Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to amate
Participle: amated
Gerund: amating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | amate |
| you | amate |
| he;she;it | amates |
| we | amate |
| you | amate |
| they | amate |
Perfect
| I | have amated |
| you | have amated |
| he;she;it | has amated |
| we | have amated |
| you | have amated |
| they | have amated |
Past
| I | amated |
| you | amated |
| he;she;it | amated |
| we | amated |
| you | amated |
| they | amated |
Pluperfect
| I | had amated |
| you | had amated |
| he;she;it | had amated |
| we | had amated |
| you | had amated |
| they | had amated |
Future
| I | will amate |
| you | will amate |
| he;she;it | will amate |
| we | will amate |
| you | will amate |
| they | will amate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have amated |
| you | will have amated |
| he;she;it | will have amated |
| we | will have amated |
| you | will have amated |
| they | will have amated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | amate |
| you | amate |
| he;she;it | amate |
| we | amate |
| you | amate |
| they | amate |
Perfect
| I | have amated |
| you | have amated |
| he;she;it | have amated |
| we | have amated |
| you | have amated |
| they | have amated |
Imperfect
| I | amated |
| you | amated |
| he;she;it | amated |
| we | amated |
| you | amated |
| they | amated |
Pluperfect
| I | had amated |
| you | had amated |
| he;she;it | had amated |
| we | had amated |
| you | had amated |
| they | had amated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would amate |
| you | would amate |
| he;she;it | would amate |
| we | would amate |
| you | would amate |
| they | would amate |
Perfect
| I | would have amated |
| you | would have amated |
| he;she;it | would have amated |
| we | would have amated |
| you | would have amated |
| they | would have amated |
Imperative
| you | amate |
| we | Let's amate |
| you | amate |
Verbs conjugated like 'amate'
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 'amate'
abate,
amaze,
mate,
abase,
ablate,
acuate,
acute,
adiate,
aerate,
amain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French amater, amatir.
Sample Sentences
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Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate? [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed. [1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii]
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The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true. [1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:]
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For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated. [, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230]
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Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate. [c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton:]