I'd wish to borrow 85 credits, and if you did loan me the credits, I'd throw in an extra 10 while paying back. Not much, but not rich.
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You've said that backwards, you want to borrow them, not loan them.

Bleeh. Too used to swedish.

It's okay, you sure do better with English than I do with Swedish! (It's a lovely language, I wish I could speak it. I listen to a lot of music sung in it.)

Thanks!

No need anymore, Ceren gave it to me. Awesome.

You're swedish? Yay! Finnish here.

...and I keep messing loan and borrowing too!

I'm not even sure what the difference between loaning, borrowing, and lending is.

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Is a finn.

Aye, Pentu means cub in Finnish

If I lend you a dollar, then you're borrowing a dollar from me, and the transaction is called a loan. "Loan" sometimes gets verbed into being a synonym of "lend".

The word for borrowing in finnish is 'lainata'
The word for lending in finnish is 'lainata'
The word for a loan in Finnish is 'laina'

Now you know why we mix them.

So it depends on context only who is the one giving and who is the one receiving, and not on either the choice of the word, or the order of words in the sentence? In other words, if all you know is "Bob lainata Sue", you don't know who ended up with more money and who with less? Interesting.

Actually, we would know. Since Bob was first mentioned, I'd know that he was the one gave the money to Sue. Or Susan.

English would be significantly easier to learn if it had this structure.

And significantly harder to use in convoluted, rhyming poetry (not that this is a bad thing).

But seriously, you all have a better grasp of English than some of the poor college students I've taught.

Plus in Finnish it'd actually be "Bob lainaa Suelle" if Sue is the one being given something, and "Sue lainaa Bobille" if Bob's on the receiving end, the "lle" at the end meaning "to".
Oh, and if you say "Bob lainaa Suelta" that means Bob's borrowing from Sue.

Heh. I love our language. It's so... interesting.

So lainata is the same as "lend", since that's precisely the same way you'd know how it works with "lend"; and there is no word that's the same as borrow. Just as well... there's not much need to have both words, they're redundant.

Yeppers, so ya'll just learn Finnish

No, seriously, that is a suicide. We have a zillion forms for each word; we don't really have any prepositions or acticles, so each word molds differently - of course, there are some rules, but from outsiders' view, hardly logical.

Mew.

Oh, and here's an example of how:
to borrow/lend - lainata

I borrow/lend - minä lainaan
you borrow/lend - sinä lainaat
he/she borrows/lends - hän lainaa
it borrows/lends - se lainaa

we borrow/lend - me lainaamme
you (pl.)borrow/lend - te lainaatte
they borrow/lend - he lainaavat

also,
they (as in from non-human, also things) borrow/lend - ne lainaavat