🗣 Conversation 🗣
Ash arranged Kai's things in order to make more room in the truck for her own.
- (Kai) So Ash decided she could just move my stuff wherever she wanted it to fit her stuff in my truck.
- That is what happens when you get a girlfriend, man.
- I guess so. I wish she would have asked me first.
- I am sure it will be okay and she did not mean any harm by it.
- Yeah, the stuff wasn't thrown around everywhere so I guess it isn't that bad.
- Yeah man it's nothing to stress about.
Ash arranged Kai's things in order to make more room in the truck for her own.
- (Kai) So Ash decided she could just move my stuff wherever she wanted it to fit her stuff in my truck.
- That is what happens when you get a girlfriend, man.
- I guess so. I wish she would have asked me first.
- I am sure it will be okay and she did not mean any harm by it.
- Yeah, the stuff wasn't thrown around everywhere so I guess it isn't that bad.
- Yeah man it's nothing to stress about.
✳ them (pron)
Sounds:
- /ðɛm/ (stressed)
- [d̪ɛm] (New-York-City, stressed)
- /ðəm/ (unstressed)
- [d̪ʌm] (New-York-City, unstressed)
- /ðʌm/ (General-American, nonstandard, unstressed)
Forms:
- of they (objective)
them (pron) senses:
1. Used as the direct object of a verb.
2. Used as the indirect object of a verb.
3. Used as the object of a preposition.
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Sounds:
- /ðɛm/ (stressed)
- [d̪ɛm] (New-York-City, stressed)
- /ðəm/ (unstressed)
- [d̪ʌm] (New-York-City, unstressed)
- /ðʌm/ (General-American, nonstandard, unstressed)
Forms:
- of they (objective)
them (pron) senses:
1. Used as the direct object of a verb.
2. Used as the indirect object of a verb.
3. Used as the object of a preposition.
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Audio (US) unstressed, in the phrase "see them"
🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛
They have been playing football all afternoon.
They have been playing football all afternoon.
🗣 Conversation 🗣
- Don ' t be worried. Please sit down and take it easy.
- How could I feel easy? I ' m really pissed.
- But you should avoid finger-pointing when you haven ' t got the real facts.
- Ok. I ' ll try my best to calm down first.
- Don ' t be worried. Please sit down and take it easy.
- How could I feel easy? I ' m really pissed.
- But you should avoid finger-pointing when you haven ' t got the real facts.
- Ok. I ' ll try my best to calm down first.
💡 Example 💡 true blue
true blue (adj): That [Stefan] Lorant was Hungarian might have made [Bill] Brandt even more wary, since he was in the process of being re-born as a true-blue Englishman and leaving the Hungarians of Montparnasse behind him.
Ask @wikt_en_bot for 'true blue'
true blue (adj): That [Stefan] Lorant was Hungarian might have made [Bill] Brandt even more wary, since he was in the process of being re-born as a true-blue Englishman and leaving the Hungarians of Montparnasse behind him.
Ask @wikt_en_bot for 'true blue'
🌜 Present Continuous 🌛
The scientists are conducting experiments in the lab.
The scientists are conducting experiments in the lab.
✳ product (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹɒd.ʌkt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/ (General-American)
- /ˈpɹɑ.dʌkt/ (General-American)
Forms:
- products (plural)
product (noun) senses:
1. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
2. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
3. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
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Sounds:
- /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹɒd.ʌkt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/ (General-American)
- /ˈpɹɑ.dʌkt/ (General-American)
Forms:
- products (plural)
product (noun) senses:
1. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
2. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
3. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
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✳ product (verb)
Forms:
- products (present, singular, third-person)
- producting (participle, present)
- producted (participle, past)
- producted (past)
product (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To produce.
Forms:
- products (present, singular, third-person)
- producting (participle, present)
- producted (participle, past)
- producted (past)
product (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To produce.
🗣 Conversation 🗣
Everyone was giving Ash birthday presents, so Sydney also gave Ash a present.
- (Sydney) I had to stop by the store quickly to get Ash a gift before I went to the party at his house.
- I thought he told people not to give him gifts.
- He did. But I saw that everybody else had gotten him a gift.
- I hope there was still some stores open by that time.
- I just got him one of those edible arrangements full of fruits.
- I hope it didn't have melons since he's allergic to those.
Everyone was giving Ash birthday presents, so Sydney also gave Ash a present.
- (Sydney) I had to stop by the store quickly to get Ash a gift before I went to the party at his house.
- I thought he told people not to give him gifts.
- He did. But I saw that everybody else had gotten him a gift.
- I hope there was still some stores open by that time.
- I just got him one of those edible arrangements full of fruits.
- I hope it didn't have melons since he's allergic to those.