Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to staff
Participle: staffed
Gerund: staffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | staff |
| you | staff |
| he;she;it | staffs |
| we | staff |
| you | staff |
| they | staff |
Perfect
| I | have staffed |
| you | have staffed |
| he;she;it | has staffed |
| we | have staffed |
| you | have staffed |
| they | have staffed |
Past
| I | staffed |
| you | staffed |
| he;she;it | staffed |
| we | staffed |
| you | staffed |
| they | staffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had staffed |
| you | had staffed |
| he;she;it | had staffed |
| we | had staffed |
| you | had staffed |
| they | had staffed |
Future
| I | will staff |
| you | will staff |
| he;she;it | will staff |
| we | will staff |
| you | will staff |
| they | will staff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have staffed |
| you | will have staffed |
| he;she;it | will have staffed |
| we | will have staffed |
| you | will have staffed |
| they | will have staffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | staff |
| you | staff |
| he;she;it | staff |
| we | staff |
| you | staff |
| they | staff |
Perfect
| I | have staffed |
| you | have staffed |
| he;she;it | have staffed |
| we | have staffed |
| you | have staffed |
| they | have staffed |
Imperfect
| I | staffed |
| you | staffed |
| he;she;it | staffed |
| we | staffed |
| you | staffed |
| they | staffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had staffed |
| you | had staffed |
| he;she;it | had staffed |
| we | had staffed |
| you | had staffed |
| they | had staffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would staff |
| you | would staff |
| he;she;it | would staff |
| we | would staff |
| you | would staff |
| they | would staff |
Perfect
| I | would have staffed |
| you | would have staffed |
| he;she;it | would have staffed |
| we | would have staffed |
| you | would have staffed |
| they | would have staffed |
Imperative
| you | staff |
| we | Let's staff |
| you | staff |
Verbs conjugated like 'staff'
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 'staff'
spaff,
stiff,
stuff,
baff,
chaff,
daff,
destaff,
faff,
gaff,
graff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Danish stav, Swedish stav.
2. Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.
Sample Sentences
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Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group. [1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:]