gape – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of gape

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to gape
Participle: gaped
Gerund: gaping

Cognates

See the 6 cognates of gape

Indicative

Present

Igape
yougape
he;she;itgapes
wegape
yougape
theygape

Perfect

Ihave gaped
youhave gaped
he;she;ithas gaped
wehave gaped
youhave gaped
theyhave gaped

Past

Igaped
yougaped
he;she;itgaped
wegaped
yougaped
theygaped

Pluperfect

Ihad gaped
youhad gaped
he;she;ithad gaped
wehad gaped
youhad gaped
theyhad gaped

Future

Iwill gape
youwill gape
he;she;itwill gape
wewill gape
youwill gape
theywill gape

Future Perfect

Iwill have gaped
youwill have gaped
he;she;itwill have gaped
wewill have gaped
youwill have gaped
theywill have gaped

Subjunctive

Present

Igape
yougape
he;she;itgape
wegape
yougape
theygape

Perfect

Ihave gaped
youhave gaped
he;she;ithave gaped
wehave gaped
youhave gaped
theyhave gaped

Imperfect

Igaped
yougaped
he;she;itgaped
wegaped
yougaped
theygaped

Pluperfect

Ihad gaped
youhad gaped
he;she;ithad gaped
wehad gaped
youhad gaped
theyhad gaped

Conditional

Present

Iwould gape
youwould gape
he;she;itwould gape
wewould gape
youwould gape
theywould gape

Perfect

Iwould have gaped
youwould have gaped
he;she;itwould have gaped
wewould have gaped
youwould have gaped
theywould have gaped

Imperative

yougape
weLet's gape
yougape

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam gaping
youare gaping
he;she;itis gaping
weare gaping
youare gaping
theyare gaping

Perfect

Ihave been gaping
youhave been gaping
he;she;ithas been gaping
wehave been gaping
youhave been gaping
theyhave been gaping

Past

Iwas gaping
youwere gaping
he;she;itwas gaping
wewere gaping
youwere gaping
theywere gaping

Pluperfect

Ihad been gaping
youhad been gaping
he;she;ithad been gaping
wehad been gaping
youhad been gaping
theyhad been gaping

Future

Iwill be gaping
youwill be gaping
he;she;itwill be gaping
wewill be gaping
youwill be gaping
theywill be gaping

Future Perfect

Iwill have been gaping
youwill have been gaping
he;she;itwill have been gaping
wewill have been gaping
youwill have been gaping
theywill have been gaping

Conditional

Present

Iwould be gaping
youwould be gaping
he;she;itwould be gaping
wewould be gaping
youwould be gaping
theywould be gaping

Perfect

Iwould have been gaping
youwould have been gaping
he;she;itwould have been gaping
wewould have been gaping
youwould have been gaping
theywould have been gaping

Other

Verbs similar to 'gape'

ape, cape, gage, gale, galpe, game, gane, gap, gate, gaze,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa). Doublet of gap. See: Swedish 'gapa', Danish 'gabe', Proto-Germanic '*gapōną', Dutch 'gapen', German, old spelling 'gaffen'.

Verbs referencing "gape"

German, old spelling gaffen.

Sample Sentences

  • 1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467,
  • She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;
  • Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter IX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […] [1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:]
  • The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. [1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 5:]
  • Brother Francine demands stronger rules, damns the needs of the body, and then sneaks off to a public pool to gape obscenely at the casually exposed flesh. [1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7:]
  • The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.
  • May that ground gape, and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father! [c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third 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 I, scene i]:]
  • Nor is he deterr'd from the belief of the perpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by the gaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place. [1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC:]
  • The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes: [a. 1699, John Denham, Cato Major, Of Old Age: A Poem, published 1710, page 25:]