Hear about Meaning in English

expression

US

ˈhiɹ/ /əˈbaʊt

HEER uh-BOWT

UK

hˈiə/ /ɐbˈaʊt

HEE-uh uh-BOWT

التعريف

To receive information or learn news about something or someone, often from other people rather than seeing it yourself.

الاستخدام والفروق الدقيقة

Common in casual speech. Used to ask if someone already knows about recent news or events ('Did you hear about...?'). Not the same as 'hear of' (which means simply knowing that something exists). Often used in the past tense ('I heard about...').

• Spanish: enterarse de - oír hablar de
• Portuguese (BR): saber de - ouvir falar de
• Portuguese (PT): ouvir falar de - saber de
• Chinese (Simplified): 听说
• Chinese (Traditional): 聽說
• Hindi: के बारे में सुनना
• Arabic: يسمع عن
• Bengali: সম্পর্কে শুনতে - খবর পাওয়া
• Russian: услышать о - узнать о
• Japanese: ～について聞く - ～のことを知る
• Vietnamese: nghe về - biết về
• Korean: ~에 대해 듣다 - ~소식을 듣다
• Turkish: hakkında duymak
• Urdu: کے بارے میں سننا
• Indonesian: mendengar tentang - dengar kabar tentang

جمل نموذجية

Did you hear about the storm last night?

basic

I heard about your new job. Congratulations!

basic

Have you heard about the new restaurant downtown?

basic

I just heard about what happened—are you okay?

natural

If you hear about any updates, let me know.

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Everyone's been talking—did you hear about Jake's surprise party?

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