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# narrate

verb (narrate, narrates, narrated, narrating)

«narrate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To tell a story, describing what happens in order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#m1)
2. To speak the words that go with a film, TV programme or audiobook, explaining what we see. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons, the narrator is the person or voice that narrates the story: first person (I, we) or third person (he, she, they). Pupils narrate events in a recount or a story. In everyday life, famous people narrate nature documentaries and audiobooks.

### Examples

- David Attenborough narrates many nature programmes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x1)
- The story is narrated by a talking cat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x2)
- Can you narrate what happened on the school trip, in order? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x3)
- Grandpa narrated the tale of how he met Grandma. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x4)
- The audiobook was narrated by a famous actor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x5)
- In this book, the events are narrated by two different children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x6)
- She narrated her own video for the science fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x7)
- They are narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb. Related: narrator (the one who tells), narrative (the story or the telling, also an adjective). In story writing, «first-person narrator» uses «I». A trap: the narrator is not always the author; an author can invent a narrator.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «narrate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«narrate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrate.html) on Mova free.