Learn How To Describe Being Sad from Missing Someone or Something in English

Hi.

This English lesson is going to be about

the emotion of missing someone or missing something,

or even missing an era in your life.

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.

So you can miss things as well.

You could say, I missed 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.

You can also miss a time in your life.

Personally, I miss being a university student.

It was awesome.

I had no responsibilities.

I would just go to the dining hall

and there would be food for me.

I didn't have to even cook my own meals.

I miss being a little kid.

I miss just playing all day Saturday.

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.

We say that you are homesick.

Sometimes when kids go to university, when they

move out of the house, they miss home.

They are homesick, 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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