• Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    You can borrow from someone else. When someone else borrows from you, you lend it. Or lent as the past tense

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      6 months ago

      Ish…

      They could have said “you have let the government borrow from you tax free.”

      But yeah, the general idea holds.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Thanks, updated. I think my mistake stems from Swedish only having one word for the concept, regardless of the direction of the transaction.