The Ultimate Guide on Mastering Phrasal Verbs with 48 examples of ones you Should Know 

I’ve just started to collapse too 😂

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I'm pretty sure other languages have a feature that performs the same function e.g. Slavic languages don't really have phrasal verbs, however they have dozens of prefixes to modify a base verb to achieve a similar result: While in English you can go over, go off, go in, go out etc., in Polish there is a verb 'robić' (to do) - and then there's odrobić, przerobić, narobić, zarobić, obrobić, wyrobić...and probably like a dozen more. This especially applies to swear words, meaning that with just a handful of verbs you can create dozens (if not hundreds) of words that can basically express almost anything you want using noting but swear words 🤭. I don't speak any non-indoeuropean language, so I don't know if it's just a feature of Indo-European grammar or whether this more universal.

@@igorbednarski8048 it's definitely a feature in Indo-European languages... in French you add a prefix on a noun or verb and you end up with many different words. For instance with Prendre (to take), you have apprendre (to learn), reprendre (to take over, or to reprise), surprendre (to surprise), entreprendre (to undertake) etc...

Sure, but this is not what we're taking a chat here

thanks for watching

"Soar" sounds really good actually, especially in phrases like "soar into the air" or "soar up into the sky".

Thanks you too keep on keeping on (or continue continuing)

Hey, slow down, else I won't be able to keep up!

An Interesting and enjoyable lesson, Gideon never let us down. The comments are also great. Thank you all from BsAs🇦🇷. 🤗💖

Glad you liked it.

Would Elsa actually be able to understand my husband's "Crocodile Dundee" accent? He's had his first smartphone for a while now (like maybe a year?), but when he tries to use speech-to-text, you wouldn't believe some of the nonsensical text messages I get from him. Until I read them in his voice and figure out what he _actually_ said! Elsa sounds American to me, but it understands your English accent just fine and even recognizes when you make a mistake! So I wonder if it would understand an old rodeo cowboy from the Outback just as well? (He seriously sounds _exactly_ like Crocodile Dundee ... but with a _much_ more attractive voice!😍 Although, if we want to keep the government from spying on our texts, maybe he should continue speaking in "code"!😉Now if only _I_ could speak in the same accent ... and had a smart "phone" on which to use apps! Haha, I'll NEVER give in to smart phones; they [don't] know too much!!! Although I _can_ say "knife" in proper "Strine" ... because he taught me! Hint: It's NOT pronounced "NOIF"!) Although if you want to read some depressingly hilarious gobbledygook, check out almost _any_ auto-captioned video on RU-vid! Not only does it have no punctuation or capitalization, but it's about 99% nonsense and HAS to be corrected by a human to be readable. Which slightly ameliorates my ever-increasing "future shock" about AI!😱

