English vocabulary
Phrasal verbs
Learn English phrasal verbs level by level. Hear each one, read what it means, see similar words and example sentences, then test yourself.
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A2 phrasal verbs
A2The everyday ones: getting up, going out, putting things on and turning them off.
118 phrasal verbs
get up · wake up · sit down · stand up …
B1 phrasal verbs
B1The ones you meet in daily talk and at work: looking after, finding out, putting up with.
257 phrasal verbs
give up · give in · keep on · take up …
B2 phrasal verbs
B2Less literal and more abstract: bringing about, ruling out, making up for.
319 phrasal verbs
bring about · bring in · bring out · bring down …
C1 phrasal verbs
C1Formal, precise and idiomatic: glossing over, hammering out, weeding out.
142 phrasal verbs
gloss over · single out · spell out · paper over …
How phrasal verbs take an object
A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word (up, out, off, in). Whether you can split the two decides where the object goes.
- Separable
- The object can go between the verb and the small word: turn the light off. A pronoun must go in the middle: turn it off, not turn off it.
- Inseparable
- The object always comes after the whole phrase: look after the baby, look after her.
- No object
- There is no object: the plane took off, please sit down.