thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to thin out sth
Participle: thinned out sth
Gerund: thinning out sth

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ithin out sth
youthin out sth
he;she;itthins out sth
wethin out sth
youthin out sth
theythin out sth

Perfect

Ihave thinned out sth
youhave thinned out sth
he;she;ithas thinned out sth
wehave thinned out sth
youhave thinned out sth
theyhave thinned out sth

Past

Ithinned out sth
youthinned out sth
he;she;itthinned out sth
wethinned out sth
youthinned out sth
theythinned out sth

Pluperfect

Ihad thinned out sth
youhad thinned out sth
he;she;ithad thinned out sth
wehad thinned out sth
youhad thinned out sth
theyhad thinned out sth

Future

Iwill thin out sth
youwill thin out sth
he;she;itwill thin out sth
wewill thin out sth
youwill thin out sth
theywill thin out sth

Future Perfect

Iwill have thinned out sth
youwill have thinned out sth
he;she;itwill have thinned out sth
wewill have thinned out sth
youwill have thinned out sth
theywill have thinned out sth

Subjunctive

Present

Ithin out sth
youthin out sth
he;she;itthin out sth
wethin out sth
youthin out sth
theythin out sth

Perfect

Ihave thinned out sth
youhave thinned out sth
he;she;ithave thinned out sth
wehave thinned out sth
youhave thinned out sth
theyhave thinned out sth

Imperfect

Ithinned out sth
youthinned out sth
he;she;itthinned out sth
wethinned out sth
youthinned out sth
theythinned out sth

Pluperfect

Ihad thinned out sth
youhad thinned out sth
he;she;ithad thinned out sth
wehad thinned out sth
youhad thinned out sth
theyhad thinned out sth

Conditional

Present

Iwould thin out sth
youwould thin out sth
he;she;itwould thin out sth
wewould thin out sth
youwould thin out sth
theywould thin out sth

Perfect

Iwould have thinned out sth
youwould have thinned out sth
he;she;itwould have thinned out sth
wewould have thinned out sth
youwould have thinned out sth
theywould have thinned out sth

Imperative

youthin out sth
weLet's thin out sth
youthin out sth

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam thinning out sth
youare thinning out sth
he;she;itis thinning out sth
weare thinning out sth
youare thinning out sth
theyare thinning out sth

Perfect

Ihave been thinning out sth
youhave been thinning out sth
he;she;ithas been thinning out sth
wehave been thinning out sth
youhave been thinning out sth
theyhave been thinning out sth

Past

Iwas thinning out sth
youwere thinning out sth
he;she;itwas thinning out sth
wewere thinning out sth
youwere thinning out sth
theywere thinning out sth

Pluperfect

Ihad been thinning out sth
youhad been thinning out sth
he;she;ithad been thinning out sth
wehad been thinning out sth
youhad been thinning out sth
theyhad been thinning out sth

Future

Iwill be thinning out sth
youwill be thinning out sth
he;she;itwill be thinning out sth
wewill be thinning out sth
youwill be thinning out sth
theywill be thinning out sth

Future Perfect

Iwill have been thinning out sth
youwill have been thinning out sth
he;she;itwill have been thinning out sth
wewill have been thinning out sth
youwill have been thinning out sth
theywill have been thinning out sth

Conditional

Present

Iwould be thinning out sth
youwould be thinning out sth
he;she;itwould be thinning out sth
wewould be thinning out sth
youwould be thinning out sth
theywould be thinning out sth

Perfect

Iwould have been thinning out sth
youwould have been thinning out sth
he;she;itwould have been thinning out sth
wewould have been thinning out sth
youwould have been thinning out sth
theywould have been thinning out sth

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'thin'

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 'thin'

chin, shin, thig, thing, think, tin, twin, athink, bein, bin,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

dilute
weaken, diminish, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, expand

Antonyms

to make something more viscous
dilute, thicken, water down

Additional Information

Etymology

1. O.E. þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from P.Gmc. *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. W.Fris. ten, M.L.G. dunne, Du. dun, O.H.G. dunni, Ger. dünn, O.N. þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of base *ten- "stretch" (cf. L. tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
"These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre." [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]
The verb is from O.E. þynnian "to make thin" (cf. Ger. dünnen, Du. dunnen); intrans. sense of "to become less numerous" is attested from 1743; that of "to become thinner" is recorded from 1804. Thin-skinned is attested from 1598; the fig. sense of "touchy" is from 1680.
2. From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
3. Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous. See: Welsh 'tenau'.

Sample Sentences

  • Exhausted fathers thinned the blood,
  • You curse the legacy of pain;
  • Darling of an infected brood,
  • You feel disaster climb the vein. [1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:]
  • The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
  • So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal. [2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, page 3:]