Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to forage
Participle: foraged
Gerund: foraging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | forage |
| you | forage |
| he;she;it | forages |
| we | forage |
| you | forage |
| they | forage |
Perfect
| I | have foraged |
| you | have foraged |
| he;she;it | has foraged |
| we | have foraged |
| you | have foraged |
| they | have foraged |
Past
| I | foraged |
| you | foraged |
| he;she;it | foraged |
| we | foraged |
| you | foraged |
| they | foraged |
Pluperfect
| I | had foraged |
| you | had foraged |
| he;she;it | had foraged |
| we | had foraged |
| you | had foraged |
| they | had foraged |
Future
| I | will forage |
| you | will forage |
| he;she;it | will forage |
| we | will forage |
| you | will forage |
| they | will forage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have foraged |
| you | will have foraged |
| he;she;it | will have foraged |
| we | will have foraged |
| you | will have foraged |
| they | will have foraged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | forage |
| you | forage |
| he;she;it | forage |
| we | forage |
| you | forage |
| they | forage |
Perfect
| I | have foraged |
| you | have foraged |
| he;she;it | have foraged |
| we | have foraged |
| you | have foraged |
| they | have foraged |
Imperfect
| I | foraged |
| you | foraged |
| he;she;it | foraged |
| we | foraged |
| you | foraged |
| they | foraged |
Pluperfect
| I | had foraged |
| you | had foraged |
| he;she;it | had foraged |
| we | had foraged |
| you | had foraged |
| they | had foraged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would forage |
| you | would forage |
| he;she;it | would forage |
| we | would forage |
| you | would forage |
| they | would forage |
Perfect
| I | would have foraged |
| you | would have foraged |
| he;she;it | would have foraged |
| we | would have foraged |
| you | would have foraged |
| they | would have foraged |
Imperative
| you | forage |
| we | Let's forage |
| you | forage |
Verbs conjugated like 'forage'
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 'forage'
forge,
arage,
couage,
courage,
enrage,
foggage,
foliage,
fonge,
foray,
force,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”).
2. Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.
3. Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).
Sample Sentences
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The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas. [1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer:]
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And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility. [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
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Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed. [1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 218:]