What is the differente between "To lend" and "To borrow"? ..
What is the differente between "To lend" and "To borrow"? .. I'm confused with that...
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To lend ....... Prestar
To borrow ...... Pedir prestado
To lend = prestar.
To borrow = usar algo prestado.
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Hi Juancarlosabadr,
Please find the below difference for your doubt.
Lend - Use lend when you are giving money or items to someone.
Note: Lend past tense is “Lent”
Borrow - Use borrow when you are taking money or items from someone (or funds from a bank!).
Note: Borrow past tense is borrowed.
I just gave above explanation in “English”. Still if you want this explanation in ”Spanish” please get back to forum hope definitely someone will help you out. Thanks!
Warm Regards, Mohammed
The supposed symmetry of the English "lend" and "borrow", supposedly analogous to "give" and "take", is relatively recent and not well founded. Originally, "lend" was to "let" or "give", and "borrow" not to "take" but to "give surety" for--which of course it still is, though now quite deliberately mystified by "loans", "money", and "interest" as merchandise (Kaufware) and putatively centered around a concrete "object" that is given and taken.
The Spanish is actually much more persuasive, using the active and passive aspects of one verb and its "action", to wit, positing a genuine symmetry, unlike the false and seeming duality of English.
The same difference there is in to give and to take.
Isn't it curious, there are Lending Libraries, but no Borrowing Libraries, and yet the Lending Libraries all issue Borrowing Privileges, but never Lending Privileges?
¡Amigos, romanos, paisanos, prestadme vuestros oídos!
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."
WS.
If I lend money it goes from me to you. If I'm borrowing money, it goes from you to me. The same way if I give something it goes from me to you, it I take something it goes from you to me. Hence, the analogy that compares lending and borrowing to giving and taking is reasonable.
