Phrasal verbs, também conhecidos como expressões verbais, são verbos que, ao serem combinados com partículas adverbiais ou preposições, têm seus significados modificados.
Comunicar-se com falantes nativos de inglês significa que você ouvirá phrasal verbs com frequência, e se você não estiver preparado, você pode ficar confuso rapidinho, já que o grande pega ratão desses verbos especiais é que eles não podem ser traduzidos ao pé da letra, na maioria das vezes.
Pensando nisso, eu trouxe aqui uma lista com nada mais, nada menos do que 40 desses queridinhos e com exemplos para você entender – de nada!
1. Branch out: Expand or extend one’s interests
The supermarkets have branched out into banking.
2. Break into: Enter (with effort or force)
It’s always been his ambition to break into broadcasting.
3. Carry on: Continue
He moved to New York to carry on his work.
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4. Close down: Stop operating
The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
5. Look forward to: Anticipate with pleasure
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
6. Note down: Write something down
Her answers were noted down on the chart.
7. Step down: Resign or leave (a position/job)
The chairman was forced to step down due to ill health.
8. Take off: Become successful or popular very fast
Her business has really taken off.
9. Take up: Fill a particular amount of space or time
These files take up a lot of disk space.
10. Weigh up: Consider
You should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of each type before buying.
11. Back up: Make a copy of information
It’s a good idea to back up your files onto a memory stick.
12. Carry out: Do and complete a task
The building work was carried out by a local contractor.
13. Come up: Happen or arise
I’m going to have to cancel our meeting – something’s come up.
14. Get on: Continue or start doing something
She told us to get on with our work.
15. Keep up with: Follow
We try to keep up with what’s happening about finacial news.
16. Set up: Start (a business)
The group plans to set up an import business.
17. Go through: Experience something bad
We can’t really imagine what our company’s going through.
18. Find out: Discover a fact or piece of information
Can you find out what our customers think of their local bus service?
19. Call off: Cancel something
With the weather worsening, they have called off their field trip.
20. Call back: To telephone someone again
I’ll call you back when I’ve heard something about interview.
21. Deal with: Handle (a problem)
I spent the morning dealing with my emails.
22. Drop in: Make a short visit somewhere
I will drop in tomorrow morning.
23. Fill out: Complete (a form)
It took me several hours to fill out the application form.
24. Hold on: Wait
We’ll hold on another minute, then we’ll have to go.
25. Join in: Participate
We would be eager to join in projects of that sort.
26. Lay off: Fire (staff)
They’ve had to cut back production and lay off workers.
27. Put back: Delay or postpone
The meeting has been put back to next week.
28. Run out of: Have no more of something
Many companies are running out of money.
29. Sort out: Organise or fix
I need to sort out the mess on my desk.
30. Take on: Employ (staff)
We’re not taking on any new staff at the moment.
31. Take over: To take control of something
IBM is taking over the smaller company.
32. Bail out: To rescue somebody from a difficult situation, especially financial problems
Some local businesses have offered to bail out the museum.
33. Cut back: To reduce something
Several major hospitals are cutting back on staff at the moment.
34. Go under: To become bankrupt
The firm will go under unless business improves.
35. Fall through: If an agreement, plan, sale etc. falls through, it is not completed successfully
The planned purchase of the racecourse fell through.
36. Pull out: To move away from something or stop being involved in it
The project became so expensive that we had to pull out.
37. Bottom out: To stop getting worse
There are signs that the recession has bottomed out.
38. Level off: To stop rising or falling and become steady
Inflation has begun to level off.
39. Follow up: To continue communicating with someone after an event.
You should follow up your phone call with an email or a letter.
40. Wrap up: To finish an event or an activity
Let’s wrap up this meeting so we can go to lunch.
É isso aí! Curtiu a lista? Espero que você não apenas tenha gostado como envolva-se com esses phrasal verbs. É sério, eles serão bem úteis para você e, quando você passar a usá-los, seu inglês vai soar muito mais natural.
