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ipad hi everybody welcome back to know
your verbs my name is alicia and in this
episode we're going to talk about the
verb lose so let's get started
so the basic definition of this verb is
to miss something from your possessions
or to miss something from its typical or
its regular location for example
i lost my keys
i always lose a sock in the laundry
so let's look at the conjugations of
this verb
present
lose loses
past
lost
past participle lost
progressive
losing so now let's talk about some
additional meanings of this verb
the first additional meaning of this is
to suffer because of no longer having
something so examples of this
uh i lost my father in the war
she lost her arm in a terrible accident
so in both of these situations there's a
serious loss there's serious suffering
in the first example i lost my father it
means my father died in the war in the
second example she lost her arm in a
terrible accident it means she was
separated from her arm like her arm
was so badly injured that she no longer
had it as a result of the accident so
these are serious situations of
suffering or serious problems
the second meaning is to fail to use to
fail to use something so let's look at
some examples
ah i lost so much money on this project
and
you're gonna lose a lot of time if you
don't work more efficiently
okay so in the first one i lost so much
money on this project meaning i failed
to use
money effectively or i failed to use my
money in a good way in this project i
lost money as a result of this project
in the second example
you're gonna lose a lot of time so in
other words you're not going to use your
time efficiently you're going to fail to
use your time well in other words
meaning three let's go on to the third
meaning the third meaning is to fail to
maintain to fail to maintain something
like to fail to maintain your like
mental state for example
let's look uh examples
she lost her mind when she saw her bank
account had been emptied
and
he ran too fast and lost his breath
so the first one she lost her mind it
doesn't mean like her head was separated
from her body it means she lost control
of she could not maintain her mental
state her mental condition because
something else happened like she lost
her mind when she saw her bank account
had been emptied like she went crazy oh
my gosh it was such a surprising
situation she lost her mind she lost
control in the second example sentence
he lost his breath because of running so
he could not control his breathing but
we say lost my breath or he lost his
breath so that means he could not
maintain his breathing the fourth
meaning is to get rid of something to
get rid of something so we see this in
examples like you really need to lose
some weight
oh and and
we lost our attackers by hiding under a
bush
you really need to lose some weight so
meaning you need to get rid of some
weight from your body you need to like
remove weight from your body in the
second example we lost our attackers
means like we were separated we were
able to separate ourselves we were able
to remove the attackers from us because
we like we hid under a bush in this case
i don't know what the situation is but
either way you're separating from
something else you're removing yourself
from something else losing weight or
losing your attackers in this case
let's go on to some variations of this
verb then all right
first variation the first variation is
to lose one's lunch to lose one's lunch
this is an expression we use that means
to vomit means to throw up to lose your
lunch examples of this
ugh i'm about to lose my lunch
and
someone lost their lunch on the airplane
so in that second sentence it doesn't
mean that like someone forgot lunch
in their seat on the airplane this is an
expression that we use to mean someone
vomited on an airplane someone lost
their lunch on an airplane but it sounds
less disgusting
to say
lose your lunch uh it's like because the
idea is like you ate lunch and then it
came back up and you lost it it was
separated from you you lost your lunch
that's the that's the idea we don't say
lost your breakfast we don't say lost
your dinner we only say lunch i don't
know why but that's the expression
i lost my brush i lost my brunch it's
always lost my lunch always lost my
lunch so it means to vomit to throw up
you okay the last variation for this
verb is to lose it to lose it where it
is your emotional control to lose it so
to lose it means to go crazy to lose
your emotional control so examples of
this
my mom lost it when i said i spent all
her money
and the second example
my boss is gonna lose it when he finds
out we didn't meet our goals for the
month
okay so in these sentences we see
in the first one my mom lost it means my
mom lost her emotional control she was
no longer able to maintain her emotional
control
so she lost it so it is emotional
control in the second sentence my boss
is gonna lose it meaning in the future
my boss is going to go crazy in a bad
way when he sees that we didn't meet our
sales goals so my boss is going to lose
his emotional control he's going to lose
it so it's quite a casual expression
that means like to go crazy for a bad
reason often so those are a few ways to
use the verb lose that maybe you didn't
know before if you have any questions or
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