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# re

«re» in Mova's school dictionary: **«about» or «on the subject of», used at the top of…** — 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

preposition (formal: re, in letters and emails); prefix (re-); noun (re — the musical note, also spelt ray)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Re means «about» or «on the subject of», used at the top of letters and emails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#m1)

2) The prefix re- means «again» or «back», as in redo, rewrite, return. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#m2)

3) Re is the second note of the musical scale do, re, mi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday writing «Re:» starts an email subject («Re: school trip» means a reply about the trip). In word study re- helps you guess meanings: reread = read again, replay = play again. In music lessons it is a sung note. It is often a fragment of a longer word.

### examples

- The email subject said «Re: football practice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x1)
- Re your question, the trip is on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x2)
- Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x3)
- Rewrite means write again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x4)
- If you reheat soup, you heat it again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x5)
- Please reread the instructions carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x6)
- Replay the video to see the goal again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x7)

### note

As a word on its own it is rare; mostly it is the prefix re-. «Re:» in an email reply comes from Latin, not from «reply», though people often think so. Pronounced REE (about) or RAY (music note). Some re- words do not mean «again» any more (report, record, reason).

### In the corpora

- [re- means again: redo, rewrite, replay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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