spend
Base form
spend
/spend/
Past simple
spent
/spent/
Past participle
spent
/spent/
MeaningA1
to use money or time
to spend money on clothes
In use
- Question · Form 1How much did you spend on your new bike?
- Negative · Form 1Don’t spend all your money on the first day of the holiday.
- Past simple · Form 2Last summer we spent two weeks camping in Wales.
- Past simple · Form 2Ben spent the whole of Sunday afternoon cleaning his flat.
- Present perfect · Form 3I’ve spent far too much money this month.
- Passive · Form 3Most of the budget was spent on new computers for the school.
Watch out
Spent goes with time as well as money: We spent a week in Rome. Spended is wrong in both.
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