Phrasal Verbs: The 7 Meanings of ‘Make Out’

thx alex thats good

najib nino

You’re welcome.

Alex

Alex,can you help me with these questions?
What are you saying? and what you are saying?.
Are they both correct?.

rini1891

I have wondered that!!

uinxsa

I’m not a native, but I can help you with what I’ve seen so far about this.

Grammatically talking, the first one seems to be the only correct because the necessary inverted position of the verb to be, which is such obligation in questions.
But we see a lot of people questioning without the proper position of subject and verb to be, right? I think that this kinda conversation is real informal, pretty common but, again, grammatically talking: incorrect.

Despite all that, when we use what, who, which, even in informal conversations, I’ve seen that everybody is still using the correct way: What are you saying? Mainly because when you speak it, you can link those words: What’re you saying?

In a even more informal way, they might drop the verb to be, in this case “are” and only say: “What you saying”, and linking the words, it’ll sound like: “Whatcha saying”.

I hope it can help you.

AlexandreLemos

alex you’re awesome

Aaqib ali

Finally, I make the quiz out~ :)

ゞ(≧▽≦*)o

to practice your english with native speakers visit this website
verbling.com/i/17934346626196010697
it’s free guys and simple to use, don’t forget to subscribe
enjoy
thks teacher

zakori

Thanks for the Glass, Alex.Without doubts
a made the class out !

Bruno Peçanha

I meant ‘class’, that was because of my celphone auto-correction.

Bruno Peçanha

thank…..

basli

nice..thank you

Gibson Tambunan

Thnaks very useful)

Muslim(Salyaf)

I was confused a little because I haven’t used “make out.” But I got 8 correct out of 10. Good for me :)
I was surprised “make out” had 7 meanings but if I would be able to use them, “make out” is useful, isn’t it. Thank you for your great lesson, Alex :)

Happy04

No problem.

Alex

hey there , how are you today Moderator ? .. I`m fine ..Well most people are invited for interview to get a job after they succeeded passing related company`s paper exam . Hmmm… I`ve gotta suggestion about making a video involving two of your good teachers,sitting in front of one another , one plays the role of interviewer who asks most common questions and the other plays the role of interviewee who tries to find a position in a company or organization through a real interview and answers questions (then,common mistakes could be corrected after the conversation by Rebbeca or someone else) .Questions are different but Common questions are possible to ask in that video .I hope your attention toward my opinion is positive and please share it with your good teachers if possible .Many of us need to know how to treat,answer and ask questions in a typical interview.How about that ?

amir from Iran

Thanks Sir Alex, this lesson boost up my knowledge, I got 80%

Abdul Qayum

thank you alex

sa.sa

Thank you Alex. I got 90% (:

luyenbate

Hello Alex.
I am absolutely appreciating for you. Yours all English lesson are very clearly to study but I don’t understand some of lesson that depends on my level of English.

So I have question for you. Some English word very difficult to say, particular the pronunciation and different meaning for example. (I have some sentence related the those word). 1)The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) the farm was used to produce produce. 3) we must polish the polish furniture as well as so many words in English. If you have time, could you explain to me this situation.

Cheers.
tsagaan

Batbandi

Hi Alex;-)
Thanks a lot, I got 10/10 ;-). You help me to make that phrasal verb out. You are genius;-)
I’m looking forward to more ;)

anina

Hello Alex
I had no idea that there were so many meanings “TO MAKE OUT”, I thank you for teaching me new things in an understandable way and you help me to progress in my goal of learning more and more English.
A big hug from Barcelona.

esther1

I’m happy to hear that you’re progressing.

Alex

Hello.Alex
I have some question unanswered in mind
1) What does language mean to you?
2) How can student articulate their thinking in writing?
3) What is the difference between language and speech?
4) What is PLS or pictological system?
5) I have heard that we have some formula to creat iiregular verbs in English I want know how a verb changes to be an irregular one.
Thanks in advance.

