Meaning of IT DAWNED ON ME - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So dawn in English is the time of day when
sun is just beginning to rise, when you can
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just start to see the first rays of the sun
in the air and the sun starts to peek over
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the horizon.
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Dawn is very, very early in the morning.
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But we have another phrase in English, it
dawned on me, and this refers to when you
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suddenly realize what's wrong in a certain
situation or you suddenly solve a problem
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after thinking about it for a while.
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So a good example would be a couple of years
ago my van wouldn't start.
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So I would put the key and I would turn it
and the van would go, werwerwerwerwa, werwerwerwerwa,
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and it wouldn't start.
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And then it dawned on me that I didn't have
any gas in my van.
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So it was a moment where I realized all of
the sudden what was wrong.
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It dawned on me.
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