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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.
Które słowo i dlaczego
- 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.