Unbreak my heart. Say you
love me again. Un...
Oh, hey, guys. Don't
mind my singing. I'm
Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to
this lesson on "Talking About Broken Hearts".
So, many of us have had our hearts broken,
whether because of a relationship, or because
you received some bad news, or maybe you really
love a sports team and they lost, and they
broke your heart. So, today, we are going to
talk about broken hearts and the different
ways we can use the term "heart" and the verb
"break" in different context, different situations,
different grammatical
structures.
So, first of all, again, the most common situation,
if someone breaks up with you, ends a relationship
with you, if you want to be very dramatic,
you could say: "She (or he) broke my heart!"
All right? In the past tense. "She broke my
heart!", "He broke my heart!" Now, again,
this... Because it's a verb, "break", you can
use it in any tense you wish. So you can
say: "I have had my heart broken before." You
can also make a prediction for your friend,
like: "He's going to break your heart!" So,
you can use it in a variety of tenses. "You
will have had your heart broken." You
know, any tense you can think of.
If you wanted to use this in a passive construction
and say that you are the one, you know, who
had their heart broken, you could say this: "I had
my heart broken." Or: "I got my heart broken."
So the passive would be: "I had my heart
broken.", "I got my heart broken." Okay?
And now, here... Here, we have the term "heartbreak".
And if you're talking about "heartbreak",
the noun, the concept of having a broken heart,
you would use the verb: "suffer". So: "I'm
suffering from heartbreak." And if you notice,
I put two pop culture references related to
heartbreak. So, for example, Elvis sang a
song called "Heartbreak Hotel", and if you
are a professional wrestling fan, you might
be familiar with the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn
Michaels. And he's a professional, ex-professional
wrestler; he's now retired. But he was known
as the Heartbreak Kid, and the Sexy
Boy in professional wrestling.
So, you can also say a person who breaks hearts
regularly is a heartbreaker. Okay? So: "She's
a heartbreaker." Or: "He's a heartbreaker."
Someone who breaks hearts and doesn't, you
know, stay long in relationships, but just breaks
people's hearts. So, he or she is a heartbreaker.
Now, let's look at some adjectives and some past
participles as well. So: "I was heartbroken
when I heard the news. So, you can have your
heart broken by something. And if you want
to say... You know, use an adjective, you
can say: "Oh, I am heartbroken." Or: "I was
heartbroken." Or: "I'm going to be heartbroken
if they lose." Or: "When the news comes",
or something like this.
And instead of "heartbroken", it's also possible
to reverse this and say: "brokenhearted".
Now, again, many more contexts, we would use
the term "heartbroken". I am heartbroken.
But you can also say, you know: "He's a brokenhearted
romantic." Or: "A heartbroken romantic." So
they're both very similar meanings. I would
say "heartbroken" is much more commonly used
in popular speech,
common speech.
And, finally, if you want to use, you know,
an adjective that describes a situation or
news, a game, a movie, a book, or again, a
situation, you can say: "It was heartbreaking!"
So: "The news was heartbreaking. It broke my
heart.", "The game was heartbreaking. The
loss of my favourite team broke my heart.",
"The movie was heartbreaking. I just saw The
Notebook and it broke my heart. It was a heartbreaking
movie." Or: "The book was heartbreaking."
I just read... I've never read Love in the
Time of Cholera, but let's imagine... I'm
imagining that Love in the Time of Cholera
might have some heartbreaking moments. Okay?
So, just to get a quick review, the most common
phrase is: "He broke my heart!" Or: "She broke
my heart!" You can use it in any tense. "He's
going to break your heart.", "You had your
heart broken.", "I have had my heart broken."
Whatever it is. So, again, I had my heart
broken. I got my heart broken.
If you use the term "heartbreak"... You can
suffer from heartbreak. And, again, pop culture
references. Think of "The Heartbreak Hotel" by
Elvis or the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels.
And you can say: "He is a heartbreaker.",
"She is a heartbreaker." A person who breaks
hearts. You can be heartbroken, you can be
brokenhearted, and something can be heartbreaking. Okay?
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