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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 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
they’re 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 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 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 meeting
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 home let’s look 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 a
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 it 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 the situation
but either way you’re separating from
something else you’re removing yourself
from something else losing weight or
losing your attack
in this case
let’s go on to some variations of this
verb then alright 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 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 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 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’d spent all
her money hmm
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
gonna 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 gonna lose it so it’s quite
a casual expression that means like to
go crazy for a bad reason awesome
so those are a few ways to use the verb
lose that maybe you didn’t know before
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