How to spell present

hear itpre·sent/'prة›zة™nt/nounLong vowels

What it means: A gift given to someone.

In a sentence: I wrapped a present for my friend's birthday.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as presant or presant.

Same family: presentation, presented, presenting, perform, performance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "present" comes from Latin "praesentare," meaning "to place before" or "to show." Over time in English, it took on the theatrical sense of "to perform" or "to put a play before an audience."

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