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# young

«young» in Mova's school dictionary: **having lived only a short time; not old** — 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

adjective (young, younger, youngest); noun (the young — young people or baby animals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Young means having lived only a short time; not old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#m1)

2) Young can mean at an early stage, just begun: «The night is young». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#m2)

3) As a noun, an animal's young are its babies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life «young» tells the reader about age: «a young girl», «when I was young». In science, animals «feed their young», «care for their young». In maths problems with ages, «younger» means a smaller age: «Tom is 3 years younger than Sam» means subtract 3 from Sam's age. Phrases: «young people», «young at heart», «the youngest child».

### examples

- My little brother is too young to go to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x1)
- She is the youngest in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x2)
- A kangaroo carries its young in a pouch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x3)
- Grandpa says he feels young when he plays football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x4)
- Young children must hold an adult's hand near roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x5)
- Mia is two years younger than her cousin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x6)
- Birds bring worms to feed their young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x7)
- The young tree has thin branches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x8)
- Did you see the young lady?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/young/#x9)

### note

Comparison: young, younger, youngest. Opposite: old. «The young» as a noun means young people in general or baby animals and takes a plural verb. «Younger than» in maths: if Ann is 10 and Ben is 4 years younger, Ben is 10 − 4 = 6. Do not confuse «young» with «yung» (not a word) or «youth» (the time of being young, or a young person).

### In the corpora

- [Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/15/)
- [Guessing beyond it is not clever; it can hurt a family with young children who can read the comments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/5/)
- [Young famous people, like teenage TV actors, deserve even more privacy, because they are still children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/20/)
- [Vivid example: in a lounge in Auckland, Alfie watches young people in a villa shouting at each other.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/4/)
- [US television shows have their own labels, such as TV-Y for young children, TV-PG and TV-14.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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