Meaning of IT TOOK FOREVER- A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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We like to exaggerate a lot in English.
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When you exaggerate you describe something as being worse than it was or better than
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it was.
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And today we took the kids swimming and after we went swimming we went to a fast food restaurant
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and we ordered food and it took forever for them to make the food.
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It took a long time for them to make the food.
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So in English we like to say things like, "It took forever.", to describe something
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that really only took about 25 minutes.
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It wasn't really that long, but you will often hear exaggerations about time.
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Sometimes people go to renew their drivers licence and they will describe it by saying,
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"It took forever!
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I waited in line forever at the licence bureau in order to renew my licence."
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So I'm sure that you guys do this in your own languages as well.
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Anyways, there's a couple versions of this.
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"It took forever.", would be me talking in the past, something that already happened.
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If I was to talk about tomorrow I would say, "Tomorrow I need to renew my licence and it's
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going to take forever!"
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Notice the change there.
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Or I might say, "It will take forever."
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"I know it will take forever because the line there is usually pretty long.
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In the past you would say, It took forever.", but in the future you would say.
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"It will take forever.", or, "It's going to take forever."
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