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# spoken

«spoken» in Mova's school dictionary: **the form of «speak» used after have, has, had or be: «I…** — 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 (past participle of speak); adjective (spoken)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spoken is the form of «speak» used after have, has, had or be: «I have spoken», «English is spoken here». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#m1)

2) Spoken means said out loud, not written, as in «spoken English». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#m2)

3) «Soft-spoken» or «well-spoken» describes how a person talks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In language lessons spoken English is compared with written English; in stories «the words were spoken» shows someone said them. Phrases: «spoken language», «the spoken word», «softly spoken», «spoken for» (already taken).

### examples

- I have spoken to my teacher about the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x1)
- French is spoken in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x2)
- She is a soft-spoken girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x3)
- Spoken English is often less formal than written English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x4)
- Not a word was spoken on the long drive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x5)
- This seat is already spoken for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x6)
- He had never spoken in front of the whole school before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x7)
- Meanwhile the swallows had spoken again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoken/#x8)

### note

Irregular verb: speak – spoke – spoken. Say «I have spoken», not «I have spoke». Spoken (said aloud) vs written (on paper). «Spoken for» = reserved or already taken.

### In the corpora

- [Not every silent letter used to be spoken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/8/)
- [Silent letters often show how words were said long ago: the k in «knife» was once spoken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/20/)
- [The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/6/)
- [A dialect is a variety of a language with its own words and grammar, spoken by a group or in a place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/5/)
- [An accent is the way words sound; any dialect, including Standard English, can be spoken in any accent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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