tail – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to tail
Participle: tailed
Gerund: tailing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

I	tail
you	tail
he;she;it	tails
we	tail
you	tail
they	tail

Perfect

I	have tailed
you	have tailed
he;she;it	has tailed
we	have tailed
you	have tailed
they	have tailed

Past

I	tailed
you	tailed
he;she;it	tailed
we	tailed
you	tailed
they	tailed

Pluperfect

I	had tailed
you	had tailed
he;she;it	had tailed
we	had tailed
you	had tailed
they	had tailed

Future

I	will tail
you	will tail
he;she;it	will tail
we	will tail
you	will tail
they	will tail

Future Perfect

I	will have tailed
you	will have tailed
he;she;it	will have tailed
we	will have tailed
you	will have tailed
they	will have tailed

Subjunctive

Present

I	tail
you	tail
he;she;it	tail
we	tail
you	tail
they	tail

Perfect

I	have tailed
you	have tailed
he;she;it	have tailed
we	have tailed
you	have tailed
they	have tailed

Imperfect

I	tailed
you	tailed
he;she;it	tailed
we	tailed
you	tailed
they	tailed

Pluperfect

I	had tailed
you	had tailed
he;she;it	had tailed
we	had tailed
you	had tailed
they	had tailed

Conditional

Present

I	would tail
you	would tail
he;she;it	would tail
we	would tail
you	would tail
they	would tail

Perfect

I	would have tailed
you	would have tailed
he;she;it	would have tailed
we	would have tailed
you	would have tailed
they	would have tailed

Imperative

you	tail
we	Let's tail
you	tail

Indicative

Present

I	am tailing
you	are tailing
he;she;it	is tailing
we	are tailing
you	are tailing
they	are tailing

Perfect

I	have been tailing
you	have been tailing
he;she;it	has been tailing
we	have been tailing
you	have been tailing
they	have been tailing

Past

I	was tailing
you	were tailing
he;she;it	was tailing
we	were tailing
you	were tailing
they	were tailing

Pluperfect

I	had been tailing
you	had been tailing
he;she;it	had been tailing
we	had been tailing
you	had been tailing
they	had been tailing

Future

I	will be tailing
you	will be tailing
he;she;it	will be tailing
we	will be tailing
you	will be tailing
they	will be tailing

Future Perfect

I	will have been tailing
you	will have been tailing
he;she;it	will have been tailing
we	will have been tailing
you	will have been tailing
they	will have been tailing

Conditional

Present

I	would be tailing
you	would be tailing
he;she;it	would be tailing
we	would be tailing
you	would be tailing
they	would be tailing

Perfect

I	would have been tailing
you	would have been tailing
he;she;it	would have been tailing
we	would have been tailing
you	would have been tailing
they	would have been tailing

Verbs conjugated like 'tail'

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 'tail'

ail, bail, fail, hail, jail, mail, nail, rail, sail, toil,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

~ away, ~ off, ~ back,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *taglą
3. Proto-West Germanic *tagl
4. Old English tæġl
5. Middle English tayl
6. English tail
7. From Middle English tail, taile, taille, tayil, tayl, tayle, tayll, teil, tæȝel, from Old English tæġel, tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”).
8. Cognates
9. Cognate with German Zagel (“tail”), Danish, Faroese, and Icelandic tagl (“tail”), Swedish tagel (“horsehair”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”); also Serbo-Croatian дла̏ка, dlȁka (“single hair”), Slovene dlaka (“single hair”), Northern Kurdish dezî (“cotton, thread”), Sanskrit दशा (daśā, “border, fringe, hem”).
10. In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

Verbs referencing "tail"

Irish dual.

Sample Sentences

This vessel tails downstream.
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
Tail that car!
The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid,
First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]

tail – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of tail

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'tail'

Verbs similar to 'tail'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "tail"

Sample Sentences