repaid
返済した
解説 Definition
repaid は repay（返済する、報いる）の過去形・過去分詞です。借りたお金を返したことを表すほか、親切などに報いたという意味でも使われます。
The past-tense and past-participle form of repay, meaning returned money that had been borrowed or owed. It can also mean rewarded someone for help, kindness, or harm with an equivalent action.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 repay の過去形・過去分詞です。pay が不規則に paid へ変わるため、re- を保って repaid となり、repayed とはしません。発音は /rɪˈpeɪd/。re-「元へ」＋paid「支払った」と捉え、repay a loan、repay a debt の「借りを返した」という場面で覚えましょう。
Begin with repay, meaning “pay back.” Its past form follows the irregular change in pay: pay becomes paid, so repay becomes repaid, not “repayed.” The same form serves as both the simple past and the past participle. Break the idea into re-, meaning back, and paid: money has been paid back to its source. Associate repaid with practical combinations such as repaid a loan, repaid the money, and repaid a debt in full. It can also describe returning kindness or another action in a matching way.
例文
He repaid the loan last month.
彼は先月そのローンを返済しました。
She repaid the money before the deadline.
彼女は期限前にそのお金を返しました。
The company repaid its debt in full.
その会社は負債を全額返済しました。
repaid の類義語・関連語
対義語
repaid の語源・成り立ち Etymology
repaid は repay の過去形・過去分詞で、re-「再び・元に戻して」+ pay から成ります。pay は古フランス語 paier、さらにラテン語 pacare「満たして静める」に由来し、「相手を満足させるように払い戻す」感覚から返済の意味になりました。関連語は payment, pacify。
Repaid is the past-tense and past-participle form of repay. Repay combines re-, in the sense “back” or “again,” with pay. Pay entered English through Old French paier and ultimately reflects Latin pacare, “to pacify or satisfy.” The irregular past form paid is retained inside the compound, so repay changes to repaid. The word can refer to settling money owed or returning an action in kind.
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