Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bank
Participle: banked
Gerund: banking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bank |
| you | bank |
| he;she;it | banks |
| we | bank |
| you | bank |
| they | bank |
Perfect
| I | have banked |
| you | have banked |
| he;she;it | has banked |
| we | have banked |
| you | have banked |
| they | have banked |
Past
| I | banked |
| you | banked |
| he;she;it | banked |
| we | banked |
| you | banked |
| they | banked |
Pluperfect
| I | had banked |
| you | had banked |
| he;she;it | had banked |
| we | had banked |
| you | had banked |
| they | had banked |
Future
| I | will bank |
| you | will bank |
| he;she;it | will bank |
| we | will bank |
| you | will bank |
| they | will bank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have banked |
| you | will have banked |
| he;she;it | will have banked |
| we | will have banked |
| you | will have banked |
| they | will have banked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bank |
| you | bank |
| he;she;it | bank |
| we | bank |
| you | bank |
| they | bank |
Perfect
| I | have banked |
| you | have banked |
| he;she;it | have banked |
| we | have banked |
| you | have banked |
| they | have banked |
Imperfect
| I | banked |
| you | banked |
| he;she;it | banked |
| we | banked |
| you | banked |
| they | banked |
Pluperfect
| I | had banked |
| you | had banked |
| he;she;it | had banked |
| we | had banked |
| you | had banked |
| they | had banked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bank |
| you | would bank |
| he;she;it | would bank |
| we | would bank |
| you | would bank |
| they | would bank |
Perfect
| I | would have banked |
| you | would have banked |
| he;she;it | would have banked |
| we | would have banked |
| you | would have banked |
| they | would have banked |
Imperative
| you | bank |
| we | Let's bank |
| you | bank |
Verbs conjugated like 'bank'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bank'
back,
balk,
ban,
band,
bane,
bang,
bark,
bask,
blank,
bonk,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "financial institution," 1474, from either O.It. banca or M.Fr. banque (itself from the O.It. term), both meaning "table" (the notion is of the moneylender's exchange table), from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. bank "bench"); see bank (2). The verb meaning "to put confidence in" (U.S. colloquial) is attested from 1884. Bank holiday is from 1871, though the tradition is as old as the Bank of England. Bankroll (v.) "to finance" is 1920s. To cry all the way to the bank was coined 1956 by flamboyant pianist Liberace, after a Madison Square Garden concert that was packed with patrons but panned by critics.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *bankiz
5. Proto-West Germanic *banki
6. Lombardic bankbor.
7. Italian bancabor.
8. Middle French banqueder.
9. English bank
10. Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
11. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).
Sample Sentences
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They laid him in; and the men shovelled away, silently. They banked it up, and laid green turf over it.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)