drone – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of drone

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to drone
Participle: droned
Gerund: droning

Cognates

See the 4 cognates of drone

Indicative

Present

Idrone
youdrone
he;she;itdrones
wedrone
youdrone
theydrone

Perfect

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

Past

Idroned
youdroned
he;she;itdroned
wedroned
youdroned
theydroned

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Idrone
youdrone
he;she;itdrone
wedrone
youdrone
theydrone

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Idroned
youdroned
he;she;itdroned
wedroned
youdroned
theydroned

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youdrone
weLet's drone
youdrone

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs similar to 'drone'

drove, grone, atone, bone, brine, brode, broke, bronze, clone, cone,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to make a protracted, often monotonous, vibration sound
bombinate, buzz, hum, thrum, whirr, whizz

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tărtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone”), Slovak trúd (“drone”), Slovene trot (“drone”).
4. The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Droane', Swedish 'drönare'.

Verbs referencing "drone"

Latin drenso, Proto-Germanic drunjaną.

Sample Sentences

  • "I have a lot of advice for him," Ayers said in the interview, aired Tuesday night. "I want him to stop droning people. I want him to close Guantanamo. I want universal healthcare. Don't you think we deserve universal healthcare? Seriously." [2014, Colin Campbell, “Bill Ayers To Obama: 'Stop Droning People'”, in Business Insider:]
  • “He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.” [2016, David Moye, “Trevor Noah: If Trump Is Elected, He’ll Wage ‘Warsuits’”, in Huffington Post:]
  • “Are we still droning people? Yeah,” he said. “Are we still running covert operations that weren’t authorized by Congress? Yeah. Is the government still spying on Americans without warrants? Without due process. Yeah. When some libertarians talk about the great accomplishments we’re seeing on foreign policy, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Reaching out to these guys is one thing, but you have to move down the court. [Trump] actually made it harder for us to have a good relationship with Russia.” [2018, David Weigel, “The new ‘Dr. No’: Rep. Justin Amash, marooned in Congress”, in Washington Post:]
  • Even Yemen's Houthi rebels can fuel global inflation by droning ships. [2025 June 28, Simon Kuper, “How war became contagious”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:]