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Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to know your verbs.

My name is Alicia and in this episode, we're going to talk about the verb die.

Okay, let's begin with the basic definition of this verb.

The basic definition of the verb die is to stop living or to stop existing examples.

She died yesterday.

Doctors say he might die within a year.

Let's look at the congregations for this burb Present Die Dies past, died past participle died progressive dying.

So now let's talk about some additional meanings for this Ferb.

The first additional meaning for this lesson is to disappear gradually.

Some examples.

The noise died down a short while after the concert ended.

My interest in eating meat died after I watched a documentary.

So in both of these examples, something gradually decreased.

In the first example sentence After a concert ended, the noise died down.

So actually we can say died down to like it sounds like it was up here, like because we're using the word down there.

It sounds like the volume was up here.

Maybe, and it gradually came down.

So the noise died is okay.

Like the noise died after, but the noise died down.

Sounds even more gradual.

So this is sort of like an extra variation on this meaning in the second example sentence.

We saw my interest in eating meat.

Died after I watched the documentary.

So it's like I saw this documentary and my desire to eat meat went down quickly, like it died.

Stopped.

It ceased s Oh, that sounds like so No.

I saw this documentary and I was done wanting to eat me.

So it kind of means to go away or to disappear.

So especially with down like to die down.

That sounds extra gradual.

Okay, good.

Let's talk about the next one.

Okay, So this second additional meaning for today's lesson is to stop working like a machine or computer Examples.

My car is dying on the side of the road.

Oh, no.

My phone battery died.

Oh, no.

I have graphic for this.

Oh, no.

My phone battery died.

It's not true.

Okay, All right.

Anyway, so So in both of these examples, we use die to mean that some machine or some device stopped working, usually because it ran out of power or because there's some technical malfunction.

So in the first example, my car is dying on the side of the road.

There could be a number of reasons why the car is dying idiots out of gas.

Maybe there's like a technical problem.

Uh, maybe it's just I don't know.

Something else has gone wrong, we don't know.

But for whatever reason, the car is not moving or the car is not functioning correctly.

So the car is dying on the side of the road.

In the second example of very common 10 no.

My phone battery died in the past tense.

It means my phone ran out of battery.

My phone ran out of power out of energy.

So we say my phone died.

We don't even need to say battery.

Just my phone died is perfect.

That's a very natural sentence.

Oh, no.

My phone died.

So those air a couple additional meanings.

Excellent.

Now let's go on to some variations for the verb die.

So the first variation I want to talk about is to die off an emotion or to die of a feeling.

So this is an expression we use when we feel that thing, that emotion, that sensation very strongly, so strongly.

We feel like we could die of or we can also say, Die from that thing.

Examples.

I could die of happiness and I'm dying of hunger.

So in the first example, I could die of happiness.

That's an example where we could substitute of four from, So I'm I could die from happiness that's also okay.

We could say I could die of embarrassment or I could die from embarrassment or sadness or loneliness, something like that.

It's an emotion we feel so strongly we feel like we could die because of it.

In the second example sentence, I used the progressive.

I'm dying of hunger.

It means I'm so hungry.

I feel like I could die.

But I'm using the progressive tents, which means I feel this way now.

I'm dying now because I'm so hungry.

Dying of hunger means at this moment you are dying well, not literally, but you are so hungry.

You feel like you're dying.

I'm dying.

All right, let's go on to the next thing.

So let's go on to the next variation.

The next variation is to be dying to verb, so to be dying, to do something.

Examples.

So to be dying to do something means you have a very, very strong desire to do that thing.

You really, really want to do this thing.

So examples of that I'm dying to see that movie.

He's dying to go home.

So in both of these sentences, you see, I'm using the infinitive form of the verb after dying, he's dying to.

She's dying to.

I'm dying to do something we need to use two plus the verb.

That's the infinitive form of the verb so dying to do that thing needs.

The speaker of the subject really, really wants to do that action that so that's what it means to be dying to do something you're not actually dying.

It just means you have a strong desire to do that thing.

All right, Good.

So those air a few variations, a couple of additional meanings.

I hope that you picked up some new ways to use the verb die If you have any questions or comments, or if you know a different way to use the verb die Or if you just would like to try to make an example sentence, please feel free to do so in the comments section of this video.

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