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conjugate
CEFRB2
/ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
verb · adjective
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To change a verb to show tense, person, or number.
- 02
adjective
Joined or connected in a pair.
Examples
We must know how to conjugate verbs for any language.
Can you conjugate this verb?
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 2
- Synonyms
- 1
Also pronounced
- /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡæɪt/
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
More examples
In contextI like to conjugate difficult verbs.
17th c, John Bramhall, We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
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Origin
verb
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”).