hear

«hear» in Mova's school dictionary: To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird." — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (hear, hears, heard, hearing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird." tree →

2) To be told news: "I heard you won!" tree →

3) To listen to something formally: "The judge heard the case." tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, hearing is one of the five senses; vibrations travel to the ear, then the brain. In safety: listen for alarms, sirens, horns and cars; you hear a car before you see it. Phrases: hear about, hear from (get a message), hear of, Hear! Hear!

examples

• I can hear the rain on the roof. tree →
• Did you hear the bell? tree →
• I heard that you have a new puppy. tree →
• Listen to hear cars coming. tree →
• We haven't heard from Grandma. tree →
• Speak up, I can't hear you. tree →
• Bats hear very high sounds. tree →
• Have you heard of this book? tree →
• I think I hear her too.” tree →

note

Past: "heard". "Hear" sounds like "here" (this place) — homophones. "Hear" is noticing sound; "listen" is trying to hear. Say "I can hear", not usually "I am hearing".

In the corpora

• A couple's marriage is private, and there may be children in the house who hear what the street says.
• "I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour.
• Sometimes you are the one who hears it, sometimes the one tempted to share it, and sometimes the one it is about.
• Feeling embarrassed is normal; grown-ups have heard it before and will not think less of you.
• A child can still feel bad after hearing "it's not your fault"; that feeling is normal and passes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hear» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.