clothes

2. Dress (whom?) girl in a fashionable fur coat

3. Dress (What?) stuffed animal in an old dress

There is another way to determine which word should be used - put on or dress. The verb “to dress” refers to verbs that are called reflexive.

That is, it can be used with the particle – sya. Again, here are a few examples:

1. Dress for the season

2. Dress in a fashionable salon

3. Dress only in new clothes

Verb to put on

The verb to put on, in contrast to the verb “to put on,” denotes an action that is directed towards oneself. For example:

1. You need to put on a new suit

2. I'll put on something warmer

3. I put on my most beautiful dress

However, there are also sentences in which the use of the verb “to dress” would be simply illogical. Here you should definitely use only the verb “put on.” Examples include the following sentences:

1. Put a gown on the patient

2. Put glasses on your nose

3. Put the cover on the chair

4. Put tires on wheels

What do all these proposals have in common? Yes, indeed, the verb put on is used here only in relation to inanimate objects (except for the sick person). And each such sentence has a short word “na”. That is, to “put on” to put something on someone or put it on something.

There is another very simple tip that will help you decide how to write correctly - to put it on or dress it down.

So, we remember - they put something on themselves or on something else, but when they dress someone else they dress themselves. Example.

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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 smb. 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 dress 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 dress is included (within the 1st meaning) in combinations with inanimate nouns denoting parts of the body, but through mediation animate noun (whom) and always with a prepositional-case combination of an inanimate noun ( in what - in new uniform ) 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 wear (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?
That's 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 dress was for native Russian speakers big problem, and then the serious attention of the guardians of correctness was already paid to this native language. It is also obvious that these humorous (at the same time linguistically quite reasonable) poems are still relevant today.

Dress and put on

Question

Which is correct: “dress” or “put on a dress”?

Verbs dress And put on - polysemantic. The meanings in which actions towards a person are indicated are as follows:

Dress - who, what. 1. To clothe smb. 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, headphones…

Verb dress 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.

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 .

This is confirmed by Novella Matveeva:

"Put it on", "put it 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 believe that on my grandfather

Three fur coats can be worn.

But I don't think that grandfather

Can be worn on a fur coat!

Distinguish

dress And put on.

. Yu. A. Belchikov, O. I. Razheva. 2015 .

See what “dress and put on” is in other dictionaries:

dress- put on. see: put on...

Look and put on... Dictionary of difficulties of the Russian language

put on- and put it on. In meaning “to clothe oneself, to dress, to put on something; fit something on yourself” put on. Put on a coat, suit. Wear a hat and gloves. Put on your boots. Put on glasses. In meaning “to clothe someone in some kind of clothing” to dress. Dress the patient... ... Dictionary of difficulties of pronunciation and stress in modern Russian language

DRESS- DRESS, dress, dress, lead. dress, really (to dress). 1. whom what into what or with what. Put on some clothes. Dress the child. || Cover, wrap with something for warmth. Dress the horse with a blanket. Cover the patient with a blanket. 2. translation, what than. Cover by,… … Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

WEAR- PUT ON, put on, put on, lead. put it on, really. (to put on). 1. what to whom what. To cover, to clothe someone with something, to attach something to someone or something, covering, clothing. Put a cover on the furniture. Put a hat on the child. Gave him... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

put on- Put on, put on, we strongly recommend that you remember the difference between the verbs put on and put on, otherwise you risk revealing your ignorance in the most inappropriate environment. We will dwell on this difference in more detail when we talk about... ... Dictionary of Russian language errors

dress- Cm … Synonym dictionary

DRESS- DRESS, yeah, yeah; yen; childish; Sovereign 1. whom (what) in what or with what. Cover who n. what n. clothes, bedspread. O. child in a coat. O. with a blanket (cover). Winter covered the fields with snow (translated) [not to be confused with putting something on someone (what)]. 2. whom (what) ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

put on- what and what to what. Put on your coat. Put on glasses. Place the ring on your finger. Place the tip on the pencil. Put the backpack on your back. Alyosha put on his jacket, Kovbysh put on his father’s jacket (Gorbatov). He put on all his insignia (Chekhov). Wed. dress... Control Dictionary

dress- whom what into what or with what. Dress the child in a fur coat. Winter covered the fields with snow. The grandmother was dressed in a silk shushun and a skirt and tied with a silk scarf (Aksakov). [Katerina] brought [Ordynov] to the bed, put him to bed and dressed him with a blanket (Dostoevsky). Wed. put on... Control Dictionary

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