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lend

/lɛnd/

lendverb

lent

Past Simple

lent

Past Participle

lending

Gerund

/lɛnd/

Translations

The bank agreed to lend him the money.

Банк согласился предоставить ему деньги.

Can you lend me your book for a week?

Можешь одолжить мне свою книгу на неделю?

давать в долг

I don't like to lend money to friends.

Я не люблю давать в долг друзьям.

Additional translations

Definitions

To give something to someone temporarily, expecting it to be returned.

I will lend you my book for the weekend.

To provide or contribute something, especially a quality or characteristic.

Her presence lends an air of sophistication to the event.

To be suitable or adaptable for a particular purpose; to be conducive (usually in the reflexive construction lend itself to).

The design lends itself to mass production.

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Antonyms

lendnoun

lends

/lɛnd/

Chiefly Irish & Scottish English; noun meaning ‘loan’

Definitions

A loan; the act of lending or something that is lent (chiefly Irish and Scottish English).

Can I have the lend of your phone for a minute?