Fetch vs bring

[Abram]

Hullo englishspeakers and their friends! Help me please! I cannot catch the difference between following words ... To Bring... and ... To Fetch...
What verb is used more often
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[Torsten]

Hi Abraham,

When you bring something you take it from one place to another place and leave it there.
When you fetch something or someone you collect or retrieve them from somewhere.

For example:

I'll fetch you from the station as soon as your train arrives.

Please, bring the book back to the library.

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[Abram]

Can I say: Fetch me pencil?
Abram

[Torsten]

Yes, depending on the context. For example you could say:

Could you please fetch my pencil from the desk over there, I don't want to get up.

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[Abram]

[Vietanhpham_Winter]

Is fetch the same as take?
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[Expatcat]

Let's start with bring and take. Take has many meanings, but I think you are interested in the meaning, "to convey, or transport". Bring can also mean "to convey or transport" but here is the catch; as the speaker, whether to use bring or take depends on where the speaker is and where the object is (let's use pencil for the object). To put it simply, use bring when you want the object to come towards you. Use take when you want the object to go away from you.

For example; the pencil is on the desk and you are on the couch. You can say to someone, "Bring me the pencil, please."

Now you are at the desk and so is the pencil. You can say to someone, "Take the pencil to Suzy, please."

Fetch means to go and get a thing and come back with it. So one difference between fetch and bring is that fetch involves 2 actions together and bring is one action.

There is another difference though, one you likely won't find in a dictionary. Fetch is a word that is commonly used with dogs or when you are talking down to someone. This is not always the case, but if you are unfamiliar with the language I would advise against using this word unless you are playing fetch with a dog.

[Puppet]

Hi,

A communicator member from USA said that the Americans are rarely use 'fetch' nowadays. If so, then it would be used merely for dogs. Fetch like 'go get it', as she explained her view in TOEFL section, so i read. Mr. Alan was in, too.

I guess we should be very careful when using such words can carry these meanings. It's a kind of faux pas.