life – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of life

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Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to life
Participle: lifed
Gerund: lifing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ilife
youlife
he;she;itlifes
welife
youlife
theylife

Perfect

Ihave lifed
youhave lifed
he;she;ithas lifed
wehave lifed
youhave lifed
theyhave lifed

Past

Ilifed
youlifed
he;she;itlifed
welifed
youlifed
theylifed

Pluperfect

Ihad lifed
youhad lifed
he;she;ithad lifed
wehad lifed
youhad lifed
theyhad lifed

Future

Iwill life
youwill life
he;she;itwill life
wewill life
youwill life
theywill life

Future Perfect

Iwill have lifed
youwill have lifed
he;she;itwill have lifed
wewill have lifed
youwill have lifed
theywill have lifed

Subjunctive

Present

Ilife
youlife
he;she;itlife
welife
youlife
theylife

Perfect

Ihave lifed
youhave lifed
he;she;ithave lifed
wehave lifed
youhave lifed
theyhave lifed

Imperfect

Ilifed
youlifed
he;she;itlifed
welifed
youlifed
theylifed

Pluperfect

Ihad lifed
youhad lifed
he;she;ithad lifed
wehad lifed
youhad lifed
theyhad lifed

Conditional

Present

Iwould life
youwould life
he;she;itwould life
wewould life
youwould life
theywould life

Perfect

Iwould have lifed
youwould have lifed
he;she;itwould have lifed
wewould have lifed
youwould have lifed
theywould have lifed

Imperative

youlife
weLet's life
youlife

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam lifing
youare lifing
he;she;itis lifing
weare lifing
youare lifing
theyare lifing

Perfect

Ihave been lifing
youhave been lifing
he;she;ithas been lifing
wehave been lifing
youhave been lifing
theyhave been lifing

Past

Iwas lifing
youwere lifing
he;she;itwas lifing
wewere lifing
youwere lifing
theywere lifing

Pluperfect

Ihad been lifing
youhad been lifing
he;she;ithad been lifing
wehad been lifing
youhad been lifing
theyhad been lifing

Future

Iwill be lifing
youwill be lifing
he;she;itwill be lifing
wewill be lifing
youwill be lifing
theywill be lifing

Future Perfect

Iwill have been lifing
youwill have been lifing
he;she;itwill have been lifing
wewill have been lifing
youwill have been lifing
theywill have been lifing

Conditional

Present

Iwould be lifing
youwould be lifing
he;she;itwould be lifing
wewould be lifing
youwould be lifing
theywould be lifing

Perfect

Iwould have been lifing
youwould have been lifing
he;she;itwould have been lifing
wewould have been lifing
youwould have been lifing
theywould have been lifing

Other

Verbs similar to 'life'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).
2. Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), Saterland Frisian Lieuw (“body”), West Frisian liif (“body”), Cimbrian laip (“body”), Dutch lijf (“body”) and leven (“life”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Low German Lief (“body; life”), Luxembourgish Leif, Läif (“body”), Vilamovian łaowa (“life”), Yiddish לײַב (layb, “body”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Faroese lív (“life”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
3. The sense "biography" is likely a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīta (“biography; hagiography”). See: Wymysorys 'łaowa'.

Sample Sentences

  • Now, the aim of the design is to extract more cycles from the component under study, at each new engine generation requirements are driving a reduction in the margin for the error, as parts cannot stand any drop in properties. Thus, the lifing procedures are refined by means of new models or additional specific testing for limiting features to increase the life of the components; […] [Ignacio Fernandez, ACCENT: Adaptive Control of Manufacturing Processes for a New Generation of Jet Engine Components, in 2012, D. Knörzer, J. Szodruch, Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment (page 302)]
  • A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time. [2013, Chris Clark, From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights, page 180:]