besöka — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
• visit verb To go and see a person or place, usually briefly.

Senses

besöka is used for these senses in English:

• call To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
• do (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• do (ambitransitive) To suffice.
• do (transitive) To cook.
• do (transitive) To take (a drug).
• visit (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]

call — full definition

1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

do — full definition

1. verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
2. verb Used as a helping verb to form questions and negatives, or for emphasis.
3. verb To be sufficient or acceptable.
4. verb To fare or get on in a particular way.
5. noun A social event or party (informal, chiefly British).

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