P.S. Speaking of captions ... I see that you went to the trouble of correcting RU-vid's usual catastrophe of an excuse for so-called "captions," so kudos to you because I've captioned a few videos on RU-vid, and it is time-consuming, especially when you've got an Aussie podcaster interviewing Noam Chomsky, who speaks very quietly and often not in complete sentences (often leaving out the nominative-case subject if it's already been established being one of his speech patterns), and they're occasionally talking over each other, the captionist has to indicate _who_ is speaking, _and_ there are changing camera views, sometimes very quick ones, and there are special timing rules about when to replace the caption that's on the screen from one view to the next while also ensuring that the caption stays on the screen long enough to be read. Not to mention describing sound effects, which hearing people watching captions on a humorous TV commercial are arguing about whether the music is "tense" or "suspenseful" as if there's a correct answer when, actually, it's entirely at the discretion of each individual captionist to describe important sounds that aren't speech. Captionists generally _don't_ get scripts from the video producers, so there's no official name for any non-speech sounds, which is why captionists need to have good _writing_ skills--and good judgement as to how relevant the non-visible background sounds, even song lyrics, are to a deaf audience as opposed to captioning _every_ sound and distracting the viewer from the action on the screen--and also positioning the captions so they don't cover up other text on the screen, but that's one of many professional captioning features RU-vid doesn't offer. I used to be a professional closed captionist, for which I was personally trained for a YEAR (which is how long it takes to learn the process after you _already_ have excellent English and punctuation skills) by the Deaf man who wrote the literal book on closed captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing people at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and the job required a bachelor's degree (the American equivalent of four years of college) just to be qualified to APPLY for the job ... until they decided they didn't care about quality or whether the captions were so bad they interfered with BOTH deaf and hearing students' comprehension anymore, just so long as there were something that resembled captions on them, and outsourced and laid off our whole department because we all strove to make the captions as accurate as possible, format them, and time them to be easily readable (the latter two of which you've done a great job, but one nonsensical RU-vid error slipped past you). So, having spent a full year learning to do both "pop-on" and "roll-up" captions and then seeing the utter rubbish that passes for "autocaptioning" by RU-vid/Google that most creators don't bother to correct or even realize is there is an insult to professional captionists _and_ to everyone who actually USES captions, and that's not just limited to deaf people! To wit, at 9:55, YOU said, *"I'll make the sentence easy enough so that you understand the phrasal verb from the context ..."* whereas RU-vid "heard" you say, "I'll make the sentence easy enough so that you understand the *phrase* ...," next caption: *"live up* from the context ... "! I'll bet there are a hundred more like that in this one video alone. RU-vid should just leave the captions BLANK, and if the creator wants their video to be accessible to everyone, they'd be better off typing them themselves from scratch so that ridiculous phrases like that don't get overlooked by the video creator! In what universe does "understand the phrase live up from the context" even MEAN anything?! If 'autocaptioning' were worth ANYTHING, while the very same company, Google, can actually predict the next word you're going to type using AI _and_ correct your spelling and grammar, it would at least guess at sentences that, although incorrect, made _some_ sort of sense in the English language!😱 One of my longstanding pet peeves has been when a caption says "[inaudible]," which means, as you know, the speech can't be heard, yet the speech _is_ audible, but the actual words just aren't clear to the captionist. Whereas as a professional captionist, if I absolutely could not figure out after several careful listenings over high-quality headphones (which actually enable the captionist to hear more sounds more clearly than the average hearing audience member) and professional-quality TV equipment and captioning software, trying to guess and see if a Google search turns up a word or expression that fits, then finally asking colleagues, if any, who also can't understand what's being said, I would replace the text with "[indistinct]"--rather than blame the speaker by using a word like "[mumbling]." ("[Indistinct]" and "[inaudible]" both mean, "[The captionist tried and can't figure out what's being said and doesn't have any more time to spend on this one word]."😉) In fact, when I _first_ started captioning, almost everything used to use "[inaudible]" if a word or phrase was unclear, and my boss and colleagues, who all valued accuracy and readability as much as I did, agreed with me when I said that was the wrong word and, from among my other suggestions, we voted to use "[indistinct]" instead. And I don't know whether it's just coincidence or someone else saw it on something I'd captioned and used it and it caught on, but I seemed to be seeing more use of "[indistinct]" and fewer and fewer "[inaudible]"s on TV over time, although I just saw it again last week, so it just won't go away! (I use captions quite often on TV rather than turning the volume up full-blast to hear every word being said and, being autistic and noticing every little detail, I can't help critiquing the captions while I'm watching. In fact, I'm disabled now, but captioning was my all-time favorite job because it combined writing, proofreading, learning things--we captioned a lot of interesting documentaries and often had to look up the spellings of new words, names, and geographical locations--and watching TV! And my immediate supervisor was Deaf and also a kind, caring person and actually understanding and concerned about accommodating my disabilities--like not forcing me to work under the flickering white fluorescent ceiling lights and making sure my office was quiet enough so I could concentrate--than my previous supervisor, who had no idea how to do or evaluate my job that I'd majored in in business school and purposely used those disabilities to drive me to a "nervous breakdown" and force me to resign! Plus he'd worked his way up to supervisor over the course of 25 years of captioning and appreciated my conscientious attitude towards the job that we both shared. Also, that was the last full-time job I was able to do, so captioning is near and dear to my heart.) So ... my pointing out RU-vid's error is not at all personal. It's because your channel is for teaching English (and accurate captions would almost certainly help your non-native English students/subscribers to understand you better _and_ help them with spelling), you've gone to the effort of fixing the autocaptions, and you endorse "Elsa"'s speech-recognition and pronunciation-correction capabilities, that I thought you, more than most RU-vidrs, would want to know about the autocaption error I spotted and maybe double-check (in your "spare time," haha, right?) for any others since it was only a few seconds--or about one sentence--from the time I turned the captions on out of curiosity because of the Elsa ad before I caught one of those frustratingly pervasive autocaptioning mistakes that are so bad they'd be laughable if they didn't get in the way of the whole purpose of having captions to begin with--and your speech is crystal clear in a standard accent that no speech-to-text software should have any difficulty understanding, especially with Google's launch of their new AI chatbot software! Not to mention how great their algorithm is at targeting videos to you that it knows you'll want to watch! It's almost as if they made the autocaption feature so bad ON PURPOSE! Hope you don't mind my setting up my soapbox to vent my frustration with RU-vid's autocaptioning/speech recognition -bug- feature, explain a little bit about how captioning is done by professionals, and warn people, especially other creators as well as your non-native English-speaking students not to rely on RU-vid's autocaptioning! It's clear you've already made plenty of corrections based on the punctuation, capitalization, and formatting. So if one or more captions make no sense, viewers should blame RU-vid, not the video creator!

