- “borrow” and “lend” often confuse English students. Even some native speakers make mistakes with these 2 words!
- For many learners of English, borrow and lend are two confusing verbs.
- Lend is irregular: lend, lent, lent
- Borrow is regular: borrow, borrowed, borrowed
- They (often consciously) adopt the new word when speaking the borrowing language, because it most exactly fits the idea they are trying to express.
- Many translated example sentences containing "borrowed" – Russian-English dictionary and search engine for Russian translations.
- NND Sözlük. borrowed ne demek? ... Borrowed. As a loan. Accomodation.
- Find 4 different ways to say BORROWED, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
- Borrow definition: to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent. See examples of BORROW used in a sentence.
- a : to take and use (something that belongs to someone else) for a period of time before returning it. Can I borrow your camera? [=will you lend me your camera].
- Could I borrow your pen for a minute, please? Laura used to lend money from me all the time. I never borrow any things from anyone.
- Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense borrows , present participle borrowing , past tense, past participle borrowed.