Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to herd
Participle: herded
Gerund: herding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | herd |
| you | herd |
| he;she;it | herds |
| we | herd |
| you | herd |
| they | herd |
Perfect
| I | have herded |
| you | have herded |
| he;she;it | has herded |
| we | have herded |
| you | have herded |
| they | have herded |
Past
| I | herded |
| you | herded |
| he;she;it | herded |
| we | herded |
| you | herded |
| they | herded |
Pluperfect
| I | had herded |
| you | had herded |
| he;she;it | had herded |
| we | had herded |
| you | had herded |
| they | had herded |
Future
| I | will herd |
| you | will herd |
| he;she;it | will herd |
| we | will herd |
| you | will herd |
| they | will herd |
Future Perfect
| I | will have herded |
| you | will have herded |
| he;she;it | will have herded |
| we | will have herded |
| you | will have herded |
| they | will have herded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | herd |
| you | herd |
| he;she;it | herd |
| we | herd |
| you | herd |
| they | herd |
Perfect
| I | have herded |
| you | have herded |
| he;she;it | have herded |
| we | have herded |
| you | have herded |
| they | have herded |
Imperfect
| I | herded |
| you | herded |
| he;she;it | herded |
| we | herded |
| you | herded |
| they | herded |
Pluperfect
| I | had herded |
| you | had herded |
| he;she;it | had herded |
| we | had herded |
| you | had herded |
| they | had herded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would herd |
| you | would herd |
| he;she;it | would herd |
| we | would herd |
| you | would herd |
| they | would herd |
Perfect
| I | would have herded |
| you | would have herded |
| he;she;it | would have herded |
| we | would have herded |
| you | would have herded |
| they | would have herded |
Imperative
| you | herd |
| we | Let's herd |
| you | herd |
Verbs conjugated like 'herd'
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 'herd'
hard,
head,
heed,
hend,
hery,
yerd,
3rd,
bard,
bead,
beard,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to come together as a group
- assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, fall in with, flock, forgather, gather, gather up, group, league, mass, meet, meet up, pack, team, team up, throng
- assemble
- associate, flock
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Sample Sentences
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[...] mine. He carries the village—that is to be—with him: a few frame cottages, and an apparatus for smelting the copper. He carries its people too. They are partly American and partly Irish, and herd together on the lower deck; where they amused themselves last evening till the night was pretty far advanced, by alternately firing off pistols and singing hymns.
(American Notes for General Circulation)