寝た
解説 Definition
slept は sleep（眠る）の過去形・過去分詞で、寝た、眠っていたという意味です。過去に眠ったことや、ある時間眠っていた状態を表すときに使います。
Slept is the past-tense and past-participle form of sleep. It describes having been in a natural resting state, often for a stated period or in a particular manner, such as sleeping well after a journey.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
slept は sleep「眠る」の不規則な過去形・過去分詞で、sleep–slept–slept と一組で覚えます。長母音 /iː/ が短い /e/ に変わり、語尾に /t/ が加わります。slept for eight hours、slept well のように、過去の睡眠時間や眠り方を述べる場面で使います。
Learn the complete irregular pattern sleep–slept–slept. The long vowel /iː/ in sleep changes to the shorter /e/ in slept, and the form ends in /t/. Imagine reporting yesterday’s rest: I slept for eight hours, the baby slept in the bed, or we slept well. These time expressions and adverbs make the past meaning easy to recognize. Slept can also follow an auxiliary in a perfect construction, as in I have slept enough, because the past tense and past participle have the same form.
例文
I slept for eight hours last night.
昨夜は8時間寝ました。
The baby slept in the small bed.
赤ちゃんは小さなベッドで寝ました。
We slept well after the long trip.
長旅の後、私たちはよく眠れました。
slept の類義語・関連語
slept の語源・成り立ち Etymology
slept は sleep の過去形・過去分詞で、古英語 slæpan「眠る」に由来し、さらにゲルマン祖語 *slēpanan にさかのぼります。sleep-slept の形変化ごと覚えるとよく、力が抜けてゆるむ感覚が「眠る」につながったと考えると納得しやすいです。関連語は sleep、asleep。
Slept is the inherited past-tense and past-participle form of sleep. Sleep comes from Old English slǣpan and has related forms in other Germanic languages. During the history of English, vowel changes and the addition of a dental ending produced the irregular contrast between sleep and slept. Modern learners can treat sleep–slept–slept as one established verb pattern rather than forming the past with regular -ed.
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