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How to spell hear
What it means: Perceive sound via the auditory sense.
In a sentence: Can you hear the birds singing?
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as here or heer.
Sounds like, but is not: here. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: hears, heard, hearing, overhear, mishear. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb "hear" comes from Old English "hīeran" or "hēran," meaning to perceive by the ear. It is related to old Germanic words for hearing and has kept a very similar meaning for over a thousand years.
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