crib – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of crib

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to crib
Participle: cribbed
Gerund: cribbing

Cognates

See the 4 cognates of crib

Indicative

Present

Icrib
youcrib
he;she;itcribs
wecrib
youcrib
theycrib

Perfect

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

Past

Icribbed
youcribbed
he;she;itcribbed
wecribbed
youcribbed
theycribbed

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Icrib
youcrib
he;she;itcrib
wecrib
youcrib
theycrib

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Icribbed
youcribbed
he;she;itcribbed
wecribbed
youcribbed
theycribbed

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youcrib
weLet's crib
youcrib

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'crib'

abet, abhor, abut, acquit, admit, affrap, allot, alum, amel, amit, anagram, anvil, apparel, aret, arret, assot, astun, attrap, augur, avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'crib'

chib, crab, crim, crit, drib, rib, trib, arb, bib, bribe,

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *grébʰ-ōn ~ *grbʰ-n-ōs
5. Proto-Germanic *krebô
6. Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ
7. Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā
8. Old English cribb
9. Middle English crib
10. English crib
11. From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).
12. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kräbbe, Krääb, Krääf (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.
13. The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Kräbbe', Danish 'krybbe', Icelandic 'krubba'.

Verbs referencing "crib"

Swedish krubba.

Sample Sentences

  • They may go to their beds and give themselves no trouble about their work, and yet in the morning the maids will find the kitchen swept up, and water brought in, and the men will find the horses in the stable well cleaned and curried, and perhaps a supply corn cribbed for them from the neighbours barns. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 223:]
  • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped [1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:]
  • But now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined, bound in, / To saucy doubts and fears [a. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 4, lines 23–24:]
  • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books, beginning "O genus humanum," and which he himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the subject. [1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:]
  • This subplot—as well as a few other threads that have been teased from the Star Wars saga’s next installment—prompts another question: just how much of this film’s plot will be cribbed from The Empire Strikes Back? [2017 August 9, Laura Bradley, “How Star Wars: The Last Jedi Will—and Won’t—Echo The Empire Strikes Back”, in Vanity Fair:]
  • There are a brace of birds and hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game. [1772, Samuel Foote, The Nabob, published 1778, act 1, page 22:]
  • It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it? [1848, Charles Dickens, “14”, in Dombey and Son:]
  • "Somebody crib the mayor's crown jools, or has some joyous cuss eloped with the auto patrol?" [1920 June 26, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 2:]
  • She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs. [1957, L.P.Hartley, chapter XI, in Hireling, page 90:]
  • […] who ſought to make the glory of the Nation and Church of England, which was ever Regal and Epiſcopal ſince it was Chriſtian, truckle under a Scotch Canopy, and to make Biſhops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle-bed; as much as Kingly Majeſtie, to be confounded with Democracy. [1661, John Gauden, Anti Baal-Berith, page 35:]