lent
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 →
2) Lent: in the Christian calendar, the forty days before Easter, when many Christians pray and give something up, like sweets. tree →
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 →
- The library lent us ten books for the project. tree →
- She lent a hand with the washing up. tree →
- For Lent, my cousin gave up chocolate. tree →
- Lent lasts forty days, until Easter. tree →
- We eat pancakes the day before Lent begins. tree →
- Who lent you that bike? tree →
- Thereupon the rich man lent him twenty roubles. tree →
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!»
- If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help find or replace it; waiting makes it harder.
- Money lent to someone may not come back, so lend only what you can afford to lose.
- Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself.
- Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.