amend – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of amend

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to amend
Participle: amended
Gerund: amending

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iamend
youamend
he;she;itamends
weamend
youamend
theyamend

Perfect

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

Past

Iamended
youamended
he;she;itamended
weamended
youamended
theyamended

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Iamend
youamend
he;she;itamend
weamend
youamend
theyamend

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Iamended
youamended
he;she;itamended
weamended
youamended
theyamended

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youamend
weLet's amend
youamend

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'amend'

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 'amend'

abend, amand, amen, amind, atend, emend, mend, aband, accend, addend,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to restore to a sound or good state
fix, make whole, put to rights, reform, repair
to make better
ameliorate, batten, better, enhance, improve, meliorate
to change the form or structure of
adapt, alter, change, convert, differentiate, innovate, metamorphose, modify, revamp, rework, transform, transmogrify, transume, variate, vary
correct
reform, improve, alter, revise, modify, mend

Antonyms

correct
incorrect, wrong, false, untrue

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1220, "to free from faults, rectify," from O.Fr. amender, from L. emendare "to correct, free from fault," from ex- "out" + menda "fault, blemish" (cognate with Skt. minda "physical blemish," O.Ir. mennar "stain, blemish," Welsh mann "sign, mark"). Supplanted in senses of "repair, cure" by its aphetic offspring mend (q.v.). Amendment "alteration of a writ or bill" (to remove its faults) is 1607. Amends, collective singular, is first recorded c.1314.
2. From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend. See: Old French 'amender', Latin 'ēmendō'.

Sample Sentences

  • Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;
  • Mar not the thing that cannot be amended. [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:]
  • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend. [1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:]
  • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended. [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:]
  • Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls
  • That stay his cure: their malady convinces
  • The great assay of art; but at his touch—
  • Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—
  • They presently amend. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
  • We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.
  • The following motions cannot be amended: [1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46:]
  • 1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,
  • It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]