Information about the word don (English → Esperanto: surmeti)

Synonym: put on

Part of speechverb
Pronunciation/dɒn/
Hyphenationdon
Shavian alphabet𐑛𐑪𐑯
Deseret alphabet𐐼𐐱𐑌

Conjugation

Indicative mood
Present tensePast tense
(I) don(I) donned
(thou) donnest(thou) donnedst
(he) dons, donneth(he) donned
(we) don(we) donned
(you) don(you) donned
(they) don(they) donned
Subjunctive mood
Present tensePast tense
(I) don (I) donned
(thou) don(thou) donned
(he) don(he) donned
(we) don(we) donned
(you) don(you) donned
(they) don(they) donned
Imperative mood
don
Participles
Present participlePast participle
donningdonned

Usage samples

For a breathless moment she thought how it would be to don her cloak, slip from the palace and be away: up the Sfer Arct to Old Street, with all the wide land before her.
At schools from the Pacific to the Black Sea, children in nursery grade don uniforms and take part in marching practice.

Translations

Esperantosurmeti