Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tong
Participle: tonged
Gerund: tonging
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | tong |
| you | tong |
| he;she;it | tongs |
| we | tong |
| you | tong |
| they | tong |
Perfect
| I | have tonged |
| you | have tonged |
| he;she;it | has tonged |
| we | have tonged |
| you | have tonged |
| they | have tonged |
Past
| I | tonged |
| you | tonged |
| he;she;it | tonged |
| we | tonged |
| you | tonged |
| they | tonged |
Pluperfect
| I | had tonged |
| you | had tonged |
| he;she;it | had tonged |
| we | had tonged |
| you | had tonged |
| they | had tonged |
Future
| I | will tong |
| you | will tong |
| he;she;it | will tong |
| we | will tong |
| you | will tong |
| they | will tong |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tonged |
| you | will have tonged |
| he;she;it | will have tonged |
| we | will have tonged |
| you | will have tonged |
| they | will have tonged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tong |
| you | tong |
| he;she;it | tong |
| we | tong |
| you | tong |
| they | tong |
Perfect
| I | have tonged |
| you | have tonged |
| he;she;it | have tonged |
| we | have tonged |
| you | have tonged |
| they | have tonged |
Imperfect
| I | tonged |
| you | tonged |
| he;she;it | tonged |
| we | tonged |
| you | tonged |
| they | tonged |
Pluperfect
| I | had tonged |
| you | had tonged |
| he;she;it | had tonged |
| we | had tonged |
| you | had tonged |
| they | had tonged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tong |
| you | would tong |
| he;she;it | would tong |
| we | would tong |
| you | would tong |
| they | would tong |
Perfect
| I | would have tonged |
| you | would have tonged |
| he;she;it | would have tonged |
| we | would have tonged |
| you | would have tonged |
| they | would have tonged |
Imperative
| you | tong |
| we | Let's tong |
| you | tong |
Verbs conjugated like 'tong'
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 'tong'
bong,
dong,
gong,
hong,
long,
pong,
tang,
ting,
tog,
tone,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”). See: Sanskrit '
दशति'.
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