字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 299. Today we're going to look at the difference between malfunction and dysfunction and of course any other forms of it. You know, like the adjective malfunctional or dysfunctional or you know malfunction of a verb. Of course, will say will follow the same meaning as malfunction as a noun and adjective as well. So let's take a look at the note here. A malfunction means something has an incorrect or faulty function. It basically means something does not work correctly, especially used with machines. Malfunction tends to be used for single events you know something that happened. It malfunctioned at that time. So it's not usually used for ongoing or continuing events. At least you know, with the same person or with the same exact object. Okay. Let's take a look at the second one here. Well, let's continue with the note here. If something has a dysfunction, it means something fails to work in an expected way or in a complete way. Dysfunction or dysfunctional as an adjective is especially used in regard to medical or psychological terms. It is often used with disorders or if a bodily organ doesn't work correctly in your body something like that, is not working. Dysfunction tends to be used with events that are ongoing or continuing or more long-term. So there's another clear difference between the two. All right. And let's look at some examples we have here. GM had to have a recall. A recall that's when you know there's a problem with the car and they, they ask everybody who bought the card to bring it back in , and they change a certain part. So GM had to have a recall due to a malfunction in that part. So one part was not working correctly. So again this is with machines and you know it's just one part that's not working. So we usually would use malfunction for that. Yeah. We don't usually say a dysfunctional part. That would be weird. So again, with machines we almost always use malfunction. The computer system is malfunctioning. Again here we're using it as a verb. It must have a bug or maybe a virus or something like that in it. So again, it's not working correctly it's not working properly. Okay. Number three. Again the that voting machine seemed to be malfunctioning. Many voters complained that they voted for one candidate and it recorded the votes for the opposite candidate. Yeah. That's a big problem. In some elections, this happened. So that voting machine was malfunctioning, was not functioning correctly. All right. Let's look at number four. He comes from a dysfunctional family. All right. Yeah. Now we're getting into like psychological terms or you know something to do with medicine. You know, the dysfunctional families. A family that's not working properly, especially in regard to behavior. All right. Let's continue. Number four. He comes from a dysfunctional family. Oh no, That's what we just read so number five. Grandpa is suffering from a kidney and liver dysfunction. All right. It's your body parts. It's a body part that's not working correctly. So yeah we don't usually say a malfunctioning kidney. We usually say dysfunction or dysfunctioning or dysfunctional kidney. All right. Let's continue. She is showing signs of dysfunctional behavior. Again. remember both medical and psychological terms in this sense will probably use dysfunctional. And number seven. He is suffering from erectile dysfunction. It's one of the ways they like to say it. If some poor guy you know, he's a sexual part is not working in regards to sex anymore. You know, it's a it's not getting you know hard like it supposed to. That's referred to as erectile dysfunction. So that's another common way that you hear this used. Anyway, I hope it's clear. I hope, I hope you have a better sense of when you should use malfunction and when you should use dysfunction. Okay. Bye-bye. Thank you for time. Bye-bye.
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