Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sail
Participle: sailed
Gerund: sailing
Indicative
Present
| I | sail |
| you | sail |
| he;she;it | sails |
| we | sail |
| you | sail |
| they | sail |
Perfect
| I | have sailed |
| you | have sailed |
| he;she;it | has sailed |
| we | have sailed |
| you | have sailed |
| they | have sailed |
Past
| I | sailed |
| you | sailed |
| he;she;it | sailed |
| we | sailed |
| you | sailed |
| they | sailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had sailed |
| you | had sailed |
| he;she;it | had sailed |
| we | had sailed |
| you | had sailed |
| they | had sailed |
Future
| I | will sail |
| you | will sail |
| he;she;it | will sail |
| we | will sail |
| you | will sail |
| they | will sail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sailed |
| you | will have sailed |
| he;she;it | will have sailed |
| we | will have sailed |
| you | will have sailed |
| they | will have sailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sail |
| you | sail |
| he;she;it | sail |
| we | sail |
| you | sail |
| they | sail |
Perfect
| I | have sailed |
| you | have sailed |
| he;she;it | have sailed |
| we | have sailed |
| you | have sailed |
| they | have sailed |
Imperfect
| I | sailed |
| you | sailed |
| he;she;it | sailed |
| we | sailed |
| you | sailed |
| they | sailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had sailed |
| you | had sailed |
| he;she;it | had sailed |
| we | had sailed |
| you | had sailed |
| they | had sailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sail |
| you | would sail |
| he;she;it | would sail |
| we | would sail |
| you | would sail |
| they | would sail |
Perfect
| I | would have sailed |
| you | would have sailed |
| he;she;it | would have sailed |
| we | would have sailed |
| you | would have sailed |
| they | would have sailed |
Imperative
| you | sail |
| we | Let's sail |
| you | sail |
Verbs conjugated like 'sail'
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 'sail'
ail,
bail,
fail,
hail,
jail,
mail,
nail,
rail,
sain,
shail,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla. See: Low Saxon 'seilen', Dutch '
zeilen', German, old spelling '
segeln', Danish '
sejle', Swedish '
segla', Icelandic '
sigla'.
Verbs referencing "sail"
Tok Pisin sel, Norwegian, nynorsk
sigla, German, old spelling
segeln, Luxembourgish
seegelen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the captain would look in to communicate the state of the wind, the moral certainty of its changing to-morrow (the weather is always going to improve to-morrow, at sea ), the vessel 's rate of sailing, and so forth. Observations there were none to tell us of, for there was no sun to take them by. But a description of one day will serve for all the rest. Here it is.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] borne among the ship-carpenters, on one side whereof the steamboat Alcohol was represented bursting her boiler and exploding with a great crash, while upon the other, the good ship Temperance sailed away with a fair wind, to the heart 's content of the captain, crew, and passengers.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] meal, by inquiring where he supposed the Great Western (which left New York a week after us ) was now: and where he supposed the ‘Cunard ’ steam-packet was now: and what he thought of sailing vessels, as compared with steamships now: and so beset his life with pestilent attacks of that kind, that he too was obliged to affect despondency, for very peace and quietude.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The wind was very light on this same Monday morning, but it was still in the right quarter, and so, by slow degrees, we left Cape Clear behind, and sailed along within sight of the coast of Ireland. And how merry we all were, and how loyal to the George Washington, and how full of mutual congratulations, and how venturesome in predicting the exact [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] sail, while we, with every inch of canvas crowded on, dashed gaily past, and left her far behind. Towards evening, the weather turned hazy, with a drizzling rain; and soon became so thick, that we sailed, as it were, in a cloud. Still we swept onward like a phantom ship, and many an eager eye glanced up to where the Look-out on the mast kept watch for Holyhead.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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On mature deliberation, it was decided that the whole family should go, for some years, to France; whither they sailed, carrying Emmeline with them.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)