Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pen
Participle: penned
Gerund: penning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pen |
| you | pen |
| he;she;it | pens |
| we | pen |
| you | pen |
| they | pen |
Perfect
| I | have penned; pent |
| you | have penned; pent |
| he;she;it | has penned; pent |
| we | have penned; pent |
| you | have penned; pent |
| they | have penned; pent |
Past
| I | penned |
| you | penned |
| he;she;it | penned |
| we | penned |
| you | penned |
| they | penned |
Pluperfect
| I | had penned; pent |
| you | had penned; pent |
| he;she;it | had penned; pent |
| we | had penned; pent |
| you | had penned; pent |
| they | had penned; pent |
Future
| I | will pen |
| you | will pen |
| he;she;it | will pen |
| we | will pen |
| you | will pen |
| they | will pen |
Future Perfect
| I | will have penned; pent |
| you | will have penned; pent |
| he;she;it | will have penned; pent |
| we | will have penned; pent |
| you | will have penned; pent |
| they | will have penned; pent |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pen |
| you | pen |
| he;she;it | pen |
| we | pen |
| you | pen |
| they | pen |
Perfect
| I | have penned; pent |
| you | have penned; pent |
| he;she;it | have penned; pent |
| we | have penned; pent |
| you | have penned; pent |
| they | have penned; pent |
Imperfect
| I | penned |
| you | penned |
| he;she;it | penned |
| we | penned |
| you | penned |
| they | penned |
Pluperfect
| I | had penned; pent |
| you | had penned; pent |
| he;she;it | had penned; pent |
| we | had penned; pent |
| you | had penned; pent |
| they | had penned; pent |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pen |
| you | would pen |
| he;she;it | would pen |
| we | would pen |
| you | would pen |
| they | would pen |
Perfect
| I | would have penned; pent |
| you | would have penned; pent |
| he;she;it | would have penned; pent |
| we | would have penned; pent |
| you | would have penned; pent |
| they | would have penned; pent |
Imperative
| you | pen |
| we | Let's pen |
| you | pen |
Verbs conjugated like 'pen'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pen'
den,
gen,
hen,
ken,
open,
pan,
pean,
pee,
peen,
peg,
Additional Information
Cf. Old English leornian (learn), pennan (pen), smellan (smell), spellian (spell) and spillan (spill).
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "writing implement," c.1300, from O.Fr.
penne "quill pen, feather," from L.
penna "feather," from PIE
*petna-, suffixed form of base
*pet- "to rush, fly." From the same base comes suffixed form
*petra-, source of Skt.
patram "wing, feather," Gk.
pteron "wing," O.C.S.
pero "pen," O.N.
fjöðr, O.E.
feðer (see feather). In later Fr., this word means only "long feather of a bird," while the equivalent of Eng.
plume is used for "writing implement," the senses of the two words thus reversed from what they are in English. The verb is 1490, from the noun.
Pen-pal first recorded 1938, gradually replacing earlier
pen-friend (1933).
Pen-and-ink (adj.) is attested from 1676.
2. From Middle English pennen, from Old English *pennian (“to close, lock, bolt”, attested in onpennian (“to open”)), derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen (“to secure a door with a bolt”). See: Middle English '
pennen', Low Saxon 'pennen'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] or he remiss in his deserts. Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment; for any printed lie that any notorious villain pens, although it militate directly against the character and conduct of a life, appeals at once to your distrust, and is believed. You will strain at a gnat in the way of trustfulness and confidence, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] cost me a single friend on the other side of the Atlantic, who is, in anything, deserving of the name. For the rest, I put my trust, implicitly, in the spirit in which they have been conceived and penned; and I can bide my time.
(American Notes for General Circulation)