deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youdeal sth out
weLet's deal sth out
youdeal sth out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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