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Jaleh Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Be bound to
My ambition is being able to speak Spanish fluently. I'm bound to learn it.
What does "Be bound to" mean?
Top answer
'determined'.
- 'determined'.
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If you say that someone is "bound to" do something, it means that you are very confident, or strongly believe, that they will do that thing. For example, you might say "Don't bother asking him, he's bound to say no". However, we do not normally use "bound to" about things that we can control ourselves, so to the extent that the process of learning Spanish is under the speaker's own control, "I
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