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Bookmark or Share- Take care (formal equivalent) - WordReference ForumsMar 31, 2020. #1. Hi All, I am writing an email to a customer. I started the email with "During these difficult times, I hope that you and your family are safe" because we are in the corona virus epidemic. I would like to end the letter with "take care" rather that the usual "best regards", but I think it is maybe too familiar.
- Is "take care" always a friendly utterance or can it sometimes be ..."Take care" is almost always used in a friendly way, or when genuinely warning somebody to be careful. It could conceivably be used as a threat, but the tone of the speaker's voice (or the context of the situation) would have to be very clear for it to be interpreted this way; it's more likely that in such a situation where you wished to issue a thinly-veiled threat, you'd instead use a more ...
- "Take care, sir!" - how formal/informal is "take care" in the meaning ...), take care used at the end of a conversation has the meaning of goodbye: Said to someone on leaving them. Take care, see you soon Angel, have a nice trip, take care, and remember to e-mail me! All the examples of the usage I found sound to me like the informal language. I recently called an IT service desk of a big company.
- Care about and Care for - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange8. Care about has one meaning: to have it be important to you. If you care about a cause, fashion, your family, etc., it means that those things are important to you. Care for has a wider variety of meanings. It can mean something similar to care about, but it's often used to talk about people you care about.
- Can you also say "Take you care" or "Take you care, too"?The correct for, is "Take care of yourself" since the subject is now explicit. "You take care" is an imperative (order-instruction) that can gain tremendous (and socially awkward) force through inflection. Colloquially, "take you care" is an expression I have most-often heard used in the 'middle US' states.
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