trace – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of trace

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to trace
Participle: traced
Gerund: tracing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Itrace
youtrace
he;she;ittraces
wetrace
youtrace
theytrace

Perfect

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

Past

Itraced
youtraced
he;she;ittraced
wetraced
youtraced
theytraced

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Itrace
youtrace
he;she;ittrace
wetrace
youtrace
theytrace

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Itraced
youtraced
he;she;ittraced
wetraced
youtraced
theytraced

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youtrace
weLet's trace
youtrace

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs similar to 'trace'

arace, brace, grace, race, torace, track, tract, trade, trance, trape,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

track
trail, pursue, hunt, follow
investigate
discover, determine, ascertain
draw
outline, copy, sketch, diagram, delineate

Antonyms

draw
repel, repulse, reject, throw

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "straps or chains by which an animal pulls a vehicle," c.1300, from earlier collective plural trays, from O.Fr. traiz, pl. of trait "strap for harnessing, act of drawing," from L. tractus "a drawing, track," from stem of trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (1)).
2. From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track. See: Middle English 'tracen', Latin 'trahere'.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] stoppage of the engine which had been clanking and blasting in our ears incessantly for so many days, to watch the look of blank astonishment expressed in every face: beginning with the officers, tracing it through all the passengers, and descending to the very stokers and furnacemen, who emerged from below, one by one, and clustered together in a smoky group about the hatchway of the engine-room, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] very low in the scale of intellectual expression. But the darkness—not of skin, but mind—which meets the stranger 's eye at every turn; the brutalizing and blotting out of all fairer characters traced by Nature 's hand; immeasurably outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist 's brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a high casement down upon his own [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] made from time to time with the poor Indians, signed by the different chiefs at the period of their ratification, and preserved in the office of the Secretary to the Commonwealth. These signatures, traced of course by their own hands, are rough drawings of the creatures or weapons they were called after. Thus, the Great Turtle makes a crooked pen-and-ink outline of a great turtle; the Buffalo [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Is it strange, then, that some tears fall on the pages of his Bible, as he lays it on the cotton-bale, and, with patient finger, threading his slow way from word to word, traces out its promises ? Having learned late in life, Tom was but a slow reader, and passed on laboriously from verse to verse. Fortunate for him was it that the book he was intent on was one which slow [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] to embark for England on the succeeding day, I was glad to think that among the last memorable beauties which had glided past us, and softened in the bright perspective, were those whose pictures, traced by no common hand, are fresh in most men 's minds; not easily to grow old, or fade beneath the dust of Time: the Kaatskill Mountains, Sleepy Hollow, and the Tappaan Zee. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] the bill of sale of Eliza; whose date and name all corresponded with her own knowledge of facts, and felt no doubt upon her mind as to the identity of her child. It remained now only for her to trace out the path of the fugitives. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] numerous fugitives from slavery are located. At Amherstberg they found the missionary with whom George and Eliza had taken shelter, on their first arrival in Canada; and through him were enabled to trace the family to Montreal. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)