Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fawn
Participle: fawned
Gerund: fawning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fawn |
| you | fawn |
| he;she;it | fawns |
| we | fawn |
| you | fawn |
| they | fawn |
Perfect
| I | have fawned |
| you | have fawned |
| he;she;it | has fawned |
| we | have fawned |
| you | have fawned |
| they | have fawned |
Past
| I | fawned |
| you | fawned |
| he;she;it | fawned |
| we | fawned |
| you | fawned |
| they | fawned |
Pluperfect
| I | had fawned |
| you | had fawned |
| he;she;it | had fawned |
| we | had fawned |
| you | had fawned |
| they | had fawned |
Future
| I | will fawn |
| you | will fawn |
| he;she;it | will fawn |
| we | will fawn |
| you | will fawn |
| they | will fawn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fawned |
| you | will have fawned |
| he;she;it | will have fawned |
| we | will have fawned |
| you | will have fawned |
| they | will have fawned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fawn |
| you | fawn |
| he;she;it | fawn |
| we | fawn |
| you | fawn |
| they | fawn |
Perfect
| I | have fawned |
| you | have fawned |
| he;she;it | have fawned |
| we | have fawned |
| you | have fawned |
| they | have fawned |
Imperfect
| I | fawned |
| you | fawned |
| he;she;it | fawned |
| we | fawned |
| you | fawned |
| they | fawned |
Pluperfect
| I | had fawned |
| you | had fawned |
| he;she;it | had fawned |
| we | had fawned |
| you | had fawned |
| they | had fawned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fawn |
| you | would fawn |
| he;she;it | would fawn |
| we | would fawn |
| you | would fawn |
| they | would fawn |
Perfect
| I | would have fawned |
| you | would have fawned |
| he;she;it | would have fawned |
| we | would have fawned |
| you | would have fawned |
| they | would have fawned |
Imperative
| you | fawn |
| we | Let's fawn |
| you | fawn |
Verbs conjugated like 'fawn'
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 'fawn'
dawn,
fain,
fan,
jawn,
pawn,
tawn,
yawn,
awe,
aww,
ban,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.
Sample Sentences
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You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. [1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, book 1:]
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courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
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That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]