plight – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of plight

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to plight
Participle: plighted
Gerund: plighting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iplight
youplight
he;she;itplights
weplight
youplight
theyplight

Perfect

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

Past

Iplighted
youplighted
he;she;itplighted
weplighted
youplighted
theyplighted

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Iplight
youplight
he;she;itplight
weplight
youplight
theyplight

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Iplighted
youplighted
he;she;itplighted
weplighted
youplighted
theyplighted

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youplight
weLet's plight
youplight

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'plight'

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 'plight'

alight, blight, flight, light, plyght, slight, uplight, adight, aright, belight,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

pledge
engage, hypothecate, propose

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "pledge," obsolete except in archaic plight one's troth, from O.E. pligtan "endanger," verb form of pliht "danger, risk," from P.Gmc. *pleg- (cf. O.E. pleon "to risk the loss of, expose to danger," O.Fris., M.Du. plicht "care, carefulness," O.H.G. pfliht, Ger. pflicht "obligation, duty," M.Du. plien "to answer for, guarantee").
2. From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge. See: Scots 'plicht'.

Sample Sentences

  • "Travel shall I and woo;
  • Plight me shall I a flower;
  • Try shall I my sword so good,
  • To my weal or my woe in the stour." [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 170:]
  • I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal. [1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 226:]