Learn English – What’s the meaning of “You better take this”

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My mother tongue is Hindi. I was watching an English movie when I came across the below sentence. Although it is a dual language movie and that helps me to understand English and improve my vocabulary, there is one sentence that I cannot understand.

And after searching on Google, now I am here.

What's the difference between:

You better take this.

and:

You take this.

Best Answer

"You better take this" is a common colloquial form of "You'd better take this", i.e. "You had better take this".

"Had better" is an idiom which functions as a modal auxiliary, meaning something like "should" or "need to". Literally it means something like "It would be better if you took this", but it is not really analysable in modern English.

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