Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to forehear
Participle: foreheared
Gerund: forehearing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | forehear |
| you | forehear |
| he;she;it | forehears |
| we | forehear |
| you | forehear |
| they | forehear |
Perfect
| I | have foreheared |
| you | have foreheared |
| he;she;it | has foreheared |
| we | have foreheared |
| you | have foreheared |
| they | have foreheared |
Past
| I | foreheared |
| you | foreheared |
| he;she;it | foreheared |
| we | foreheared |
| you | foreheared |
| they | foreheared |
Pluperfect
| I | had foreheared |
| you | had foreheared |
| he;she;it | had foreheared |
| we | had foreheared |
| you | had foreheared |
| they | had foreheared |
Future
| I | will forehear |
| you | will forehear |
| he;she;it | will forehear |
| we | will forehear |
| you | will forehear |
| they | will forehear |
Future Perfect
| I | will have foreheared |
| you | will have foreheared |
| he;she;it | will have foreheared |
| we | will have foreheared |
| you | will have foreheared |
| they | will have foreheared |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | forehear |
| you | forehear |
| he;she;it | forehear |
| we | forehear |
| you | forehear |
| they | forehear |
Perfect
| I | have foreheared |
| you | have foreheared |
| he;she;it | have foreheared |
| we | have foreheared |
| you | have foreheared |
| they | have foreheared |
Imperfect
| I | foreheared |
| you | foreheared |
| he;she;it | foreheared |
| we | foreheared |
| you | foreheared |
| they | foreheared |
Pluperfect
| I | had foreheared |
| you | had foreheared |
| he;she;it | had foreheared |
| we | had foreheared |
| you | had foreheared |
| they | had foreheared |
Conditional
Present
| I | would forehear |
| you | would forehear |
| he;she;it | would forehear |
| we | would forehear |
| you | would forehear |
| they | would forehear |
Perfect
| I | would have foreheared |
| you | would have foreheared |
| he;she;it | would have foreheared |
| we | would have foreheared |
| you | would have foreheared |
| they | would have foreheared |
Imperative
| you | forehear |
| we | Let's forehear |
| you | forehear |
Verbs conjugated like 'forehear'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'forehear'
foreheat,
forbear,
foredeal,
forehend,
forehew,
forelead,
forelearn,
foreread,
forswear,
rehear,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English fore-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-s
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
9. Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną
10. Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan
11. Old English hīeran
12. Middle English heren
13. English hear
14. English forehear
15. From fore- + hear.
Sample Sentences
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[…] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, "and lap it in elysium." [1837 January 26, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, volume 3:]
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In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of "Thieves! Police! Burglars!" [1905, Margaret Westrup, “Billy's Long Day”, in The Idler, volume 26, page 604:]
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Holiday labor at the island today: being his guest is a hazardous responsibility: I foresee a swell and forelean to a spumy pitch and forehear the scuff of a badly perched sack of cement as it slips into the racing bay, and my New York imagination […] [2014, Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphrase:]