Word info

you understood

Noun

Meaning

you understood (uncountable)

(grammar) The unstated subject of a command sentence, where it is assumed the subject is the person to whom the command is directed.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. Jeanette Winterson

Alternate form: I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday be communists. I am a socialist. I think that we should strive toward a socialist society - all the way to communism. Jane Fonda

If you understood everything I said, you'd be me. Miles Davis

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. Peter Weir

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. Jodi Picoult

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