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# inform

«inform» in Mova's school dictionary: **To tell someone facts or news, especially officially** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (inform, informs, informed, informing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To tell someone facts or news, especially officially. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#m1)

2) inform on someone: to tell the police or a person in charge about something wrong someone did. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and safety: "inform a teacher if you feel unwell". In letters: "we are pleased to inform you". Phrases: keep someone informed, inform on, well informed.

### examples

- Please inform your teacher if you are going to be absent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x1)
- We are pleased to inform you that you have won. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x2)
- The pilot informed us that we would land soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x3)
- Keep me informed about the plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x4)
- He informed on the robbers to the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x5)
- She is well informed about dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x6)
- The Queen hastened to inform the King her husband, and the wedding took place on the spot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inform/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: informed. Noun: information (uncountable: "some information", not "an information" or "informations"). "Inform" is more formal than "tell".

### In the corpora

- [Adding -tion often turns a verb into a noun: inform, information.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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