On purpose is on purpose. But why do they say it this way and not otherwise. Today we will try to figure it out. Of course, there will be not only history, but also modern meaning, as well as sentences with the word. We will try to make sure that the reader is no longer confused by the dialect, which has ancient roots.
History
In the origin, three characters are important: the dialect itself, which we are considering, another dialect - "inadvertently" and their common ancestor, which now only remains in its "children" - "narok". And there is also the verb "to name" - it means "to name". And the “narok” itself meant “goal”, “intention”. So it turns out that on purpose - it's on purpose.
If we talk about style, despite the antiquity of the dialect, it has not become colloquial. On the contrary, it can be heard in various films, for example, in The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath. Remember the moment when the heroes of Yuri Yakovlev and Andrey Myagkov were on the street and Lukashin suddenly remembered that he had left a briefcase with a broom at Nadya's? In this episode, you can hear our dialect.
Meaning and sentences
If we talk about the modern meaning, then everything is not as simple as it might seem at first glance. Because the explanatory dictionary gives two meanings for the word "on purpose":
- With a purpose, with intent.
- Joking, not serious (colloquial).
Moreover, in the first meaning there may be a sense of spite, or it may not be. Much depends on the situation. But there is always a certain goal of the statement. Let's look at the offers:
- Ramos deliberately "broke" Salah in the Champions League final.
- At first Petya and I fought honestly, and then he tripped me on purpose, and I fell in a stupid position.
- Yeah well, I don't believe that he will really go to live in London, it's all on purpose to annoy you, but did you believe it? In vain.
- He purposely invented that Oksana loves him, that's enough for you, in fact she loves only me! Come on, I'm kidding.
Even if I illustrate the comic meaning, these jokes turn out to be somehow cruel. Still, some anger and intent do not go anywhere if you purposely joke with someone. In principle, of course, one can not draw serious conclusions from this, but one can also think about this: why is a person joking with you in this way?
Synonyms
When a word is ancient and incomprehensible to a modern person, although it is in use, of course, we try to give the reader a choice and provide him with semantic replacements for the object of study. So the list goes like this:
- special;
- intentionally;
- intentionally;
- deliberately;
- out of spite;
- evil.
Of course, there are others, but these are either whole phrases, or they repeat existing adverbs to one degree or another. Therefore, we think, and without repetition it is clear what is on purpose, it's not so difficult after all.
