Both sound natural to me. Both are correct but 'lent' is more commonly used in the UK. Oh good. But, does "loaned" sound a little too colloquial or can it be used in a formal setting? Thanks again! In the U. I don't know about in the U. The past tense of "lend" is "lent," and the past tense of "loan" is "loaned.
I've read that although the rule isn't often observed anymore, "loan" is a noun and "lend" is the verb. So it is becoming acceptable, but is still just a wee bit colloquial. Jumble Member USA. A loan for me would be something for which money is expected back. If someone lends you a thing, all they expect is that they get the thing back. You might lend your neighbour tools when they are doing DIY. A bank might give you a loan for a new car: they will expect both regular repayments and will charge interest.
All you expect from your neighbour is smiles or an invite for a drink or a meal. English-Ireland top end. Over the past years or so, it has gradually faded out in BE, but has survived in AE. I can't find any support for the suggestion that loan verb is limited to money. As for the suggestion that loan as a verb is limited to money, I would dispute it. If you are applying for a loan from the bank, you will want to ensure that your writing is impeccably professional. Proper word choice is an important part of formal writing.
English has many words that refer to the borrowing of goods and money. Two of the most common words that apply to this context are loan and lend. Do they mean the same thing? Or, are there specific circumstances in which one or the other is more appropriate? In this article, I will compare loan vs. I will use each word in an example sentence to demonstrate its proper context and meaning. Pete G on March 26, pm Loaned is solely American.
Everywhere else it is considered incorrect and colloquial. Chris on December 03, am Renee, When will the penny drop? Standard English now comes from the USA. Lent is an assault on my senses! We do not lend plates.
Or we do not loan out plates. Kira Nelson on January 09, pm Annoyed, be prepared to continue to be annoyed over and over again. Katharine on December 30, pm Perfect! Thanks so much! Leave a comment: Cancel comment Name required :. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. My Webster's New world Dictionary does not contain the word "loaned" at all, but my Thesaurus does, and the word "lent" is the first synonym listed.
My wife, who learned English as a second language and therefore often speaks it better than I do, insists "lent" is more correct than "loaned" as the past tense verb form. Which is more correct? They are two different verbs: "to lend" is conjugated "lend, lent, have lent", and "to loan" is conjugated "loan, loaned, have loaned". According to Merriam-Webster , the verb to loan has died out in the U.
This is corroborated by Google Ngrams , although it now appears to have been reintroduced from AmE. Thus, for BrE, your wife is correct. For AmE, both lent and loaned are fine. There is a difference in usage: a book is lent by a friend but loaned by a library, even if it is a lending library. I think loaned is preferred in the more formal contractual setting.
During the s and s when I was a student in a private, Catholic school, "lent" would have been only used for the weeks before Easter, not in place of "loaned" in common English usage.
If you did use lent, it had better be for the former reason and not the latter. Fortunately, since it was a grade school, this did not come up as a problem for us students because we couldn't yet write as well as high school and college students, but, of course, we were taught the "correct" usage of terms and there was no room for the evolution of the language.
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