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How to spell take

hear ittake/teɪk/verbSounds

What it means: To remove something from a place.

In a sentence: Can you take a book from the shelf?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as taek or taik.

Same family: take (verb), taken, taker, intake, overtake. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Take comes from Old Norse *taka*, meaning “to grasp or seize,” brought into English by Viking influence. The noun sense of “take” as money received (especially by a business or performance) developed later from the idea of “what is taken in.”

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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