peg – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of peg

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to peg
Participle: pegged
Gerund: pegging

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ipeg
youpeg
he;she;itpegs
wepeg
youpeg
theypeg

Perfect

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

Past

Ipegged
youpegged
he;she;itpegged
wepegged
youpegged
theypegged

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Ipeg
youpeg
he;she;itpeg
wepeg
youpeg
theypeg

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Ipegged
youpegged
he;she;itpegged
wepegged
youpegged
theypegged

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youpeg
weLet's peg
youpeg

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'peg'

abet, abhor, abut, acquit, admit, affrap, allot, alum, amel, amit, anagram, anvil, apparel, aret, arret, assot, astun, attrap, augur, avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'peg'

beg, deg, geg, keg, leg, neg, pee, pen, pep, pet,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to identify by or divide into classes
brand, categorize, classify, compartmentalise, distribute, divide, estimate, evaluate, gauge, judge, label, measure, pigeonhole, sort, subdivide
fasten
tighten, secure, clinch, drive, insert, imbed, join

Antonyms

fasten
unfasten, loosen, loose, release

Additional Information

Etymology

1. From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
2. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.
3. (To indicate or ascribe an attribute to): Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list. See: Irish 'bac'.

Sample Sentences

  • Let's peg the rug to the floor.
  • I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
  • She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
  • China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.
  • Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law. [2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:]
  • He's been pegged as a suspect.
  • I pegged his weight at 165.
  • Bolan pegged his weight somewhere around 150 pounds. If he was armed, the weapon wasn't showing. Still, the Executioner would take no chances. [1997, Don Pendletone, Patriot Gambit, page 84:]
  • You got me pegged wrong, Captain. [2015 November 23, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, “Dulcinea”, in The Expanse, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Jim Holden (Steven Strait):]
  • The man had me pegged—I was already planning to visit the next day, having received a similar tip from multiple friends. [2026 June 26, Katie Thornton, “Love Language: The undying dream of Esperanto”, in Harper's Magazine, →ISSN:]
  • She pegged twelve points.
  • We pegged the speedometer across the flats.
  • When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […] [2007, Violet Blue, The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex, →ISBN, page 32:]
  • For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […] [1911, William Montgomerie Lamont, Volunteer memories, page 160:]
  • I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me. [2014, Robert Newman, The Case of the Somerville Secret:]