BEAR     BORE     BORNE ou BORN

  to bear:  porter        to be born:  naître     (littéralement: être porté au monde)

Le verbe 'bear' a deux participes passés 'born' et 'borne'

born s'utilise uniquement à la 'voix passive' lorsque l'on parle d'une naissance.

Dans tous les autres cas on utilise borne y compris lorsqu'il s'agit d'une naissance, 

le verbe étant à la voix active.

 I was born in London.  (je suis né à Londres)

 Sue has borne both her children at home.  Sue a donné naissance à  ses deux enfants à la maison.

I.  to be born

    1. passé                                         on dit  'He was born' et non 'He  is born'

      Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, he was born on March 14th, 1879

    'What happened on the day you were born' is a book for children by Debra Frasier

  2. présent

    Babies are born every day. (il naît des bébés tous les jours)

      Hubble space telescope can see stars that are being born  (en train de naître)

  3. futur

  quelques jours avant la naissance des jumeaux (13 juillet 2008) on pouvait lire dans les journaux

         Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's babies will be born on California Avenue

Dicton:  Born with a silver spoon in the mouth (avoir de riches parents)

born (adjectif)  Mozart was a born musician     (était un musicien-né)

                            he is a born leader  (un leader-né)

a new-born : un nouveau-né            first born: premier-né                  last born: dernier-né

II. bear bore  borne : porter, supporter, endurer, produire

        The children have just borne the birthday gift to their mother.

      ( on utilise can et could dans les phrases négatives et interrogatives)

         He couldn't bear to see her cry

        How can you bear to eat that?

        That cherry-tree never flowered and bore fruit.

        bear responsability (for): assumer la responsabilité

        Developed countries bear much responsability for environmental problems.

English exercise "Borne or Born ?" created by lili73 (23-08-2008) with The test builder
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1.
Is Samantha pregnant? Yes, she is. The doctor says that the baby is bornwill be bornewill be born in late July.
2.
The olive bornbornehas borne by the ant is too heavy for it. It can hardly walk.
3.
Both my mother and my father were bornhave bornare born the same year, in December.
4.
The weather has been awful this year.The apple trees should have bornehave bearhave born more fruit.
5.
Around 100 babies were bornare borneare born in this hospital every week.
6.
Our cat, Pussy, was bornhas bornehas born another litter of kittens during the night.
7.
The sound of the music was bornhas bornewas borne along on the wind.
8.
The cost of the new skating rink will be bornewill be borewill be born by the inhabitants of the town.
9.
My son Robert has borneis bornwas born on board the plane as I was flying to New York two years ago.
10.
You can't expect your mother to believe that, she wasn't bornewasn't bornisn't born yesterday.