dinner or a dinner
I need to buy your mon a dinner or dinner.
I will treat you to a dinner or dinner.
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I'd say, "I need to buy your Mum dinner", "I will treat you to dinner".
'Dinner' is often used to refer to the the main meal - midday or night ... it varies. The term is common in UK English, but those in the US aren't so familiar with it.
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If it’s a formal occasion you would say a but for conversational English just dinner would do
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In Us English they are slightly different.
When you use “a dinner”, it means you will do it someday, maybe today, maybe later.
Using “dinner” usually means you will do it on a specific day, very often today. (But it’s can mean the same as “a dinner.”
“Your mom helped me over the past few weeks. I need to buy her (a) dinner.”
“I’m glad we got the work done. Can I buy you dinner?”
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A dinner is a formal occasion, for example at a wedding. A dinner party would be less formal, but is still an event.
However, even if you are inviting someone to a formal occasion, you would still invite them to dinner, not to "a dinner."
The fact that it is a formal occasion would be implied by the context.
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So is it wrong to say:After one or two dinners out or glasses of wine, etc., I feel my dates are waiting for me to treat them. Use dinners?
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