(idiomatic) to listen closely

understanding, comprehension / appreciation

to clear; to make something clear / to wash clean / to keep calm / to concentrate one's effort; to focus one's attention / to pretend as if nothing happened

understand, comprehend / appreciate

to hear, to listen / to obey / to ask a question / to smell, sniff

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

negotiation; consultation; discussion / rumors; rumours / lecture; speech / talking; speaking; speech; conversation / story; tale; narrative / a topic; a subject; that which is spoken about