1
We are going to have the dinner at 8.
We are going to have dinner at 8.
Tonight I’ll have a dinner with my mum.
Tonight I’ll have dinner with my mum.
Use the names of meals, such as breakfast, lunch and dinner, without a/an or the when talking about ordinary meals: ‘Dinner is ready!’ ‘I always eat breakfast in the garden.’
We can use a/an when an adjective describes the meal: ‘We had a delicious dinner.’
2
I usually take dinner at 8.
I usually have dinner at 8.
In normal modern English, use have dinner, not take dinner.
3
Yesterday we dinnered together.
Yesterday we had dinner together.
On Sundays we always dinner pizza.
On Sundays we always have pizza for dinner.
Use have dinner to talk about eating this meal. Do not use dinner as a verb.
See LUNCH