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# partner

«partner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who does something together with you, like a…** — 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 (partner, partners); verb (partner, partners, partnered, partnering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A partner is a person who does something together with you, like a work or dance partner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#m1)

2) A partner can be one of the owners of a business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#m2)

3) A partner is a person someone lives with or is married to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#m3)

4) To partner (with) someone is to work or play as their partner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: people working or playing in pairs; things shared between partners; «partner work»; number partners (number bonds), like 3 and 7 for 10. In school: «turn to your partner». In everyday life: dance partners, business partners. In stories: partners in crime, partners on an adventure.

### examples

- Each student has a partner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x1)
- She and her partner picked 30 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x2)
- Partners share the money equally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x3)
- How many partners are there in 12 students? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x4)
- Find a partner and read together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x5)
- 6 and 4 are number partners for 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x6)
- Mum and her partner run a bakery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x7)
- The two detectives were partners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x8)
- She partnered with Ava for the science project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x9)
- With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partner/#x10)

### note

Partners come in pairs: 12 students make 6 pairs. Sharing between partners = divide by 2. Trap: «she and her partner» means 2 people. An odd number of pupils leaves one without a partner (or makes a group of 3).

### In the corpora

- [That new person is called their partner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/1/)
- [A new partner does not replace your mum or dad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/4/)
- [The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/13/)
- [Grown-ups also tease children about girlfriends and crushes, and older people sometimes find new partners late in life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/5/)
- [An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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