belong
verb🔊/bɪˈlɒŋ/
🔊/bɪˈlɔːŋ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they belong | 🔊/bɪˈlɒŋ/ 🔊/bɪˈlɔːŋ/ |
| he / she / it belongs | 🔊/bɪˈlɒŋz/ 🔊/bɪˈlɔːŋz/ |
| past simple belonged | 🔊/bɪˈlɒŋd/ 🔊/bɪˈlɔːŋd/ |
| past participle belonged | 🔊/bɪˈlɒŋd/ 🔊/bɪˈlɔːŋd/ |
| -ing form belonging | 🔊/bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/ 🔊/bɪˈlɔːŋɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
to be in the right or suitable place 应在(某处) - [intransitive]
to feel comfortable and happy in a particular situation or with a particular group of people Topics Feelingsb1适应;合得来
Word OriginMiddle English: from be- (as an intensifier) + the archaic verb long ‘belong’, based on Old English gelang ‘at hand, together with’.