I Dumped Him! | Learn Spoken English Expressions

Hi, everybody. I'm Esther. 

And in this video, we're going to  talk about an important expression,  

especially for those of you  who are in relationships. 

For those of you who have  a boyfriend or girlfriend. 

And that expression is ‘to dump someone’. ‘to dump someone’ 

Well, what do you think that means? Well, for those of you who are in a relationship,  

maybe, you're not happy. Hmm 

Maybe you don't love that person anymore, or maybe  that person is just really horrible, really bad. 

So, what do you do? Well, you break up with them. 

Right, you say, “I don't  want to be with you anymore.” 

And that's where the expression  comes in ‘to dump someone’. 

So, when you tell your boyfriend or girlfriend, “I don't want to be with you anymore,” you  

are dumping them. Okay, so let's look at these examples first. 

He dumped me. Hmm, he dumped me. 

This is a sad situation, right? Maybe my boyfriend didn't love me anymore,  

or maybe I did something that made him angry. So he dumped me. 

He doesn't want to be with me any longer. Hmm, ‘I dumped him’. 

The next sentence, ‘I dumped him’. This one is not so bad. 

Maybe my boyfriend was really  bad, or he lied too much. 

So I kicked him. I got rid of him. 

I dumped him. Okay. 

So, let's look at some more  example sentences together. 

‘She dumped him because he lied to her.’ 

‘She dumped him because he lied to her.’

‘He dumped me I'm so sad.’ 

‘He dumped me I'm so sad.’ 

Okay, so in this video we learned  the expression ‘to dump someone’. 

Remember, you can dump a bad boyfriend or  girlfriend, but they can also dump you. 

Now, I want to tell you about  one of my ex-boyfriends. 

He never had time for me. He was always busy. 

And he couldn't talk or hang out. So, I had to dump him and it felt great. 

Okay, well see you guys next time. Bye