Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overstay
Participle: overstaid
Gerund: overstaying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overstay |
| you | overstay |
| he;she;it | overstays |
| we | overstay |
| you | overstay |
| they | overstay |
Perfect
| I | have overstaid |
| you | have overstaid |
| he;she;it | has overstaid |
| we | have overstaid |
| you | have overstaid |
| they | have overstaid |
Past
| I | overstaid |
| you | overstaid |
| he;she;it | overstaid |
| we | overstaid |
| you | overstaid |
| they | overstaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had overstaid |
| you | had overstaid |
| he;she;it | had overstaid |
| we | had overstaid |
| you | had overstaid |
| they | had overstaid |
Future
| I | will overstay |
| you | will overstay |
| he;she;it | will overstay |
| we | will overstay |
| you | will overstay |
| they | will overstay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overstaid |
| you | will have overstaid |
| he;she;it | will have overstaid |
| we | will have overstaid |
| you | will have overstaid |
| they | will have overstaid |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overstay |
| you | overstay |
| he;she;it | overstay |
| we | overstay |
| you | overstay |
| they | overstay |
Perfect
| I | have overstaid |
| you | have overstaid |
| he;she;it | have overstaid |
| we | have overstaid |
| you | have overstaid |
| they | have overstaid |
Imperfect
| I | overstaid |
| you | overstaid |
| he;she;it | overstaid |
| we | overstaid |
| you | overstaid |
| they | overstaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had overstaid |
| you | had overstaid |
| he;she;it | had overstaid |
| we | had overstaid |
| you | had overstaid |
| they | had overstaid |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overstay |
| you | would overstay |
| he;she;it | would overstay |
| we | would overstay |
| you | would overstay |
| they | would overstay |
Perfect
| I | would have overstaid |
| you | would have overstaid |
| he;she;it | would have overstaid |
| we | would have overstaid |
| you | would have overstaid |
| they | would have overstaid |
Imperative
| you | overstay |
| we | Let's overstay |
| you | overstay |
Verbs conjugated like 'overstay'
againsay,
appay,
assay,
belay,
enlay,
forelay,
foresay,
forlay,
forsay,
gainsay,
inlay,
interlay,
lay,
mislay,
mispay,
missay,
outlay,
outstay,
overlay,
overpay, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overstay'
oversay,
oversway,
overlay,
overpay,
overplay,
overseal,
overseam,
oversoak,
overspan,
overstack,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Germanic *uber
6. Old English ofer-
7. Middle English over-
8. English over-
9. English stay
10. English overstay
11. From over- + stay.
Sample Sentences
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He overstayed his welcome.
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"[H]e had overstayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety, if he was a day!" [1911, Bram Stoker, chapter 16, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 152:]
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office. [2022 August 24, Tassanee Vejpongsa, Grant Peck, “Thai court suspends PM Prayuth pending ruling on term limit”, in The Washington Post, retrieved 24 Aug 2022:]