change – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of change

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to change sth around
Participle: changed sth around
Gerund: changing sth around

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ichange sth around
youchange sth around
he;she;itchanges sth around
wechange sth around
youchange sth around
theychange sth around

Perfect

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

Past

Ichanged sth around
youchanged sth around
he;she;itchanged sth around
wechanged sth around
youchanged sth around
theychanged sth around

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Ichange sth around
youchange sth around
he;she;itchange sth around
wechange sth around
youchange sth around
theychange sth around

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Ichanged sth around
youchanged sth around
he;she;itchanged sth around
wechanged sth around
youchanged sth around
theychanged sth around

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youchange sth around
weLet's change sth around
youchange sth around

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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)