put up — let someone stay in your home
phrasal verbB1IELTS 5+neutralcommon
to allow someone to stay at your home for a short period, usually as a guest.
Say it like a native
Textbook We are able to provide overnight accommodation for you.
Native We can put you up for the night.
'Put up' is the warm everyday verb for hosting someone; 'provide overnight accommodation' is hotel-speak.
Pattern: put someone up
In use
- When my cousin visited the city, I put her up for the weekend.daily life
- If a friend from another country visited my city, I would be happy to put them up for a few days and show them around.IELTS speaking
Common mistake
✗ They put up me for a few days.
✓ They put me up for a few days.
With a pronoun, the object goes in the middle: 'put me up'.
Common collocations
put + someone + up— me up, you up for the night, guests up, a friend up
Don't confuse it
'Put up' (let someone stay) is different from 'put up with' (tolerate someone or something).
Related
- put up (raise or fix something in a place) — Another meaning of 'put up' is 'raise or fix something in a place'; compare the examples to keep the meanings separate.