hey friends teacher Prix here with another video for you today I'm outside
I'm at the park it's so good but at a different park ok today I'm not in Sao
Paulo I am in the countryside at my parents' place and this is a very popular
park here, it's the downtown park so everybody comes here including pigeons
I hate pigeons and right now there're like a few ones staring at me I might
start running before the video is over anyway today I'm gonna talk to you about
two very common verbs that can be very confusing
they are borrow and lend what's the difference between these two verbs although
they are very similar in meaning depending on how you make your sentence you are
going to give a different idea and that's the confusing part so let's take
a look at borrow when you use the verb borrow you are basically taking
something temporarily taking something from someone let's think about money so
if you borrow money you are taking money temporarily from someone you will have
to give it back in the future okay so when you borrow you take okay so for
example can I borrow your pen so in this case I said can i okay
borrow your pen and this is the confusion if
I say can you borrow you are basically saying the other person can you take a
pen and this is the problem I have to use the pronoun I if you want to say if
you want to talk about yourself can I borrow your pen can I borrow your phone
that's the use of borrow another example I had to borrow my sister's
phone to make a phone call because my phone was dead so in this case I
basically said that I needed to get my sister's phone I needed to take I needed
to borrow my sister's phone because mine was not working now for these two
examples I gave you can I use the verb Lend yes it is possible to use the
verb lend but in this case you are going to use a different structure I I was
shooting the video like at that place behind me but there was this huge
family it was like 10 kids going to have a picnic and I was like nah this ain't
gonna happen so I decided to walk so as I was saying
can you use lend in this case yes you can but the challenge is you have to
change the way you make your sentence you have to change the structure because
if you don't you're gonna have the wrong idea you're gonna give the wrong idea so
for example can I, had to borrow my sister's phone I would say my sister
lent me her phone because my phone was dead perfect so my sister lent me okay
or my sister had to lend me her phone and that's what you're gonna do if you
want to use the verb lend that's the main difference the way you use the
pronouns okay if you want to borrow something from someone it means you want
to take something from someone and if you use lend you can take and you can give
it all depends on the pronoun you use ok, that is the main difference between borrow and lend
another thing you should know is if you're going to use the verb lend
depending on the situation you can or cannot use the preposition to how do I
know if you lend something you will learn something to someone so I lent my
camera to my sister now if you wanna lend someone you are gonna lend someone
something my sister lent me her phone okay in this
case no to, goodbye to so guys to finish this video the main difference is the
way you construct your sentence the way you make your sentence okay if you if
you want to take something from someone temporarily you say can I borrow if you
want to give something to someone temporarily you will lend this person
something temporarily okay so if you enjoyed this video and if you would like
to see more videos about confusing verbs I would love to know so let me know in
the comments and right now you are going to see six phrases on the screen I want
to see your answers okay choose the verb lend or borrow game on
thank you so much friends and I'll see you tomorrow with another video outside
probably. bye!