bottom – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to bottom
Participle: bottomed
Gerund: bottoming

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

I	bottom
you	bottom
he;she;it	bottoms
we	bottom
you	bottom
they	bottom

Perfect

I	have bottomed
you	have bottomed
he;she;it	has bottomed
we	have bottomed
you	have bottomed
they	have bottomed

Past

I	bottomed
you	bottomed
he;she;it	bottomed
we	bottomed
you	bottomed
they	bottomed

Pluperfect

I	had bottomed
you	had bottomed
he;she;it	had bottomed
we	had bottomed
you	had bottomed
they	had bottomed

Future

I	will bottom
you	will bottom
he;she;it	will bottom
we	will bottom
you	will bottom
they	will bottom

Future Perfect

I	will have bottomed
you	will have bottomed
he;she;it	will have bottomed
we	will have bottomed
you	will have bottomed
they	will have bottomed

Subjunctive

Present

I	bottom
you	bottom
he;she;it	bottom
we	bottom
you	bottom
they	bottom

Perfect

I	have bottomed
you	have bottomed
he;she;it	have bottomed
we	have bottomed
you	have bottomed
they	have bottomed

Imperfect

I	bottomed
you	bottomed
he;she;it	bottomed
we	bottomed
you	bottomed
they	bottomed

Pluperfect

I	had bottomed
you	had bottomed
he;she;it	had bottomed
we	had bottomed
you	had bottomed
they	had bottomed

Conditional

Present

I	would bottom
you	would bottom
he;she;it	would bottom
we	would bottom
you	would bottom
they	would bottom

Perfect

I	would have bottomed
you	would have bottomed
he;she;it	would have bottomed
we	would have bottomed
you	would have bottomed
they	would have bottomed

Imperative

you	bottom
we	Let's bottom
you	bottom

Indicative

Present

I	am bottoming
you	are bottoming
he;she;it	is bottoming
we	are bottoming
you	are bottoming
they	are bottoming

Perfect

I	have been bottoming
you	have been bottoming
he;she;it	has been bottoming
we	have been bottoming
you	have been bottoming
they	have been bottoming

Past

I	was bottoming
you	were bottoming
he;she;it	was bottoming
we	were bottoming
you	were bottoming
they	were bottoming

Pluperfect

I	had been bottoming
you	had been bottoming
he;she;it	had been bottoming
we	had been bottoming
you	had been bottoming
they	had been bottoming

Future

I	will be bottoming
you	will be bottoming
he;she;it	will be bottoming
we	will be bottoming
you	will be bottoming
they	will be bottoming

Future Perfect

I	will have been bottoming
you	will have been bottoming
he;she;it	will have been bottoming
we	will have been bottoming
you	will have been bottoming
they	will have been bottoming

Conditional

Present

I	would be bottoming
you	would be bottoming
he;she;it	would be bottoming
we	would be bottoming
you	would be bottoming
they	would be bottoming

Perfect

I	would have been bottoming
you	would have been bottoming
he;she;it	would have been bottoming
we	would have been bottoming
you	would have been bottoming
they	would have been bottoming

Verbs conjugated like 'bottom'

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 'bottom'

boom, bosom, botox, bottle, button, cotton, dotcom, rebottom, atom, baton,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. botm, bodan "ground, soil, lowest part," from P.Gmc. *buthm- (cf. O.Fris. boden "soil," Ger. Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from PIE base *bhudh- (cf. Skt. budhnah, Gk. pythmen "foundation," L. fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," O.Ir. bond "sole of the foot"). Meaning "posterior of a man" is from 1794; the verb "to reach the bottom of" is from 1808. Bottom dollar "the last dollar one has" is from 1882.
2. PIE word
3. *bʰudʰmḗn
4. Etymology tree
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-?
6. Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn
7. Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn
8. Proto-Germanic *butmaz
9. Proto-West Germanic *botm
10. Old English botm
11. Middle English botme
12. English bottom
13. From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”).
14. Cognates
15. Cognate with Yola bothom, bottom (“bottom”), Saterland Frisian Boudem (“floor; ground”), West Frisian boaiem (“floor; ground”), Dutch bodem, boom, boôm (“bottom; ground, soil”), German Boden (“floor; ground; soil”), Limburgish baom (“bottom; ground, soil”), Luxembourgish Buedem (“bottom; earth, soil”), Vilamovian bödum (“bottom; ground”), Danish bund (“bottom”), Elfdalian buottn (“bottom”), Faroese botnur (“bottom”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk botn (“bottom”), Norwegian Bokmål botn, bunn (“bottom”), Swedish botten (“bottom”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic bonn (“base, bottom; sole (of foot)”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; butt of a tree”), Albanian buzë (“rocky chasm”), Armenian անդունդ (andund), անդունդք (andundkʻ, “abyss, chasm”), Northern Kurdish bin (“bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”).
16. The noun sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb sense “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. The term bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is first attested in 1882. See: German, old spelling 'Boden', Elfdalian 'buottn', Armenian 'անդունդ'.

Sample Sentences

to bottom a chair
We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […] [1866, “Dirge of the Drinker”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 645:]
As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me. [c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy. [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]
those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked. [2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59]
My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks. [1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:]
c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms'.
allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole. [1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz, Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook, page 12-81:]
Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close. [1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 21:]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24. [2004, John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships, page 119:]
I've never bottomed in my life.
Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year. [2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 301:]

bottom – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of bottom

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'bottom'

Verbs similar to 'bottom'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Sample Sentences