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# spoke

«spoke» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past form of «speak»: «She spoke to the teacher.»** — 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 form (past of speak: speak, speaks, spoke, spoken); noun (a spoke, spokes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spoke is the past form of «speak»: «She spoke to the teacher.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#m1)

2) A spoke is one of the thin bars or wires that join the middle (hub) of a wheel to its rim, as on a bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In grammar, «spoke» is an irregular past form (speak – spoke – spoken). In everyday life bike wheels have spokes; in maths and design, spokes go out from the centre of a circle like radii. Phrases: «spoke to», «spoke up», «put a spoke in someone's wheel».

### examples

- She spoke very quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x1)
- I spoke to my teacher about the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x2)
- He finally spoke up for his friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x3)
- One spoke on my bike wheel is broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x4)
- The spokes of the wheel go from the centre to the edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x5)
- We put beads on the spokes so they clicked when we rode. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x6)
- He spoke for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoke/#x7)

### note

Irregular verb: speak, spoke, spoken — never «speaked». The noun «spoke» is countable (spokes). In a circle, spokes are like radii: all the same length from the centre.

### In the corpora

- [I'm so sorry I spoke!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/24/)
- [The way people spoke changed, but the spelling stayed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/6/)
- [Treating girls and boys differently like that is unfair, and many families are changing it, sometimes because a kid spoke up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/11/)
- [Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/0/)
- [Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word, warned against injustice and gave hope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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