offer in English: To ask someone if they would like something, or to say you are willing to give or do it. (verb)

Translation

To ask someone if they would like something, or to say you are willing to give or do it.

Word origin

From Latin offerre, meaning to present or bring before, which passed into Old English as offrian.

Origin: Latin
Root: offerre
English cognates: offering

Grammar

Verb typeregular (offer, offers, offered)

Examples

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"Offer" means to ask if someone would like something.

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"Offers" is the form used with he, she, or it.

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"Offered" is the past form of "offer".

Related words

give

To hand something to someone so it becomes theirs to have or use.

ask

To say a question, or to tell someone you want something.

help

To do something that makes things easier or better for another person.

provide

To give someone something they need or want.

put

To move something to a place and leave it there.

opportunity

A time when it is possible for you to do something you want to do.

present

To show or give something to a group of people.

suggest

To tell someone your idea about what they could do.

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