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 →

2) (money) Getting money from a bank or person that must be paid back, often with extra (interest). tree →

3) (language) A word taken from another language, like «café» from French or «kangaroo» from an Aboriginal language. tree →

4) (maths, old) In subtraction, «borrowing» means taking ten from the next column (also called regrouping or exchanging). tree →

5) Borrowing can also mean a story or idea that one people take from another and make their own. tree →

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 →
• Borrowing books from the library is free. tree →
• In 42 − 18 you need borrowing from the tens. tree →
• «Pyjamas» is a borrowing from Hindi/Urdu. tree →
• The country's borrowing is very high. tree →
• Thanks for borrowing me your pen – oops, I mean lending! tree →
• 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 →

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.
• Borrowing always has a price called interest, so the total paid back is more than the price tag.
• Lenders make borrowing look easy: "Cash in minutes!", "Buy now, pay later!".
• Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.
• A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.

Trees and pragmatics

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