Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to femsplain
Participle: femsplained
Gerund: femsplaining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | femsplain |
| you | femsplain |
| he;she;it | femsplains |
| we | femsplain |
| you | femsplain |
| they | femsplain |
Perfect
| I | have femsplained |
| you | have femsplained |
| he;she;it | has femsplained |
| we | have femsplained |
| you | have femsplained |
| they | have femsplained |
Past
| I | femsplained |
| you | femsplained |
| he;she;it | femsplained |
| we | femsplained |
| you | femsplained |
| they | femsplained |
Pluperfect
| I | had femsplained |
| you | had femsplained |
| he;she;it | had femsplained |
| we | had femsplained |
| you | had femsplained |
| they | had femsplained |
Future
| I | will femsplain |
| you | will femsplain |
| he;she;it | will femsplain |
| we | will femsplain |
| you | will femsplain |
| they | will femsplain |
Future Perfect
| I | will have femsplained |
| you | will have femsplained |
| he;she;it | will have femsplained |
| we | will have femsplained |
| you | will have femsplained |
| they | will have femsplained |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | femsplain |
| you | femsplain |
| he;she;it | femsplain |
| we | femsplain |
| you | femsplain |
| they | femsplain |
Perfect
| I | have femsplained |
| you | have femsplained |
| he;she;it | have femsplained |
| we | have femsplained |
| you | have femsplained |
| they | have femsplained |
Imperfect
| I | femsplained |
| you | femsplained |
| he;she;it | femsplained |
| we | femsplained |
| you | femsplained |
| they | femsplained |
Pluperfect
| I | had femsplained |
| you | had femsplained |
| he;she;it | had femsplained |
| we | had femsplained |
| you | had femsplained |
| they | had femsplained |
Conditional
Present
| I | would femsplain |
| you | would femsplain |
| he;she;it | would femsplain |
| we | would femsplain |
| you | would femsplain |
| they | would femsplain |
Perfect
| I | would have femsplained |
| you | would have femsplained |
| he;she;it | would have femsplained |
| we | would have femsplained |
| you | would have femsplained |
| they | would have femsplained |
Imperative
| you | femsplain |
| we | Let's femsplain |
| you | femsplain |
Verbs conjugated like 'femsplain'
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 'femsplain'
momsplain,
complain,
explain,
mansplain,
reexplain,
splain,
besplash,
bestain,
despair,
despawn,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From feminist + -splain. Compare mansplain, womansplaining.
Sample Sentences
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Don't try to reinvent what the Internet has already done. Did I femsplain it sufficiently? [2015 January 12, “Is it 'lady lecturing' or 'femsplaining'?”, in Los Angeles Times:]
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When you femsplain feminism to your friends, make sure you don't femsplain what's wrong with other women; rather, femsplain what's right about you. [2016, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!, →ISBN:]
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After about an hour and a half of frustratedly rubbing his temples, struggling to exist in a world he doesn't understand, Glen sits on a couch alongside his daughter's friend Zasha, who femsplains to him that "we're all perverts." Girls are just attracted to older guys, she says as his mouth goes limp. [2017 November 9, Georgia S. Kaufman, “I Hate You, I Love You, Daddy: Thoughts on the Louis CK Movie You May Never Get to See”, in The Stranger:]
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I'm sure I, and the 99.999999% of men in this country who have never, would never, will never rape or harm a woman, need it. You've heard of mansplaining, right? When a man tries to explain rape/sexual assault/etc. to a female rape survivor? Okay, well you're femsplaining rape to a male rape survivor. [2014 June 6, Robin Wilson, “Why Colleges Are on the Hook for Sexual Assault”, in Chronicle of Higher Education:]
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Yet, it wasn't until Tuesday night's The Daily Show that we learned of a biological struggle that men have when they become parents: dad bods. Women's issues correspondent Kristen Schaal femsplained the fad. [2015 May 13, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, “'The Daily Show' Skewers the Dad Bod as a Lazy Double Standard”, in Take Part:]