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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#m1)

2) To be told news: "I heard you won!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#m2)

3) To listen to something formally: "The judge heard the case." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x1)
- Did you hear the bell? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x2)
- I heard that you have a new puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x3)
- Listen to hear cars coming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x4)
- We haven't heard from Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x5)
- Speak up, I can't hear you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x6)
- Bats hear very high sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x7)
- Have you heard of this book? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x8)
- I think I hear her too.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hear/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/22/)
- ["I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/20/)
- [Sometimes you are the one who hears it, sometimes the one tempted to share it, and sometimes the one it is about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/1/)
- [Feeling embarrassed is normal; grown-ups have heard it before and will not think less of you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/16/)
- [A child can still feel bad after hearing "it's not your fault"; that feeling is normal and passes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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