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Good morning everyone I have heard some people saying "could you give me a call?" & also some people say "make a call" instead of "give ... Forums Dictionarysearch:  English-Spanish English-French English-Italian English-German English-Dutch English-Russian English-Portuguese English-Polish English-Romanian English-Swedish English-Czech English-Greek English-Turkish English-Chinese English-Japanese English-Korean English-Arabic Spanish-English French-English Italian-English German-English Dutch-English Russian-English Portuguese-English Polish-English Romanian-English Swedish-English Czech-English Greek-English Turkish-English Chinese-English Japanese-English Korean-English Arabic-English Spanish-French Spanish-Portuguese Spanish-Catalan French-Spanish Portuguese-Spanish Englishdefinition Englishsynonyms Englishcollocations Englishusage Italiandefinition Spanishdefinition Spanishsynonyms Catalandefinition Spanish French Italian Login Register What'snew Search Rules/Help/FAQ Members InterfaceLanguage Menu Login Register Installtheapp Install Spanish-English/Español-Inglés Spanish-EnglishGrammar/GramáticaEspañol-Inglés Youareusinganoutofdatebrowser.Itmaynotdisplaythisorotherwebsitescorrectly.Youshouldupgradeoruseanalternativebrowser. makeacall-giveacall Threadstarter F1lah Startdate Sep13,2011 F1lah NewMember MexicoDF Spanish Goodmorningeveryone Ihaveheardsomepeoplesaying"couldyougivemeacall?"&alsosomepeoplesay"makeacall"insteadof"givecall"...I´mconfused,couldsomeoneexplaintomewhenshouldIuse"make"&whenshouldIuse"give"inthiskindofsentences?? Thanks-​   chileno SeniorMember LasVegas,Nv.USA Castellano-Chile ItisthesameinSpanish. Dámeunallamada Hazunallamada.   F1lah NewMember MexicoDF Spanish givehimacallormakehimacall....whichoneiscorrect?   F1lah NewMember MexicoDF Spanish couldanyonehelpme???'   chileno SeniorMember LasVegas,Nv.USA Castellano-Chile F1lahsaid: givehimacallormakehimacall....whichoneiscorrect? Clicktoexpand... Wouldyouactuallysay"hazleunallamada"?   P pubman SeniorMember southcoast,England English F1lahsaid: givehimacallormakehimacall....whichoneiscorrect? Clicktoexpand...   F1lah NewMember MexicoDF Spanish so,giveacallsería"llamar"ymakeacallsería"marcar"inspanish?   J Jim2996 SeniorMember Boston,MA AmericanEnglish F1lahsaid: Goodmorningeveryone Ihaveheardsomepeoplesaying"couldyougivemeacall?"&alsosomepeoplesay"makeacall"insteadof"givecall"...I´mconfused,couldsomeoneexplaintomewhenshouldIuse"make"&whenshouldIuse"give"inthiskindofsentences?? Thanks-​ Clicktoexpand... Ican'texplainthis,andIcertainlycan'tgiveyouanyrules,butIcangiveyousomeadvice.Therearemanywaystosaythesamething,andmanydifferentwordsthatcanbeused. "Call"canbeaverb,soit'salsoeasytosay"Callme,"or"Phoneme." "Givemeacall."isheardallthetime."Makeacalltome."Ifindabitodd,but"Makeacalltohim,"fine.Thisismoreusageandpeopleschoicethanitisgrammar. "Makemeacall."soundsweirdtome.Ican'tthinkofacontextthatwouldevenmakesense.Perhapsgoodadvicefornowistonotuse"make." Yet,"Hemadeacall."iswhatIwouldusewhenIwanttoomittheindirectobject,thetowhom;orwhenIknowthathephonedsomeone,butIdon'tknowwhom. Asimilarquestioniswhethertouse"call,""phonecall,"oreven"telephonecall."Asaspeaker,youmustmakechoices;butoftentheydon'tmatter.   weeshus SeniorMember England/Spain English-England Ohwow- eningles"yougivehimacall"or"youmakeacalltohim"Howevermorenormallyonewouldsay"Iwillgivehim/her/them/Weeshus"acall"andfortheotherhalfofthequestiononewouldnormallysay"IcannotcometothetheatrewithyoubecauseIhavesomecallstomaketonight"or""IcannotcometothetheatrewithyoubecauseIhavetomaksomecallstonight". Itisnotnecessarilyacaseofgrammar-moreacaseofusage Hopethishelps Weeshus   Youmustloginorregistertoreplyhere. Share: Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Email Share Link Spanish-English/Español-Inglés Spanish-EnglishGrammar/GramáticaEspañol-Inglés Top