Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to commute
Participle: commuted
Gerund: commuting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | commute |
| you | commute |
| he;she;it | commutes |
| we | commute |
| you | commute |
| they | commute |
Perfect
| I | have commuted |
| you | have commuted |
| he;she;it | has commuted |
| we | have commuted |
| you | have commuted |
| they | have commuted |
Past
| I | commuted |
| you | commuted |
| he;she;it | commuted |
| we | commuted |
| you | commuted |
| they | commuted |
Pluperfect
| I | had commuted |
| you | had commuted |
| he;she;it | had commuted |
| we | had commuted |
| you | had commuted |
| they | had commuted |
Future
| I | will commute |
| you | will commute |
| he;she;it | will commute |
| we | will commute |
| you | will commute |
| they | will commute |
Future Perfect
| I | will have commuted |
| you | will have commuted |
| he;she;it | will have commuted |
| we | will have commuted |
| you | will have commuted |
| they | will have commuted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | commute |
| you | commute |
| he;she;it | commute |
| we | commute |
| you | commute |
| they | commute |
Perfect
| I | have commuted |
| you | have commuted |
| he;she;it | have commuted |
| we | have commuted |
| you | have commuted |
| they | have commuted |
Imperfect
| I | commuted |
| you | commuted |
| he;she;it | commuted |
| we | commuted |
| you | commuted |
| they | commuted |
Pluperfect
| I | had commuted |
| you | had commuted |
| he;she;it | had commuted |
| we | had commuted |
| you | had commuted |
| they | had commuted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would commute |
| you | would commute |
| he;she;it | would commute |
| we | would commute |
| you | would commute |
| they | would commute |
Perfect
| I | would have commuted |
| you | would have commuted |
| he;she;it | would have commuted |
| we | would have commuted |
| you | would have commuted |
| they | would have commuted |
Imperative
| you | commute |
| we | Let's commute |
| you | commute |
Verbs conjugated like 'commute'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'commute'
commote,
commune,
compute,
coelute,
comminute,
commit,
commove,
commutate,
compete,
confute,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to replace something with something else
- counterchange, exchange, interchange, replace, shift, substitute, swap, switch, transpose
- exchange
- interchange, trade, change, switch, transpose, surrogate, supplant
- reduce
- alleviate, mitigate, diminish, decrease, shorten, remit
- travel
- drive, shuttle
Antonyms
- reduce
- enlarge, augment, amplify, distend
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1450, from L.
commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from
com- intensive prefix +
mutare "to change" (see mutate). Sense of "make less severe" is 1633. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is 1889, from
commutation ticket "season pass" (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from
commute in its sense of "to change one kind of payment into another" (1795), especially "to combine a number of payments into a single one;"
commuter is from 1865; the noun
commute is from 1960.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
4. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
5. Proto-Italic *kom
6. Proto-Italic *kom-
7. Latin con-
8. Latin mūtō
9. Latin commūtōbor.
10. English commute
11. Borrowed from Latin commūtō.
Verbs referencing "commute"
Finnish with old forms
kommutoida.
Sample Sentences
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[...] ran down his cheeks, and he took one of the visitors aside, to ask, with his trembling hands nervously clutching at his coat to detain him, whether there was no hope of his dismal sentence being commuted, the spectacle was really too painful to witness. I never saw or heard of any kind of misery that impressed me more than the wretchedness of this man.
(American Notes for General Circulation)