A word make me puzzled always
"hit" this is an interesting word. my books told me this word has a lot of meaning. but in Spoken American seems just one thing that is just about relationship between two people. So always many people would misunderstand if I used it. But it has really another things, right?
So what can I do?

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A word make me puzzled always
"hit" this is an interesting word.   my books told me this word has a lot of meaning. but in Spoken American  seems just one thing that is  just about relationship between two people.   So always many people would  misunderstand if I used it.    But it has really another things, right?
So what can I do?

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What else can you do?  Learning idiomatic English can best be done with a native speaker and I would also add, it comes after mastering standard English.  I think it must be very confusing to understand let along try to use.

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"I'd hit it"
Vernacular, commonly used by males, meaning, "I would like to have sexual relations with that female."

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It does mean many, many things.  A popular song is a "hit" song.  To hit can be to physically hurt someone with your fist.  "Hit it!" can mean "Begin!" and many, many other meanings.  But I can't think of what it would ever mean in terms of a relationship, actually, unless you've seen "They hit it off..."  That means that they get along well together.

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You'll be understood if you pay attention to the context - that is, the rest of the sentence, the dialogue and the situation.  Don't expect a single word to carry all the meaning for you!

For example, David K's example would only be understood with that meaning if the topic was already about sex or how attractive a person is.  It's not so confusing, really.

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