Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to buy
Participle: bought
Gerund: buying
Indicative
Present
| I | buy |
| you | buy |
| he;she;it | buys |
| we | buy |
| you | buy |
| they | buy |
Perfect
| I | have bought |
| you | have bought |
| he;she;it | has bought |
| we | have bought |
| you | have bought |
| they | have bought |
Past
| I | bought |
| you | bought |
| he;she;it | bought |
| we | bought |
| you | bought |
| they | bought |
Pluperfect
| I | had bought |
| you | had bought |
| he;she;it | had bought |
| we | had bought |
| you | had bought |
| they | had bought |
Future
| I | will buy |
| you | will buy |
| he;she;it | will buy |
| we | will buy |
| you | will buy |
| they | will buy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bought |
| you | will have bought |
| he;she;it | will have bought |
| we | will have bought |
| you | will have bought |
| they | will have bought |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | buy |
| you | buy |
| he;she;it | buy |
| we | buy |
| you | buy |
| they | buy |
Perfect
| I | have bought |
| you | have bought |
| he;she;it | have bought |
| we | have bought |
| you | have bought |
| they | have bought |
Imperfect
| I | bought |
| you | bought |
| he;she;it | bought |
| we | bought |
| you | bought |
| they | bought |
Pluperfect
| I | had bought |
| you | had bought |
| he;she;it | had bought |
| we | had bought |
| you | had bought |
| they | had bought |
Conditional
Present
| I | would buy |
| you | would buy |
| he;she;it | would buy |
| we | would buy |
| you | would buy |
| they | would buy |
Perfect
| I | would have bought |
| you | would have bought |
| he;she;it | would have bought |
| we | would have bought |
| you | would have bought |
| they | would have bought |
Imperative
| you | buy |
| we | Let's buy |
| you | buy |
Verbs conjugated like 'buy'
againbuy,
buy,
overbuy,
underbuy,
abuy,
forbuy,
forebuy,
outbuy,
prebuy,
rebuy,
Verbs similar to 'buy'
abuy,
bay,
boy,
bub,
bud,
bug,
bum,
bun,
buoy,
bury,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pay for
- aby
- obtain (something) in exchange for money
- acquire, purchase, shop
- accept as true
- take on
- to receive goods or services in exchange for money
- aby, cheap, procure, purchase, snap up
- purchase
- get, take, procure, acquire, market
- bribe
- suborn, corrupt, hire
Antonyms
- obtain (something) in exchange for money
- sell, vend
- to take something that does not belong to one
- earn, purchase, receive, return, steal
- to exchange goods or services without involving money
- sell, barter
- to receive goods or services in exchange for money
- barter, pay, sell, steal
- to provide goods or services in exchange for money
- barter, sell
- to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it
- lend, return, take, borrow
- to give money, or other compensation, in exchange for goods or services
- default, discharge, earn, levant, repudiate, steal, pay, waive, welsh
Additional Information
Cf. Old English bycgan.
Phrasal Verbs
~ in something,
~ something in,
~ into something,
~ off somebody,
~ somebody off,
~ out somebody,
~ out something,
~ somebody out,
~ something out,
~ somebody out of something,
~ up something,
~ something up,
Etymology
1. From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”).
2. Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands. See: Middle English '
byen', Proto-Germanic '
*bugjaną', Scots '
buy', Dutch '
beugen', Old Saxon '
buggian'.
Verbs referencing "buy"
Sranan
bai.
Sample Sentences
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[...] as soon have one of my own children sold. But really, Eliza, you are getting altogether too proud of that little fellow. A man can't put his nose into the door, but you think he must be coming to buy him. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ To Canada, ” said he, straightening himself up; “ and when I 'm there, I'll buy you; that's all the hope that's left us. You have a kind master, that won't refuse to sell you. I'll buy you and the boy; — God helping me, I will ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] where old Aunt Sally got her new red headkerchief, and how “ Missis was a going to give Lizzy that spotted muslin gown, when she'd got her new berage made up; ” and how Mas’r Shelby was thinking of buying a new sorrel colt, that was going to prove an addition to the glories of the place. A few of the worshippers belonged to families hard by, who had got permission to attend, and who brought in [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] hurriedly and abstractedly fingering her gold watch,—“I haven't any jewelry of any amount, ” she added, thoughtfully; “ but would not this watch do something ? — it was an expensive one, when it was bought. If I could only at least save Eliza's child, I would sacrifice anything I have. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] as I am not aware that any worse consequence ensued, than a sudden looking-up of all the parasols and silk stockings in the market; and perhaps the bankruptcy of some speculative New Englander who bought them all up at any price, in expectation of a demand that never came; I set no great store by the circumstance.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] horses trot along, drawing a score or two of people and a great wooden ark, with ease. The stores are poorer here; the passengers less gay. Clothes ready-made, and meat ready-cooked, are to be bought in these parts; and the lively whirl of carriages is exchanged for the deep rumble of carts and waggons. These signs which are so plentiful, in shape like river buoys, or small balloons, hoisted by [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ The gal's no matter of mine,—she's Shelby 's; it's only the boy. I was a fool for buying the monkey ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] I knew I never should be good for anything, if they did; and when I knew the papers the papers were signed, and he was sold, I took him and came off in the night; and they chased me,—the man that bought him, and some of Mas’r's folks,—and they were coming down right behind me, and I heard ’ em. I jumped right on to the ice; and how I got across, I don't know,—but, first I knew, a man was helping me [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and oppressed. At last, one day, John's great heart had swelled altogether too big to wear his bonds any longer; so he just took his pocket-book out of his desk, and went over into Ohio, and bought a quarter of a township of good, rich land, made out free papers for all his people,—men, women, and children,—packed them up in wagons, and sent them off to settle down; and then honest John turned [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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We stopped to dine at Baltimore, and being now in Maryland, were waited on, for the first time, by slaves. The sensation of exacting any service from human creatures who are bought and sold, and being, for the time, a party as it were to their condition, is not an enviable one. The institution exists, perhaps, in its least repulsive and most mitigated form in such a town as [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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No more bending over. The Queen of Sheba. Say you already bought it ? Well, I paid down on it.
(Sweet Dreams)
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and then she bought the rights after the play to option and do the movie. Isn't it tough to take something from the stage
(Faye)
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You bought his wretched car when Chera was dying to take revenge on Linga
(Magudam)