123456mehdi

I wonder why your questions don’t have answers in your own language and what English has to do with it, but OK:
1) Language is a cultural system that permits individuals to express themselves and communicate with each other within that cultural system.
2) This process is called cultural adaptation, you have to change (adapt) the (cultural) system you use for thinking to the system you use for writing.
3) Language is a cultural system, speech is a sequence of items (generally spoken words) that convey a meaning in a particular cultural system.
4) Maybe you mean pictorial system: the items of this system are pictures.
5) There is no ‘formula’, it’s the usage of a language that makes it evolve.

Mauro

I got 9 of 10 Thank you Alex

nurgisa86

Thanks Alex!

i got 10 out of 10.

Rajender Gannu

9 of 10 , Thank you Alex. :)

parrtoo

thnx teacher i got it

I S O F

I liked this :)

judge34

THX U :)

dara2

Thank you so much Alex, the lesson was great as same as before.

shgh

I got 9 of 10
Thanks Alex

Hoda

Always thought that “make out” is only related to kissing, Nice lesson, learnt a lot.

Michal - lvlapp.com

I got 10/10 :D Thanks Alex, it was a useful lesson.

Sepideh

Alex,you’re good teacher!!God bless you!!!

Edilson

thnx Alex :)

Abdallah Omran

Excellent class like always. I made it out. Tks

brunomelo861

Thank you for your lesson Alex. It’s very useful. I got 10 of 10 :)

ibenain

I made out the lesson! Thanks Alex

henri

Thank you ever so much for your lesson, Alex.It’s helping me very well.In addition,I would like to thank for all engvid group,and keep it up.Alex,I got a question for you.I got writing problem about essay introduction,and It is complicated for me to write an introduction about one topic,but I have seen all the lesson that has been given by engvid about it

beker

Good lesson Alex. Thank you…

vibek

Alex,your teaching system is easy to me to understand,and that’s whay I need this lesson from you ,so could you give me more easy example please?

beker

can you tell me what’s meaning, another and other, please thank you.

matulin05

I got 7 of 10 questions. Thank you alex :)

Nrizky

nice :) i have a lot of ideas learned, I am from philippines i want to learn more.

danise

I did the quiz my score is 10 thanks ALex

wonghkewin

tell me use of ‘to be’

hs786

Ciao Alex! Your English is so easy and clear, you are great. Thanks.

byte

got a perfect score,,wow..awesome..

juliasophia

thank you my dear teacher Alex, i got 100 of 100 in quiz but i did not know the different between the 1 and 7 sentence.

gulahmad

great! thx!

enola

Thans Alex.I got 10 correct out of 10.

zeinali.mehdi

9/10

miltonjaramillo

Are there any other meanings of ” Make Out “

ciossinus

No words to thank You Alex for this great lesson.
Learning some phrasal verbs are always defiant, I think. So that it requires to get a quite practice daily!

isaacAlsaid

Hi mr. Teacher .. you can say that make out in the sentence about the party means “kissing and touching sexually”

BlankPage

10/10. Thanks teacher

moon39

Thanks a lot

amin80

thank alex I made out the lesson

sabri66

So useful class :), thanks a lot for that…

angy1

Ooohohoooooowwwwww! One hundred percent are correct!!!
Thank you Alex. Very useful lesson. Is a good idea practice it daily.

emerson.costa

Thanks, Alex. Very useful!

Ericko

Alex I can´t watch vídeos on EngVid. appears on screen that the video playback is prohibited. What I do now?

grazisil13

Thank you so much Mr. Alex. It’s really nice and useful lesson. Also I wanted to thank you for your previous lesson or the Academic World List. The list is like a treasure for me and thanks a lot for your effort. Really, I’ve been so happy for the huge information and vocabulary and I worked hard for several days to have complete advantage from it. I hope that will be more useful lists.

Maytham Almashhadi

I’m glad you’re using the list and that it’s helping you to improve! :) That’s what it’s for.

Alex

Hello Engvid’s guys.
Your website’s video not working on last few days but same video keep going on YouTube.com. What happened on web or my device?

Regards.

Batbandi

I didn’t know that make out there are many meant thank you alex hugs

flavinhoh

Phrasal verbs always give real headaches to students specially those with different meanings like the one taught in this lesson.
Practice makes perfect, that is the only way to master them.
You were clear concise and to the point, as usuall Alex. Thanks for this video-lesson.

