Meaning of "narrate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NARRATE

From Latin narrāre to recount, from gnārus knowing.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF NARRATE

narrate  [nəˈreɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NARRATE

Narrate is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb narrate in English.

WHAT DOES NARRATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Narrative

A narrative is any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words, or in a sequence of pictures. Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic and/or formal/stylistic categories: non-fiction; fictionalized accounts of historical events; and fiction proper. Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity and art, including speech, writing, songs, film, television, games, photography, theatre, and visual arts such as painting that describes a sequence of events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to tell", which is derived from the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled". Narrative can also be found in oral storytelling processes, as seen in many Indigenous American communities. Narrative storytelling is used to guide children on proper behavior, cultural history, formation of a communal identity, and values. Narratives also act as living entities through cultural stories, as they are passed on from generation to generation.

Definition of narrate in the English dictionary

The definition of narrate in the dictionary is to tell ; relate. Other definition of narrate is to speak in accompaniment of.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO NARRATE

PRESENT

Present

I narrate

you narrate

he/she/it narrates

we narrate

you narrate

they narrate

Present continuous

I am narrating

you are narrating

he/she/it is narrating

we are narrating

you are narrating

they are narrating

Present perfect

I have narrated

you have narrated

he/she/it has narrated

we have narrated

you have narrated

they have narrated

Present perfect continuous

I have been narrating

you have been narrating

he/she/it has been narrating

we have been narrating

you have been narrating

they have been narrating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I narrated

you narrated

he/she/it narrated

we narrated

you narrated

they narrated

Past continuous

I was narrating

you were narrating

he/she/it was narrating

we were narrating

you were narrating

they were narrating

Past perfect

I had narrated

you had narrated

he/she/it had narrated

we had narrated

you had narrated

they had narrated

Past perfect continuous

I had been narrating

you had been narrating

he/she/it had been narrating

we had been narrating

you had been narrating

they had been narrating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will narrate

you will narrate

he/she/it will narrate

we will narrate

you will narrate

they will narrate

Future continuous

I will be narrating

you will be narrating

he/she/it will be narrating

we will be narrating

you will be narrating

they will be narrating

Future perfect

I will have narrated

you will have narrated

he/she/it will have narrated

we will have narrated

you will have narrated

they will have narrated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been narrating

you will have been narrating

he/she/it will have been narrating

we will have been narrating

you will have been narrating

they will have been narrating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would narrate

you would narrate

he/she/it would narrate

we would narrate

you would narrate

they would narrate

Conditional continuous

I would be narrating

you would be narrating

he/she/it would be narrating

we would be narrating

you would be narrating

they would be narrating

Conditional perfect

I would have narrate

you would have narrate

he/she/it would have narrate

we would have narrate

you would have narrate

they would have narrate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been narrating

you would have been narrating

he/she/it would have been narrating

we would have been narrating

you would have been narrating

they would have been narrating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you narrate
we let´s narrate
you narrate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to narrate

Past participle

narrated

Present Participle

narrating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «NARRATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «narrate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of narrate

chronicle · describe · detail · recite · recount · relate · report · set forth · tell · unfold

TRANSLATION OF NARRATE

Find out the translation of narrate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of narrate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «narrate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 叙述
• Translator English - Spanish: narrar
• English: narrate
• Translator English - Hindi: बयान
• Translator English - Arabic: يروي
• Translator English - Russian: повествуют
• Translator English - Portuguese: narrar
• Translator English - Bengali: কহা
• Translator English - French: narrer
• Translator English - Malay: Ceritakan
• Translator English - German: erzählen
• Translator English - Japanese: 語る
• Translator English - Korean: 서술하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyritakake
• Translator English - Vietnamese: kể lại
• Translator English - Tamil: அறிவிக்கிறோம்
• Translator English - Marathi: सांगणे
• Translator English - Turkish: anlatmak
• Translator English - Italian: narrare
• Translator English - Polish: opowiadać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: оповідають
• Translator English - Romanian: povesti
• Translator English - Greek: αφηγούνται
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vertel
• Translator English - Swedish: berätta
• Translator English - Norwegian: berette

2 QUOTES WITH «NARRATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word narrate.

1

Laura Esquivel

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

2

Henry Giroux

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NARRATE»

Discover the use of narrate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to narrate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian ...

