Give for-to/aide

Give for-to/aide
Message de seathas posté le 05-11-2015 à 23:42:03 (S | E | F)
Hello,
Could you help me please?
Thank you for any reply.
Are these sentences correct?
give hope for the future generation / give to Caesar what is Caesar's.
I want would like to understand, why sometimes we use give for and other times we use give to.

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Modifié par lucile83 le 06-11-2015 07:25

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Réponse: Give for-to/aide de gerondif, postée le 06-11-2015 à 12:18:50 (S | E)
Hello,
the verb and the noun hope are often followed by for:
I am hoping for a pay-raise.
There was little hope for survival.

You can give something to somebody for somebody else:
I give this to you for your sister.

Let's give hope to the future generations. is a regular pattern:
Let's give what ? hope. To whom ? to the future generations.

Let's give hope to be used by the future generations = Let's give hope for the future generations.

I give money to the poor: I give it directly to them.
I give money for the poor: I give it to a charity that will use it for the poor.

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Réponse: Give for-to/aide de lemagemasque, postée le 06-11-2015 à 18:06:11 (S | E)
Hello!

What I wouldn't give for some holidays!
Sinon, linguee ou reverso context permettent parfois de comprendre quand choisir une forme plutôt que l'autre

Bonne soirée !

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Réponse: Give for-to/aide de seathas, postée le 06-11-2015 à 19:48:26 (S | E)
Merci. j'ai bien compris,

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