Regino

No problem.

Alex

Very interesting and useful lesson on “make out”. But I’ve got confused with question 6: What does “B. Andicoot” mean?

omargut

I suppose it is something like a signature.

dedmoroz

I can’t make out what “It is gross” means. Even after the looking up it in the dictionary. It is the cause why I have got 9 of 10. Can anyone explain me? Thanks a lot!

dedmoroz

In this case I think it means “It is disgusting”

enga

thank u Alex so much i get 10/10 i hope if u could learn us more phrasal verbs

sami45

We are learning new things and need to learn much more.I got 1oo.I’m really happy.Thanks, Alex.

daffodile

I got 10/10. thanks Alex

marccos

Hi Alex,

Appricaiate if you could make a leasson explaining the differences between:
1. Licence and License
2. Advice and Advise
3. Practice and Practise

It will be great if you add few more words in your lesson lying under this category.

A big thank from India!
Vishnu

vishnu6887

Hi Alex! :)

Does your English name Alex come from Polish Aleksander (Olek)? :) You’ve mentioned you come from Poland, that’s why I was curious about that.

Do you and your family visit relatives in Poland? :))

Thanks for replying :)

Take care,
Ala (Alice)

biologiczne94

Thanks a million Alex, very usefull lesson

argenis

teacher, how can we pronounce can and can not, in fact, it is similar, thanks so much!

TuMy

Thanx alot

Kanyjaff

tnx alex

hamedMoradi1987

now i can make out what you teach clearly..thanx

elmajzoob

wow.it is unbelievable cuz i didnt watch the video and started to answer them all and got 10.i didnt think that even i would get 7,thank you .

mahbubeh

good lecture alex…thank you

Hamedullah Darwazi

That is just an other ultra super lesson.
I love the way you teach . I can easly make it out what you are saying . :))

oguz

I´ve been making out this lesson!!

Marcio Ap. Massarelli

thank Alex, i can hear your voice clearly and understand all of your lesson.

sophie.nguyen

Thanks for teaching.:-D
I can understand the meaning.

ytk70

i can’t make out(understand ) why some boys and girls just keep making out(kiss passionately) without any make out(progress) in their relation.perhaps they just make out(pretend) they love each other

niloo

that`s the way it is mi amiga ^_^

amir from Iran

Merry Christmas, Alex :)

Happy04

Thank you so much! I have 10/10!!

Victoria888

Hey Alex!
Thank you for sharing nicely presented english classes. You are one if the best among the teachers. I hope all the best for you ! May 2014 be your best year.
Lots of thanks,
Mehmet.

adinme

I got 9/10.Thanks you teacher .to teach clearly

chananat

HELLO DEAR,
I LIKE THE WAY YOU TEACH US IT’S LIKE THE LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. I WILL KEEP WATCHING YOU

Emmanuel Pierre

Merry Christmas! Thanks for the useful lesson!

ReniSz

Very interesting lesson! I got 100/100 on the test, that means I made out all the meanings. ;)

Evans12

Thank you so much. your lession is very useful for me and people studying English as a second language.

catherine78

Hi, Alex! Thank you for a really useful lesson! In the test there was a sentence “It’s gross”. Does it mean “It’s vulgar” or what? I have also got a question about using passive with such constuctions as “make an appointment”, “do a favour”, etc. Can we say “she was made an appointment at 3pm” meaning her potential employer invited her to an interview?
Thanx in advance!
Hugs from Russia!

Galina from Russia

Hi Galina, well as you may know, “gross” has several meanings. As an adjective it means very rude/umpleasant, among some others.
As for the word “appointment”, you can say. . . she HAS an appointment WITH Mr. X at 3 p.m. If she HAD the interview, then we can say that she KEPT the appointment or HAD a job interview with . . .
Hope this may help.
Regards

Regino

Very useful and interesting lesson. Thanks a lot, Alex! I got 10, and I’m very surprised =)

Hot hugs from rainy Saint-Petersburg :)

vse999

thanks Alex , your teaching way is good .

asala

I just heard about your website this morning. I and my wife realy need such excellent lessons to imporve our English. Thanks a lot!

