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 →

2) To babysit can also be used jokingly for watching over something, like a pet or a house. tree →

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 →
• Grandma babysits my little brother on Tuesdays. tree →
• She babysat for the neighbours last weekend. tree →
• Can you babysit my hamster while I'm away? tree →
• You must be old enough and trusted to babysit. tree →
• When Mum babysits, she reads us a story. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «babysit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.