The abbreviation that's shown after a word in the dictionary tells you what part of speech the defined word is.
The word could be defined as a:
noun (n)
pronoun (pron)
adjective (adj)
adverb (adv)
verb (vb)
conjunction (conj)
preposition (prep)
interjection (interj)
I don’t know it ask me to do this
Do you know how I get to the post office
do you know why he left so soon?
