thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to thin down
Participle: thinned down
Gerund: thinning down

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ithin down
youthin down
he;she;itthins down
wethin down
youthin down
theythin down

Perfect

Ihave thinned down
youhave thinned down
he;she;ithas thinned down
wehave thinned down
youhave thinned down
theyhave thinned down

Past

Ithinned down
youthinned down
he;she;itthinned down
wethinned down
youthinned down
theythinned down

Pluperfect

Ihad thinned down
youhad thinned down
he;she;ithad thinned down
wehad thinned down
youhad thinned down
theyhad thinned down

Future

Iwill thin down
youwill thin down
he;she;itwill thin down
wewill thin down
youwill thin down
theywill thin down

Future Perfect

Iwill have thinned down
youwill have thinned down
he;she;itwill have thinned down
wewill have thinned down
youwill have thinned down
theywill have thinned down

Subjunctive

Present

Ithin down
youthin down
he;she;itthin down
wethin down
youthin down
theythin down

Perfect

Ihave thinned down
youhave thinned down
he;she;ithave thinned down
wehave thinned down
youhave thinned down
theyhave thinned down

Imperfect

Ithinned down
youthinned down
he;she;itthinned down
wethinned down
youthinned down
theythinned down

Pluperfect

Ihad thinned down
youhad thinned down
he;she;ithad thinned down
wehad thinned down
youhad thinned down
theyhad thinned down

Conditional

Present

Iwould thin down
youwould thin down
he;she;itwould thin down
wewould thin down
youwould thin down
theywould thin down

Perfect

Iwould have thinned down
youwould have thinned down
he;she;itwould have thinned down
wewould have thinned down
youwould have thinned down
theywould have thinned down

Imperative

youthin down
weLet's thin down
youthin down

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam thinning down
youare thinning down
he;she;itis thinning down
weare thinning down
youare thinning down
theyare thinning down

Perfect

Ihave been thinning down
youhave been thinning down
he;she;ithas been thinning down
wehave been thinning down
youhave been thinning down
theyhave been thinning down

Past

Iwas thinning down
youwere thinning down
he;she;itwas thinning down
wewere thinning down
youwere thinning down
theywere thinning down

Pluperfect

Ihad been thinning down
youhad been thinning down
he;she;ithad been thinning down
wehad been thinning down
youhad been thinning down
theyhad been thinning down

Future

Iwill be thinning down
youwill be thinning down
he;she;itwill be thinning down
wewill be thinning down
youwill be thinning down
theywill be thinning down

Future Perfect

Iwill have been thinning down
youwill have been thinning down
he;she;itwill have been thinning down
wewill have been thinning down
youwill have been thinning down
theywill have been thinning down

Conditional

Present

Iwould be thinning down
youwould be thinning down
he;she;itwould be thinning down
wewould be thinning down
youwould be thinning down
theywould be thinning down

Perfect

Iwould have been thinning down
youwould have been thinning down
he;she;itwould have been thinning down
wewould have been thinning down
youwould have been thinning down
theywould have been thinning down

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'thin'

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 'thin'

chin, shin, thig, thing, think, tin, twin, athink, bein, bin,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

dilute
weaken, diminish, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, expand

Antonyms

to make something more viscous
dilute, thicken, water down

Additional Information

Etymology

1. O.E. þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from P.Gmc. *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. W.Fris. ten, M.L.G. dunne, Du. dun, O.H.G. dunni, Ger. dünn, O.N. þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of base *ten- "stretch" (cf. L. tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
"These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre." [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]
The verb is from O.E. þynnian "to make thin" (cf. Ger. dünnen, Du. dunnen); intrans. sense of "to become less numerous" is attested from 1743; that of "to become thinner" is recorded from 1804. Thin-skinned is attested from 1598; the fig. sense of "touchy" is from 1680.
2. From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
3. Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous. See: Welsh 'tenau'.

Sample Sentences

  • Exhausted fathers thinned the blood,
  • You curse the legacy of pain;
  • Darling of an infected brood,
  • You feel disaster climb the vein. [1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:]
  • The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
  • So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal. [2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, page 3:]