If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
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Lend
//lɛnd//
Synonyms for "lend" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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4 entrieshas context
4 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
118 translations across 68 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δανείζω verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- δανείζω verb (to make a loan)
- κίχρημι verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Arabic
4 entries- أَعَارَ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- أَقْرَضَ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- سلف verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- سَلَّفَ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Armenian
1 entries- փոխ տալ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- borc vermək verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Belarusian
2 entries- пазы́чыць verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- пазыча́ць verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Bulgarian
3 entries- зае́ма verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- зае́мам verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- подда́вам се verb ((reflexive) to be suitable)
Burmese
1 entries- ငှား verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Catalan
1 entries- prestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 借 verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- 借出 verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- 貸款 /贷款 verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Czech
2 entries- půjčit verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- půjčovat verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Danish
1 entries- låne (ud) verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Dutch
2 entries- lenen verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- uitlenen verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Esperanto
1 entries- prunti verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Estonian
1 entries- laenama verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Finnish
3 entries- antaa lainaksi verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- lainata verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- lainata verb (to make a loan)
French
2 entries- prêter verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- se prêter à verb ((reflexive) to be suitable)
Friulian
1 entries- imprestâ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Georgian
1 entries- სესხება verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
German
3 entries- borgen verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- leihen verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- verleihen verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Greek
1 entries- δανείζω verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Hindi
1 entries- उधार देना verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Hungarian
2 entries- kölcsönad verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- kölcsönöz verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Icelandic
1 entries- lána verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Ido
1 entries- prestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Indonesian
1 entries- meminjam verb (to make a loan)
Interlingua
1 entries- prestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Italian
1 entries- prestare verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Japanese
1 entries- 貸す verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Kannada
1 entries- ಎರವಲುಕೊಡು verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Kazakh
1 entries- қарыз беру verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Khmer
1 entries- ឲ្យខ្ចី verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Korean
1 entries- 빌리다 verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- карыз берүү verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Lao
1 entries- ໃຫ້ຍືມ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Latin
1 entries- commodō verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Latvian
1 entries- aizdot verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Lithuanian
1 entries- paskolinti verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Macedonian
2 entries- зајми verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- зајмува verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Mongolian
3 entries- зээл өгөх verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- зээлдүүлэх verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- зээлэх verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Māori
2 entries- tukumoni verb (to make a loan)
- tukupūtea verb (to make a loan)
Norman
1 entries- prêter verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- låne verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Old Czech
4 entries- požitčievati verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- požitčiti verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- požitčovati verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- požítčěti verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Persian
1 entries- قرض دادن verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Polish
2 entries- pożyczać verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- pożyczyć verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Portuguese
1 entries- emprestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Romanian
1 entries- împrumuta verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Russian
4 entries- дава́ть в долг verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- дава́ть взаймы́ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- дать в долг verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- дать взаймы́ verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- posúditi verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- pozàjmiti verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- поза̀јмити verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- посу́дити verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Sicilian
1 entries- pristari verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Slovak
2 entries- požičať verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- požičiavať verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Slovene
2 entries- posoditi verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- posojati verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Spanish
3 entries- acreer verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- emprestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- prestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Swahili
1 entries- kukopesha verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Swedish
2 entries- låna verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- låna ut verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Tajik
1 entries- қарз додан verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Thai
1 entries- ให้ยืม verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Turkish
3 entries- borç vermek verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- iğreti vermek verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- ödünç vermek verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Turkmen
1 entries- karz bermek verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Ukrainian
2 entries- пози́чити verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- позича́ти verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Urdu
1 entries- قرض دینا verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Uzbek
2 entries- qarz bermoq verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- qarzga bermoq verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Venetan
1 entries- inprestar verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cho mượn verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- cho vay verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Yiddish
2 entries- אויסבאָרגן verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
- לײַען verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Zazaki
1 entries- lendene verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Zyphe
1 entries- hlang verb (to allow to be used temporarily)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Please lend me your car.
Source: tatoeba (17078)
Will you lend me your dictionary?
Source: tatoeba (17095)
Could you lend me your bicycle for a couple of days?
Source: tatoeba (17100)
Showing 4 of 25 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.