Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to father
Participle: fathered
Gerund: fathering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | father |
| you | father |
| he;she;it | fathers |
| we | father |
| you | father |
| they | father |
Perfect
| I | have fathered |
| you | have fathered |
| he;she;it | has fathered |
| we | have fathered |
| you | have fathered |
| they | have fathered |
Past
| I | fathered |
| you | fathered |
| he;she;it | fathered |
| we | fathered |
| you | fathered |
| they | fathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had fathered |
| you | had fathered |
| he;she;it | had fathered |
| we | had fathered |
| you | had fathered |
| they | had fathered |
Future
| I | will father |
| you | will father |
| he;she;it | will father |
| we | will father |
| you | will father |
| they | will father |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fathered |
| you | will have fathered |
| he;she;it | will have fathered |
| we | will have fathered |
| you | will have fathered |
| they | will have fathered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | father |
| you | father |
| he;she;it | father |
| we | father |
| you | father |
| they | father |
Perfect
| I | have fathered |
| you | have fathered |
| he;she;it | have fathered |
| we | have fathered |
| you | have fathered |
| they | have fathered |
Imperfect
| I | fathered |
| you | fathered |
| he;she;it | fathered |
| we | fathered |
| you | fathered |
| they | fathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had fathered |
| you | had fathered |
| he;she;it | had fathered |
| we | had fathered |
| you | had fathered |
| they | had fathered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would father |
| you | would father |
| he;she;it | would father |
| we | would father |
| you | would father |
| they | would father |
Perfect
| I | would have fathered |
| you | would have fathered |
| he;she;it | would have fathered |
| we | would have fathered |
| you | would have fathered |
| they | would have fathered |
Imperative
| you | father |
| we | Let's father |
| you | father |
Verbs conjugated like 'father'
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 'father'
farther,
feather,
fother,
gather,
lather,
rather,
atter,
bathe,
batter,
blather,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
5. Proto-Germanic *fadēr
6. Proto-West Germanic *fader
7. Old English fæder
8. Middle English fader
9. English father
10. Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, possibly from *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père.
Sample Sentences
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Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 117, column 2:]
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Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace; [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 387, column 1:]
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I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee: [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 390, column 2:]
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What have you learned since writing Wild at Heart that you would now go back and change (if you could) about how you fathered your three boys? [2021 [2001], John Eldredge, “John Answers Your Wild at Heart Questions”, in Wild at Heart, Expanded edition, Nelson Books, →ISBN, page 220:]
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Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded? [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 116, column 2:]
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The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man. [1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 209:]
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Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ. [1713, Imitation of Horace, Jonathan Swift, Book I. Ep. VII:]