olla tapana — meaning in English

English meaning

• tend verb To be likely to behave, happen, or turn out in a particular way.
• use verb To employ something for a particular purpose.

Senses

olla tapana is used for these senses in English:

• go round To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
• tend (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. [from mid-14th c.]
• use (intransitive, archaic, or, literary, _, except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)

tend — full definition

1. verb To be likely to behave, happen, or turn out in a particular way.
2. verb To look after or care for someone or something.

use — full definition

1. verb To employ something for a particular purpose.
2. noun The act of using something, or a purpose it serves.

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