Participles
| Present | būgende |
| Past | (ġe)bogen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | būge |
| 2nd sing. | bȳġst |
| 3rd sing. | bȳġþ |
| 1st plur. | būgaþ |
| 2nd plur. | būgaþ |
| 3rd plur. | būgaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | bēag; bēah |
| 2nd sing. | buge |
| 3rd sing. | bēag; bēah |
| 1st plur. | bugon |
| 2nd plur. | bugon |
| 3rd plur. | bugon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | būge |
| 2nd sing. | būge |
| 3rd sing. | būge |
| 1st plur. | būgen |
| 2nd plur. | būgen |
| 3rd plur. | būgen |
Past
| 1st sing. | buge |
| 2nd sing. | buge |
| 3rd sing. | buge |
| 1st plur. | bugen |
| 2nd plur. | bugen |
| 3rd plur. | bugen |
Imperative
| Singular | būg; būh |
| Plural | būgaþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'bugan'
bugan,
Verbs similar to 'bugan'
abugan,
began,
bigan,
buan,
bygan,
dugan,
sugan,
agan,
anbugan,
bacan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *beugan, with the diphthong analogically replaced by ū in the present stem, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą. Cognate with Old Saxon būgan, Old High German biogan, Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (biugan). See: Proto-Germanic '
*beuganą', Old High German 'biogan'.
Verbs referencing "bugan"
Scots
boo.
Sample Sentences
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c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 1:7 (Someone stronger is coming after me, who I'm unfit to bend down and untie the straps of his sandals.)
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c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Nativity of Our Lord"
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Hē wæs ācenned on þæs cāseres dagum þe wæs Octaviānus ġehāten, sē ġerȳmde Rōmāna rīċe tō þon swīðe þæt him eall middanġeard tō bēag. (He was born in the days of the emperor Octavian, who expanded the Roman Empire so much that the whole world bowed to him.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Ash-Wednesday"
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...þæt is būh fram yfele and dō gōd. (...'Turn from evil, and do good.')
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late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 14:3 (Isn't it better for us to turn back to Egypt?)
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c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"
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Sē þe fram Gode bȳġþ tō Dēofle, hē forlīest Godes ġiefe. (People who turn from God to the Devil, they lose God's grace.)
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 912 (Then King Edward traveled with some of his forces to Maldon in Essex, and encamped there while the fortifications were being built in Witham, and a good portion of the people submitted to him who had been living under Danish rule.)
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c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
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Þa, mid ðisum wordum, feollon swylce fylmena of his eagum, and he ðærrihte gesihðe underfeng, and to fulluhte bēah. (Then with these words there fell as it were films from his eyes, and he straightways received sight, and submitted to baptism.)
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c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 5:13 (The person who was healed didn't know who it was: Jesus had withdrawn from the crowd.)
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c. 1932, J. R. R. Tolkien, Old English version of the "Annals of Beleriand"
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Morgoþ mid þȳ þe lēoht ætīewde bēag on his dēopostan ġedelf, ac siþþan smiðode þǣr fela þinga dearnunga and sende forþ sweartne smīeċ. (Morgoth at the coming of the light withdrew into his deepest dungeons, but there he smithied many things in secret, and sent forth black smoke.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
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Nāst þū lā Geori þæt ūre godas swincað mid þē and ġit hī synd ġeþyldiġe þæt hī þe miltsion. Nū lǣre ic ðē swā swā lēofne sunu þæt ðū þæra cristenra lāre forlǣte mid ealle and tō mīnum rǣde hraðe ġebūge swā þæt ðū offriġe þām ārwurðan Appoline and þū mycelne wurðmynt miht swā beġitan. (Knowest thou not, O George, that our gods are striving with thee, and even yet they are patient, that they may pity thee; now I exhort thee, as a beloved son, that thou altogether quit the Christians' doctrine, and quickly incline to my counsel, so that thou sacrifice to the venerable Apollo, and thou mayest so obtain great honour.)
Cognates
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