How do you use the word "conjugate" in a sentence?

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Conjugate Meaning

/ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

verbTo multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.

Sentence Examples

Can you conjugate this verb?

I like to conjugate difficult verbs.

We must know how to conjugate verbs for any language.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

united compound coupled

Antonyms:

simple divided

CEFR Practice Quiz

In French class, we learned to ____ verbs for different subject pronouns.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

In Spanish class, we had to learn how to properly ____ regular and irregular verbs.

Word Origin & History

The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease." — 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 55:

"Some of the most widely-applied Gresley features will doubtless long remain a subject of controversy among locomotive engineers, and in particular his patent conjugate valve-motion for 3-cylinder engines, whereby the piston-valve of the middle cylinder derives its motion from the two outside Walschaerts valve-gears." — 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:

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