Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tag along
Participle: tagged along
Gerund: tagging along
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | tag along |
| you | tag along |
| he;she;it | tags along |
| we | tag along |
| you | tag along |
| they | tag along |
Perfect
| I | have tagged along |
| you | have tagged along |
| he;she;it | has tagged along |
| we | have tagged along |
| you | have tagged along |
| they | have tagged along |
Past
| I | tagged along |
| you | tagged along |
| he;she;it | tagged along |
| we | tagged along |
| you | tagged along |
| they | tagged along |
Pluperfect
| I | had tagged along |
| you | had tagged along |
| he;she;it | had tagged along |
| we | had tagged along |
| you | had tagged along |
| they | had tagged along |
Future
| I | will tag along |
| you | will tag along |
| he;she;it | will tag along |
| we | will tag along |
| you | will tag along |
| they | will tag along |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tagged along |
| you | will have tagged along |
| he;she;it | will have tagged along |
| we | will have tagged along |
| you | will have tagged along |
| they | will have tagged along |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tag along |
| you | tag along |
| he;she;it | tag along |
| we | tag along |
| you | tag along |
| they | tag along |
Perfect
| I | have tagged along |
| you | have tagged along |
| he;she;it | have tagged along |
| we | have tagged along |
| you | have tagged along |
| they | have tagged along |
Imperfect
| I | tagged along |
| you | tagged along |
| he;she;it | tagged along |
| we | tagged along |
| you | tagged along |
| they | tagged along |
Pluperfect
| I | had tagged along |
| you | had tagged along |
| he;she;it | had tagged along |
| we | had tagged along |
| you | had tagged along |
| they | had tagged along |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tag along |
| you | would tag along |
| he;she;it | would tag along |
| we | would tag along |
| you | would tag along |
| they | would tag along |
Perfect
| I | would have tagged along |
| you | would have tagged along |
| he;she;it | would have tagged along |
| we | would have tagged along |
| you | would have tagged along |
| they | would have tagged along |
Imperative
| you | tag along |
| we | Let's tag along |
| you | tag along |
Verbs conjugated like 'tag'
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 'tag'
bag,
dag,
fag,
gag,
hag,
jag,
lag,
mag,
nag,
rag,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- mark
- label, ticket, earmark, designate, identify, brand, dub, check
Antonyms
- mark
- ignore, omit, overlook, plainness
Additional Information
Etymology
1. "small hanging piece," 1402, perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. Norw.
tagg "point, prong," Swed.
tagg "prickle, thorn") cognate with tack (1). Meaning "label" is first recorded 1835; sense of "automobile license plate" is recorded from 1935, originally underworld slang. Meaning "an epithet, popular designation" is recorded from 1961, hence slang verb meaning "to write graffiti in public places" (1990). The verb meaning "to furnish with a tag" is from 1436. To
tag along is first recorded 1900.
2. From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.
Verbs referencing "tag"
French
tagger, Finnish with old forms
tagata, Thai
แท็ก, Macedonian
тагува.
Sample Sentences
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Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
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He really tagged that ball.
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Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
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He tagged the runner for the out.
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I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
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One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent. [2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:]
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A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case. [1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “By Courier”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:]
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He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. [1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:]
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His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word. [1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
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a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
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they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
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He keeps tagging my mobs and I miss out on all the drops.
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I can fight her for you, but you have to tag her if you want the achievement.