Phrasal Verbs: Run + 前置詞

Phrasal Verbs The Key to speaking with Americans

What is a phrasal verb? VERB + PREPOSITION


RUN



じゃあ、

We can put many prepositions with run to make
a lot of phrasal verbs.


One common one is run into!
(バッタリ出会う)


If you meet someone, by accident, on the street,
you run into them.

"I ran into John on 56th street"

"I ran into a high school friend yesterday"

We also run into problems.

This simply means that we found a problem!

"I was printing my paper for class and I ran into
a problem. The printer would only print in red."


Speaking of printers and office machines, we use run off
to mean copy on a copy machine.
(speaking of~: ~といえば)

"Will you run this off for me?"
"I need to run off a few copies of this for the meeting."




Run Out

This is used ALL THE TIME!!!
(all the time: しょっちゅう)


There is no more sugar = we ran out of sugar!

"We are running out of copy paper."

"We are running out of time, let's hurry up and drink this fast."

This means that we are not out of time yet, but will be soon.


Run over


Run over is used, generally, with cars!
(run over: 車で引く, [人に]付け込む)



"She ran over the newspaper with the car."

"Don't run over my plants with that tractor."


However, people who are strong "run over"
other people sometimes!!!

This means they don't let the other person decide anything.

"He works so hard, but he runs over everyone to do it."

"If you get in her way, she will run over you."

This image is the same as with the car, but in an emotional way.

See you tomorrow!