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# phrasal

adjective (phrasal)

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

## Everyday

1. Made of a phrase, or to do with phrases. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#m1)
2. In "phrasal verb": a verb made of a verb plus a small word like up, out, off or on, which together have a special meaning, like "give up" or "look after". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English grammar lessons "phrasal" almost always comes in "phrasal verb". Phrasal verbs are very common in everyday English: get up, put on, run out, find out. Their meaning is often not the sum of the parts: "give up" means stop trying, not give something upwards. Learners of English find them tricky.

### Examples

- "Give up" is a phrasal verb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x1)
- "Look after" is a phrasal verb meaning take care of. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x2)
- Our teacher made a list of phrasal verbs with "get". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x3)
- "Run out of milk" uses the phrasal verb "run out". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x4)
- Can you replace "find out" with one formal word? Yes: "discover". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x5)
- English has thousands of phrasal verbs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phrasal/#x6)

### Note

Pronounced FRAY-zal. Only an adjective. Phrasal verbs often have a formal one-word partner: find out = discover, put off = postpone, give up = quit. Some can be split (turn the light off / turn off the light), some cannot (look after the baby).

## On Mova

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