compose – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of compose

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to compose
Participle: composed
Gerund: composing

Cognates

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Indicative

Present

Icompose
youcompose
he;she;itcomposes
wecompose
youcompose
theycompose

Perfect

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

Past

Icomposed
youcomposed
he;she;itcomposed
wecomposed
youcomposed
theycomposed

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Icompose
youcompose
he;she;itcompose
wecompose
youcompose
theycompose

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Icomposed
youcomposed
he;she;itcomposed
wecomposed
youcomposed
theycomposed

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youcompose
weLet's compose
youcompose

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

constitute
comprise
be composed of
consist
to compose
compound, comprise
to constitute
represent
make up
constitute
to make up the whole
compound, comprise, constitute, form, make up, represent, upmake
create
design, synthesize, combine, draft, forge, originate, consolidate, produce
arrange
order, align, rank, array, place, adjust, organize
write
score, invent, conceive, imagine, author, coin, program
control
calm, quiet, still, collect, repress

Antonyms

to make up the whole
decompose, deform, unform
arrange
disarrange, disorder, derange, jumble
control
neglect, ignore, mismanage, misconduct

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1475, from O.Fr. composer "put together, arrange" (12c.), from com- "with" + poser "to place," from L.L. pausare "to cease, lay down," ult. from L. ponere "to put, place" (see position). Meaning infl. in O.Fr. by componere (see composite). Musical sense is from 1597. Composed "calm" is from 1621; composure first recorded 1667.
2. From Middle English composen, from Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”). See: Old French 'composer', Latin 'componere'.

Verbs referencing "compose"

Ido kompozar.

Sample Sentences

  • The captain being gone, we compose ourselves to read, if the place be light enough; and if not, we doze and talk alternately. At one, a bell rings, and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes, and another of [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] 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 that she is right, she takes the whole of the types composing the word, and places them upon or in contact with the pencil, or whatever the object may be. ” (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • There was another: a young man, whose madness was love and music. After playing on the accordion a march he had composed, he was very anxious that I should walk into his chamber, which I immediately did. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • We were fourteen in all, and all young men: indeed it is a singular though very natural feature in the society of these distant settlements, that it is mainly composed of adventurous persons in the prime of life, and has very few grey heads among it. There were no ladies: the trip being a fatiguing one: and we were to start at five o’clock in the morning [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] ugly old women and very buxom young ones, pigs, dogs, men, children, babies, pots, kettles, dung-hills, vile refuse, rank straw, and standing water, all wallowing together in an inseparable heap, composed the furniture of every dark and dirty hut. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] into this place, and nothing was to be done but walk up and down, and look at it and the other buildings in the village (which were chiefly of wood, painted a dark red like English barns, and composed of many stories like English factories ), I have nothing to communicate to the reader, beyond the scanty results I gleaned the while our purchases were making. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] spirits, and was helped home, between one and two o’clock at night, in a condition when the physical had decidedly attained the upper hand of the intellectual. Tom and Adolph assisted to get him composed for the night, the latter in high spirits, evidently regarding the matter as a good joke, and laughing heartily at the rusticity of Tom's horror, who really was simple enough to lie awake most of [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • The woman suddenly rose up, with her face composed to its usual stern, melancholy expression. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. The Christian is composed by the belief of a wise, all-ruling Father, whose presence fills the void unknown with light and order; but to the man who has dethroned God, the spirit-land is, indeed, in the words of the Hebrew [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • The separate incidents that compose the narrative are, to a very great extent, authentic, occurring, many of them, either under her own observation, or that of her personal friends. She or her friends have observed characters the [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)