Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sward
Participle: swarded
Gerund: swarding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sward |
| you | sward |
| he;she;it | swards |
| we | sward |
| you | sward |
| they | sward |
Perfect
| I | have swarded |
| you | have swarded |
| he;she;it | has swarded |
| we | have swarded |
| you | have swarded |
| they | have swarded |
Past
| I | swarded |
| you | swarded |
| he;she;it | swarded |
| we | swarded |
| you | swarded |
| they | swarded |
Pluperfect
| I | had swarded |
| you | had swarded |
| he;she;it | had swarded |
| we | had swarded |
| you | had swarded |
| they | had swarded |
Future
| I | will sward |
| you | will sward |
| he;she;it | will sward |
| we | will sward |
| you | will sward |
| they | will sward |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swarded |
| you | will have swarded |
| he;she;it | will have swarded |
| we | will have swarded |
| you | will have swarded |
| they | will have swarded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sward |
| you | sward |
| he;she;it | sward |
| we | sward |
| you | sward |
| they | sward |
Perfect
| I | have swarded |
| you | have swarded |
| he;she;it | have swarded |
| we | have swarded |
| you | have swarded |
| they | have swarded |
Imperfect
| I | swarded |
| you | swarded |
| he;she;it | swarded |
| we | swarded |
| you | swarded |
| they | swarded |
Pluperfect
| I | had swarded |
| you | had swarded |
| he;she;it | had swarded |
| we | had swarded |
| you | had swarded |
| they | had swarded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sward |
| you | would sward |
| he;she;it | would sward |
| we | would sward |
| you | would sward |
| they | would sward |
Perfect
| I | would have swarded |
| you | would have swarded |
| he;she;it | would have swarded |
| we | would have swarded |
| you | would have swarded |
| they | would have swarded |
Imperative
| you | sward |
| we | Let's sward |
| you | sward |
Verbs conjugated like 'sward'
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 'sward'
award,
sard,
shard,
swarf,
swarm,
swart,
ward,
adward,
awarn,
bard,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Middle English swerd, sward (“rind, skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown.
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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[Land...] will not sward again […] [1644, Gabriel Plattes, in a letter in Hartlib's Legacy (1655), page 236]
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[…] for the ground immediately after corn is many years before it swards, and […] [1765, Thomas Hamilton Haddington, A Short Treatise on Forest-trees, page 45:]
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... with soil of a similar character, several fields have been laid down and ploughed up again under the old plea that they will not sward. [1891, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Professional Notes, volume 5, page 256:]