tenant
tenant — 名詞
- tenantsingular
- tenantsplural
1. someone who rents a house, apartment, office, or piece of land from its owner by
租戶
付租金使用房屋或土地的人
someone who rents a house, apartment, office, or piece of land from its owner by making regular payments
The tenant signed a one-year lease for the apartment near the university.
這位租戶簽了一份為期一年的租約，租下大學附近的公寓。
collocation: sign a lease
Landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' notice before entering the property.
房東必須在進入房屋前至少二十四小時通知租戶。
tenant + landlord pair
Nila complained to her landlord about the broken heating in her flat.
Nila 向房東抱怨她公寓的暖氣壞了。
The building's tenants formed a group to ask for better maintenance services.
這棟大樓的租戶組成了一個團體，要求改善維修服務。
As a tenant, Sumin had to pay a deposit of two months' rent.
作為租戶，Sumin 必須支付兩個月租金的押金。
collocation: pay a deposit
- pay rent
- sign a lease
- evict a tenant
- tenant rights
- security deposit
- notice period
- month-to-month tenancy
- commercial tenant
- sitting tenant
- tenant association
文法句型
a + tenant
the + tenant(s)
tenant of + place
常見錯誤
tenant — 動詞
- tenantpresent simple I / you / we / they
- tenants3rd person singular
- tenanting-ing form
- tenantedpast simple
1. to live in or use a house, office, or piece of land by paying rent to the owner
租用；租住
以租戶身分使用房產
to live in or use a house, office, or piece of land by paying rent to the owner — for example, the upper floors of an old building are tenanted by several law firms
The old factory building is tenanted by several small design studios.
那棟舊工廠大樓目前由幾家小型設計工作室租用。
passive: be tenanted by
Only two of the six shops in the new mall are currently tenanted.
新購物中心裡六間店面目前只有兩間有人承租。
common in passive reporting
The Watanabe family tenanted that farmland for more than forty years.
Watanabe 家族租用那片農田已有四十多年。
The upper floor of the building was tenanted by a medical clinic.
這棟大樓的樓上樓層租給了一家診所。
- fully tenanted
- tenanted by
- remain tenanted
- currently tenanted
- tenanted property
- rent
the everyday verb for paying money to use a property; far more common than 'tenant' in active voice
- lease
implies a formal written agreement for a fixed period, usually for commercial or long-term residential use
- occupy
broader — can mean simply living or working in a space without necessarily paying rent
- vacate
to leave a property empty; the opposite of occupying it as a tenant
文法句型
be tenanted by + person/group
tenant + property
用法筆記
Most common in the passive voice ('be tenanted by') or past participle ('fully tenanted'). In everyday speech, 'rent' or 'lease' are far more common active verbs — this verb appears mainly in legal documents, property listings, and formal news reports.