chaw – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of chaw

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to chaw
Participle: chawed
Gerund: chawing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ichaw
youchaw
he;she;itchaws
wechaw
youchaw
theychaw

Perfect

Ihave chawed
youhave chawed
he;she;ithas chawed
wehave chawed
youhave chawed
theyhave chawed

Past

Ichawed
youchawed
he;she;itchawed
wechawed
youchawed
theychawed

Pluperfect

Ihad chawed
youhad chawed
he;she;ithad chawed
wehad chawed
youhad chawed
theyhad chawed

Future

Iwill chaw
youwill chaw
he;she;itwill chaw
wewill chaw
youwill chaw
theywill chaw

Future Perfect

Iwill have chawed
youwill have chawed
he;she;itwill have chawed
wewill have chawed
youwill have chawed
theywill have chawed

Subjunctive

Present

Ichaw
youchaw
he;she;itchaw
wechaw
youchaw
theychaw

Perfect

Ihave chawed
youhave chawed
he;she;ithave chawed
wehave chawed
youhave chawed
theyhave chawed

Imperfect

Ichawed
youchawed
he;she;itchawed
wechawed
youchawed
theychawed

Pluperfect

Ihad chawed
youhad chawed
he;she;ithad chawed
wehad chawed
youhad chawed
theyhad chawed

Conditional

Present

Iwould chaw
youwould chaw
he;she;itwould chaw
wewould chaw
youwould chaw
theywould chaw

Perfect

Iwould have chawed
youwould have chawed
he;she;itwould have chawed
wewould have chawed
youwould have chawed
theywould have chawed

Imperative

youchaw
weLet's chaw
youchaw

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam chawing
youare chawing
he;she;itis chawing
weare chawing
youare chawing
theyare chawing

Perfect

Ihave been chawing
youhave been chawing
he;she;ithas been chawing
wehave been chawing
youhave been chawing
theyhave been chawing

Past

Iwas chawing
youwere chawing
he;she;itwas chawing
wewere chawing
youwere chawing
theywere chawing

Pluperfect

Ihad been chawing
youhad been chawing
he;she;ithad been chawing
wehad been chawing
youhad been chawing
theyhad been chawing

Future

Iwill be chawing
youwill be chawing
he;she;itwill be chawing
wewill be chawing
youwill be chawing
theywill be chawing

Future Perfect

Iwill have been chawing
youwill have been chawing
he;she;itwill have been chawing
wewill have been chawing
youwill have been chawing
theywill have been chawing

Conditional

Present

Iwould be chawing
youwould be chawing
he;she;itwould be chawing
wewould be chawing
youwould be chawing
theywould be chawing

Perfect

Iwould have been chawing
youwould have been chawing
he;she;itwould have been chawing
wewould have been chawing
youwould have been chawing
theywould have been chawing

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'chaw'

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 'chaw'

caw, chak, cham, chap, char, chat, chew, chow, claw, craw,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

An unexplained variation of chewen (“to chew”). First attested in the sixteenth century. See chew for more. Cognate with Middle Dutch cauwen ("to chew"; whence Dutch kauwen), obsolete Dutch kauw (“the act of chewing, that which is chewed, chewed mass, wad of tobacco”), Middle Low German kauwen, kauen (“to chew”). Compare also Old English ġecow (“that which is chewed, food”) and *ġeċēaw (“chewing”), whence Middle English icheu (“gnawing, biting”). See: Dutch 'kauwen'.

Verbs referencing "chaw"

Dutch kauwen.

Sample Sentences

  • The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt, [c. 1540, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Translations from the Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, page 130]
  • And next to him malicious Envy rode,
  • Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw
  • Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […] [2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62]
  • The Man who laugh'd but once, to see an Ass
  • Mumbling to make the cross-grained Thistles pass,
  • Might laugh again, to see a Jury chaw
  • The prickles of unpalatable Law. [1682, John Dryden, The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition, lines 145–8:]
  • […] the king he set down and twisted his head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something […] [1884, Mark Twain, chapter 29, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:]
  • Anne passed the lily. Beyond was the bed of pinks—white, clove, cinnamon. […] Anne's scissors chawed the wiry stems almost as sapless as the everlastings. [1942, Emily Carr, “The Orange Lily”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:]
  • "I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight,
  • And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went,
  • Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight,
  • With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;
  • Some pikey's chawed my bike.