This is the burden of Webber's final book, Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals.

Robert E. Webber, 2009

The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian ...

The Object of Memory explores the ways in which the people of Ein Houd and Ein Hod remember and reconstruct their past in light of their present--and their present in light of their past.

Susan Slyomovics, 1998

Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian American ...

This is particularly true of women where simplistic assumptions about veils and subordination obscure the voices of the women themselves.

Anjana Narayan, Bandana Purkayastha, 2009

Writer and Critic: And Other Essays

Narrate. or. Describe? A PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF NATURALISM AND FORMALISM To be radical is to grasp things by the roots. The root of humanity, however, is man himself. —Marx. Let's start in medias res ! In two famous modern  ...

Arthur Kahn, 2005

Homi K. Bhabha

In short, he is discussing minority cultures in terms of a right to narrate. RIGHT TO NARRATE Bhabha positions his understanding of cultural rights, then, in terms of cultures on the move — cultures as being narrated. Accordingly, he has ...

David Huddart, 2006

Dr. Jose Rizal and the Writing of His Story

How. Our. Storytellers. narrate. Rizal's. Early. Years. When we read how historians compose this chapter in Rizal's life, we see how their particular intent and view affect the way we perceive certain aspects of Rizal's family and early years.

Maria Stella S. Valdez, 2007

The Seeds of Enchantment; Being Some Attempt to Narrate the ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Gilbert Frankau, 2010

Barron's AP Italian Language and Culture 2008

The students are not given an indication of which tense to use; therefore, they are free to narrate their story in any tense. In Italian, as in English, a story can be narrated using the present or the past tense. But students must be very careful ...

Samuel Ghelli, 2008

Daily Academic Vocabulary: Grade 6

narrate Say: Narrate means that someone tells the story or gives e information, often while other action goes on. Stories, movies, poems, books, and plays can all be narrated.d Ask: Where or when have you heard someone narrate something?

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, 2007

Who Fears Death

International award-winning Nnedi Okorafor enters the world of magical realist literature with a powerful story of genocide in the far future and the woman who reshapes her world.

Nnedi Okorafor, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NARRATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term narrate is used in the context of the following news items.

Sir David Attenborough to Narrate BBC America's Natural History …

New York – July 22, 2015 – BBC AMERICA announced today that famed naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, will narrate the channel's first ... «TVbytheNumbers, Jul 15»

JYJ singer to narrate documentary

Singer-actor Park Yoo-chun from the all-male trio JYJ will take part in narrating a documentary about Yoo Ye-eun, a visually impaired pianist. «Korea JoongAng Daily, Jul 15»

#SandySpeaks: 'I'm Here to Change History'

She knew to narrate everything as it happened. She clearly states whenever Encinia pulls her roughly, when he twists her wrist, when he ... «The Root, Jul 15»

Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Accused of Copying 2NE1's 'Come Back …

2NE1's 'Come Back Home' MV on the other hand is said to narrate a story of "a dystopian future in which people exist in Matrix-style virtual ... «Realty Today, Jul 15»

Seafaring Nomads and Marlon Brando From the Great Beyond

Director Stevan Riley employs the actor's own voice—sometimes speaking in what appears to be a self-induced trance state—to narrate the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

In Indian Families, the Dangerous Meeting of Women and Fire

Mr. Kumar, Ms. Sangeeta and Mr. Singh narrate a different version of events. In Mr. Kumar's telling, he and his wife were chatting on a staircase ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

Tame Impala's trippy 'Currents'

Robotic vocals narrate the track “Past Life,” wherein the monotone voice of an un-human entity reflects on a lifestyle once shared and now gone ... «The Michigan Daily, Jul 15»

'Irrational Man' among the worst of Woody Allen

... he tries to make us worried that someone might get killed ... and yet assures us of the character's survival by having that person narrate. «SFGate, Jul 15»

Where Are The Stories?

It is when we force the Lutyens' brigade to either travel within the country, learn, show humility and narrate what they see that we can hope to ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»

DeKalb Municipal Band to present children's concert

Special guest Ron Modell will narrate the children's classic story told with music, “Tubby the Tuba.” Deborah Shofner will “star” in the part of ... «DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Jul 15»