Kilo Lingo

/kənˈsɜːn/

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Translation

A worried feeling about something, or a thing that matters to you.

Word origin

From Latin concernere, meaning to sift together, which later came to mean to have to do with.

Origin
Latin
Root
concernere
English cognates
discern

Grammar

Gender
Pluralconcerns

Examples

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"Concern" here means the thing she worries about most.

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This means there is nothing to worry about.

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Here "concern" is used as a verb, meaning to be about or to matter to.

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This word is part of lesson 17.