V tomto článku upozorním na chyták, ktorým sú gerundia slovies DIE (umrieť) a DYE (nafarbiť).

• DIE –> to stop living (about people) or stop existing or working (about things)

• DYE –> to change the colour of something, especially hair or clothing

  Obe slovesá sú pravidelné slovesá, teda minulý čas tvoríme pridaním koncovky -ed.

  Pozor, avšak, na spelling gerundia, ten sa tvorí nasledovne :

DYING:

• When she was dying, she said that I was adopted.
• Even though they were dying, nobody helped them.
• When the engine started dying, I knew I was lost.

DYEING:

• I was dyeing my hair when she came home.
• I tried dyeing the jacket but it didn’t help, it still looks terrible.

DYE

1.  Pozor, sloveso DYE je tranzitívne (teda musí mať vždy predmet.)

• DIE something

• I have always wanted to dye my hair.

• DIE something + adjective (= colour)

• I don’t like the colour of my hair. I want to dye it blonde. (I want to dye blonde.)
• I want to dye my hair blonde. (I want to dye blonde.)

2.  Nafarbiť si vlasy (nejakým prípravkom) (farbou) = DIE one’s HAIR (with something) 

• I don’t like people who dye their hair with peroxide. It’s very unhealthy.

3.  V spojení so slovom TIE sa vytvára spojenie TIE-DIE, ktoré znamená “farbiť látku na spôsob batiku”

• How to tie-dye a T-shirt?

4.  Ako podstatné meno potom označuje  “tekutinu, ktorou sa niečo farbí“.

     “Farba na vlasy” je potom HAIR DYE.

• That dye smells terrible, but the colour is fantastic.

DIE

O slovese DIE, DEAD, DEATH sa viac dočítate v tomto článku: KAMEŇ ÚRAZU #2 – DIE, DEAD, DEATH