Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to barn
Participle: barnned
Gerund: barnning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | barn |
| you | barn |
| he;she;it | barns |
| we | barn |
| you | barn |
| they | barn |
Perfect
| I | have barnned |
| you | have barnned |
| he;she;it | has barnned |
| we | have barnned |
| you | have barnned |
| they | have barnned |
Past
| I | barnned |
| you | barnned |
| he;she;it | barnned |
| we | barnned |
| you | barnned |
| they | barnned |
Pluperfect
| I | had barnned |
| you | had barnned |
| he;she;it | had barnned |
| we | had barnned |
| you | had barnned |
| they | had barnned |
Future
| I | will barn |
| you | will barn |
| he;she;it | will barn |
| we | will barn |
| you | will barn |
| they | will barn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have barnned |
| you | will have barnned |
| he;she;it | will have barnned |
| we | will have barnned |
| you | will have barnned |
| they | will have barnned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | barn |
| you | barn |
| he;she;it | barn |
| we | barn |
| you | barn |
| they | barn |
Perfect
| I | have barnned |
| you | have barnned |
| he;she;it | have barnned |
| we | have barnned |
| you | have barnned |
| they | have barnned |
Imperfect
| I | barnned |
| you | barnned |
| he;she;it | barnned |
| we | barnned |
| you | barnned |
| they | barnned |
Pluperfect
| I | had barnned |
| you | had barnned |
| he;she;it | had barnned |
| we | had barnned |
| you | had barnned |
| they | had barnned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would barn |
| you | would barn |
| he;she;it | would barn |
| we | would barn |
| you | would barn |
| they | would barn |
Perfect
| I | would have barnned |
| you | would have barnned |
| he;she;it | would have barnned |
| we | would have barnned |
| you | would have barnned |
| they | would have barnned |
Imperative
| you | barn |
| we | Let's barn |
| you | barn |
Verbs conjugated like 'barn'
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 'barn'
ban,
bar,
barb,
bard,
bare,
barf,
bark,
barm,
burn,
darn,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).
2. More at rest and barley.
3. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
Sample Sentences
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But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 859:]
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Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. [1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times; Good Thoughts in Worse Times; Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, published 1863, page 165:]