Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hunker
Participle: hunkered
Gerund: hunkering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hunker |
| you | hunker |
| he;she;it | hunkers |
| we | hunker |
| you | hunker |
| they | hunker |
Perfect
| I | have hunkered |
| you | have hunkered |
| he;she;it | has hunkered |
| we | have hunkered |
| you | have hunkered |
| they | have hunkered |
Past
| I | hunkered |
| you | hunkered |
| he;she;it | hunkered |
| we | hunkered |
| you | hunkered |
| they | hunkered |
Pluperfect
| I | had hunkered |
| you | had hunkered |
| he;she;it | had hunkered |
| we | had hunkered |
| you | had hunkered |
| they | had hunkered |
Future
| I | will hunker |
| you | will hunker |
| he;she;it | will hunker |
| we | will hunker |
| you | will hunker |
| they | will hunker |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hunkered |
| you | will have hunkered |
| he;she;it | will have hunkered |
| we | will have hunkered |
| you | will have hunkered |
| they | will have hunkered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hunker |
| you | hunker |
| he;she;it | hunker |
| we | hunker |
| you | hunker |
| they | hunker |
Perfect
| I | have hunkered |
| you | have hunkered |
| he;she;it | have hunkered |
| we | have hunkered |
| you | have hunkered |
| they | have hunkered |
Imperfect
| I | hunkered |
| you | hunkered |
| he;she;it | hunkered |
| we | hunkered |
| you | hunkered |
| they | hunkered |
Pluperfect
| I | had hunkered |
| you | had hunkered |
| he;she;it | had hunkered |
| we | had hunkered |
| you | had hunkered |
| they | had hunkered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hunker |
| you | would hunker |
| he;she;it | would hunker |
| we | would hunker |
| you | would hunker |
| they | would hunker |
Perfect
| I | would have hunkered |
| you | would have hunkered |
| he;she;it | would have hunkered |
| we | would have hunkered |
| you | would have hunkered |
| they | would have hunkered |
Imperative
| you | hunker |
| we | Let's hunker |
| you | hunker |
Verbs conjugated like 'hunker'
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 'hunker'
bunker,
hanker,
hunger,
canker,
chunder,
chunner,
chunter,
hawker,
hinder,
hugger,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).
2. Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
Sample Sentences
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Get out of the mobile home and hunker in a ditch [2020 March 3, “Tornado Safety”, in WHAS-TV, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2023:]