tail – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to tail away
Participle: tailed away
Gerund: tailing away

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

I	tail away
you	tail away
he;she;it	tails away
we	tail away
you	tail away
they	tail away

Perfect

I	have tailed away
you	have tailed away
he;she;it	has tailed away
we	have tailed away
you	have tailed away
they	have tailed away

Past

I	tailed away
you	tailed away
he;she;it	tailed away
we	tailed away
you	tailed away
they	tailed away

Pluperfect

I	had tailed away
you	had tailed away
he;she;it	had tailed away
we	had tailed away
you	had tailed away
they	had tailed away

Future

I	will tail away
you	will tail away
he;she;it	will tail away
we	will tail away
you	will tail away
they	will tail away

Future Perfect

I	will have tailed away
you	will have tailed away
he;she;it	will have tailed away
we	will have tailed away
you	will have tailed away
they	will have tailed away

Subjunctive

Present

I	tail away
you	tail away
he;she;it	tail away
we	tail away
you	tail away
they	tail away

Perfect

I	have tailed away
you	have tailed away
he;she;it	have tailed away
we	have tailed away
you	have tailed away
they	have tailed away

Imperfect

I	tailed away
you	tailed away
he;she;it	tailed away
we	tailed away
you	tailed away
they	tailed away

Pluperfect

I	had tailed away
you	had tailed away
he;she;it	had tailed away
we	had tailed away
you	had tailed away
they	had tailed away

Conditional

Present

I	would tail away
you	would tail away
he;she;it	would tail away
we	would tail away
you	would tail away
they	would tail away

Perfect

I	would have tailed away
you	would have tailed away
he;she;it	would have tailed away
we	would have tailed away
you	would have tailed away
they	would have tailed away

Imperative

you	tail away
we	Let's tail away
you	tail away

Indicative

Present

I	am tailing away
you	are tailing away
he;she;it	is tailing away
we	are tailing away
you	are tailing away
they	are tailing away

Perfect

I	have been tailing away
you	have been tailing away
he;she;it	has been tailing away
we	have been tailing away
you	have been tailing away
they	have been tailing away

Past

I	was tailing away
you	were tailing away
he;she;it	was tailing away
we	were tailing away
you	were tailing away
they	were tailing away

Pluperfect

I	had been tailing away
you	had been tailing away
he;she;it	had been tailing away
we	had been tailing away
you	had been tailing away
they	had been tailing away

Future

I	will be tailing away
you	will be tailing away
he;she;it	will be tailing away
we	will be tailing away
you	will be tailing away
they	will be tailing away

Future Perfect

I	will have been tailing away
you	will have been tailing away
he;she;it	will have been tailing away
we	will have been tailing away
you	will have been tailing away
they	will have been tailing away

Conditional

Present

I	would be tailing away
you	would be tailing away
he;she;it	would be tailing away
we	would be tailing away
you	would be tailing away
they	would be tailing away

Perfect

I	would have been tailing away
you	would have been tailing away
he;she;it	would have been tailing away
we	would have been tailing away
you	would have been tailing away
they	would have been tailing away

Verbs conjugated like 'tail'

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 'tail'

ail, bail, fail, hail, jail, mail, nail, rail, sail, toil,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

~ away, ~ off, ~ back,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *taglą
3. Proto-West Germanic *tagl
4. Old English tæġl
5. Middle English tayl
6. English tail
7. From Middle English tail, taile, taille, tayil, tayl, tayle, tayll, teil, tæȝel, from Old English tæġel, tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”).
8. Cognates
9. Cognate with German Zagel (“tail”), Danish, Faroese, and Icelandic tagl (“tail”), Swedish tagel (“horsehair”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”); also Serbo-Croatian дла̏ка, dlȁka (“single hair”), Slovene dlaka (“single hair”), Northern Kurdish dezî (“cotton, thread”), Sanskrit दशा (daśā, “border, fringe, hem”).
10. In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

Verbs referencing "tail"

Irish dual.

Sample Sentences

This vessel tails downstream.
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
Tail that car!
The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid,
First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]

tail – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of tail

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'tail'

Verbs similar to 'tail'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "tail"

Sample Sentences