Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blackberry
Participle: blackberried
Gerund: blackberrying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blackberry |
| you | blackberry |
| he;she;it | blackberries |
| we | blackberry |
| you | blackberry |
| they | blackberry |
Perfect
| I | have blackberried |
| you | have blackberried |
| he;she;it | has blackberried |
| we | have blackberried |
| you | have blackberried |
| they | have blackberried |
Past
| I | blackberried |
| you | blackberried |
| he;she;it | blackberried |
| we | blackberried |
| you | blackberried |
| they | blackberried |
Pluperfect
| I | had blackberried |
| you | had blackberried |
| he;she;it | had blackberried |
| we | had blackberried |
| you | had blackberried |
| they | had blackberried |
Future
| I | will blackberry |
| you | will blackberry |
| he;she;it | will blackberry |
| we | will blackberry |
| you | will blackberry |
| they | will blackberry |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blackberried |
| you | will have blackberried |
| he;she;it | will have blackberried |
| we | will have blackberried |
| you | will have blackberried |
| they | will have blackberried |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blackberry |
| you | blackberry |
| he;she;it | blackberry |
| we | blackberry |
| you | blackberry |
| they | blackberry |
Perfect
| I | have blackberried |
| you | have blackberried |
| he;she;it | have blackberried |
| we | have blackberried |
| you | have blackberried |
| they | have blackberried |
Imperfect
| I | blackberried |
| you | blackberried |
| he;she;it | blackberried |
| we | blackberried |
| you | blackberried |
| they | blackberried |
Pluperfect
| I | had blackberried |
| you | had blackberried |
| he;she;it | had blackberried |
| we | had blackberried |
| you | had blackberried |
| they | had blackberried |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blackberry |
| you | would blackberry |
| he;she;it | would blackberry |
| we | would blackberry |
| you | would blackberry |
| they | would blackberry |
Perfect
| I | would have blackberried |
| you | would have blackberried |
| he;she;it | would have blackberried |
| we | would have blackberried |
| you | would have blackberried |
| they | would have blackberried |
Imperative
| you | blackberry |
| we | Let's blackberry |
| you | blackberry |
Verbs conjugated like 'blackberry'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blackberry'
BlackBerry,
blackbird,
blackboard,
blueberry,
backbend,
backburn,
blabber,
blackbag,
blackball,
blackbox,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old English blæcberġe
3. Middle English blakberie
4. English blackberry
5. From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan), equivalent to black + berry.
Sample Sentences
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She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun [1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway:]
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My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow. [1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 111:]
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Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly stewed these for us. [1988, Arthur Bryson Gerrard, Butterflies & coalsmoke, page 62:]
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My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading. [2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, →ISBN, page 72:]
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Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see. [2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image, published 2004, →ISBN, page 48:]