change – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of change

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to change
Participle: changed
Gerund: changing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ichange
youchange
he;she;itchanges
wechange
youchange
theychange

Perfect

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

Past

Ichanged
youchanged
he;she;itchanged
wechanged
youchanged
theychanged

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Ichange
youchange
he;she;itchange
wechange
youchange
theychange

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Ichanged
youchanged
he;she;itchanged
wechanged
youchanged
theychanged

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youchange
weLet's change
youchange

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs similar to 'change'

chance, charge, chaunge, cadge, cage, cane, canoe, chace, chafe, chank,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

nautical: to turn the bow through the wind
tack
to change the form or structure of
adapt, alter, amend, convert, differentiate, innovate, metamorphose, modify, revamp, rework, transform, transmogrify, transume, variate, vary
modify
modulate, regulate, alter, vary, convert, turn, mutate, transform
shift
fluctuate, transform, vacillate, resolve
substitute
commute, invert, replace, exchange, swap, switch, alternate, transpose

Antonyms

shift
permanence, steadiness, retention, location

Additional Information

Etymology

1. c.1225, from O.Fr. changier, from L.L. cambiare, from L. cambire "to exchange, barter," of Celtic origin, from PIE base *kamb- "to bend, crook." The financial sense of "balance returned when something is paid for" is first recorded 1622. Phrase change of heart is from 1828. Changeling "child substituted for another in infancy" is from 1584.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂embos
5. Proto-Celtic *kambosder.
6. Gaulish cambionbor.
7. Latin cambium
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Late Latin cambiō
17. Late Latin cambiāreder.
18. Old French changierder.
19. Anglo-Norman chaungerbor.
20. Middle English chaungen
21. English change
22. From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“to exchange, barter”), derived from the noun cambium (“change”) (whence was loaned the English doublet cambium), from Gaulish cambion, earlier *kambyom (“change”), related to Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂(e)mbos, *(s)kh₂(e)mbos (“crooked”). More at skimp, scam; see also Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-.
23. Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced Middle English wenden, from wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence wend).
24. The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe. See: Old French 'changier', Latin 'cambio', Italian 'cambiare', Portuguese 'cambiar', Romanian 'schimba', Sicilian 'canciari', Spanish 'cambiar'.

Verbs referencing "change"

Ido chanjar, Esperanto ŝanĝi, Italian cangiare, Sicilian canciari, Tok Pisin senisim, Zulu shintsha, Krio chenj, Cornish chanj.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] and ruin. At first, too, and even when the hour, and all the objects it exalts, have come to be familiar, it is difficult, alone and thoughtful, to hold them to their proper shapes and forms. They change with the wandering fancy; assume the semblance of things left far away; put on the well-remembered aspect of favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] and miserable, about an hour before noon, and lay down on the sofas to recover; during which interval, the captain would look in to communicate the state of the wind, the moral certainty of its changing to-morrow (the weather is always going to improve to-morrow, at sea ), the vessel 's rate of sailing, and so forth. Observations there were none to tell us of, for there was no sun to take them by. [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] letters are formed; she turns her head a little on one side like a person listening closely; her lips are apart; she seems scarcely to breathe; and her countenance, at first anxious, gradually changes to a smile, as she comprehends the lesson. She then holds up her tiny fingers, and spells the word in the manual alphabet; next, she takes her types and arranges her letters; and last, to make sure [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] to which our nature is exposed has fallen, must wear the glasses of some wretched side in Politics ? Will it be believed that the governor of such a house as this, is appointed, and deposed, and changed perpetually, as Parties fluctuate and vary, and as their despicable weathercocks are blown this way or that ? A hundred times in every week, some new most paltry exhibition of that narrow-minded [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] day, his bedstead turns up against the wall, and leaves more space for him to work in. His loom, or bench, or wheel, is there; and there he labours, sleeps and wakes, and counts the seasons as they change, and grows old. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] he puts another figure, whose face is hidden from him also. Day after day, and often when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he thinks of these two men until he is almost distracted. He never changes them. There they are always as he first imagined them—an old man on the right; a younger man upon the left—whose hidden features torture him to death, and have a mystery that makes him tremble. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] he has gone, perhaps, into the opposite extreme. ’ Poor Justice ! she has been made to wear much stranger garments in America than those she pines in, in the Capitol. Let us hope that she has changed her dress-maker since they were fashioned, and that the public sentiment of the country did not cut out the clothes she hides her lovely figure in, just now. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • The coachmen always change with the horses, and are usually as dirty as the coach. The first was dressed like a very shabby English baker; the second like a Russian peasant: for he wore a loose purple camlet robe, with a fur [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • All this I see as I sit in the little stern-gallery mentioned just now. Evening slowly steals upon the landscape and changes it before me, when we stop to set some emigrants ashore. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] away so awfully, alone; and to think how many years must come and go before the magic that created them will rear their like upon this ground again. But the time will come; and when, in their changed ashes, the growth of centuries unborn has struck its roots, the restless men of distant ages will repair to these again unpeopled solitudes; and their fellows, in cities far away, that slumber now, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Okay. Captain Lin, the condition of Professor Yan has changed. (Lie Zhan)
  • You 're getting changed ! We don't have much time. (Hoy Maharaja)