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# listen

«listen» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pay attention to sounds or words so that you hear…** — 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 (listen, listens, listened, listening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To listen is to pay attention to sounds or words so that you hear them: listen to music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#m1)

2) To listen is to take advice and do what someone says: He never listens! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the student taking in the explanation («I am listening. I will remember …»); in class «listen carefully», «listen to the whole problem»; in everyday life listening to music, stories, friends; in safety «listen for traffic», «listen to the lifeguard»

### examples

- Student: I am listening. I will remember: «more» — add … [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x1)
- Listen to the whole problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x2)
- Listen carefully to the instructions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x3)
- We listened to a story about a dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x4)
- I like to listen to music in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x5)
- Listen! Can you hear the birds? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x6)
- Stop, look and listen before you cross the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x7)
- Thank you for listening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x8)
- Listen, and I will tell you." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/listen/#x9)

### note

No operation clue. The «t» is silent: say «LIS-en». We «listen to» something; «hear» is what reaches your ears even when you do not try.

### In the corpora

- [Listening at the door usually gives you only scary half-pieces; asking «Is everything OK?» later works much better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/10/)
- [When someone says they are hurt by comments, the kind thing is to listen, not to argue.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/13/)
- [She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/5/)
- [Good parents ask how you feel, not only what you saw, and they listen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/15/)
- [Almost everyone can learn to dance with practice and by listening for the beat, the steady pulse of the music.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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