Is "POP" the Best Word in British English!?

- See how amazing this word is?

You can use it to mean anything.

It's the best ever.

Really, use it today.

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So, have you heard this word before, pop?

Yeah it means, (mouth blowing)

like when a balloon bursts.

But, there are so many meanings if you just add

a preposition to it,

so many different ways that you can use this

in your conversations.

And today, you're going to learn all of it

because lucky for you, this one's really easy.

And the basic meaning, if you add a preposition to it,

it just means go somewhere quickly or go somewhere

for a very short time and then come back.

For example,

- I'm popping out.

- Where?

- Just out.

- Where, to see Maria?

- No.

Look, I only popped into Maria's yesterday

because I was popping around Tom's

and he lives next door, so.

What?

- You went into her house?

- Whoa, okay. All right, Becky.

All right, put the pillow down, all right?

It's very dangerous.

Whoa, stop it!

Beck, Becky, that's very dangerous.

- You can put the word pop with pretty much any preposition

and yet it just means go somewhere quickly or go somewhere,

stay a short time, come back.

Starting with the most common and the most general one,

pop to.

Now, you need to specify the destination.

Again, just means go somewhere quickly.

And it's really friendly, too.

Use it like this.

For example, you call your friend,

"What should we do tonight?"

Your friend says this,

"Pop to mine.

We'll get pizza and watch "Attack on Titan"!

All right, two things.

One, when we say come to my house,

we usually just say mine.

Pop to mine.

Let's get pizza and watch "Attack on Titan".

The second thing is I started watching

"Attack on Titan" lately.

It's amazing.

Where has it been all my life?

It's the best thing ever.

And again with pop to, you need to specify the destination.

You can't just say, "Oh, I'm gonna pop to."

No, there's missing information in there,

so you need to say, "I'm going to pop to my friend's house."

Or now you know which pronoun to use,

you could say instead of, "I'm going to his house,"

"I'm gonna pop to his."

I'm gonna pop to hers.

Pop to ours.

If we change to to out, pop out.

This one is very general.

You're just saying, "I'm leaving here."

I'm leaving here for a short time.

You don't have to say where you're going.

For example, if you work in an office and you want

to tell your colleagues, "Hey, I'm leaving for lunch,"

for example, you could say this.

"Yeah, I'm just popping out. I'll be back soon."

You don't have to say exactly where you're going,

but you can.

So as an option, you could say,

"Hey, I'm just popping out to the shop.

Do you need anything?

Do you need anything?

Sandwich? A pen? Mayonnaise?"

The great thing about these verbs,

you can use them in any situation.

It sounds friendly and not impolite or informal.

It just sounds good.

So, you can use it with a friend, colleague, your boss,

your wife, your husband's parents.

No one cares, it's fine.

It just sounds good and friendly.

All right, quick test before we continue.

Are you going to pop out anywhere today?

If so, where are you going to pop to?

Let me know in the comments or take notes.

Practice, practice, practice and you'll never forget.

Pop round, it has a more friendly and a familiar feel to it.

So, we often use this when we say,

"I'm gonna pop round my friend's house.

I'm going to pop round to see my friend."

Pop round, I've got pineapple pizza.

Very, very similar to pop to,

but it's more specific in that we usually use it

to mean my house, your house, his house.

But, it's really useful

because you can just simply say pop round.

You don't need anything else.

Pop round just means come to my house.

Shall I pop round?

Shall I come to your house?

See how amazing this word is?

You can use it to mean anything.

It's the best ever.

Really, use it today.

But again, it's very, very British and Australian.

So, if you're learning English with an American accent,

just be careful.

It will sound very, very cute

and we might want to just kiss your face when you say it.

So just if you missed that, if you didn't take notes,

I'll go really slowly so you can take notes.

In response to this, yeah, she might say,

"Shall I come to your house?"

So, shall I pop round?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, pop round.

Now, very similar to this is pop over.

This, we almost use this

in exactly the same way as pop round,

but the feeling with this one is change location.

So, in this context it means the same.

Shall I pop round or shall I pop over?

Yeah, pop over. I've got pizza.

Brilliant.

In general, it just means the same thing, go somewhere.

But these, pop round and pop over,

have that more friendly feel.

So, these are not necessarily go somewhere quickly,

not necessarily go there for a short time.

It's way more specifically go to someone's house.

You know what? You can practice this.

Send a text to one of your friends who is studying English,

just say, pop round or pop over.

Just see what they reply.

Let me know in the comments.

See if they understand.

If they don't understand, send them to this video.

I'll teach them, too.

The next one is pop in or pop into.

This is being very specific

about which building that you're going into quickly.

