fine-tune – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of fine-tune

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to fine-tune
Participle: fine-tuned
Gerund: fine-tuning

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ifine-tune
youfine-tune
he;she;itfine-tunes
wefine-tune
youfine-tune
theyfine-tune

Perfect

Ihave fine-tuned
youhave fine-tuned
he;she;ithas fine-tuned
wehave fine-tuned
youhave fine-tuned
theyhave fine-tuned

Past

Ifine-tuned
youfine-tuned
he;she;itfine-tuned
wefine-tuned
youfine-tuned
theyfine-tuned

Pluperfect

Ihad fine-tuned
youhad fine-tuned
he;she;ithad fine-tuned
wehad fine-tuned
youhad fine-tuned
theyhad fine-tuned

Future

Iwill fine-tune
youwill fine-tune
he;she;itwill fine-tune
wewill fine-tune
youwill fine-tune
theywill fine-tune

Future Perfect

Iwill have fine-tuned
youwill have fine-tuned
he;she;itwill have fine-tuned
wewill have fine-tuned
youwill have fine-tuned
theywill have fine-tuned

Subjunctive

Present

Ifine-tune
youfine-tune
he;she;itfine-tune
wefine-tune
youfine-tune
theyfine-tune

Perfect

Ihave fine-tuned
youhave fine-tuned
he;she;ithave fine-tuned
wehave fine-tuned
youhave fine-tuned
theyhave fine-tuned

Imperfect

Ifine-tuned
youfine-tuned
he;she;itfine-tuned
wefine-tuned
youfine-tuned
theyfine-tuned

Pluperfect

Ihad fine-tuned
youhad fine-tuned
he;she;ithad fine-tuned
wehad fine-tuned
youhad fine-tuned
theyhad fine-tuned

Conditional

Present

Iwould fine-tune
youwould fine-tune
he;she;itwould fine-tune
wewould fine-tune
youwould fine-tune
theywould fine-tune

Perfect

Iwould have fine-tuned
youwould have fine-tuned
he;she;itwould have fine-tuned
wewould have fine-tuned
youwould have fine-tuned
theywould have fine-tuned

Imperative

youfine-tune
weLet's fine-tune
youfine-tune

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam fine-tuning
youare fine-tuning
he;she;itis fine-tuning
weare fine-tuning
youare fine-tuning
theyare fine-tuning

Perfect

Ihave been fine-tuning
youhave been fine-tuning
he;she;ithas been fine-tuning
wehave been fine-tuning
youhave been fine-tuning
theyhave been fine-tuning

Past

Iwas fine-tuning
youwere fine-tuning
he;she;itwas fine-tuning
wewere fine-tuning
youwere fine-tuning
theywere fine-tuning

Pluperfect

Ihad been fine-tuning
youhad been fine-tuning
he;she;ithad been fine-tuning
wehad been fine-tuning
youhad been fine-tuning
theyhad been fine-tuning

Future

Iwill be fine-tuning
youwill be fine-tuning
he;she;itwill be fine-tuning
wewill be fine-tuning
youwill be fine-tuning
theywill be fine-tuning

Future Perfect

Iwill have been fine-tuning
youwill have been fine-tuning
he;she;itwill have been fine-tuning
wewill have been fine-tuning
youwill have been fine-tuning
theywill have been fine-tuning

Conditional

Present

Iwould be fine-tuning
youwould be fine-tuning
he;she;itwould be fine-tuning
wewould be fine-tuning
youwould be fine-tuning
theywould be fine-tuning

Perfect

Iwould have been fine-tuning
youwould have been fine-tuning
he;she;itwould have been fine-tuning
wewould have been fine-tuning
youwould have been fine-tuning
theywould have been fine-tuning

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'fine-tune'

abacinate, abalienate, abase, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, abduce, aberrate, aberuncate, abirritate, abjudge, abjudicate, abjugate, abjure, ablactate, ablaqueate, able, ablegate, abligate, abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Sample Sentences

  • Jim fine-tuned the radio until the sound was perfect.
  • Tevez, however, may need to fine-tune his penalty-taking technique. In the 57th minute he had the chance to soothe any lingering nerves, when he ran clear from Kolarov's pass and again exposed the high line of Leicester's defence, only for Hobbs to hack him down. The centre-half was fortunate not to be shown a red card – a point Mancini made on the touchline – but Tevez aimed his penalty low and hard, straight down the middle, and Weale saved with his feet. [2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online:]
  • As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials. [2012 March 9, Stephanie Strom, “YouTube Subtracts Racy and Raucous to Add a Teaching Tool”, in The New York Times:]
  • When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13]. [2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432:]
  • I also show in the paper that LLMs are easily steerable into target locations of the political spectrum via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) requiring only modest compute and customized data, suggesting the critical role of SFT to imprint political preferences onto LLMs. [2024 February 2, David Rozado, “The Political Preferences of LLMs”, in Rozado’s Visual Analytics:]