Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fable
Participle: fabled
Gerund: fabling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fable |
| you | fable |
| he;she;it | fables |
| we | fable |
| you | fable |
| they | fable |
Perfect
| I | have fabled |
| you | have fabled |
| he;she;it | has fabled |
| we | have fabled |
| you | have fabled |
| they | have fabled |
Past
| I | fabled |
| you | fabled |
| he;she;it | fabled |
| we | fabled |
| you | fabled |
| they | fabled |
Pluperfect
| I | had fabled |
| you | had fabled |
| he;she;it | had fabled |
| we | had fabled |
| you | had fabled |
| they | had fabled |
Future
| I | will fable |
| you | will fable |
| he;she;it | will fable |
| we | will fable |
| you | will fable |
| they | will fable |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fabled |
| you | will have fabled |
| he;she;it | will have fabled |
| we | will have fabled |
| you | will have fabled |
| they | will have fabled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fable |
| you | fable |
| he;she;it | fable |
| we | fable |
| you | fable |
| they | fable |
Perfect
| I | have fabled |
| you | have fabled |
| he;she;it | have fabled |
| we | have fabled |
| you | have fabled |
| they | have fabled |
Imperfect
| I | fabled |
| you | fabled |
| he;she;it | fabled |
| we | fabled |
| you | fabled |
| they | fabled |
Pluperfect
| I | had fabled |
| you | had fabled |
| he;she;it | had fabled |
| we | had fabled |
| you | had fabled |
| they | had fabled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fable |
| you | would fable |
| he;she;it | would fable |
| we | would fable |
| you | would fable |
| they | would fable |
Perfect
| I | would have fabled |
| you | would have fabled |
| he;she;it | would have fabled |
| we | would have fabled |
| you | would have fabled |
| they | would have fabled |
Imperative
| you | fable |
| we | Let's fable |
| you | fable |
Verbs conjugated like 'fable'
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 'fable'
able,
cable,
dable,
faile,
famble,
table,
amble,
babble,
bale,
dabble,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
Sample Sentences
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He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 111, column 2:]
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Vain now the Tales which fab’ling Poets tell, / That wav’ring Conqueſt ſtill deſires to rove; / In Marlbrô’s Camp the Goddeſs knows to dwell: / Long as the Hero’s Life remains her Love. [1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Ode, Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 287:]
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1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,
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He fables, yet speaks truth.
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[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […] [1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 288–292:]
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THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […] [1691, “Cassandra, or, Divination”, in Arthur Gorges, transl., The Wisdom of the Ancients, London, translation of [De Sapientia Veterum] by Francis Bacon, page 1:]
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Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 24:]