thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youthin out
weLet's thin out
youthin out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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:]