Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dark
Participle: darked
Gerund: darking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dark |
| you | dark |
| he;she;it | darks |
| we | dark |
| you | dark |
| they | dark |
Perfect
| I | have darked |
| you | have darked |
| he;she;it | has darked |
| we | have darked |
| you | have darked |
| they | have darked |
Past
| I | darked |
| you | darked |
| he;she;it | darked |
| we | darked |
| you | darked |
| they | darked |
Pluperfect
| I | had darked |
| you | had darked |
| he;she;it | had darked |
| we | had darked |
| you | had darked |
| they | had darked |
Future
| I | will dark |
| you | will dark |
| he;she;it | will dark |
| we | will dark |
| you | will dark |
| they | will dark |
Future Perfect
| I | will have darked |
| you | will have darked |
| he;she;it | will have darked |
| we | will have darked |
| you | will have darked |
| they | will have darked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dark |
| you | dark |
| he;she;it | dark |
| we | dark |
| you | dark |
| they | dark |
Perfect
| I | have darked |
| you | have darked |
| he;she;it | have darked |
| we | have darked |
| you | have darked |
| they | have darked |
Imperfect
| I | darked |
| you | darked |
| he;she;it | darked |
| we | darked |
| you | darked |
| they | darked |
Pluperfect
| I | had darked |
| you | had darked |
| he;she;it | had darked |
| we | had darked |
| you | had darked |
| they | had darked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dark |
| you | would dark |
| he;she;it | would dark |
| we | would dark |
| you | would dark |
| they | would dark |
Perfect
| I | would have darked |
| you | would have darked |
| he;she;it | would have darked |
| we | would have darked |
| you | would have darked |
| they | would have darked |
Imperative
| you | dark |
| we | Let's dark |
| you | dark |
Verbs conjugated like 'dark'
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 'dark'
bark,
cark,
dack,
dank,
dare,
darn,
dart,
dauk,
dawk,
dirk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. deorc, from P.Gmc. *derkaz. "Absence of light" especially at night is the original meaning. Meaning "gloomy, cheerless" was also in O.E. The Anglo-Saxons also had a useful verb, sweorcan, meaning "to grow dark." Application to colors is 16c. Theater slang for "closed" is from 1916; darky, for "black person" is from 1775; dark horse is 1842, from horse racing. In the dark "ignorant" first recorded 1677; Dark Ages is from 1730, in reference to the illiterate and uneducated state of Europe for centuries after the fall of Rome.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-o-s
5. Proto-Germanic *derkaz?
6. Proto-West Germanic *derk
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
12. Proto-Germanic *-ōną
13. Proto-West Germanic *-ōn
14. Proto-West Germanic *derkōn
15. Old English deorcian
16. Middle English derken
17. English dark
18. Inherited from Middle English derken, from Old English deorcian, from Proto-West Germanic *derkōn, from *derk (“dirty, dark”) + *-ōn.
Sample Sentences
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To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'. [1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:]