when you use "for you" or "to you"please give me examples, thanx
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In expressions containing "for you", you are generally construed as the "beneficiary" of something (e.g., ."I have a present for you") or of what somebody does (e.g., "I'll clean the house for you"), unless what precedes "for you" is bad or harmful; in the latter case you are presented as the "damnified" (e.g., "Smoking is bad for you"). In expressions containing "to you", on the contrary, you are generally construed as goal or recipient, rather than beneficiary/damnified. Unfortunately, this is a rule of thumb, there are exceptions: in "There is a letter for you" you are the goal, but not necessarily beneficiary or damnified (it depends on the content of the letter!), and conversely, "to" sometimes does express beneficiary/damnified, as well :-(; you have an example below. However, when you try both "for you" and "to you" in the same context (so as to construct 'minimal pairs'), interesting contrasts sometimes arise. For example, in the following exchanges:
A: Why do you like him? B: Because he once did something FOR me.
A: Why don´t you like him? B: Because he once did something TO me.
Note, by the way, that in the second exchange"to" expresses damnification, :-). A language learner's life is hard!
Sometimes "to+NP" and "for+NP" cooccur, but only in that order, cf. "Don´t worry. I'll send letters to all the parents for you"
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any thing for u...!!!!!
and the all happy things to u.....!!!!
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Sonia, here is an example:
happy Birthday "to you"
I have a gift "for you"
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for you = por usted
to you = para usted
:)
I've bought it to you = Compré esto para usted.
Let me do it for you = Dejame hacer esto por usted.
Espero tener ayudadote amiga :]
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Hello,I just can speak Chinese,I can give you some examples in Chinese. I hope that it is useful to you.
"for you"的意思是“为你”
"to you"的意思是“给你”
两者意思差别很大
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