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# lent

«lent» in Mova's school dictionary: **Past of «lend»: gave something to someone for a short…** — 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 (past tense and past participle of lend: lend, lent, lent); noun, proper (Lent — with a capital L)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Past of «lend»: gave something to someone for a short time, expecting to get it back (I lent him my pen). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#m1)

2) Lent: in the Christian calendar, the forty days before Easter, when many Christians pray and give something up, like sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life «lent» is the past of «lend»: borrowing and lending at school (pencils, books, money). In religious education, Lent is a time of fasting and preparing for Easter; it starts on Ash Wednesday and Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) is the day before. Phrases: lent a hand (helped), lent to, give up for Lent.

### examples

- I lent my rubber to Jack and he never gave it back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x1)
- The library lent us ten books for the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x2)
- She lent a hand with the washing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x3)
- For Lent, my cousin gave up chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x4)
- Lent lasts forty days, until Easter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x5)
- We eat pancakes the day before Lent begins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x6)
- Who lent you that bike? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x7)
- Thereupon the rich man lent him twenty roubles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x8)

### note

Lend/borrow trap: you LEND something to someone (they get it); you BORROW something from someone (you get it). «I lent him my book» = he has it now. Lend, lent, lent — never «lended». Lent (the season) has a capital L.

### In the corpora

- [And simply ruined that nice suit of clothes that I lent you!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/27/)
- [If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help find or replace it; waiting makes it harder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/24/)
- [Money lent to someone may not come back, so lend only what you can afford to lose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/24/)
- [Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/22/)
- [Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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