Vocabulario en inglés: Beat vs Win

Vocabulario en inglés: Beat vs Win. Congratulations Spain on winning your fourth EuroBasket title!!! It was an exciting match and has inspired me to talk to you about these two words that can be very confusing.

Vocabulario Inglés: Beat

Beat means to defeat someone
We must say who we have beaten
- Spain beat France in the basketball championship.
- Slovenia didn’t beat Poland in the quarter finals.
- She beats me every time we play chess.
- Have you ever beaten the computer at this game?

Vocabulario Inglés: win

Win as a verb

to have the most amount of points.
We do NOT follow win with someone.
- Spain won the EuroBasket title.
- Germany didn’t win the the semi-finals, but they won third place.
- Who won the game last night?
- She’s an excellent tennis player. She always wins!
To earn a prize
- He won the lottery!
- What prize did you win?
- I didn’t win anything – I just got all the right answers.

Win as a noun

an event where someone wins something
- Spain beat France for the Eurobasket win.
- They’ve had only four wins since the beginning of the season.
- How many wins have they had so far this year?
- They haven’t had any wins yet.

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