Bestie means your best friend. The word is warm and affectionate: people use it for their closest friend when chatting with their own crowd, in captions on photos together and to address them in messages. For a work conversation, an essay or IELTS Speaking, there's the neutral my best friend.
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my bestie; be besties with + person; thanks/hey, bestie
- My bestie and I are finally going to Lisbon in May, can't wait!
- Thanks for the birthday cake, bestie, you know me way too well.
- We've been besties since the first day of uni, when we both got lost.
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First versionWe with Kate have been besties since school, so she knows all my secrets.
RevisionKate and I have been besties since school, so she knows all my secrets.
English doesn't say we with Kate. To talk about yourself and another person, join the two with and and put yourself second: Kate and I.
Bestie means your very best, closest friend, not just any friend. For a good friend, say a good friend or a close friend: Tom is a good friend, but Anna is my bestie.
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I've been ___ with Lena since our first job, and we still talk every day.
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besties — Just like be friends with, be besties with takes the plural: it always takes two people to be friends. The singular bestie works in she's my bestie, but I've been bestie with Lena is a mistake.
Tell someone you've just met about your bestie. Give their name and say how many years you've been friends.
You'll love Marta, she's my bestie from art school and we've been friends for ten years.
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