Learn 5 important phrasal verbs 

TAKE AFTER: to look or behave like an older relative / birine benzemek, birine çekmek

 Example: Jenni really takes after her mother.








GET BACK AT (someone): Retaliate, take revenge / Misilleme yapmak, intikam almak

Example: My sister got back at me for stealing her shoes. She stole my favourite hat.









PUT OFF: to delay doing something or to arrange to do something at a later time or date, especiallybecause there is a problem or you do not want to do it now [= delay, procrastinate] / ertelemek, geciktirmek

Example: The match has been put off until tomorrow because of bad weather.






          
TURN DOWN: To refuse an offer, request, or invitation | Reddetmek, Geri Çevirmek

Example: Josie's already turned him down (=refused his offer of marriage).







FAFF ABOUT/AROUND : To waste time doing unnecessary things | Gereksiz şeyler yaparak zamanını boşa harcamak

 Example: Stop faffing around!

LET DOWN: To disappoint | hayal kırıklığına uğratmak

 Example1: She failed to turn up and I felt badly let down.
 Example2: He is afraid of letting his father down.






COME DOWN WITH: To become afflicted with (an illness) / Hastalığa yakalanmak, yatağa düşmek

 Example1: Many people came down with the flu this year.
 Example2: Susan came down with a bad cold and had to cancel her trip.
 Example3: I didn't go to work because I came down with the flu.








NOSE AROUND: KOLAÇAN ETMEK, BURNUNU SOKMAK

 Example: I hate it when my mother noses around my room.




COME ACROSS: KARŞILAŞMAK, RESTGELMEK, TESADÜF ETMEK

Example: Have you ever come across any money in the street?





WHISTLE FOR: To hope for something with no chance of getting it / üstüne bir bardak su içmek

Example: You can whistle for your money now - the firm's gone bankrupt.

SUM UP: If you sum up something, you give a quick summary of it. | özetlemek, toparlamak, özetlemek gerekirse

 Example: At the end of his lecture, Professor Essberger summed up by repeating some of his main points.

 After he'd summed his ideas up, the speaker said he could answer some questions.

 At the end of your essay, sum up your main argument.









ACCOUNT FOR: EXPLAIN, If you account for something, you explain how it came to be the way it is. / -i açıklamak

 Example: We accounted for last year's higher production costs by showing how the price of labour and raw materials had increased.

 How can we account for the remarkable success of our latest product?


WORK OUT:  To think about a problem or a task and find a solution or a strategy for dealing with it | Anlamaya çalışmak, çözüm üretmek

 Synonym: figure out

 Example: We have to work out a way of promoting our products without spending too much money.

DAWN ON: Dank etmek, anlamak, kavramak

 Example: 1.At first I didn't realise who he was, but then it dawned on me. I was talking to Gerry's husband!
 2. It still hadn't dawned on Jimmy that the guy living next door was a drug dealer. He just thought the guy had lots of friends.


RUN OUT (OF): to become exhausted or used up | Tüketmek

 Example: 1. Could I have a cigarette? I seem to have run out.
 2. We ran out of fuel.

What are phrasal verbs?

1. A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition or adverb which creates a meaning different from the original verb.
Example:
I ran into my teacher at the movies last night. run + into = meet
He ran away when he was 15. run + away = leave home

2. Some phrasal verbs are intransitive. An intransitive verb cannot be followed by an object.
Example:
He suddenly showed up. "show up" cannot take an object

3. Some phrasal verbs are transitive. A transitive verb can be followed by an object.
Example:
I made up the story. "story" is the object of "make up"

4. Some transitive phrasal verbs are separable. The object is placed between the verb and the preposition. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, separable phrasal verbs are marked by placing a * between the verb and the preposition / adverb.
Example:
I talked my mother into letting me borrow the car.
She looked the phone number up.

5. Some transitive phrasal verbs are inseparable. The object is placed after the preposition. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, inseparable phrasal verbs are marked by placing a + after the preposition / adverb.
Example:
I ran into an old friend yesterday.
They are looking into the problem.

6. Some transitive phrasal verbs can take an object in both places. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, such phrasal verbs are marked with both * and + .
Example:
I looked the number up in the phone book.
I looked up the number in the phone book.

7. WARNING! Although many phrasal verbs can take an object in both places, you must put the object between the verb and the preposition if the object is a pronoun.
Example:
I looked the number up in the phone book.
I looked up the number in the phone book.
I looked it up in the phone book. correct
I looked up it in the phone book. incorrect