P.P.S. And speaking of excellent English skills, I wasn't exactly keeping score, but I only got about half of them right! (Although I did learn a few British phrases I thought I understood but didn't!) I don't suppose 50% translates to a passing grade over there?😬

I see what you carried out.🤭

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I grew up not too form from you though I've never heard the expression "are you Cornish?" is it rhyming slang?

Good idea!

It's also an advantage if you know French as so many of the ordinary words are familiar to you. Thanks for you comment.

_Picking up_ where you left off, I agree that phrasal verbs are not intuitive to non-native speakers. I think they arose because native English speakers got lazy. Instead of using pre-existing words, they just started making up phrases by putting simple words together arbitrarily. And in the absence of a central Academy or standardized rules for forming phrasal verbs, everybody went and did their own thing. So now phrasal verbs too have multiple meanings that depend on context. I consider them barely one level above slang. You can't understand its meaning even if you _break down_ the phrase into its individual words. You have to be familiar with its usage as a whole. And you cannot negate it by negating its individual words. Opposite of _take off_ is ... _take on? give off? give on?_ Nope, it's _put on, stop, stagnate,_ or _land,_ depending on which meaning of _take off_ you want. Totally non-intuitive! BTW, FWIW, in all the examples provided, the phrasal verb is formed as _verb + preposition,_ not _verb + adverb._ However, I too am _not_ a native English speaker; I learnt English formally in school. So, even though I can analyze sentences like the following, I still don't see why we make the distinction: "I worked up _(preposition; phrasal verb)_ an appetite by working hard _(adverb)_ at the gym."

@@nHans Thanks for taking time to reply. Merci beaucoup !

@@nHans It has nothing to do with being lazy. It's a matter of older Germanic phrases versus newer (mostly) Latin additions. This grammar is far more entrenched and nuanced than brief and trendy slang. To a native speaker like myself, most of the "ordinary" verbs sound overly pretentious except in certain contexts. For example, the pilot using "malfunction" makes sense in that situation where you'd want to be understood absolutely clearly and immediately. But I would only use "resembled" instead of "looked like" in formal writing or speeches.

​@@aidanb.c.2325 Dinna fash-I didn't mean "lazy" as an insult. Not entirely, anyway 🤣. I apologize if that put you off. Actually, as a computer programmer, I look upon laziness as a virtue. I put off writing new code until I'm sure no existing code can be reused. I don't believe that English's phrasal verbs came from other languages-but that's not important. (In general, etymology isn't as important to EFL learners as effective contemporary usage. Besides, there are gazillions of resources on the Internet if one wants to dig deeper.) My point is, phrasal verbs (along with slang) are among the hardest parts to translate-for computers and EFL students alike. Even native English speakers have difficulty understanding these when they originate in a different region. Cotton on to what I'm saying? Doesn't mean that we can't wise up eventually, even if we don't get them right away. After all, our languages too have phrasal verbs (or equivalent). That's why we watch Gideon, RobWords _et al!_ And yeah, like you, I too wouldn't blindly replace _"break down"_ with _"malfunction"_ everywhere: _"Malfunction a complex program into smaller modules"_ (did I say I was a computer programmer?), _"My classmate malfunctioned when she failed the test," "The talks between the union and management malfunctioned," "The police malfunctioned the suspect's door," "Enzymes malfunction proteins into amino acids"_ etc. 🤣 Nor _"look like"_ with _"resemble."_ After reading my long comment, you resemble you could use a drink. Cheers, mate! 🍺

Glad you learnt something from the video. I hope Elsa helps with pronunciation.

