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# belong

«belong» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be owned by them** — 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 (belong, belongs, belonged, belonging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To belong to someone is to be owned by them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#m1)

2) To belong to a group is to be a member of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#m2)

3) To belong is to be in the right place: «The milk belongs in the fridge». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#m3)

4) To belong is to feel at home and welcome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

tells whose things they are, or which group something is part of; in sorting and sets, which group a thing belongs to; phrases «belong to», «belongings» (things you own), «feel like you belong»

### examples

- 12 of the books belong to Sam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x1)
- The rest belong to his sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x2)
- How many cards belong to Ana? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x3)
- 8 players belong to the chess club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x4)
- Who does this coat belong to? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x5)
- The cups belong in the top cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x6)
- A whale belongs to the mammal group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x7)
- Take all your belongings off the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x8)
- Everyone should feel they belong in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x9)
- Which shape does not belong? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/#x10)

### note

Splits a total into parts by owner. Trap: «the rest belong to» means total minus the named part. «Belongings» means the things you own.

### In the corpora

- [Rights belong to everyone, and freedom stops where it starts to hurt others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/9/)
- [Serious accusations belong to courts and investigations, not to jokes in the playground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/25/)
- [Those stories belong to the person, and only they should share them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/2/)
- [Bots can invent phone numbers and addresses that belong to nobody, or to a stranger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/14/)
- [The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «belong» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belong/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.