Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ferry
Participle: ferried
Gerund: ferrying
Indicative
Present
| I | ferry |
| you | ferry |
| he;she;it | ferries |
| we | ferry |
| you | ferry |
| they | ferry |
Perfect
| I | have ferried |
| you | have ferried |
| he;she;it | has ferried |
| we | have ferried |
| you | have ferried |
| they | have ferried |
Past
| I | ferried |
| you | ferried |
| he;she;it | ferried |
| we | ferried |
| you | ferried |
| they | ferried |
Pluperfect
| I | had ferried |
| you | had ferried |
| he;she;it | had ferried |
| we | had ferried |
| you | had ferried |
| they | had ferried |
Future
| I | will ferry |
| you | will ferry |
| he;she;it | will ferry |
| we | will ferry |
| you | will ferry |
| they | will ferry |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ferried |
| you | will have ferried |
| he;she;it | will have ferried |
| we | will have ferried |
| you | will have ferried |
| they | will have ferried |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ferry |
| you | ferry |
| he;she;it | ferry |
| we | ferry |
| you | ferry |
| they | ferry |
Perfect
| I | have ferried |
| you | have ferried |
| he;she;it | have ferried |
| we | have ferried |
| you | have ferried |
| they | have ferried |
Imperfect
| I | ferried |
| you | ferried |
| he;she;it | ferried |
| we | ferried |
| you | ferried |
| they | ferried |
Pluperfect
| I | had ferried |
| you | had ferried |
| he;she;it | had ferried |
| we | had ferried |
| you | had ferried |
| they | had ferried |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ferry |
| you | would ferry |
| he;she;it | would ferry |
| we | would ferry |
| you | would ferry |
| they | would ferry |
Perfect
| I | would have ferried |
| you | would have ferried |
| he;she;it | would have ferried |
| we | would have ferried |
| you | would have ferried |
| they | would have ferried |
Imperative
| you | ferry |
| we | Let's ferry |
| you | ferry |
Verbs conjugated like 'ferry'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ferry'
berry,
herry,
serry,
becry,
beray,
borry,
carry,
curry,
decry,
deray,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
ferian "to carry, transport," from P.Gmc.
*farjanan, from PIE
*por- "going, passage." Related to
fare (v.). The n. is c.1425, perhaps earlier and from O.N.
ferju- "passage across water," ult. from the same Gmc. root. The modern n. use (1590) is a shortening of
ferry boat (c.1440).
2. The verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, travel”), whence English fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-.
3. The noun is from Middle English ferie (“place of crossing, ferry”), which was derived from the above verb under influence of Old Norse ferja, from Proto-Germanic *farjǭ, itself also from the verb.
4. False cognate of Latin ferō. See: Middle English '
ferien', Old English '
ferian', Proto-Germanic '
*farjaną', Latin '
ferō'.
Verbs referencing "ferry"
Danish
færge.
Sample Sentences
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Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
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We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock. [2007, Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks:]
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Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.
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A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. […] This would also let high-speed trains skirt cities as moving platforms ferry passengers to and from the city centre. [2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):]
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They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro. [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]