Learn the English Phrases YOU GOT ME? and YOU GOT ME!

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you understand
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the English phrase, "You got me".
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When you see this phrase and it is a question,
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it basically means "Do you understand me?"
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If I saw some students running in the hallway,
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I could say, "Hey, if I see you running again,
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"you'll need to go to the principal's office,
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"you got me?"
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I'm basically saying, "Do you understand me?"
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So, when it is in its question form,
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when you say, "You got me,"
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you're basically saying to the person,
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"Do you understand me?"
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The other phrase I wanted to help you understand today
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is the same phrase,
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but it ends with an exclamation mark or a period.
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When you say, "You got me"
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in this form, it has a lot of different meanings.
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The first one might be, if someone tricks you,
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if someone plays a trick or practical joke on you.
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When you realize what they've done,
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you could say, "Oh, you got me,"
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like, "You tricked me, you got me."
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Maybe you're playing a game with someone.
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Maybe you're playing a board game,
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and you're playing a game like chess,
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and they finally get you into checkmate.
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You could say, "You got me!"
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Basically meaning you did an action in the game
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that allowed you to win, "You got me."
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So those are two meanings it has.
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I have to check my list because there's so many meanings.
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Let's see here.
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Oh, it can also mean you don't know the answer to something.
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So if I said, "What's the capital of Russia,"
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and if you didn't know, you could say,
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"I don't know, you got me,"
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like, "You got me, I don't know."
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So basically, "You got me"
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has a whole bunch of different meanings,
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and there's one last meaning
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which is just a fast way of saying "You've got me,"
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and it's when you're talking to someone
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who maybe loves you and you love them,
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and you could say, "Hey, you got me,"
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which basically means, "I'm in your life,"
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which is just a shortened form of the phrase,
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"You've got me."
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Notice I added the verb "to have" in there.
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But we do say that sometimes, "Hey, you got me."
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I think that's even a line in a song or a movie.
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"You've got me, you got me, babe."
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I dunno, anyways, now I'm just not making any sense.
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To review, if you ask this as a question,
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if you say, "You got me,"
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it means, "Do you understand?"
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And if you say, "You got me"
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with an exclamation mark or a period,
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it just means a whole bunch of different things.
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You heard my teacher voice in this lesson a little bit.
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Did you hear that?
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When I said, "Hey, no running in the hallway.
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"If you do it again, you'll have to go
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"to the principal's office, you got me?"
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That's my teacher voice.
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I don't use that very often,
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but it has a little bit more of an air of authority to it.
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Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Aleksey,
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and Aleksey says, "It was worse, it was worth,"
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referring to my last video
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where I was having trouble saying English words.
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"What a crazy language.
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"I'm still struggling with this couple of words.
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"They look and sound so close together.
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"Now, one thing calms me down.
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"I'm not the only one struggling with this.
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"Even Bob has a problem sometimes.
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"Thank you, Teacher, for the lesson,
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"and your slip of the tongue.
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"Is the phrase slip of the tongue, correct in this case."
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And my response is this.
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"Yes, that is totally the correct phrase,
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"and yes, words that ended th can be hard,
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even for native speakers.
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I have trouble saying like sixth,
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like, the fifth and sixth time I do something.
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Notice when I say sixth it's just really hard
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to get that word out.
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Fourth, fifth, sixth.
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I feel like I have to almost stick my tongue
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out of my mouth in order to say that.
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And words like worse and worth are so close together
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that if you're a little bit tired
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and you're speaking quickly.
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I think a bee just flew by,
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I think one of the first bees of the season.
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Anyways, worse and worth, they're so close together
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in terms of how you pronounce them,
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that if you're speaking fast and you're a little bit tired,
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sometimes you say the wrong one.
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Which I think I did twice in the last lesson possibly.
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Anyways, I hope this video was worth your while,
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i hope it wasn't worse than the last one,
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and I hope you're still having fun learning English with me.
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I hope this lesson on the,
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"You got me" phrase made some sense.
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See you in a couple days with another short English lesson.
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