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# babysit

«babysit» in Mova's school dictionary: **to look after a baby or a child for a while when their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (babysit, babysits, babysat, babysitting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To babysit is to look after a baby or a child for a while when their parents are out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#m1)

2) To babysit can also be used jokingly for watching over something, like a pet or a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life teenagers, grandparents or friends babysit young children, usually in the evening. In safety lessons: a babysitter needs emergency numbers, and children should listen to the babysitter. In stories babysitting is often a funny adventure.

### examples

- My big cousin will babysit us tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#x1)
- Grandma babysits my little brother on Tuesdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#x2)
- She babysat for the neighbours last weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#x3)
- Can you babysit my hamster while I'm away? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#x4)
- You must be old enough and trusted to babysit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#x5)
- When Mum babysits, she reads us a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/#x6)

### note

Irregular past: babysat (not «babysitted»). -ing form doubles the t: babysitting. The person is a babysitter. One word: babysit (sometimes «baby-sit»).

### In the corpora

- [You can swap time and help as well as things, like neighbours who babysit for each other.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «babysit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babysit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.