Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to true
Participle: trued
Gerund: truing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | true |
| you | true |
| he;she;it | trues |
| we | true |
| you | true |
| they | true |
Perfect
| I | have trued |
| you | have trued |
| he;she;it | has trued |
| we | have trued |
| you | have trued |
| they | have trued |
Past
| I | trued |
| you | trued |
| he;she;it | trued |
| we | trued |
| you | trued |
| they | trued |
Pluperfect
| I | had trued |
| you | had trued |
| he;she;it | had trued |
| we | had trued |
| you | had trued |
| they | had trued |
Future
| I | will true |
| you | will true |
| he;she;it | will true |
| we | will true |
| you | will true |
| they | will true |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trued |
| you | will have trued |
| he;she;it | will have trued |
| we | will have trued |
| you | will have trued |
| they | will have trued |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | true |
| you | true |
| he;she;it | true |
| we | true |
| you | true |
| they | true |
Perfect
| I | have trued |
| you | have trued |
| he;she;it | have trued |
| we | have trued |
| you | have trued |
| they | have trued |
Imperfect
| I | trued |
| you | trued |
| he;she;it | trued |
| we | trued |
| you | trued |
| they | trued |
Pluperfect
| I | had trued |
| you | had trued |
| he;she;it | had trued |
| we | had trued |
| you | had trued |
| they | had trued |
Conditional
Present
| I | would true |
| you | would true |
| he;she;it | would true |
| we | would true |
| you | would true |
| they | would true |
Perfect
| I | would have trued |
| you | would have trued |
| he;she;it | would have trued |
| we | would have trued |
| you | would have trued |
| they | would have trued |
Imperative
| you | true |
| we | Let's true |
| you | true |
Verbs conjugated like 'true'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'true'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English treowe, trew, trewe, triwe, true, trwe, from Old English trēowe, trīewe (“faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“faithful, true”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewH- (“firm, hard, true”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Alemannic German trüüw (“loyal”), Dutch trouw (“loyal, true”), German treu (“loyal, true”), Luxembourgish trei (“loyal”), Danish tryg (“safe, secure”), Faroese and Icelandic tryggur (“faithful, loyal; safe”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true; faithful, loyal”); also Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
Sample Sentences
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He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
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Don't attempt to true a wheel until you've a good idea what is causing the buckle. [2013, Guy Andrews, Complete Road Bike Maintenance, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 54:]
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We spent all night truing up the report.