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# borrowing

«borrowing» in Mova's school dictionary: **Taking something that belongs to someone else, with their…** — 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

noun (a borrowing, borrowings; borrowing uncountable); verb, -ing form of borrow (borrow, borrows, borrowed, borrowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Taking something that belongs to someone else, with their permission, and giving it back later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#m1)

2) (money) Getting money from a bank or person that must be paid back, often with extra (interest). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#m2)

3) (language) A word taken from another language, like «café» from French or «kangaroo» from an Aboriginal language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#m3)

4) (maths, old) In subtraction, «borrowing» means taking ten from the next column (also called regrouping or exchanging). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#m4)

5) Borrowing can also mean a story or idea that one people take from another and make their own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In school, borrowing books from the library. In maths subtraction, children learn borrowing (exchanging): 52 − 17, borrow a ten so 12 − 7 = 5. In English lessons, English has many borrowings from French, Latin, Norse and Hindi. In money lessons, borrowing costs extra because of interest.

### examples

- I'm borrowing my sister's bike today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x1)
- Borrowing books from the library is free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x2)
- In 42 − 18 you need borrowing from the tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x3)
- «Pyjamas» is a borrowing from Hindi/Urdu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x4)
- The country's borrowing is very high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x5)
- Thanks for borrowing me your pen – oops, I mean lending! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x6)
- Borrowing tales is a mutual process, and when Indian meets European, European meets Indian; which borrowed from which, is a question which we have very few criteria to decide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borrowing/#x7)

### note

Trap: you «borrow FROM» someone, they «lend TO» you. «Can I borrow your pen?», not «Can you borrow me your pen?» (lend). Maths: in UK schools «exchanging» or «regrouping» is now often used instead of «borrowing».

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/2/)
- [Lenders make borrowing look easy: "Cash in minutes!", "Buy now, pay later!".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/4/)
- [Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/17/)
- [A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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