"Take Off" = pilots will say "rotate".

@helmanticus where's my cerveza?! Next time for sure. The pleasure was mine. Thanks for saying hello during my aimless wandering across Madrid. It's such a great city.

Interesting. I guess, what the pilot says and what the average person says is different.

@@LetThemTalkTV Speech between pilots and air controllers is highly standardized. This is purely for safety and good communications. Even non-English speaking pilots/controllers only have to learn a limited vocabulary for everyday usage.

@@josephcote6120 Yep!

Greetings to you and all in Casablanca. I'll let Jon know.

Cheers, power to your parents

Thanks for your comments. Comparisons is on my list though the list is long and keeps on getting longer.

@@LetThemTalkTV great to hear your list keeps on getting longer 😉 I’ll never have enough of your videos and podcasts

In Spanish the verb is "despegar", literally "to unglue".

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Oh interesting! I wonder where this comes from 🤔 I love that the word for a computer mouse appears to be the same as the animal mouse in most languages. I used to work in a international call centre and it is the same in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Greek! I find these stuff fascinating

@@OceanChild75 For instance, "Ley (Law)" came from Latin "Lex" and it's related to Shumerian "Lugal (King)".

And add lots of adverbs when describing Edward Cullen's sparkling skin sparkling sparklingly as his sparklingly glittering golden eyes sparkling in the sparkling moonlight, and you'll be hanging your head in shame all the way to the bank!😁

@@mooncove Zackly so.

Nice one ! But "ascend" is not a perfect substitute for "take off" in my opinion, as it doesn't convey the idea of the plane actually leaving the ground... I'd use it as the equivalent of the phrasal verb "rise up" (through the air), rather ! "Off" often implies the separation of two elements : "split off", "cut off", for instance. But I'd gladly hear others' thoughts on the matter !

Depart?

"We ascended into the air after the plane took off." "Taking off" is the specific term for the plan zooming down the runway and rising into the air, or a rocket launching. "Ascending" is specifying going up. You might say, "The plane aborted the takeoff because of a bird strike", but you wouldn't say "The plane aborted its ascension" if it was still on the ground.- native speaker

@@receipt022 No, departure is pulling away from the gate. Take off is about leaving the ground.

The closest substitute should be "lift off", which is also a phrasal verb.

Im not a native speaker, but for me to depart means to leave a place of origin, while to take off means to literally make plane airborne.

I am afraid departing and taking off are rather different. A train can depart too, yet it doesn't take off

What about "ascend"? I know "descend" (as in, "We are now heading into our descent") isn't the same as "land" where the wheels actually touch the runway ... but you can't ascend with the wheels ON the runway, so if a plane is taxi-ing (sp?) down/along/on/across the runway, it hasn't taken off yet, but if the pilot announces, "We are now heading into our ascent," the plane must be taking off, right? Could "ascend" be a one-word synonym for "take off"? (While the latter phrasal verb has several other meanings ... that can include, at least in colloquial American English, to leave a place, as in, "Well, it's getting late; I'd better take off. Catch ya later." Also, a person could "take off running [on foot, unlike a bird]." Then there are even more senses, like to "take off" a tablecloth, a blanket, a coat, et al. Or "Hurry up! Take off that pilot's cap and airplane footie pajamas and get dressed [up] for school this instant!"😉 So wouldn't a single word be more clear? Has anyone checked with Roget? While you're there, what's a synonym for "thesaurus"? Sorry, I couldn't resist throwing that in.)

Get airborne

I think it's currently based on American pronunciation. You can check with them for more precise details.

pleased to read your comments

No, not if it's a non-technical website. Broadly speaking phrasal verbs are more "friendly" so do use them to get closer to your audience.

greetings to Sri Lanka

Yes, we shouldn't rush into things. You're absolutely right.

Lift off for rockets etc...get airborne sounds more apt

Ascend is close..though not quite the same. Glad you liked the class

To depart means to leave (about people or any means of transport); to take off means to leave the ground (only aircraft). The opposite of depart is arrive; the opposite of take off is land (or touch down)

Would they ever say "ascend(ing)"?

lift off is for a rocket

When we are/get/got airborne