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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

settled???

Hello,
Today I came across something written by another student "I'm settled in Paris for now..." Is it not more common to say "I currently live/reside in Paris"?
  

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You're right, but one can use "settled" to imply a very recent move to the new location. "

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You're right, but one can use "settled" to imply a very recent move to the new location.

"Are you settled?"
"Not yet, I still have to unpack all the boxes."
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I would use it in a slightly more different context. "Elise's family settled in Paris in 1980" for example. It doesn't necessarily mean they are still living in Paris, but it does suggest to me that they spent quite a lot of time there.
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The verb "settle," in contemporary usage, is typically used only in certain set constructions (and almost always in association with the word "in"), for example:

I just moved to Paris and am settling in.

I'm living in Paris now. I like it but it took me a while to settle in, what with the language and cultural differences.

Elise's parents moved to Paris in 1980. (Not "
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You are right, but it can also be used when someone starts living somewhere permanently. As in "Her relatives had come to America and settled in Boston." This is a sentence provided by Macmillan Dictionary. Settle in has a different meaning (getting used to living somewhere/becoming familiar with the new place).

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