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You can borrow from someone else. When someone else borrows from you, you lend it. Or lent as the past tense
Thanks, updated. I think my mistake stems from Swedish only having one word for the concept, regardless of the direction of the transaction.
I’ve noticed a lot of my european friends doing the same
I think the only english-speaking people in North America who know this read Hamlet in high school.
Are people not reading Hamlet in high school now? What was the cutoff for 16th century literature, 2021?
Like PE, it's all optional now.
Ish...
They could have said "you have let the government borrow from you tax free."
But yeah, the general idea holds.