Bare or Bear ?

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Can you good people help me please?
Is it naked or grizzly in the following phrases :

Bare / bear weight

Bare / bear with me

I can't bare / bear it (I do know this one)

and can anyone explain why please?

It's bear in all 3 isn't it? Although I'm never sure about the last one 😂

Bear weight.

Bear with me.

And I can't bear it.

All three expressions come from the meaning of "bear" as to support or carry.

All your examples are bear.

Bare = naked.

Bear isn't just a furry creature, it's the word that means to carry something.
So we bear weight, we carry a load.
Bear with me, is essentially please be carried along with my train of thought.
I can't bear it- I cannot stand (to carry) it.

None of them are bare!

It's the grizzly version as you put it for all those phrases.

safariboot's explanation is correct.

we think of bear = brown and grizzly

but the common meaning is to support weight, as in a weight bearing wall.

It also means emotional support - bear with me = support me in this
I can't bear it = I can't take the (emotional) weight of this situation.

Its bear in all three.

Bare means naked. Thats all you need to know.

The rest mean shouldering, enduring or carrying.

Unless its a furry fierce wild animal. Its not difficult.

Bear, as in grizzly, is a noun.
To bear, as in all your examples is a verb meaning to put up with or to support.
Bare is an adjective meaning naked, and describes a noun e.g. A bare bear.
To bare is a verb meaning to reveal or expose, as in to bare your soul.

And you bare your soul to someone because you expose it by telling all.

Thanks to all who managed to help without looking down on me.
There's always one.

Bit like its and it's...it's really not that hard...

Two, actually

Thanks op! I was struggling with this yesterday. Wanted to say that I couldn’t bare/bear something. As in dislike. I used ‘stand’ instead. I guess going by pp it’d be bear.

But we say barely, which isn’t naked or exposed.

Barely meaning scarcely or only just, relates to the usage of bare for sparse or empty “but the cupboard was bare”.

Two, actually

I think FrenchFancy was referring to this glaring error in the smug poster's reply.

Unless its a furry fierce wild animal. Its not difficult.

@soupdragon Exactly that 👍

all the bears are BEAR
except the BARE which is naked!

Oops! So she was. Apologies @frenchfancy81

Thanks @frenchfancy81

and @Snowglobes That's what I've done a couple of time - just not used the word and substituted something else so I thought I'd find out.