Tesco in England is a supermarket that sells food

and your everyday stuff.

So, a really common thing that you might hear is this,

"I need some bits for dinner.

I'm gonna pop into Tesco quickly."

Bits is another really useful word that we use all the time

to mean lots of different things.

So, if you want to learn more about bits, click here

to watch that video.

But yeah, you're gonna hear,

I'm going to pop into this shop quickly.

I'm gonna pop into Tesco.

It just means go inside very quickly.

This one, you don't need the exact place if it's obvious.

So you could just say, "Oh, there's a Tesco.

All right, I'm gonna pop in. I'll be two minutes."

See what I mean?

This lesson's so easy,

you already learned how to say basically the same thing

in like 10 different ways.

Dude, I'm sorry.

Now with pop off, this one is really useful.

In general, it just means leave, so similar to out.

But, this doesn't sound like you're coming back.

Let me explain.

Okay, if you're in a group of people and you want to say,

"Okay, bye. I'm going home."

All right, it's getting late. I'm going to pop off.

In that case, you're not coming back

But it's a friendly way to say,

"Okay, I'm leaving."

The next two kinda go together

because they kinda mean the same thing

even though they're opposites.

Pop up or pop down, doesn't matter which one you use,

they both mean to go somewhere.

That's it.

So, one common way you could use this is this.

I'm gonna to pop down the pub.

Again, you're just saying, "I'm gonna go to the pub."

But, this feels like a more British way of saying it.

That's it.

Now, pop down is interesting.

Because if you want to say, "I will join you at that place,"

then you don't need the object.

In fact, it sounds better if you don't use it

when you want to say, "I'll join you there."

For example,

so as a response to, "I'm going down the pub,"

your friend might say, "Oh, that sounds good.

Yeah, I'll pop down, too."

But in that context of joining someone,

you wouldn't say pop up.

I don't know why English is weird.

But in the other context of just saying,

"I'm going to that place," then you can say pop up.

For example, maybe you are out of milk.

If you don't know that phrasal verb,

click here, watch that video.

But if you don't have any milk, you might say this,

"Ah, I'm gonna pop up the shop."

Again, this is a very common way to just say,

"I'm gonna to go to that place."

I'm gonna pop up the shop.

I'm gonna pop up the street.

I'm gonna pop up to Scotland for some fudge.

Have you ever been to Scotland? They have amazing fudge.

I really now I want some.

So, try practicing those in the comments or in your notes.

Just practice them as much as you can.

Where are you going tonight?

Are you gonna play any video games tonight?

Are you gonna pop on?

Are you gonna pop on X-Box for an hour?

Practice using those phrasal verbs.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, I should tell you that

not all of them mean go somewhere.

For example, pop up doesn't just mean go somewhere.

It also means this.

- Who's that?

- What?

- I noticed that Maria pops up on your Instagram a lot.

- She posts photos of lasagna!

You know I love lasagna!

- Yeah.

- So yeah, you can also use pop up to mean appear.

And this phrasal verb is very useful

when you talk about seeing something online.

You saw an article about blah, blah, blah?

Where did you see the article?

Oh, it just popped up on my newsfeed.

So, ah, okay.

When you open Instagram or TikTok,

what types of posts, what types of videos pop up for you?

It's very revealing.

Also, the word pop is very useful for talking about videos

or posts going viral on TikTok, YouTube, whatever.

So, if you make a video and you post it,

and then in the first day, like, millions of people see it,

you could say, "Oh my God, that video just popped."

It went crazy.

It was really popular.

All right, finishing on a phrasal verb,

going back to pop over.

Remember, we talked about pop round

and pop over kind of meaning the same thing?

But, pop over has that feeling of changing location.

Well, let's say that you want to deliver something

or you want someone to deliver something to you,

or someone else.

For example,

let's imagine that your, I don't know, boss, teacher,

whoever needs a document, but they're too lazy.

So, they ask you to deliver it.

Hey, can you deliver it to me here?

Let's clean this sentence up a bit.

Let's use pop over.

I need that document. Can you pop it over to me?

That sentence is sexy.

But, we have to separate that verb and the preposition.

The it obviously means the document, right?

So when we use a pronoun,

the pronoun always goes in the middle of this phrasal verb.

Pop it over,

pop them over.

If it's a pronoun, middle.

If you use the actual word, the document,

then it can go in the middle or it can go here.

So, it sounds like this,

"Can you pop the document over?

Can you pop over that document?"

Both are fine. Both are good.

So just remember, if it's a pronoun, middle, separate.

If you're not using a pronoun,

if you're saying the actual thing,

you can put it in the middle, you can put it after.

Both are good.

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