phrasal verb · informal

give something a try

/ɡɪv ˈsʌmθɪŋ ə traɪ/give·SOMETH·ing·a·TRY

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to attempt to do something, to try something out

Examples

If you have doubts, give it a try and see what happens.

I decided to give learning Spanish a try last year.

Why don't you give the new app a try?

Band 8 sentence

I wasn't confident at first, but I decided to give programming a try and now it's my career.

Collocations

  • give something a try
  • give it a try

Word family

try verb/noungive it a try phrase

Common mistakes

give a trygive it a try / give something a try

do a trygive it a try

Say it for a higher band

5try6have a go7+give something a try

Synonyms

try

Easily confused

have a go

Why don't you have a go at solving this problem?

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