All phrasal verbs
about
/əbaʊt/2 verbsVowel-initial — links backwardsThe topic under discussion, or a change brought into being.
ABOUT usually marks the subject: think about, talk about, hear about, worry about. In that role it is always inseparable.
Its second job is causation — bring about means to cause something to happen, from the older sense of turning a thing around into a new position.
What it does to the sound
Two syllables, stress on the second: a-BOUT. The opening schwa almost disappears, so think about it runs as “thin-ka-bou-dit” — with the final T of ABOUT flapping into the following vowel.
What ABOUT means
The subject
ABOUT introduces what the thinking or talking concerns.
Every verb that takes ABOUT
The complete list — 2 of them. The section above groups the common ones by what ABOUT is doing.