Name: Learn How To Describe Being Sad from Missing Someone or Something in English
Uploaded: 2025-01-19T21:01:20.000Z
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This English lesson is going to be about the emotion of missing someone, or missing something, or even missing an era in your life.

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In this English lesson, I'm going to talk about one verb: the verb to miss.

And in particular, how we use this verb to talk about the feeling we have when someone we know lives far away or something we used to own, we no longer own.

And we're kind of sad about those two situations.

So, welcome to this English lesson about the verb to miss.

So, we have a very simple but powerful sentence in English, and it's the sentence, "I miss you."

If you say, "I miss you" to someone, it means that maybe they live far away, and maybe you're talking to them on the phone, and you're letting them know that you really like them, and you're sad because they live so far away.

If you say, "I miss you" to a son who's at university or maybe to a parent that lives in a different country than you, you're communicating to them the emotion that you love them, and you are sad because you are not in the same place as them.

So, "I miss you" is a very powerful sentence.

You can also use this when you're talking to someone else.

Maybe I would say to someone, "Oh, I miss my son who's at university," or "I miss my mom because she lives in Spain."

My mom doesn't live in Spain, by the way, but those are just example sentences.

So, the simplest way to use this verb to express that emotion is to just say, "I miss you." You can also use this verb to talk about someone who has passed away, someone who has died.

I could say to someone, "Oh, I miss my grandfather. He was such a nice guy. He was such a gentle, honest, awesome man. I miss my grandfather."

So, you don't just need to use this to talk about people who are still alive.

You can also use this to talk about relatives, or parents, or grandparents who have passed away, just to express how sad you are that they're no longer here on this planet with us.

So, for me personally, I miss my father, I miss my grandfather, my grandmother, my other grandfather, and my other grandmother.

They were all really awesome people, and I miss them. So, in English, if you say, "I miss you" to someone, it communicates a strong emotion, that you are sad that you're not with that person.

But maybe you're in a lighter mood, and you just want to say that you miss doing things with that person.

Maybe a friend of yours has moved to another country.

You could say to them, "Oh, I miss going to the climbing gym with you. I miss hanging out with you. I miss watching TV with you."

So instead of telling them that you miss them, maybe you're a little bit shy about communicating that strong emotion, you could instead be a little bit lighter.

You could just say that you miss doing things with them.

You could say, "I miss my old car." Maybe you bought a new car, and you have really good memories of your old car.

You could say, "I miss my old car." You could say, "Oh, I miss my old computer. It had better features than my new one."

That doesn't sound possible, but maybe you miss your old computer.

Maybe you've moved and you miss the town you used to live in.

You could say, "Oh, I really miss the town I used to live in.

This city that I live in now is way too busy." So when you are missing something, you can also describe it in the same way.

You just say, "I miss my old computer. I miss my old car. I miss my old town."

Personally, I miss being a university student.

I would just go to the dining hall, and there would be food for me.

Now on Saturdays, usually I work in the morning and have a nap in the afternoon, and I have all kinds of responsibilities.

So there might be a time in your life that you miss.

You could describe it using the same format, the same verb.

You could say, "Oh, I miss being a university student. I miss being a little kid."

And we have a special way of describing the feeling you have when you're far from home and you miss home.

Sometimes when kids go to university, when they move out of the house, they miss home.

They like being at university, but they have really good memories and feelings about home.

And so they would say, "Oh, I miss home" or "I'm homesick." Well, thanks for watching this English lesson on how to use the verb to miss to talk about people you miss, or things you miss, or a time in your life that you miss.

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