owe是什么意思_owe怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

owe: owe: [OE] Owe goes back to a prehistoric Indo- European base *oik-, *ik- denoting ‘possession’. Its Germanic descendant *aig- produced a range of ‘possession’-verbs, none of which now survives except Swedish äga, Danish eie, and English owe. In the Old English period this meant ‘possess’, but that sense was gradually taken over by the related own, and owe developed in the 12th century to ‘have to repay’. A more general notion of ‘obligation’ also emerged, which is now restricted to ought, originally the past tense of owe.
=> ought, own
owe (v.): Old English agan (past tense ahte) "to have, own," from Proto-Germanic *aigan "to possess" (cognates: Old Frisian aga, Old Norse eiga, Old High German eigan, Gothic aigan "to possess, have"), from PIE *aik- "to be master of, possess" (cognates: Sanskrit ise "he owns," isah "owner, lord, ruler;" Avestan is- "riches," isvan- "well-off, rich").

Sense of "to have to repay" began in late Old English with the phrase agan to geldanne literally "to own to yield," which was used to translate Latin debere (earlier in Old English this would have been sceal "shall"); by late 12c. the phrase had been shortened to simply agan, and own (v.) took over this word"s original sense.

An original Germanic preterite-present verb (along with can (v.1), dare, may, etc.). New past tense form owed arose 15c. to replace oughte, which developed into ought (v.).

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词态变化

第三人称单数 owes;
过去式 owed;
过去分词 owed;
现在分词 owing;

1. I"m broke, Livy, and I owe a couple of million dollars.: 我破产了，莉薇，而且我欠了几百万美元的债。

4. 85 percent of all American households owe money on mortgages.: 85%的美国家庭背有按揭债务.

pay 支付

be 有

indebted 受惠的

obliged 义不容辞的

liable 有义务的

owe for 欠…的钱

owe to v. 归功于

owe ... to ... 应把…归功于

owe people money 欠钱

owe gratitude to 感谢,感激…

owe it to oneself 认为自己有必要…

to owe... to 归功于

owe sb for sth 为(某事)而感谢(某人)

i owe you n.IOY我欠你方,欠条

owe sb ill will 对某人怀有恶意

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1. 反义同源/反义同根：owe <==> own.
2. 一个是由别人拥有、一个是由自己拥有。