Дать, отдать, продать...

  Russian verb дать (to give) has a big family. There are many words with -дат- made by adding prefixes and suffixes to it. Let's have a look at some of them.

дать/давать - to give

(here are its conjugations)

отдать - to give away, to give back

подать - to present, to offer, to serve, to hand in

продать - to sell

преподать - to teach

задать - to give, to set, to indicate

You can check more meanings of these words here.

A few nouns made from these verbs:

отдача - output, return, response

подача - presentation, serving, inning (in sports)

продавец - seller, salesman

продажа - sale

преподаватель - teacher

задание - task, assignment

Sentences:

Кому они отдали свою собаку? - To whom did they give away their dog?

Отдай мне мою игрушку! - Give me back my toy! :)

Подай мне пальто. - Hand me my jacket.

Мне продали кота в мешке. - They sold me «a cat in a sack».

Нам столько домашки задали! - They gave us so much homework!

Наш новый преподаватель задаёт странные вопросы. - Our new teacher asks strange questions.

Дай мне слово, что... - Promise me that... (literally: give me [your] word)