Wait, no. Can you bring me a milkshake, actually?
Peel it, so I can dip the banana in the milkshake.
Eat it. It's like a healthy snack.
- My friend. Bring me one as well.
Hmm. Anyone want to play poker now?
Oh, what? It's just your world
and we are all lucky enough to live in it.
It's bloody selfish behavior, mate.
Sorry, can you guys just excuse me?
I'll be back. Two minutes. I promise.
Everyone's heard the expression, bloody hell.
But did you know this word, bloody,
is not only super British but it's very useful.
However, I often hear students use this word wrong
or in a way that just sounds weird.
So today I want to teach you exactly how to use it,
and some interesting ways that we use this word every day.
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First of all, this is a very British word.
but when Americans use it, oh my God, it's adorable.
Basically, basically we use this word to emphasize things
to make people know that we feel strongly about something.
Maybe we are surprised, shocked,
or maybe we really, really love something.
For example, she wants her boyfriend to buy this dress
for her, but he thinks that is too expensive.
To make this adjective sound stronger
put bloody before the adjective.
That makes it sound stronger, yes.
But we use this to say a lot of different things
and it depends how you say it.
(gasps) That's so bloody expensive.
Or maybe to show that we are annoyed.
Oh my God, you're so bloody annoying.
It's pretty much just a more slang way
of saying very with adjectives.
Yeah, that drink is bloody delicious.
Now we need to talk about word stress.
It doesn't matter which word you stress
but remember this is emphasis.
It sounds good to stress one of the words at least.
You can stress that word. That sounds good.
That sounds like you're shocked.
But if you stress the adjective, you are so bloody annoying.
That sounds like you're annoyed.
So it sounds good to stress one of those words
or both of them. It doesn't matter.
You can also use bloody before a noun
and that works in the same way.
You're just saying, I feel very strongly about this noun.
For example, your friend buys a car
but you know they don't have any money to buy the car.
You might be surprised, right?
Wait, you bought a car, emphasize your surprise with
bloody. You bought a bloody car.
You usually stress the noun when you want to show surprise.
Wait, you bought a bloody car.
But what if you just stress the word bloody?
Ugh, I hate him and his bloody car.
Yeah, if you stress the word bloody
it sounds like you're more annoyed.
Of course you could say I hate him and his bloody car.
The only real rule with word stress is
you cannot sound happy when you only stress the word bloody.
See, that sounds very, very wrong.
If you are trying to sound happy, surprised about something
do not only stress the word bloody before a noun,
You'll sound more like the literal sense of bloody
this just adds emphasis to what you want to say.
So if you put bloody before a noun
in any idiom or expression in English,
that just makes this sound much stronger.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love you, Becky.
Actions speak louder than bloody words.
If you don't have the word bloody there,
this doesn't sound as strong or emotional.
Let's look at examples using all of this.
I've never done a lesson on a train before but
- 10 million was wired to your account in Montenegro.
- That's way more than I charged for these lessons.
I wanna show you that having good English
is more about your confidence than anything else.
- So that will be what you call bluffing.
- Yeah, well, no, it's more about just not worrying
about all the tiny grammatical mistakes
all the bloody time when you speak.
- All right?
- So what's your opinion on the British accent
compared to the American accent?
- Beautiful.
- Yeah. So pronunciation then.
So British English is usually non-rhotic.
So we have what I think are perfectly formed R's.
So in American English, they're like water, better.
Whereas British English, usually it's more like water,
better, if we're being totally honest,
British English is just way more bloody charming.
- Charming as you are Mr. Bond,
I will be keeping my eye on our government's money
and off feel perfectly formed ass.
- All right.
Remember before with the, oh, you have a bloody baby
example, yeah, you cannot sound happy about something
if you emphasize the word bloody before a noun.
If you do that, it kind of sounds like
which means something has blood on it
Ew, no I don't want your bloody tissue.
So yet the literal meaning of bloody means
something has blood on it or it's covered in blood.
Which brings us to the main part of this lesson.
Now yet, originally this just meant hell covered in blood.
However, now we just use it as a cute British expression
to say I'm surprised at something like,
oh, bloody hell, that cat is cute.
But this is where it gets fun.
and make them sound stronger like.
Can sound way stronger if you add the bloody hell
in this case are so the verb be.
What the bloody hell are you doing?
What the bloody hell do you think I'm doing?
I'm putting fancy clothes on the cat.
Again, just put the bloody hell before an auxiliary verb
do/be/have or a modal verb. Would, will, could, should.
I'm sure I've seen an example of this in a movie.
Okay, I've got a joke for you.
What kind of shoes do spies wear?
Wait, you're the woman who sells the protein drinks
- Perhaps?
- Yeah, I've heard that they are bloody delicious.
Do you deliver? Could you deliver them to my place?
- Oh yeah, yeah, I'm very close.
But could you just deliver one drink though?
I don't wanna start a subscription.
I don't want a whole bloody box.
I just want one protein drink.
- Yes, please. Delivered to my place.
- What the bloody hell is wrong with you?
Okay, we've done adjectives, we've done nouns,
and the bloody hell put in questions.
It's raining again, that's a normal sentence
That verb doesn't have to be in continuous
So yeah, don't worry about the tense of the verb.
Simple, continuous, it doesn't matter.
You're just emphasizing that sentence.
This doesn't always mean that you are angry or annoyed,
remember, this just means you are emphasizing the verb
That's right, bellend, I bloody won.
Yeah, you walk away, bad loser.
But please keep in mind this is a very informal slang,
British slang term, and depending on who you ask
they might see it like a swear word.
So it could be really bad for them.
Me personally, I don't see it as a swear word.
It feels kind of old fashioned
to think of it as a swear word.
At work you could probably use this with younger people
Maybe. Definitely check first.
Don't get fired because of me.
So practice this in the comments,
use bloody in three different ways.
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