"borrow" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The term has been largely superseded by "gourmet", which is also the older word, borrowed into English in 1820.
- That is the only element borrowed into the film from a Christie story.
- Both names have been borrowed into multiple other languages, giving rise to various local forms.
- "Well, they wouldn't have had to if the conservatives hadn't borrowed and spent the government into bankruptcy."
- There is some evidence that the details of this legend have been borrowed or blurred into other legends.
- It is not clear why the meaning shifted to the parent-child relationship when borrowed back into English.
- An Anglicism is a word borrowed from English into another language.
- She pushed the entire six hundred dollars she had borrowed from John into the middle of the table.
- The word ballet comes from French and was borrowed into English around the 17th century.
- It can also be used to mean a word borrowed into another language from Latin, especially one deemed overly pretentious.
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