Hi guys Patrick from Santa Barbara English. today's video is teaching five
useful phrasal verbs. okay so these are five daily life phrasal verbs that we
use every day. so we have: figure out, end up, find out, pick up, and drop off. so if
you know those five and you use those five everyday then you can skip this
video. if not, I have the slides for these below in the description, you can
download the PDF, and you don't have to write everything out. but here we go so
the first one is to figure out. okay to figure out. the definition is to
understand or solve something. okay to understand solve discover determine. this
is similar to 'know.' like I know but it's a little bit deeper than to know because
it means that you know, it but you know it because you solved it. you were
thinking, you were trying, you've figured it out. okay if you know something maybe
somebody told you, or maybe you saw the answer, but if you figured out then you
know but it's because you went through and you solved the problem. okay let me
give you some examples:
okay so I was looking at them at the the
timetable for the buses and I just couldn't figure it out, this one is the
...i don't know. so I asked the bus driver. okay I couldn't figure it out
okay so if I was watching a detective show in Japanese and suddenly I realized
who the bad guy was I would say, 'ah! 分かった。ぜたいあの人。'
I would say 'I figured it out.' okay I figured it out, like I solved this, now I know.
so if I say this it means that I went outside to my motorcycle this morning
and it wouldn't start and I tried to solve the problem. I was checking the
battery, I checked the gas, I was trying to fix it but I couldn't figure it out.
if I said this:
okay maybe I tried to figure it out or maybe I just don't know anything about
motorcycles. maybe I said it won't start. I don't know. What's wrong with your
motorcycle? I don't know. I don't know anything about motorcycles. What's wrong
with your motorcycle? I don't know I couldn't figure it out. I couldn't solve
the problem.
Do you want me to show you? No, I can figure it out. Like I
can.. I don't know but when I get there I will look at it and check the table and
I will figure it out. たぶん大丈夫。 I'll be okay, I'll figure it out.
okay so the next one is to end up. to end up means to eventually do something and
So to end up as a phrasal verb so it's 'I ended up doing'
subject-verb-object. And 'in the end' is a phrase. So, in the end I did this. Or, I
did this in the end. Or, I ended up doing this.
So the verb is to end up.
It wasn't my original plan but that's what I ended up doing. I ended up staying home. So it's to
end up ____ing. okay.
So for example, at class on Friday I was asking my friends 'what are you going to do this weekend?'
and my friend said 'I don't have a plan, I might go for a hike, I might see a movie,
I haven't decided.'
okay so Monday I say what did you end up
doing? What did you end up doing? Very common question when you see
your friends on Monday or if your friend says 'I'm going to see a movie tonight' 'oh
yeah? What are you going to see?' 'Um we haven't decided yet I'm going to let my
girlfriend decide.' okay tomorrow I will say 'Hey what did you end up seeing?'
What did you end up seeing?
So this is 'figure out' and 'end up.' So we do use these together so I couldn't figure out the Sunday bus
schedule, I was looking at the bus map and the times, but Monday to Friday is
very different than Sunday schedule, I just couldn't figure it out so I ended
up calling for a taxi. I ended up taking an uber. okay
A lot of Japanese think the word 'finally' is
used for used in this way, but we use 'finally' in a different way. we use
'finally' when you're waiting for a long time for something and you're like もうー
Finally! For example:
Game of Thrones is a really really popular TV show and they are several seasons long
and after one season ends everybody's waiting and waiting and
waiting and waiting and then finally the next season comes out. okay so if I'm
waiting in traffic and the traffic's not moving and it's not moving it's not
moving and then 'ah finally..' okay that's what 'finally' means. It's it's like 'もう' kind
of kind of a feeling. It's not the same as end up. I don't use end up that way. I
would never say 'the traffic ended up moving' like no. finally is finally and
'What did you end up doing?' is like けっきょく. okay so just be careful with
finally. One more example:
So I was waiting for two days and I couldn't wait I was waiting for her response
and finally she texted me back.
So I went shopping for a red shirt but they didn't
have a red shirt so I ended up buying this one.
okay so let me give you two examples that are similar here:
So, remember subject-verb-object so: In the end,
(SVO) I failed it. Or: I failed it in the end. You can move the phrase before after.
It's more common to say 'I ended up failing.' I use the phrasal verb 'to end up'
more than I say 'in the end.' In the end is useful also but it's just easier for me
to say 'I ended up staying home.' 'I ended up not going.' I ended up
not going. Okay so to end up. Next:
I found my pen. I found my phone.
okay so if I said あの人何歳?
えー知らないけどちょっと待って
見つかった。You wouldn't
say '見つかった' you would say '分かった.' In English is like 'to find out.' So, how old is she?
Right? Because you can't say 'I found how old she is.' For
information it's 'I found out.'
So we were going to have a surprise birthday for my dad, and it was
a secret, but my cousin called the house and left a message on the machine that
said 'Sorry I can't go to the party on Sunday.' So my dad ended up finding out.
けっきょく分かった. In the end he found out that he was going to have a
birthday party, a surprise birthday party.
okay so let's compare some here so very similar:
These are very similar, and in the end they have the same meaning. But if I say I figured out how
to change my ringtone, it means that I was playing with my phone, and I tried
this, and I tried that, and I tried this and I tried this menu, and I went here,
and then I figured it out. If I go and ask somebody, or I just Google how to
change ringtone on my phone: ah I found out. I found out. So, let me ask my friend,
my friend told me, 'hey I found out how to change my ringtone.' I figured out how to
change my ringtone. They end up meaning the same thing but it's just a little
bit different way of getting there. okay let me give you one more example of that:
So if I'm doing my homework
This is my Chinese homework and I said okay what is the
answer to number one? I found it.
Right? So I found the answer. If I say, what is the answer to number one? Hold on,
wait, I asked the teacher and I come back, I say, 'I found out the answer to number
one.' I didn't find it. I didn't figure it out. I found it out. okay so
they're similar and if you're not perfectly understanding the first time,
that's okay ,you will hear them every single day, and you'll start to
understand what they mean. okay so to find out. The next one:
So my friend is visiting they're going to arrive tomorrow at the
airport, and I will drive to the airport, pick them up, and come back home. okay so I
Come pick me up please.
So, 'pick up.' Very very common daily life word, and the other side of pick up is: 'to
drop off.'
So I take my friend to work, because he doesn't have a car, I leave
him there, I come home. I dropped my friend off at work. okay so for example:
Just drop off at the bus station. You can use
it for people, you can use it for things.
So, pick up and drop off, very very common daily life words. Okay so let me show you an
example something that I would say naturally using all five of these
together. And this is not a crazy sentence, this is something that I would
say in daily life:
Okay so those are some
some phrasal verbs I have many many phrasal verbs that I'm going to go
through, but I don't want to make a 20-hour video, so I'm going to try to do
these in short bursts here. If this is useful for you please subscribe, please
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English and I will keep making more videos. Okay so thank you very much,
and I'll see you next video!
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