Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to amount
Participle: amounted
Gerund: amounting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | amount |
| you | amount |
| he;she;it | amounts |
| we | amount |
| you | amount |
| they | amount |
Perfect
| I | have amounted |
| you | have amounted |
| he;she;it | has amounted |
| we | have amounted |
| you | have amounted |
| they | have amounted |
Past
| I | amounted |
| you | amounted |
| he;she;it | amounted |
| we | amounted |
| you | amounted |
| they | amounted |
Pluperfect
| I | had amounted |
| you | had amounted |
| he;she;it | had amounted |
| we | had amounted |
| you | had amounted |
| they | had amounted |
Future
| I | will amount |
| you | will amount |
| he;she;it | will amount |
| we | will amount |
| you | will amount |
| they | will amount |
Future Perfect
| I | will have amounted |
| you | will have amounted |
| he;she;it | will have amounted |
| we | will have amounted |
| you | will have amounted |
| they | will have amounted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | amount |
| you | amount |
| he;she;it | amount |
| we | amount |
| you | amount |
| they | amount |
Perfect
| I | have amounted |
| you | have amounted |
| he;she;it | have amounted |
| we | have amounted |
| you | have amounted |
| they | have amounted |
Imperfect
| I | amounted |
| you | amounted |
| he;she;it | amounted |
| we | amounted |
| you | amounted |
| they | amounted |
Pluperfect
| I | had amounted |
| you | had amounted |
| he;she;it | had amounted |
| we | had amounted |
| you | had amounted |
| they | had amounted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would amount |
| you | would amount |
| he;she;it | would amount |
| we | would amount |
| you | would amount |
| they | would amount |
Perfect
| I | would have amounted |
| you | would have amounted |
| he;she;it | would have amounted |
| we | would have amounted |
| you | would have amounted |
| they | would have amounted |
Imperative
| you | amount |
| we | Let's amount |
| you | amount |
Verbs conjugated like 'amount'
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 'amount'
amound,
mount,
umount,
abound,
account,
adaunt,
anoint,
aroint,
aroynt,
avaunt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1250, "to go up, rise," from O.Fr.
amonter, from
à mont "upward," lit. "to the mountain," from L.
ad- "to" +
montem acc. sing. of "mountain." Meaning "to rise in number or quality (so as to reach)" is from c.1300. The noun is 1710, from the verb.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Latin ad
6. Old French a
7. Proto-Indo-European *men-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
9. Proto-Indo-European *móntis
10. Proto-Italic *monts
11. Latin mōns
12. Old French mont
13. Old French amont
14. Old French amonterbor.
15. Middle English amounten
16. English amount
17. From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”). See: Middle English '
amounten', Old French '
amonter'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] voters, or, the unimpeachable integrity of our independent members. Having withstood such strong attacks upon my fortitude, it is possible that I may be of a cold and insensible temperament, amounting to iciness, in such matters; and therefore my impressions of the live pillars of the Capitol at Washington must be received with such grains of allowance as this free confession may seem to demand.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] effect on me was disappointment. Looking towards the setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view, a vast expanse of level ground; unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounted to a scratch upon the great blank; until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip: mingling with its rich colours, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ‘We 're in for it; we 've got ’ em, and mean to keep ’ em,—it's for our convenience and our interest; ’ for that's the long and short of it,—that's just the whole of what all this sanctified stuff amounts to, after all; and I think that it will be intelligible to everybody, everywhere. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)