to conjugate
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6.5
- verb
- /ˈkɒndʒʊɡeɪt/
- Specialized
:
conjugar
- The rest of the period, you conjugate Spanish verbs so the teacher can find out what useful information everybody already knows.
- conjugate the verb
Love is a verb and you conjugate it actively in many tenses.
- Love is a verb and you conjugate it actively in many tenses.
- Similarly, there's no conjugated form of the perfect or the pluperfect.
- Or he conjugated the verbs grammatically, That is according to the the canons of grammar, right?
Examples
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Conjugate the verb "to go".
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In Spanish class, we learned how to conjugate the verb "hablar".
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...and not know how to conjugate a verb?
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Forget to conjugate a verb?
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Okay, today we are going to conjugate some verbs.
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I can conjugate a few verbs.
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When's the last time you conjugated anything?
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Go forth and conjugate.
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He laboriously conjugated verbs in a foreign tongue.
Fiction book (1997) -
For example, the Spanish verb hablar—to speak—is conjugated by taking off the "ar" ending and adding one of the following: o, as, a, amos, or an.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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6.7
Change the form of a word to show tense, number, or case
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.7
A complex number with the same real part and the imaginary part with the opposite sign
- Specialized
One of two liquid layers that form when two partly mixed liquids separate, each layer rich in a different liquid
Surface Forms
Morphology
conjugate = con + jug + ate
The grammatical sense 'to inflect a verb' is a technical term; knowing apparent parts (con- and jug-) will not let a B1 learner derive this meaning.
Etymology
Conjugate comes from Latin con- 'together' and jugare 'to yoke', and a helpful way to remember grammar use is to think of 'yoking' the right ending to a verb. So to conjugate a verb is to attach the correct form that shows who does the action and when it happens.