Word formations: loss, loser, lost, lose. Why are word formations so important for Language learning? Well, from just one word, you can learn to create 5 more! Think about how your vocabulary base grows just by learning how to build word formations.
LOSS (noun)
- to have less than you previously had of something
- Weight loss is a multi-billion dollar business.
- a disadvantage due to have someone leave or due to something being taken
- If you want to leave that’s fine. It’s your loss.
- a death
- the family is grieving from a recent loss.
LOSER (noun)
- a person or a team that does not win
- The loser has to buy the first round of drinks.
- someone that never succeeds.
- this is a very negative word to use and not appropriate in most cases.
- I don’t know why she always dates losers.
LOST (adjective)
- to now know where you are.
- Hi, I’m calling to say that I will be a bit late to the interview. I am lost.
- when no one knows where something is.
- If you don’t try to talk to them, your money will be forever lost.
- when you don’t know what to do.
- If you have advice, I would be happy to here it. I feel pretty lost about what I should be doing.
LOSE (verb)
- Present simple: lose
- Past simple: lost
- Past participle: lost
- to become unable to find something.
- Do you know where you lost your earrings? We can go back and look.
- to have something taken away from you, including people by means of death
- 50 people lost their jobs last month.
- We lost our brother to Cancer 5 years ago.
- to have less of something than you had before
- She has lost the desire to go to trial.
- The opposite of win
- I can’t believe Madrid lost!
LOST (verb) vs LOST (adjective)
This can get a bit complicated. Note that the past tense of ‘lose’ is ‘lost’ and ‘lost can also be an adjective.
- Verbs describe the action
- I lost ·$5.00.
- Adjectives describe a noun or pronoun.
- I found the lost money.
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