deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to deal out
Participle: dealt out
Gerund: dealing out

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

Ideal out
youdeal out
he;she;itdeals out
wedeal out
youdeal out
theydeal out

Perfect

Ihave dealt out
youhave dealt out
he;she;ithas dealt out
wehave dealt out
youhave dealt out
theyhave dealt out

Past

Idealt out
youdealt out
he;she;itdealt out
wedealt out
youdealt out
theydealt out

Pluperfect

Ihad dealt out
youhad dealt out
he;she;ithad dealt out
wehad dealt out
youhad dealt out
theyhad dealt out

Future

Iwill deal out
youwill deal out
he;she;itwill deal out
wewill deal out
youwill deal out
theywill deal out

Future Perfect

Iwill have dealt out
youwill have dealt out
he;she;itwill have dealt out
wewill have dealt out
youwill have dealt out
theywill have dealt out

Subjunctive

Present

Ideal out
youdeal out
he;she;itdeal out
wedeal out
youdeal out
theydeal out

Perfect

Ihave dealt out
youhave dealt out
he;she;ithave dealt out
wehave dealt out
youhave dealt out
theyhave dealt out

Imperfect

Idealt out
youdealt out
he;she;itdealt out
wedealt out
youdealt out
theydealt out

Pluperfect

Ihad dealt out
youhad dealt out
he;she;ithad dealt out
wehad dealt out
youhad dealt out
theyhad dealt out

Conditional

Present

Iwould deal out
youwould deal out
he;she;itwould deal out
wewould deal out
youwould deal out
theywould deal out

Perfect

Iwould have dealt out
youwould have dealt out
he;she;itwould have dealt out
wewould have dealt out
youwould have dealt out
theywould have dealt out

Imperative

youdeal out
weLet's deal out
youdeal out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam dealing out
youare dealing out
he;she;itis dealing out
weare dealing out
youare dealing out
theyare dealing out

Perfect

Ihave been dealing out
youhave been dealing out
he;she;ithas been dealing out
wehave been dealing out
youhave been dealing out
theyhave been dealing out

Past

Iwas dealing out
youwere dealing out
he;she;itwas dealing out
wewere dealing out
youwere dealing out
theywere dealing out

Pluperfect

Ihad been dealing out
youhad been dealing out
he;she;ithad been dealing out
wehad been dealing out
youhad been dealing out
theyhad been dealing out

Future

Iwill be dealing out
youwill be dealing out
he;she;itwill be dealing out
wewill be dealing out
youwill be dealing out
theywill be dealing out

Future Perfect

Iwill have been dealing out
youwill have been dealing out
he;she;itwill have been dealing out
wewill have been dealing out
youwill have been dealing out
theywill have been dealing out

Conditional

Present

Iwould be dealing out
youwould be dealing out
he;she;itwould be dealing out
wewould be dealing out
youwould be dealing out
theywould be dealing out

Perfect

Iwould have been dealing out
youwould have been dealing out
he;she;itwould have been dealing out
wewould have been dealing out
youwould have been dealing out
theywould have been dealing out

Other

Verbs similar to 'deal'

beal, dead, deaf, dean, dear, decal, dial, feal, geal, heal,

Additional Information

Cf. Old English weak verbs dǣlan (deal), lǣfan (leave) and mǣnan (mean).

Etymology

1. from O.E. dæl "part, share, quantity," and its verbal derivative dælan "to divide," from P.Gmc. *dailaz; also found in Balto-Slavic (cf. O.C.S. delu "part," Lith. dalis). Meaning "to distribute cards before a game" is from 1529; business sense is 1837, originally slang. Meaning "an amount" is from 1562. New Deal is from F.D. Roosevelt speech of July 1932. Big deal is 1928; ironic use first recorded 1951 in "Catcher in the Rye." To deal with "handle" is attested from 1469. Dealership is from 1916.
2. From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoh₁-i-l- (“part, watershed”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ). See: Middle English 'delen', Proto-Germanic '*dailijaną', Dutch 'delen', German, old spelling 'teilen', Swedish 'dela', Lithuanian 'dalinti', Russian 'дели́ть'.

Verbs referencing "deal"

French dealer, Dutch dealen, German, old spelling dealen, Icelandic deila, Dutch delen, German, old spelling teilen, Danish dele, Russian делить, Scots Gaelic dèilig, Luxembourgish deelen, Welsh delio.

Sample Sentences

  • Every patient in this asylum sits down to dinner every day with a knife and fork; and in the midst of them sits the gentleman, whose manner of dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but amusements ? Not vapid, waterish amusements, but good strong stuff; dealing in round abuse and blackguard names; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain; pimping and pandering for all degrees of vicious taste, and gorging with coined lies [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] there six years, and was to remain, I think, three more. He had been convicted as a receiver of stolen goods, but even after his long imprisonment, denied his guilt, and said he had been hardly dealt by. It was his second offence. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding ? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [ 1 ] Gen. 16. The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • I saw in this place the whole process of picking, rolling, pressing, drying, packing in casks, and branding. All the tobacco thus dealt with, was in course of manufacture for chewing; and one would have supposed there was enough in that one storehouse to have filled even the comprehensive jaws of America. In this form, the weed [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] beforehand or avoid. All that night, the bell was never silent for five minutes at a time; and after every ring the vessel reeled again, sometimes beneath a single blow, sometimes beneath a dozen dealt in quick succession, the lightest of which seemed more than enough to beat in her frail keel, as though it had been pie-crust. Looking down upon the filthy river after dark, it seemed to be alive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] who wanted the appointment to vest in his own brother. In the course of debate, the deceased made some statements which Vinyard pronounced false, and made use of violent and insulting language, dealing largely in personalities, to which Mr. A. made no reply. After the adjournment, Mr. A. stepped up to Vinyard, and requested him to retract, which he refused to do, repeating the offensive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Dear papa ! ” said Eva. “ _I cannot_, ” said St. Clare, rising, “ I _cannot_ have it so ! The Almighty hath dealt _very bitterly_ with me ! ” and St. Clare pronounced these words with a bitter emphasis, indeed. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ Never fear that ! ” said the first. “ If I get ’ em, I'll soon have their airs out of them; they'll soon find that they 've another kind of master to deal with than Monsieur St. Clare. ’ Pon my word, I'll buy that fellow. I like the shape of him. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)