Cannot play audio

Hi there! So I’m new to audio editing and stuff and I recently started using audacity.

I wanted to cut an audio so I selected what I wanted to delete and pressed the delete key and now I wanted to press the green button to listen and it wont start playing (pls help). Also english is not my first language so if a sentence doesn’t make sense it’s probably that.

Did it play before you deleted?

Does it “look like” it’s playing, but playing silently?

Check your Playback Device and check the playback volume slider which is “hidden” under the playback meters.