Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to intone
Participle: intoned
Gerund: intoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | intone |
| you | intone |
| he;she;it | intones |
| we | intone |
| you | intone |
| they | intone |
Perfect
| I | have intoned |
| you | have intoned |
| he;she;it | has intoned |
| we | have intoned |
| you | have intoned |
| they | have intoned |
Past
| I | intoned |
| you | intoned |
| he;she;it | intoned |
| we | intoned |
| you | intoned |
| they | intoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had intoned |
| you | had intoned |
| he;she;it | had intoned |
| we | had intoned |
| you | had intoned |
| they | had intoned |
Future
| I | will intone |
| you | will intone |
| he;she;it | will intone |
| we | will intone |
| you | will intone |
| they | will intone |
Future Perfect
| I | will have intoned |
| you | will have intoned |
| he;she;it | will have intoned |
| we | will have intoned |
| you | will have intoned |
| they | will have intoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | intone |
| you | intone |
| he;she;it | intone |
| we | intone |
| you | intone |
| they | intone |
Perfect
| I | have intoned |
| you | have intoned |
| he;she;it | have intoned |
| we | have intoned |
| you | have intoned |
| they | have intoned |
Imperfect
| I | intoned |
| you | intoned |
| he;she;it | intoned |
| we | intoned |
| you | intoned |
| they | intoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had intoned |
| you | had intoned |
| he;she;it | had intoned |
| we | had intoned |
| you | had intoned |
| they | had intoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would intone |
| you | would intone |
| he;she;it | would intone |
| we | would intone |
| you | would intone |
| they | would intone |
Perfect
| I | would have intoned |
| you | would have intoned |
| he;she;it | would have intoned |
| we | would have intoned |
| you | would have intoned |
| they | would have intoned |
Imperative
| you | intone |
| we | Let's intone |
| you | intone |
Verbs conjugated like 'intone'
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 'intone'
intune,
inwone,
astone,
atone,
betone,
entune,
enzone,
impone,
inline,
inmove,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1485, "to utter in musical tones," from O.Fr.
entoner (13c.), from M.L.
intonare "sing according to tone," from L.
in- "in" +
tonus "tone," from Gk.
tonos (see tenet).
Intonation as a musical term dates from 1776.
2. From Middle English entune, entone, from Old French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonō, from in- (inchoative prefix) + tonus (“pitch, tone”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); doublet of intonate. Cognate with French entonner, Italian intonare. See: French '
entonner', Italian '
intonare'.
Sample Sentences
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to intone the church service
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But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]