تفاوت: Dead - Death - Die - Died

Dead - Death - Die - Died

Four words that often confuse learners of English are dead, death, die and died.

Compare:

• My cat is dead.
• It died yesterday.
• Its death was a surprise.

The explanation is quite simple:

• Dead is an Adjective (a descriptive word)
• Death is a Noun (a naming word)
• Die is a Verb (an action word)
• Died is the past tense of the verb Die

Look at the following explanations containing a lot more details and examples. We have also included popular idiomatic expressions for each one.

Dead = Adjective

We use the word dead to describe the lifeless state of something; it is the opposite of alive.

• I forgot to water my plants and now they are dead
  = they were alive and now they are without life

• A dead planet
  = a planet with no life on it

We can use dead in an informal way to describe a boring place with not many people or much activity

• The school was dead
  = there was nobody (or very few people) at the school

To go dead means to loose feeling in the part of the body due to temporary lack of circulation

• My leg went dead after sitting on the floor for three hours
  = My leg was numb, I couldn't feel it.

To be + dead + adjective (e.g. dead boring) is a slightly outdated British slang for 'completely' or 'totally'

• The test was dead easy

Dead calm or dead silence means total/complete calm/silence, as if there was no life in an area

• After the storm there was dead calm

Death = Noun

The concept or idea of the state after life. Death is the opposite of life.

Die = Verb

The event (action) of death. The opposite of to be born

The past of die is died.

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