Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ret
Participle: retted
Gerund: retting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ret |
| you | ret |
| he;she;it | rets |
| we | ret |
| you | ret |
| they | ret |
Perfect
| I | have retted |
| you | have retted |
| he;she;it | has retted |
| we | have retted |
| you | have retted |
| they | have retted |
Past
| I | retted |
| you | retted |
| he;she;it | retted |
| we | retted |
| you | retted |
| they | retted |
Pluperfect
| I | had retted |
| you | had retted |
| he;she;it | had retted |
| we | had retted |
| you | had retted |
| they | had retted |
Future
| I | will ret |
| you | will ret |
| he;she;it | will ret |
| we | will ret |
| you | will ret |
| they | will ret |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retted |
| you | will have retted |
| he;she;it | will have retted |
| we | will have retted |
| you | will have retted |
| they | will have retted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ret |
| you | ret |
| he;she;it | ret |
| we | ret |
| you | ret |
| they | ret |
Perfect
| I | have retted |
| you | have retted |
| he;she;it | have retted |
| we | have retted |
| you | have retted |
| they | have retted |
Imperfect
| I | retted |
| you | retted |
| he;she;it | retted |
| we | retted |
| you | retted |
| they | retted |
Pluperfect
| I | had retted |
| you | had retted |
| he;she;it | had retted |
| we | had retted |
| you | had retted |
| they | had retted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ret |
| you | would ret |
| he;she;it | would ret |
| we | would ret |
| you | would ret |
| they | would ret |
Perfect
| I | would have retted |
| you | would have retted |
| he;she;it | would have retted |
| we | would have retted |
| you | would have retted |
| they | would have retted |
Imperative
| you | ret |
| we | Let's ret |
| you | ret |
Verbs conjugated like 'ret'
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 'ret'
aret,
bet,
fet,
fret,
get,
jet,
let,
net,
pet,
rat,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to soak," c.1440, probably from M.Du.
roten (or an unrecorded cognate O.N. word), related to O.E.
rotian "to rot" (see rot).
2. From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch rēten, reeten (compare Middle Low German rōten; Middle High German rōzen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot. See: Middle High German '
rōzen', Swedish '
röta'.
Sample Sentences
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the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […]. [1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVIII:]
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the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring [2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 621:]