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# phrasal

«phrasal» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of a phrase, or to do with phrases** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (phrasal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made of a phrase, or to do with phrases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#m1)

2) In "phrasal verb": a verb made of a verb plus a small word like up, out, off or on, which together have a special meaning, like "give up" or "look after". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English grammar lessons "phrasal" almost always comes in "phrasal verb". Phrasal verbs are very common in everyday English: get up, put on, run out, find out. Their meaning is often not the sum of the parts: "give up" means stop trying, not give something upwards. Learners of English find them tricky.

### examples

- "Give up" is a phrasal verb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x1)
- "Look after" is a phrasal verb meaning take care of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x2)
- Our teacher made a list of phrasal verbs with "get". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x3)
- "Run out of milk" uses the phrasal verb "run out". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x4)
- Can you replace "find out" with one formal word? Yes: "discover". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x5)
- English has thousands of phrasal verbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x6)

### note

Pronounced FRAY-zal. Only an adjective. Phrasal verbs often have a formal one-word partner: find out = discover, put off = postpone, give up = quit. Some can be split (turn the light off / turn off the light), some cannot (look after the baby).

### Trees and pragmatics

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