deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to deal with
Participle: dealt with
Gerund: dealing with

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

Ideal with
youdeal with
he;she;itdeals with
wedeal with
youdeal with
theydeal with

Perfect

Ihave dealt with
youhave dealt with
he;she;ithas dealt with
wehave dealt with
youhave dealt with
theyhave dealt with

Past

Idealt with
youdealt with
he;she;itdealt with
wedealt with
youdealt with
theydealt with

Pluperfect

Ihad dealt with
youhad dealt with
he;she;ithad dealt with
wehad dealt with
youhad dealt with
theyhad dealt with

Future

Iwill deal with
youwill deal with
he;she;itwill deal with
wewill deal with
youwill deal with
theywill deal with

Future Perfect

Iwill have dealt with
youwill have dealt with
he;she;itwill have dealt with
wewill have dealt with
youwill have dealt with
theywill have dealt with

Subjunctive

Present

Ideal with
youdeal with
he;she;itdeal with
wedeal with
youdeal with
theydeal with

Perfect

Ihave dealt with
youhave dealt with
he;she;ithave dealt with
wehave dealt with
youhave dealt with
theyhave dealt with

Imperfect

Idealt with
youdealt with
he;she;itdealt with
wedealt with
youdealt with
theydealt with

Pluperfect

Ihad dealt with
youhad dealt with
he;she;ithad dealt with
wehad dealt with
youhad dealt with
theyhad dealt with

Conditional

Present

Iwould deal with
youwould deal with
he;she;itwould deal with
wewould deal with
youwould deal with
theywould deal with

Perfect

Iwould have dealt with
youwould have dealt with
he;she;itwould have dealt with
wewould have dealt with
youwould have dealt with
theywould have dealt with

Imperative

youdeal with
weLet's deal with
youdeal with

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam dealing with
youare dealing with
he;she;itis dealing with
weare dealing with
youare dealing with
theyare dealing with

Perfect

Ihave been dealing with
youhave been dealing with
he;she;ithas been dealing with
wehave been dealing with
youhave been dealing with
theyhave been dealing with

Past

Iwas dealing with
youwere dealing with
he;she;itwas dealing with
wewere dealing with
youwere dealing with
theywere dealing with

Pluperfect

Ihad been dealing with
youhad been dealing with
he;she;ithad been dealing with
wehad been dealing with
youhad been dealing with
theyhad been dealing with

Future

Iwill be dealing with
youwill be dealing with
he;she;itwill be dealing with
wewill be dealing with
youwill be dealing with
theywill be dealing with

Future Perfect

Iwill have been dealing with
youwill have been dealing with
he;she;itwill have been dealing with
wewill have been dealing with
youwill have been dealing with
theywill have been dealing with

Conditional

Present

Iwould be dealing with
youwould be dealing with
he;she;itwould be dealing with
wewould be dealing with
youwould be dealing with
theywould be dealing with

Perfect

Iwould have been dealing with
youwould have been dealing with
he;she;itwould have been dealing with
wewould have been dealing with
youwould have been dealing with
theywould have been dealing with

Other

Verbs similar to 'deal'

beal, dead, deaf, dean, dear, decal, dial, feal, geal, heal,

Additional Information

Cf. Old English weak verbs dǣlan (deal), lǣfan (leave) and mǣnan (mean).

Etymology

1. from O.E. dæl "part, share, quantity," and its verbal derivative dælan "to divide," from P.Gmc. *dailaz; also found in Balto-Slavic (cf. O.C.S. delu "part," Lith. dalis). Meaning "to distribute cards before a game" is from 1529; business sense is 1837, originally slang. Meaning "an amount" is from 1562. New Deal is from F.D. Roosevelt speech of July 1932. Big deal is 1928; ironic use first recorded 1951 in "Catcher in the Rye." To deal with "handle" is attested from 1469. Dealership is from 1916.
2. From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoh₁-i-l- (“part, watershed”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ). See: Middle English 'delen', Proto-Germanic '*dailijaną', Dutch 'delen', German, old spelling 'teilen', Swedish 'dela', Lithuanian 'dalinti', Russian 'дели́ть'.

Verbs referencing "deal"

French dealer, Dutch dealen, German, old spelling dealen, Icelandic deila, Dutch delen, German, old spelling teilen, Danish dele, Russian делить, Scots Gaelic dèilig, Luxembourgish deelen, Welsh delio.

Sample Sentences

  • Every patient in this asylum sits down to dinner every day with a knife and fork; and in the midst of them sits the gentleman, whose manner of dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but amusements ? Not vapid, waterish amusements, but good strong stuff; dealing in round abuse and blackguard names; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain; pimping and pandering for all degrees of vicious taste, and gorging with coined lies [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] there six years, and was to remain, I think, three more. He had been convicted as a receiver of stolen goods, but even after his long imprisonment, denied his guilt, and said he had been hardly dealt by. It was his second offence. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding ? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [ 1 ] Gen. 16. The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • I saw in this place the whole process of picking, rolling, pressing, drying, packing in casks, and branding. All the tobacco thus dealt with, was in course of manufacture for chewing; and one would have supposed there was enough in that one storehouse to have filled even the comprehensive jaws of America. In this form, the weed [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] beforehand or avoid. All that night, the bell was never silent for five minutes at a time; and after every ring the vessel reeled again, sometimes beneath a single blow, sometimes beneath a dozen dealt in quick succession, the lightest of which seemed more than enough to beat in her frail keel, as though it had been pie-crust. Looking down upon the filthy river after dark, it seemed to be alive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] who wanted the appointment to vest in his own brother. In the course of debate, the deceased made some statements which Vinyard pronounced false, and made use of violent and insulting language, dealing largely in personalities, to which Mr. A. made no reply. After the adjournment, Mr. A. stepped up to Vinyard, and requested him to retract, which he refused to do, repeating the offensive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Dear papa ! ” said Eva. “ _I cannot_, ” said St. Clare, rising, “ I _cannot_ have it so ! The Almighty hath dealt _very bitterly_ with me ! ” and St. Clare pronounced these words with a bitter emphasis, indeed. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ Never fear that ! ” said the first. “ If I get ’ em, I'll soon have their airs out of them; they'll soon find that they 've another kind of master to deal with than Monsieur St. Clare. ’ Pon my word, I'll buy that fellow. I like the shape of him. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)