Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to berth
Participle: berthed
Gerund: berthing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | berth |
| you | berth |
| he;she;it | berths |
| we | berth |
| you | berth |
| they | berth |
Perfect
| I | have berthed |
| you | have berthed |
| he;she;it | has berthed |
| we | have berthed |
| you | have berthed |
| they | have berthed |
Past
| I | berthed |
| you | berthed |
| he;she;it | berthed |
| we | berthed |
| you | berthed |
| they | berthed |
Pluperfect
| I | had berthed |
| you | had berthed |
| he;she;it | had berthed |
| we | had berthed |
| you | had berthed |
| they | had berthed |
Future
| I | will berth |
| you | will berth |
| he;she;it | will berth |
| we | will berth |
| you | will berth |
| they | will berth |
Future Perfect
| I | will have berthed |
| you | will have berthed |
| he;she;it | will have berthed |
| we | will have berthed |
| you | will have berthed |
| they | will have berthed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | berth |
| you | berth |
| he;she;it | berth |
| we | berth |
| you | berth |
| they | berth |
Perfect
| I | have berthed |
| you | have berthed |
| he;she;it | have berthed |
| we | have berthed |
| you | have berthed |
| they | have berthed |
Imperfect
| I | berthed |
| you | berthed |
| he;she;it | berthed |
| we | berthed |
| you | berthed |
| they | berthed |
Pluperfect
| I | had berthed |
| you | had berthed |
| he;she;it | had berthed |
| we | had berthed |
| you | had berthed |
| they | had berthed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would berth |
| you | would berth |
| he;she;it | would berth |
| we | would berth |
| you | would berth |
| they | would berth |
Perfect
| I | would have berthed |
| you | would have berthed |
| he;she;it | would have berthed |
| we | would have berthed |
| you | would have berthed |
| they | would have berthed |
Imperative
| you | berth |
| we | Let's berth |
| you | berth |
Verbs conjugated like 'berth'
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 'berth'
beath,
bergh,
birth,
bath,
beach,
beat,
belch,
belt,
bench,
bentch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Late Middle English birth (“(nautical) bearing away or off, clearance, berth”). Further etymology uncertain, but probably from beren (“to carry (away), bear”) + -th (suffix denoting a condition, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns); if so, the English word is analysable as bear + -th (suffix forming nouns from verbs), and is a piecewise doublet of birth.
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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"The Henery," being let loose to drive up the river of herself, did run up as high as the bridge, and broke down some of the rails of the bridge, and so back again with the tide, and up again, and then berthed himself so well as no pilot could ever have done better; […] [1667 July 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “June 30th, 1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 406:]
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Further west, in Pembrokeshire, the Esso Petroleum Co. refinery at Milford Haven, opened last November, is designed to berth the world's largest tankers and to process, initially, 4,500,000 tons of crude oil a year. [1961 August, “New Traffic Flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 494:]
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The cabin-boy Ransome […] came in at times from the round-house, where he berthed and served, now nursing a bruised limb in silent agony, now raving against the cruelty of Mr. Shuan. [1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 61:]