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Mistake
Grammatical Information
animacy status
inanimate
plural form
mistakes
Examples
Recognizing and admitting your mistakes is the first step toward personal growth.
02
a specific part of a statement, calculation, or document that is not correct
Examples
There is a mistake in the third line of your essay.
to mistake
01
to be wrong or make an error
Transitive: to mistake sth
Examples
They mistook the address and ended up at the wrong location.
02
to incorrectly think someone or something is a different person or thing
Transitive: to mistake sb/sth for sb/sth
Grammatical Information
action verb
regular
present tense
mistake
3rd person singular
mistakes
past simple
mistook
past participle
mistaken
Examples
I mistook her for my cousin when she walked into the room.
Lexical Tree
mistakable
mistake
