loaned
SayLOHNDUS/loʊnd/UK/ləʊnd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of loan.
The museum loaned several paintings to the touring exhibition.
The startup was loaned enough capital to survive its first year.
Note
A regular past form for a verb that does the work of lend. It is usually American and informal, so lent is the safer past where formality matters. Like lend, it takes two objects: she loaned him the car, or she loaned the car to him. Because of that second object, the borrower can become the subject of a passive, as in the startup was loaned capital.
loaned is a form of loan
loan, verb: To give something to someone for temporary use, with the expectation of getting it back; to lend. Full entry
- Spelling
- loan → loaned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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