Kamil Al-Shaheen

Hi Kamil, this is an excellent site for those of us who are interested in learning more about the English language.

Regards

Regino

10/10 again

liona

That was very useful. Thanks a lot.

davidscalvim

hi Alex. i love the way that u teach, u speak slowly, it’s easy for me to listen and understand. after listen ur lecture and look at the dictionary i got 90/10.tks so much.

thuyhuongln

Thnak.

Pong

Interesting Phrasal Verb! Alex you explained clearly as always :-)
I think you are the best teacher ever.
Thanks for this lesson.
Regards

Luca

luca.balliano

I start to make out quite good on english test..100% cheers Alex:)

tittilee

Good for you Tittilee!

Keep on the good work!!!

Have a great week!

Regards

Regino

Thanks teacher Alex. I still have much to learn, the result is 50%

Ariella

thanks a lot, good lesson;)

Jaras

result – 10/10;)

Jaras

nice video 10/10

Bruninorasec

Thank you Alex, I’m in a good way

pafsilipoclub

thank u Alex for the nice Lesson.I got only 70 is it good or not.

pantsitu

thks alex

Ndomban

Thank you Alex it help me alot
I wish if can make a video on these exprestion
Take the cake-barking up the wrong tree- more than one can chew-you can say it again-touch wood-burn the midnight oil-bite the dust

Nosaibah

Although a lot of us make quiz 10/10 , make out what you are talking about ,without using phrasal verb in daily conversation it is easy to forget .

rimma905

Excellent explanation Alex. Thanks a lot

Mizaliz

Thank you Alex. It was very interesting, helpful lesson. I got 9\10

Dmitriy Rodin

Thanks Alex
I got a good score

Humran

I got 10 out of 10 before I watched this video~!
감사합니다.(Gam-sa-hap-ni-da) = Thanks!

Matilda03

thanks~

missme0703

谢谢

missme0703

haysss! 8/10 hmmm! its ok i think its not bad for me , anyway thankyou alex for this topic i’ve got a new learned yessss!

bheb27

THANKS ALEX ,YOU’RE REALLY AWESOME !!!
I WAS WONDERING IF YOU’RE DOING CLASS BY SKYPE?
THANKS AGAIN!!!

ericalifornia

thx , Alex , i got 100 , i a m i genius , or defenitely english man , can i say tht ?
i wake out quickly !!!lol

Moulay Ahmed

i got 10.thanks

samira

i understood.
i got 10 out of 10.
thanks Alex

trongtruong.pvpnt2

I got 100%!

And I swear I am not making out!

Thank you Alan!

Lorena Kelly

Alex many thanks for the lesson!!
I didn’t know that “make out” has so many different meanings, so now I’ll try to put this phrasal verb in use in my routine conversations. If you meet me in the future don’t forget to ask me “how is your English making out!!”

Joao Batista Jr

I forgot the signal “?” in the previous commentary hehehe… but I scored 10/10. I guess that it was possible because of Alex explanation, and it is always clear to me!

Best regards!

Joao Batista Jr

Hello Alex

First of all, thank you for teaching me :) All videos are helping me a lot!
Anyway, would you don’t mind if I ask is English subscript correct? Because unfortunately, Korean subscript is not correct. :( I try to develop my grammar so I read English subscript after listening enough. If it is correct, I don’t care about Korean subscript :)

roseme

Thank you for teaching me and helping me a lot.
I will trying to learning.

noylawan24

I’ve got perfect score,and I understood the lesson, but could you please check if these sentences are correct.

I’m married to my husband for nearly three years now, but I can’t make him out.

What you do is making out like you know everything when you don’t.

My classmates and I can’t really make out of his lessons.

I just like to know, if I’m using the phrasal verb “make out” right.

Bel Linwood

Thanks a lot Alex.
You’re a great teacher and your lessons are useful. EngVid helps me improve my English.
take care

cep62

Thank you so mutch Alex, you are very good teacher

Dumitru

Hi Alex! This lesson was really helpful to me. It was easy to make out what you were saying :) I mean, as always, your explanation was pretty clear. How did I make out at the quiz? 100%. Thank you so much!

