thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

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

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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