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# personally

«personally» in Mova's school dictionary: **Used to give your own opinion: Personally, I prefer cats** — 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

adverb (personally)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Used to give your own opinion: Personally, I prefer cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#m1)

2) Done by you yourself, not by someone else: The head teacher personally thanked us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#m2)

3) As a person, not about your job or skill: I don't know him personally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#m3)

4) «Take it personally»: to feel hurt as if something was aimed at you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk «personally» softens an opinion. In stories and news it shows someone did a thing themselves, which makes it special. «Don't take it personally» is said when a rule or comment is not meant as an attack.

### examples

- Personally, I think pizza is better than burgers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x1)
- The author personally signed our books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x2)
- I don't know the mayor personally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x3)
- Don't take it personally — the coach shouts at everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x4)
- She personally checked every answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x5)
- Personally speaking, I'd rather stay in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x6)
- He had often watched them flying across the sea, but he had never expected to get to know one personally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personally/#x7)

### note

Spelled with double l: personal + ly. Not the same as «in person» (being there yourself), though close.

### In the corpora

- [A dog guarding its own garden or gate is doing a job; its growling is not about you personally.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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