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# borrow

«borrow» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take or use something that you will give back later** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (borrow, borrows, borrowed, borrowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To borrow is to take or use something that you will give back later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#m1)

2) To borrow money is to get it from a person or a bank and pay it back later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#m2)

3) In subtraction, to borrow (regroup) is to take 1 ten from the tens to make 10 ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

things taken for a while: added to one person, taken from another; also borrowing in subtraction; phrases «borrow from», «can I borrow», «borrowed words» (from other languages)

### examples

- She borrows 3 books from the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x1)
- He borrowed 10 dollars from his sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x2)
- How many books are left after 25 are borrowed? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x3)
- In 52 − 18 you borrow from the tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x4)
- Can I borrow your pencil? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x5)
- You can borrow books for two weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x6)
- The word «pizza» is borrowed from Italian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x7)
- Ask before you borrow something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x8)
- She borrowed her mom's umbrella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x9)
- Return borrowed things in good shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrow/#x10)

### note

The borrower gets more; the lender has less. Trap: borrowed money must be paid back, so it is not truly earned. «Borrow» and «lend» are opposites: you borrow FROM someone, they lend TO you. Say «Can I borrow your pen?», not «Can you borrow me your pen?»

### In the corpora

- [A debit card spends money already in the account; a credit card borrows money that must be paid back later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/2/)
- [Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/4/)
- [A debit card spends money already in the account; a credit card borrows money from the card company to be paid back later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/11/)
- [An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/12/)
- [Debt is money that has been borrowed and is still owed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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