bend
Base form
bend
/bend/
Past simple
bent
/bent/
Past participle
bent
/bent/
MeaningB1
to make something curved, or move your body down
to bend someone’s ear
In use
- Imperative · Form 1Bend your knees when you lift something heavy.
- Negative · Form 1Please don’t bend the photos when you put them in the envelope.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday Leo bent down to tie his shoelaces and his trousers split.
- Past simple · Form 2Last week the strong wind bent the old fence in our garden.
- Passive · Form 3The rules were bent a little for the youngest players.
- Present perfect · Form 3Someone has bent the key, and now it won’t turn.
Watch out
Bent in both forms: she bent down. Bended lives on only in on bended knee; bented and bendt are wrong.
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