Phrasal verb pay. Verb forms in English Paid three verb forms

Verb pay, familiar even to beginners learning English, is widely used in the meaning "pay, pay, pay" . We invite you to get acquainted with several more meanings of this verb as a phrasal one. We are sure that you will be interested.

Phrasal verb pay

1. Pay back– return debt, money; this verb also means to take revenge/repay for something.
I shall pay back at a fixed day - I will return the money on the appointed day
He ruined my family and I’ll pay him back - he destroyed my family, and I will take revenge on him for this

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2. Pay in– this verb comes in handy if you need to deposit money into your current account.
You have to pay in by Friday - You need to top up your account by Friday

3. Pay off- with this verb we pay off or settle accounts with debts. This phrasal verb also has meanings: “fire workers, disband a team,” “pay off, bribe, take revenge.”
You must pay off by the end of this year - You must pay all debts by the end of the year
All witnesses were paid off – All witnesses in the trial were bribed
The factory was paid off - Factory workers were fired -

4. Pay out- unwind a rope; pay
The salary will be paid out at the end of month -Salary will be paid at the end of the month
When I call you pay out the rope - When I call you, unwind the rope

5. Pay up- fork out, pay in full, pay on time.
He’ll have to pay up - He will have to fork out
I'll pay you up in due time. - I will pay you on time

Phrasal verb pay differs in a small number of values, there are not even 10 options. However, we will list all the shades of meaning that can be conveyed pay in combination with any . As before, the meanings are presented as a list in which the prepositions are arranged in order.

Phrasal Verb Meanings pay

It is worth recalling that the main meaning of the verb pay is the following - pay, pay, pay.

1. Pay back – return (money); repay (revenge).
   

   Steven borrowed $10,000, which he paid back in 3 years. – Steve borrowed $10,000, which he paid back within three years.

   She'll pay him back for this mistake. - She will take revenge on him for this mistake.

2. Pay in – deposit funds into the current account.
   

   I'll go to the bank. – Do you want to pay in? - I'll go to the bank. – Are you going to top up your account?

3. Pay off - to pay off, pay off (debts), settle old scores, bribe, pay off; take revenge, disband (the team), fire (the workers).
   

   My husband is obligated to pay off all debts. – My husband is obliged to pay all debts.

   The U.S. paid off the entire national debt. – The United States has paid off its external national (public) debt.

   Her years of English finally paid off when she found herself in Britain. Her English studies eventually paid off when she ended up in England.

   This ship was paid off in 1873. – The ship's crew was disbanded in 1873.

   Don’t believe all the gossip you hear. Some of her friends were paid off. - Don't believe all the rumors. Some of her friends were bribed.

4. Pay out - pay, release; unwind (cable, rope).
   

   Tomorrow they will pay out our wages. - Tomorrow we will be paid our salaries.

   If there is a lot of rope paid out the climber will hit the ground. – If you unwind a very long rope, the climber will hit the ground.

5. Pay up – pay on time, pay in full, overpay (fork out).
   

   You shall have to pay up. – You will have to pay.

   Believe me; I'm not ready to pay you up now! - Believe me, I’m not ready to settle accounts with you now!

As you can see, we made do with only five main options pay. It won’t be difficult to remember them, since they are similar in meaning to the main semantic content of this verb.

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Verb- this is an independent part of speech that answers the questions what to do?, what to do? (to be, to study, to dream, to go...)

According to the method of formation of past tense forms (V2) and past participles (V3), all verbs of the English language are divided into 2 groups: regular verbs (Regular Verbs) and irregular verbs (Irregular verbs).

The English verb has three forms. Verb forms are designated by Roman numerals I, II, III.

I form(or an infinitive without to), for example: to make (to do) – make – the first, or main form, which answers the question what to do?, what to do? Using the first form of the verb, the Present Simple Tense is formed. When forming Present Simple Tense, the ending is added to the I form of the verb in the 3rd person singular (he, she, it – he, she, it) –s or -es(he jumpes, she jumpes, it jumpes, he cries, she cries, it cries, he does, she does, it does) . With other pronouns (I, we, you, you, they - I, we, you, you, they) the I form of the verb is used without changes.

II form serves to form the simple past tense (Past Simple Tense). When forming the simple past tense, both regular and irregular verbs are used. Regular verbs form II and III forms by adding a suffix to the stem I form –ed(jump – jumped – jump – jumped) . If the verb is not regular, then its past tense form corresponds to the second column in the table of irregular verbs (be – was/were, do – did, make – made).

III form- Participle II (Participle II) is a special form of the verb that denotes the attribute of an object by action and answers the questions of the adjective (lost, baked, made). For regular verbs, form III coincides with form II: jump (I) – jumped (II) – jumped (III) (jump – jumped – jumped). II and III forms of irregular verbs can be formed in various ways, indicated below.

Regular verbs

Regular verbs form II and III forms by adding a suffix to the stem I form -ed (-d), which is pronounced like:

• [ d] after vowels and voiced consonants: to clean (clean) – cleaned (cleaned); to play (play) - played (played);
• [ t] after the deaf ones: to work (work) – worked (worked), to look (look) – looked (looked);
• after [d] And [t]: to want (want) – wanted (wanted), to mend (repair) – mended (repaired).

When forming II and III forms of verbs, pay attention to the following spelling rules:

• If the I form is a short root syllable and ends with one consonant, then when adding the ending –ed the last vowel of the root is doubled: to stop (stop) – sto pped(has stopped).
• -y, preceded by a consonant, the letter y changes to i: to carry (carry) - carried (carried), to study (study) - studied (studied). But if the stem of the verb ends in -y, preceded by a vowel, then simply adds to the base of the verb - ed: to play (play) – played (played), to stay (stay) – remained (remained).
• If the stem of the verb ends in -e, which is not pronounced, then II and III forms of the verb are formed by adding the ending - d: to arrive (arrive) – arrived (arrived).

Irregular Verbs

Irregular Verbs- these are verbs that have special, fixed forms of the past tense and participles; their forms do not have a clear formation algorithm and are acquired by memorizing: to make (to do) - made (made) - made (made). Most English irregular verbs are native English, derived from verbs that existed in Old English. Most irregular verbs exist as remnants of historical conjugation systems (changing the verb according to persons - I'm going, you're going, he's going...).

Irregular verbs are used to form the past simple (Past Simple), present perfect (Present Simple), past perfect tenses (Past Perfect), in passive voice (Passive voice), when converting direct speech into indirect speech (Reported speech), in conditional sentences ( Conditional sentences).

table of irregular verbs

How to remember forms of irregular verbs?