tail – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

you	tail back
we	Let's tail back
you	tail back

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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