browse – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of browse

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to browse
Participle: browsed
Gerund: browsing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ibrowse
youbrowse
he;she;itbrowses
webrowse
youbrowse
theybrowse

Perfect

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

Past

Ibrowsed
youbrowsed
he;she;itbrowsed
webrowsed
youbrowsed
theybrowsed

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Ibrowse
youbrowse
he;she;itbrowse
webrowse
youbrowse
theybrowse

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Ibrowsed
youbrowsed
he;she;itbrowsed
webrowsed
youbrowsed
theybrowsed

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youbrowse
weLet's browse
youbrowse

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs similar to 'browse'

bowse, browze, drowse, growse, arouse, bedrowse, blouse, blowe, boose, bose,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

skim
dip, flip, glance, riff, riffle, scan
graze
bite, crop

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1523, "feed on buds," from M.Fr. brouster, from O.Fr. broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from P.Gmc. *brustjan "to bud." Lost its final -t in Eng. on the mistaken notion that it was a pp. inflection. Figurative extension to "peruse" (books) is 1870s, Amer.Eng.
2. From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush. See: Old Saxon 'brustian'.

Verbs referencing "browse"

Dutch browsen, Scots Gaelic brabhsaich.

Sample Sentences

  • I'm just browsing around.
  • I stopped in several bookstores to browse.
  • At Hampton Court the little flocks of visitors are not provided with an official bellwether, but are left to browse at discretion upon the local antiquities. [1878, Henry James, An International Episode:]
  • The little room in which he found himself was plainly the bookseller's sanctum, and contained his own private library. Gilbert browsed along the shelves curiously. The volumes were mostly shabby and bruised; they had evidently been picked up one by one in the humble mangers of the second-hand vendor. [1919, Christopher Morley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:]
  • HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. [1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):]
  • Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They browsed with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats. [1910, Zane Grey, The Heritage of the Desert:]
  • Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection. [1997, Kent Grant, “Wildlife Values of Conservation”, in Colorado State Forest Service, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2010:]
  • The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […] [1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 21:]
  • “If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?” [1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:]