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JustAlilBit

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Hello,
Today I'm starting to learn all irregular verb, but I found several words which me forced to create a new thread here :shock:

BID (Farewell) - BID / BADE - BIDDEN
BID (Offer amount) BID - BID
Do these words have any different? My dictionary says NO.

Another word Backslide.
BACKSLIDE - BACKSLID - BACKSLIDDEN / BACKSLID
For this word I got big doubt, because dictionaries says that "BACKSKID" Don't exist. Do it exist or don't?
 

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" BID (Farewell) - BID / BADE - BIDDEN
BID (Offer amount) BID - BID
Do these words have any different? My dictionary says NO."

Check your dictionary again. Bid can be a verb or a noun, and they have completely different meanings.

"Another word Backslide.
BACKSLIDE - BACKSLID - BACKSLIDDEN / BACKSLID"

Here is the definition of backslide from the Oxford English Dictionary:

backslide: verb ( past -backslid ; past participle; backslid or backslidden).
To relapse into bad ways or error. Example 1: Converted vegetarians backslide to T-bones. | [as n. ] ( backsliding)
Example 2: There would be no backsliding from the administration's sound policies.

"...because dictionaries says that "BACKSKID" Don't exist. Do it exist or don't?
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Are you certain you have not made a typo here? If yes, then "bacskid" is not in my dictionary either. I would tend to say that it does not exist in normal usage. It might be jargon in some professions (like stunt car drivers) but it has no relation to backslide.
 

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Thanks for helping, by the way I didn't make any typo. If you can't believe me check this page ENGLISH PAGE - Irregular Verb Page and this page says B - backslide - backslid - backslidden / backslid
 

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Thanks for helping, by the way I didn't make any typo.
In your first post, you wrote "BACKSKID".

ps. I was too slow this morning. bhai beat me to it.
 

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Sorry, K letter is too close to L on my laptop keyboard :-|
 

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BTW, some of the verbs in these lists are pretty obscure- they're just there to try to be as complete as possible. You'll find over 600 in ours, but you may not need to know them all- few do.
 

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BTW, some of the verbs in these lists are pretty obscure- they're just there to try to be as complete as possible. You'll find over 600 in ours, but you may not need to know them all- few do.

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