Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ferment
Participle: fermented
Gerund: fermenting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ferment |
| you | ferment |
| he;she;it | ferments |
| we | ferment |
| you | ferment |
| they | ferment |
Perfect
| I | have fermented |
| you | have fermented |
| he;she;it | has fermented |
| we | have fermented |
| you | have fermented |
| they | have fermented |
Past
| I | fermented |
| you | fermented |
| he;she;it | fermented |
| we | fermented |
| you | fermented |
| they | fermented |
Pluperfect
| I | had fermented |
| you | had fermented |
| he;she;it | had fermented |
| we | had fermented |
| you | had fermented |
| they | had fermented |
Future
| I | will ferment |
| you | will ferment |
| he;she;it | will ferment |
| we | will ferment |
| you | will ferment |
| they | will ferment |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fermented |
| you | will have fermented |
| he;she;it | will have fermented |
| we | will have fermented |
| you | will have fermented |
| they | will have fermented |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ferment |
| you | ferment |
| he;she;it | ferment |
| we | ferment |
| you | ferment |
| they | ferment |
Perfect
| I | have fermented |
| you | have fermented |
| he;she;it | have fermented |
| we | have fermented |
| you | have fermented |
| they | have fermented |
Imperfect
| I | fermented |
| you | fermented |
| he;she;it | fermented |
| we | fermented |
| you | fermented |
| they | fermented |
Pluperfect
| I | had fermented |
| you | had fermented |
| he;she;it | had fermented |
| we | had fermented |
| you | had fermented |
| they | had fermented |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ferment |
| you | would ferment |
| he;she;it | would ferment |
| we | would ferment |
| you | would ferment |
| they | would ferment |
Perfect
| I | would have fermented |
| you | would have fermented |
| he;she;it | would have fermented |
| we | would have fermented |
| you | would have fermented |
| they | would have fermented |
Imperative
| you | ferment |
| we | Let's ferment |
| you | ferment |
Verbs conjugated like 'ferment'
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 'ferment'
cement,
dement,
ferret,
foment,
garment,
referment,
rerent,
segment,
serpent,
torment,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1398, from L.
fermentare "to leaven, ferment," from
fermentum "substance causing fermentation, leaven," from root of
fervere "to boil, seethe" (see brew).
2. From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent. See: Latin '
fermentō'.
Verbs referencing "ferment"
Finnish with old forms
fermentoida.
Sample Sentences
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The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment. [2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:]
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Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood. [1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:]
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Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky. [a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 165, lines 10–14:]