tail – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to tail off
Participle: tailed off
Gerund: tailing off

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

you	tail off
we	Let's tail off
you	tail off

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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