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What is the difference between verleihen and leihen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between verleihen and leihen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Please also make some sentences as example. Thanks
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Ich habe mein Buch verliehen.
I am the person who gave someone my book for a amount of time.
Ich habe mir sein Buch geliehen.
I am the person who borrowed his book.
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The difference is in the perspective of the speaker: You can be either the one to get a thing from someone else, or you can be the one to give a thing to someone else.
"Verleihen" is only if you give something away for a while. In english it's "to lend" I think...
Ich verleihe mein Buch. (I lebd my book to someone.)
"Leihen" and also "ausleihen" can relate to both getting something for a while (to borrow in english) and giving something away for a while (to lend).
Ich leihe mir ein Buch./Ich leihe mir ein Buch aus. (I borrow a book.)
Ich leihe dir ein Buch./Ich leihe dir ein Buch aus. (I lend a book to you.)
"Ich leihe ein Buch aus" can be either giving it away or getting it from someone, depending on context.
Hope I could help :)
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Thanks a lot for your answers. Really helps a lot!
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