babysit
Base form
babysit
/ˈbeɪbisɪt/
Past simple
babysat
/ˈbeɪbisæt/
Past participle
babysat
/ˈbeɪbisæt/
MeaningB1
to look after children while their parents are out
to babysit for the neighbours
In use
- Question · Form 1Could you babysit on Saturday night?
- Negative · Form 1I can’t babysit tonight — I’ve got an exam tomorrow.
- Past simple · Form 2Last Friday I babysat for the neighbours’ twins.
- Past simple · Form 2When I was a student, I babysat to pay my rent.
- Present perfect · Form 3Aisha has babysat for us since our son was born.
- Past perfect · Form 3Ben had never babysat before, so he was nervous.
Watch out
Like sit → sat: babysat. Babysitted and babysitten are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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