deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to deal
Participle: dealt
Gerund: dealing

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

Ideal
youdeal
he;she;itdeals
wedeal
youdeal
theydeal

Perfect

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

Past

Idealt
youdealt
he;she;itdealt
wedealt
youdealt
theydealt

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Ideal
youdeal
he;she;itdeal
wedeal
youdeal
theydeal

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Idealt
youdealt
he;she;itdealt
wedealt
youdealt
theydealt

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youdeal
weLet's deal
youdeal

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs similar to 'deal'

beal, dead, deaf, dean, dear, decal, dial, feal, geal, heal,

Additional Information

Cf. Old English weak verbs dǣlan (deal), lǣfan (leave) and mǣnan (mean).

Etymology

1. from O.E. dæl "part, share, quantity," and its verbal derivative dælan "to divide," from P.Gmc. *dailaz; also found in Balto-Slavic (cf. O.C.S. delu "part," Lith. dalis). Meaning "to distribute cards before a game" is from 1529; business sense is 1837, originally slang. Meaning "an amount" is from 1562. New Deal is from F.D. Roosevelt speech of July 1932. Big deal is 1928; ironic use first recorded 1951 in "Catcher in the Rye." To deal with "handle" is attested from 1469. Dealership is from 1916.
2. From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoh₁-i-l- (“part, watershed”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ). See: Middle English 'delen', Proto-Germanic '*dailijaną', Dutch 'delen', German, old spelling 'teilen', Swedish 'dela', Lithuanian 'dalinti', Russian 'дели́ть'.

Verbs referencing "deal"

French dealer, Dutch dealen, German, old spelling dealen, Icelandic deila, Dutch delen, German, old spelling teilen, Danish dele, Russian делить, Scots Gaelic dèilig, Luxembourgish deelen, Welsh delio.

Sample Sentences

  • Every patient in this asylum sits down to dinner every day with a knife and fork; and in the midst of them sits the gentleman, whose manner of dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but amusements ? Not vapid, waterish amusements, but good strong stuff; dealing in round abuse and blackguard names; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain; pimping and pandering for all degrees of vicious taste, and gorging with coined lies [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] there six years, and was to remain, I think, three more. He had been convicted as a receiver of stolen goods, but even after his long imprisonment, denied his guilt, and said he had been hardly dealt by. It was his second offence. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding ? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [ 1 ] Gen. 16. The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • I saw in this place the whole process of picking, rolling, pressing, drying, packing in casks, and branding. All the tobacco thus dealt with, was in course of manufacture for chewing; and one would have supposed there was enough in that one storehouse to have filled even the comprehensive jaws of America. In this form, the weed [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] beforehand or avoid. All that night, the bell was never silent for five minutes at a time; and after every ring the vessel reeled again, sometimes beneath a single blow, sometimes beneath a dozen dealt in quick succession, the lightest of which seemed more than enough to beat in her frail keel, as though it had been pie-crust. Looking down upon the filthy river after dark, it seemed to be alive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] who wanted the appointment to vest in his own brother. In the course of debate, the deceased made some statements which Vinyard pronounced false, and made use of violent and insulting language, dealing largely in personalities, to which Mr. A. made no reply. After the adjournment, Mr. A. stepped up to Vinyard, and requested him to retract, which he refused to do, repeating the offensive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Dear papa ! ” said Eva. “ _I cannot_, ” said St. Clare, rising, “ I _cannot_ have it so ! The Almighty hath dealt _very bitterly_ with me ! ” and St. Clare pronounced these words with a bitter emphasis, indeed. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ Never fear that ! ” said the first. “ If I get ’ em, I'll soon have their airs out of them; they'll soon find that they 've another kind of master to deal with than Monsieur St. Clare. ’ Pon my word, I'll buy that fellow. I like the shape of him. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)