Pasangan yang tertukar · B2
Lay or lie?
Lay needs an object: you lay something down. Lie does not: you lie down yourself. The tenses are what trip people up. Lie goes lie, lay, lain, and lay goes lay, laid, laid — so the past of lie is spelled the same as the present of lay. If you can ask "lay what?" and get an answer, you want lay.
Kata yang mana, dan kenapa
- lay
takes an object: lay / laid / laid
To put something down carefully.
lay the table · lay it down · laid the foundations
- lie
takes no object: lie / lay / lain
To be or get into a horizontal position.
lie down · lying on the sofa · the town lies south of here
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Just down for half an hour and see if the headache passes.