borrow / lend / rent

Preview　（腕試し）

Which of the following sentences are natural?

（次の文章の中では、どれが自然でしょうか？　チェックボックスも利用できます。）

1. I borrowed a videotape from a friend.

2. I borrowed a videotape from a video rental shop.

3. I borrowed a friend a CD.

4. I lent my teacher a CD.

5. I rented a car for the weekend.

6. I rented a videotape from a video rental shop.

7. A friend of mine lent me a good book.

A. all

B. 1, 4, 5, 6 & 7

C. 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6

D. none

　

Explanation （説明）

This is yet another problem caused by translation! In Japanese, borrow and rent are the same word. In English, the word borrow implies that you don't have to pay any money. Rent implies that you must pay.

Kimiko: Last night I borrowed a video from my friend.

Aya: Really? Which one?

Kimiko: I can't remember the name--it was really boring.

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Tomiko: What did you do last weekend, Eiji?

Eiji: I rented a couple of videos and stayed in front of the tube* all weekend.

　

* Tube is slang for T.V.

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Kaori: Could you please lend me a pencil?

Keiko: No problem. Here you are.

　

There are a few cases involving money in which we use the word borrow. One is when you take out a loan from a bank. This is called borrowing money.

Betty: I didn't have enough money to buy a new refrigerator and stove at the same time, so I had to borrow some money from the bank.

　

Exercises（練習）

1. Chizuru borrowed rented lent a pencil from a classmate yesterday.

2. Naomi often likes to borrow rent lend videos at Tsutaya.

3. Satoshi borrowed lent rented a car for $25 a day when he was in Los Angeles.

4. May I please borrow lend rent your dictionary for a few minutes?

5. Could you please borrow lend rent me a pen?

6. Johnny forgot to return the book he borrowed lent rented from me last year.

7. I went to a park that borrows lends rents bicycles for only \100 per hour.

8. Keiko always returns books she borrows lends rents from the library as soon as she has finished reading them.

9. How much does it cost to borrow lend rent a one-room apartment in Setagaya Ward in Tokyo?

10. Be sure to borrow lend return your rental videos on time!

　

Answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.