Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gift
Participle: gifted
Gerund: gifting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gift |
| you | gift |
| he;she;it | gifts |
| we | gift |
| you | gift |
| they | gift |
Perfect
| I | have gifted |
| you | have gifted |
| he;she;it | has gifted |
| we | have gifted |
| you | have gifted |
| they | have gifted |
Past
| I | gifted |
| you | gifted |
| he;she;it | gifted |
| we | gifted |
| you | gifted |
| they | gifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had gifted |
| you | had gifted |
| he;she;it | had gifted |
| we | had gifted |
| you | had gifted |
| they | had gifted |
Future
| I | will gift |
| you | will gift |
| he;she;it | will gift |
| we | will gift |
| you | will gift |
| they | will gift |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gifted |
| you | will have gifted |
| he;she;it | will have gifted |
| we | will have gifted |
| you | will have gifted |
| they | will have gifted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gift |
| you | gift |
| he;she;it | gift |
| we | gift |
| you | gift |
| they | gift |
Perfect
| I | have gifted |
| you | have gifted |
| he;she;it | have gifted |
| we | have gifted |
| you | have gifted |
| they | have gifted |
Imperfect
| I | gifted |
| you | gifted |
| he;she;it | gifted |
| we | gifted |
| you | gifted |
| they | gifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had gifted |
| you | had gifted |
| he;she;it | had gifted |
| we | had gifted |
| you | had gifted |
| they | had gifted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gift |
| you | would gift |
| he;she;it | would gift |
| we | would gift |
| you | would gift |
| they | would gift |
Perfect
| I | would have gifted |
| you | would have gifted |
| he;she;it | would have gifted |
| we | would have gifted |
| you | would have gifted |
| they | would have gifted |
Imperative
| you | gift |
| we | Let's gift |
| you | gift |
Verbs conjugated like 'gift'
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 'gift'
gif,
girt,
gist,
grift,
lift,
rift,
sift,
agist,
airt,
begift,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole
- add, assist, bestow, bring, chip in, do one's bit, donate, endow, fund, grant, impart, invest, join, kick in, lend, participate, pitch in, pledge, provide, put up, set forward, supply, support, sweeten the kitty, contribute
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English yifte, ȝift, partly from Old English ġift, ġyft (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -t (etymologically yive + -t).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Luxembourgish Gëft (“poison”), Vilamovian gejft, gyjft (“poison”), Yiddish גיפֿט (gift, “poison”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gift (“poison”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift. Distantly related to English habit, from Latin habitus. See: English '
habit'.
Verbs referencing "gift"
Manx
gioot.
Sample Sentences
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Honest old John Van Trompe was once quite a considerable land-owner and slave-owner in the State of Kentucky. Having “ nothing of the bear about him but the skin, ” and being gifted by nature with a great, honest, just heart, quite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been for some years witnessing with repressed uneasiness the workings of a system equally bad for oppressor and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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But he has no money to pay the rent dues ! An aspiring actor who lives abroad gifted it to me
(Nunakuzhi)