chip – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of chip

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to chip
Participle: chipped
Gerund: chipping

Cognates

See the 4 cognates of chip

Indicative

Present

Ichip
youchip
he;she;itchips
wechip
youchip
theychip

Perfect

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

Past

Ichipped
youchipped
he;she;itchipped
wechipped
youchipped
theychipped

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Ichip
youchip
he;she;itchip
wechip
youchip
theychip

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Ichipped
youchipped
he;she;itchipped
wechipped
youchipped
theychipped

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youchip
weLet's chip
youchip

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'chip'

abet, abhor, abut, acquit, admit, affrap, allot, alum, amel, amit, anagram, anvil, apparel, aret, arret, assot, astun, attrap, augur, avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'chip'

chap, chib, chig, chimp, chin, chirp, chit, chiv, chop, clip,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Etymology

1. O.E. forcippian "to pare away by cutting," v. form of cipp "small piece of wood," perhaps from PIE base *keipo- "sharp post" (cf. Du. kip "small strip of wood," L. cippus "post, stake, beam"). Sense of "break off fragments" is 18c. Noun meaning "counter used in a game of chance" is first recorded 1840. Electronics sense is from 1962. Meaning "piece of dried dung" first attested 1946. To chip in may come from card-playing. Potato chip is 1859. Chip of the old block is used by Milton (1642). To have a chip on one's shoulder is from at least 1820s, U.S., from the custom of a boy determined to fight putting a chip on his shoulder and defying another to knock it off. Chip in "contribute" is 1861, Amer.Eng.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Germanic *kippōną
4. Proto-West Germanic *kippōn
5. Old English *ċippiander.
6. Old English ċipp
7. Middle English chippe
8. English chip
9. Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
10. The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
11. Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above. See: Proto-Germanic '*kippōną', Dutch 'kippen', German, old spelling 'kipfen', Old Swedish 'kippa'.

Verbs referencing "chip"

Maltese xellef, Maltese ċċippja.

Sample Sentences

  • The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
  • Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on). [2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:]
  • Be careful not to chip the paint.
  • This varnish chips easily.
  • The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.
  • The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.
  • Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone. [2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:]
  • Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner. [2016 March 13, Andy Edwards, “VIDEO: San Jose’s Quincy Amarikwa chips, goes upper-90 from 35 yards out”, in NBCSports.com:]
  • In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.
  • Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection.
  • They chip me about giving that young judy the cross; but I dont care: I stand up to them proper, and tell them that if she hadnt a better right to it than they, she'd be where they are. [1923, George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan:]
  • That sounded a trivial message, but the man began to cry. 'That's her', he sobbed. 'She was always chipping me about my collars'. [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]