sample – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of sample

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to sample
Participle: sampled
Gerund: sampling

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Isample
yousample
he;she;itsamples
wesample
yousample
theysample

Perfect

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

Past

Isampled
yousampled
he;she;itsampled
wesampled
yousampled
theysampled

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Isample
yousample
he;she;itsample
wesample
yousample
theysample

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Isampled
yousampled
he;she;itsampled
wesampled
yousampled
theysampled

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

yousample
weLet's sample
yousample

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs similar to 'sample'

cample, simple, amble, amplex, apple, dampne, dapple, dimple, dumple, ensample,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

Sample Sentences

  • They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could. [1893, Mark Twain, “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note”, in The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories, pages 2–3:]
  • Mok was enjoying himself very much. It was not often that he had such an opportunity to sample the delights of Paris. His young master, Ralph, had given him strict orders never to go out at night, or in his leisure hours, unless accompanied by Cheditafa. [1895, Frank Richard Stockton, “Mok as a Vocalist”, in The Adventures of Captain Horn, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1907, page 367:]
  • It is certainly my personal favourite, for it was by way of Hardwick's great Doric arch that I first sampled the roar and clatter of London streets, the trip being a boyhood reward for achieving (unexpected) success in a school examination! [1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:]
  • I did not really wonder, after sampling the "Settebello's" standards of comfort and service, that even on a midweek day in autumn there was not a seat to spare, despite the cost. [1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140:]
  • The Eyedropper tool allows you to sample colors from anywhere in your open InDesign documents (yes, even from placed images!) You can add a sampled color to the Swatches palette and then apply it to the fill or stroke of any frame, shape, path, line, or table. [2005, Ted LoCascio, InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips, →ISBN, page 46:]
  • The Healing brush is similar to the Clone Stamp in that information is sampled by Alt-clicking and then painted into other parts of the image. The big difference is that the Healing brush attempts to make the sampled data match the lighting and shading of the area to which it's being applied. [2008, Mark Fitzgerald, Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible, →ISBN, page 148:]
  • To address this novel legal quandary, one legal treatise on copyright has developed the concept of fragmented literal similarity, a method of determining whether a sample-based work is substantially similar to the source it sampled. The name reflects the exactness of the similarity between the snippet of a track that is sampled and the sampled copy of that snippet. [2011, Kembrew McLeod, Peter DiCola, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling, →ISBN, page 130:]
  • It means that a larger image field can be sampled from a lower resolution copy without much loss in comparative data, only the number of data points to be manipulated. [2006, Translation of Digital Process to Architectural Program, →ISBN, page 6:]