bet
Base form
bet
/bet/
Past simple
bet
/bet/
Past participle
bet
/bet/
MeaningB2
to risk money on the result of something
to bet your bottom dollar
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1I wouldn’t bet any money on that horse.
- Question · Form 1How much did you bet on the final?
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday Tom bet me five pounds that it would snow.
- Past simple · Form 2Last year my uncle bet on the wrong team again.
- Present perfect · Form 3I’ve never bet on anything in my life.
- Past perfect · Form 3Leo had bet his friends that he could run the marathon.
Watch out
Bet stays the same: I bet him £5 yesterday. I bet also means ‘I’m sure’: I bet it rains. Betten and bett are wrong.
Same pattern
A — A — AAll three forms are the same
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