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take care

take care verb: to be cautious, careful or prudent.

Verb

take care (third-person singular simple present takes care, present participle taking care, simple past took care, past participle taken care)

  1. (intransitive) To be cautious, careful or prudent.
    • Take care when you’re crossing the crosswalk.
    • Take care that you don't fall!
  2. (intransitive) To mind, or be in charge of something.

Interjection

  1. (when leaving) good-bye (literally, take care of yourself)

take care meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

take care in Hindi

to be in charge of something
ध्यान रखना dhyān rakhnā, ख़याल रखना xayāl rakhnā

take care in Tamil

கவனமாக, எச்சரிக்கையாக இரு, ஒன்றைக் கவனி, பொறுப்பேற்றுக் கொள்

take care in Marathi

to take care, look after
जपणे j̈apṇe

take care in Urdu

to be in charge of something
خیال رکھنا xayāl rakhnā
good-bye
اپنا خیال رکھنا apnā xayāl rakhnā, اپنا خیال رکھیے گا apnā xayāl rakhi'ye gā
More languagesFewer languages
take care in Bengali
খেয়াল রাখবেন kheẏal rakhben
take care in Malayalam
കരുതുക karutuka
take care in Kannada
ಆರಯ್ಯು, ಓವು, ಸಾಕು
take care in Assamese
সাৱধান xawodhan
take care in Tagalog
ingatan, alagaan, ingat
take care in Arabic
تَوَخَّى اَلْحِذْر tawaḵḵā l-ḥiḏr

Forms of take care

third-person singular presenttakes care
present participletaking care
pasttook care
past participletaken care

Questions about take care

What does take care mean?
Take care means to be cautious, careful or prudent.
What is take care in Hindi?
Take care in Hindi is ध्यान रखना (dhyān rakhnā), ख़याल रखना (xayāl rakhnā). See Take care meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is take care?
Take care can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of take care?
The past tense of take care is took care.

Words near take care in the dictionary

  1. take bread and salt
  2. take breath
  3. take by storm
  4. take by surprise
  5. take captive
  6. take care
  7. take care of
  8. take care of business
  9. take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
  10. take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
  11. take care of yourself

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: take care (page history and authors); take care (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जपणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); കരുതുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); take care (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সাৱধান (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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