amend – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of amend

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to amend
Participle: amendded
Gerund: amendding

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iamend
youamend
he;she;itamends
weamend
youamend
theyamend

Perfect

Ihave amendded
youhave amendded
he;she;ithas amendded
wehave amendded
youhave amendded
theyhave amendded

Past

Iamendded
youamendded
he;she;itamendded
weamendded
youamendded
theyamendded

Pluperfect

Ihad amendded
youhad amendded
he;she;ithad amendded
wehad amendded
youhad amendded
theyhad amendded

Future

Iwill amend
youwill amend
he;she;itwill amend
wewill amend
youwill amend
theywill amend

Future Perfect

Iwill have amendded
youwill have amendded
he;she;itwill have amendded
wewill have amendded
youwill have amendded
theywill have amendded

Subjunctive

Present

Iamend
youamend
he;she;itamend
weamend
youamend
theyamend

Perfect

Ihave amendded
youhave amendded
he;she;ithave amendded
wehave amendded
youhave amendded
theyhave amendded

Imperfect

Iamendded
youamendded
he;she;itamendded
weamendded
youamendded
theyamendded

Pluperfect

Ihad amendded
youhad amendded
he;she;ithad amendded
wehad amendded
youhad amendded
theyhad amendded

Conditional

Present

Iwould amend
youwould amend
he;she;itwould amend
wewould amend
youwould amend
theywould amend

Perfect

Iwould have amendded
youwould have amendded
he;she;itwould have amendded
wewould have amendded
youwould have amendded
theywould have amendded

Imperative

youamend
weLet's amend
youamend

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam amendding
youare amendding
he;she;itis amendding
weare amendding
youare amendding
theyare amendding

Perfect

Ihave been amendding
youhave been amendding
he;she;ithas been amendding
wehave been amendding
youhave been amendding
theyhave been amendding

Past

Iwas amendding
youwere amendding
he;she;itwas amendding
wewere amendding
youwere amendding
theywere amendding

Pluperfect

Ihad been amendding
youhad been amendding
he;she;ithad been amendding
wehad been amendding
youhad been amendding
theyhad been amendding

Future

Iwill be amendding
youwill be amendding
he;she;itwill be amendding
wewill be amendding
youwill be amendding
theywill be amendding

Future Perfect

Iwill have been amendding
youwill have been amendding
he;she;itwill have been amendding
wewill have been amendding
youwill have been amendding
theywill have been amendding

Conditional

Present

Iwould be amendding
youwould be amendding
he;she;itwould be amendding
wewould be amendding
youwould be amendding
theywould be amendding

Perfect

Iwould have been amendding
youwould have been amendding
he;she;itwould have been amendding
wewould have been amendding
youwould have been amendding
theywould have been amendding

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'amend'

abet, abhor, abut, acquit, admit, affrap, allot, alum, amel, amit, anagram, anvil, apparel, aret, arret, assot, astun, attrap, augur, avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'amend'

abend, amand, amen, amind, atend, emend, mend, aband, accend, addend,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to restore to a sound or good state
fix, make whole, put to rights, reform, repair
to make better
ameliorate, batten, better, enhance, improve, meliorate
to change the form or structure of
adapt, alter, change, convert, differentiate, innovate, metamorphose, modify, revamp, rework, transform, transmogrify, transume, variate, vary
correct
reform, improve, alter, revise, modify, mend

Antonyms

correct
incorrect, wrong, false, untrue

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1220, "to free from faults, rectify," from O.Fr. amender, from L. emendare "to correct, free from fault," from ex- "out" + menda "fault, blemish" (cognate with Skt. minda "physical blemish," O.Ir. mennar "stain, blemish," Welsh mann "sign, mark"). Supplanted in senses of "repair, cure" by its aphetic offspring mend (q.v.). Amendment "alteration of a writ or bill" (to remove its faults) is 1607. Amends, collective singular, is first recorded c.1314.
2. From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend. See: Old French 'amender', Latin 'ēmendō'.

Sample Sentences

  • Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;
  • Mar not the thing that cannot be amended. [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:]
  • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend. [1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:]
  • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended. [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:]
  • Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls
  • That stay his cure: their malady convinces
  • The great assay of art; but at his touch—
  • Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—
  • They presently amend. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
  • We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.
  • The following motions cannot be amended: [1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46:]
  • 1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,
  • It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]