Daniela Pereira

thanks for this alex another words that i always heard in a english movie, specially british people..two thumps up for u.

abeil

thanks Alex this lesson very helpful

Tomas1010

Very useful.Can we do also conversation?

Cianfry74

Thank you Alex for your lesson.

pavanut2

brilliant! i got a perfect score. Thank you for this lesson, it’s really helpful for me.

bebz143

Hi, thanks for the lesson! I tried to do the quiz but when I clicked for the next question available, it did not show the next question, I am wondering if I am the only one having this problem, or if it happened to somebody else? Please let me know! Thank you

annalam

cipenad

The quiz does not work properly :-(

annalam

The quiz does not work properly :-(

annalam

Thank you!

Iamhere.

Thanks Alex.
i was looking for this lesson. :D

Stan28

Got 9 out of 10:)
not bad.. thanks Alex

Green22

Thank you! Great!

alina-mik

Ooh it is very good
thanks Alex

midonasr

thaks Alex
My test was okay.I got 10.
How did i make out?

Springly

Thanks Alex.
I got 50%, i don’t realy understand it.

Badosa981

great! You are a very good Teacher!Thank you!

umkobi

Thanks Alex .. your explanation was very clear so made out all words you said in the lesson .

aboood1994

Thank you, very helpful

alejandrow

Hi Alex,your lesson is very helpful and informative also.It pushes me that keep visiting to this site the way you teach us.Thank you a million.

Ezana

9/10 thanks Alex , your teaching is good!

hirohiro0709

Alex thanks a lot.Almost everyyhing has been said already.Just everytime I see your vid-lesson I know for sure that Im gonna learn something very useful,practical,etc.I love you Alex!

alainaldo

thank you so much it helps me alot :)

Blackrald

fine i got 10 over 10
all off that is due to my good concentrating and serious listening

ahjij abdelhafid

it’s a good English lesson. 10Q alex i got 8 out of 10

shanko

Hi Alex. I have a question about the first meaning of MAKE OUT you wrote on the board. Does it generally mean UNDERSTAND, too? Can I use it when one of my students isn’t very clear in his speaking? I mean, even if I can see and hear him clearly but his speech is a kind of muddled and confused because of mistakes in the language?
Thanks a lot.

Olimilla

I think that’s only about the ability of seeing or hearing something properly.

morris

Hey,i can’t make out the sentence “i made the check out to the president”, maybe i don’t know the simple meaning of this sentence, can you tell me what does it mean?

KingWin

Thank a lot Alex

Arnoush

10/10. Thank you Alex.

ann ann

Got 8 out of 10. Good lesson as always alex.and thank you.

Ryan18

Great Great Great Great!! I have put it in my mind forever!!

frarlley

Thanks a lot. This lesson is very useful.

Vivimi

You are the best, you know? Thank you!

sandra maia

Thanks a lot!!! I only knew that “make out” means “do the sexual things” before this class!!! Thanks for teaching!!!

RayWang

Thank you, Alex.It is a very useful lesson.

Sonny Hsu

Thank you Alex
Could you explain the usages of the phrasal verb make up as well
Thank you

hayder_99

Thanks Alex, great lesson.

mijalva67

Thank you Alex, this is very helpful for me, I’m so happy because I found this page to learn English.

Gisell

Excellent lesson,Alex. Phrasal verbs are very
important and necessary.So,the more the merrier.
Thanks a lot.

zigmund

So good! Thanks!

Jonathas Wilhem

Hi Alex,
I don’t really understand the second sentence. Would you make it more clear for me? Can you give me one more example?
Thanks in advance.

SSofGo

Thanks！

shihai182

9-10 thanks Alex )))

Alik-1992

Thanks you Mr. Alex for a nice explanations and examples.

Alex-1956

THX Alex…It was awesome
would you mind answering this question……after “handle” should we use any prepositions??
for instance “”a teacher should handle ( with) many students”” or “”a teacher should handle many students””

which one is correct??
THX again