thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youthin down sth
weLet's thin down sth
youthin down sth

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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:]