Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to belong
Participle: belonged
Gerund: belonging
Indicative
Present
| I | belong |
| you | belong |
| he;she;it | belongs |
| we | belong |
| you | belong |
| they | belong |
Perfect
| I | have belonged |
| you | have belonged |
| he;she;it | has belonged |
| we | have belonged |
| you | have belonged |
| they | have belonged |
Past
| I | belonged |
| you | belonged |
| he;she;it | belonged |
| we | belonged |
| you | belonged |
| they | belonged |
Pluperfect
| I | had belonged |
| you | had belonged |
| he;she;it | had belonged |
| we | had belonged |
| you | had belonged |
| they | had belonged |
Future
| I | will belong |
| you | will belong |
| he;she;it | will belong |
| we | will belong |
| you | will belong |
| they | will belong |
Future Perfect
| I | will have belonged |
| you | will have belonged |
| he;she;it | will have belonged |
| we | will have belonged |
| you | will have belonged |
| they | will have belonged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | belong |
| you | belong |
| he;she;it | belong |
| we | belong |
| you | belong |
| they | belong |
Perfect
| I | have belonged |
| you | have belonged |
| he;she;it | have belonged |
| we | have belonged |
| you | have belonged |
| they | have belonged |
Imperfect
| I | belonged |
| you | belonged |
| he;she;it | belonged |
| we | belonged |
| you | belonged |
| they | belonged |
Pluperfect
| I | had belonged |
| you | had belonged |
| he;she;it | had belonged |
| we | had belonged |
| you | had belonged |
| they | had belonged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would belong |
| you | would belong |
| he;she;it | would belong |
| we | would belong |
| you | would belong |
| they | would belong |
Perfect
| I | would have belonged |
| you | would have belonged |
| he;she;it | would have belonged |
| we | would have belonged |
| you | would have belonged |
| they | would have belonged |
Imperative
| you | belong |
| we | Let's belong |
| you | belong |
Verbs conjugated like 'belong'
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 'belong'
elong,
bebang,
beclog,
bedog,
bedung,
befang,
befog,
beload,
belock,
belook,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
6. Proto-Germanic *bider.
7. Proto-Germanic *bi-
8. Proto-West Germanic *bi-
9. Old English be-
10. Middle English be-
11. Proto-Germanic *langōną
12. Proto-West Germanic *langōn
13. Old English langian
14. Middle English longen
15. Middle English belongen
16. English belong
17. From Middle English belongen, bilongen, from Middle English be- + longen (“to be fitting, be suitable”), from Old English langian (“to pertain to, suit”), equivalent to be- + long (“to belong”). Compare Saterland Frisian beloangje (“to attain, reach, meet”), Dutch belangen (“to concern”), German belangen (“to sue, concern”). See: Old English '
langian', Frisian, Saterlandic 'beloangje', Dutch '
belangen', German, old spelling '
belangen'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow—the shadow of _law_. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many _things_ belonging to a master,—so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] are admitted gratuitously. Those from the adjoining state of Connecticut, or from the states of Maine, Vermont, or New Hampshire, are admitted by a warrant from the state to which they respectively belong; or, failing that, must find security among their friends, for the payment of about twenty pounds English for their first year 's board and instruction, and ten for the second. ‘After the first [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] when she'd got her new berage made up; ” and how Mas’r Shelby was thinking of buying a new sorrel colt, that was going to prove an addition to the glories of the place. A few of the worshippers belonged to families hard by, who had got permission to attend, and who brought in various choice scraps of information, about the sayings and doings at the house and on the place, which circulated as freely [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] advancing to the fantastic figure with great politeness—not raising her suspicions by the slightest look or whisper, or any kind of aside, to me: ‘This lady is the hostess of this mansion, sir. It belongs to her. Nobody else has anything whatever to do with it. It is a large establishment, as you see, and requires a great number of attendants. She lives, you observe, in the very first style. She [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to out of doors, will impress him half as strongly as the contemplation of the same persons in the same place and garb would, if they were occupied in some task, marked and degraded everywhere as belonging only to felons in jails. In an American state prison or house of correction, I found it difficult at first to persuade myself that I was really in a jail: a place of ignominious punishment and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There are several factories in Lowell, each of which belongs to what we should term a Company of Proprietors, but what they call in America a Corporation. I went over several of these; such as a woollen factory, a carpet factory, and a cotton factory: [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I was taken to these Institutions by water, in a boat belonging to the Island jail, and rowed by a crew of prisoners, who were dressed in a striped uniform of black and buff, in which they looked like faded tigers. They took me, by the same conveyance, to the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Yes, sir; I belonged to a man in Kentucky. ” “ Was he unkind to you ? ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Yes, but he belongs to another man. His master is real hard to him, and won't let him come to see me, hardly ever; and he's grown harder and harder upon us, and he threatens to sell him down south; — it's like I'll [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The tickets we have received on board the steamboat are marked No. 1, so we belong to coach No. 1. I throw my coat on the box, and hoist my wife and her maid into the inside. It has only one step, and that being about a yard from the ground, is usually approached by a chair: [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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You wanna know what'll make me hope? Your black ass in the electric chair where you belong.
(Predatory Behavior)
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This right here, this is where I belong. Let's go win this thing.
(Home Turf)