Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to inform
Participle: informed
Gerund: informing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | inform |
| you | inform |
| he;she;it | informs |
| we | inform |
| you | inform |
| they | inform |
Perfect
| I | have informed |
| you | have informed |
| he;she;it | has informed |
| we | have informed |
| you | have informed |
| they | have informed |
Past
| I | informed |
| you | informed |
| he;she;it | informed |
| we | informed |
| you | informed |
| they | informed |
Pluperfect
| I | had informed |
| you | had informed |
| he;she;it | had informed |
| we | had informed |
| you | had informed |
| they | had informed |
Future
| I | will inform |
| you | will inform |
| he;she;it | will inform |
| we | will inform |
| you | will inform |
| they | will inform |
Future Perfect
| I | will have informed |
| you | will have informed |
| he;she;it | will have informed |
| we | will have informed |
| you | will have informed |
| they | will have informed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | inform |
| you | inform |
| he;she;it | inform |
| we | inform |
| you | inform |
| they | inform |
Perfect
| I | have informed |
| you | have informed |
| he;she;it | have informed |
| we | have informed |
| you | have informed |
| they | have informed |
Imperfect
| I | informed |
| you | informed |
| he;she;it | informed |
| we | informed |
| you | informed |
| they | informed |
Pluperfect
| I | had informed |
| you | had informed |
| he;she;it | had informed |
| we | had informed |
| you | had informed |
| they | had informed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would inform |
| you | would inform |
| he;she;it | would inform |
| we | would inform |
| you | would inform |
| they | would inform |
Perfect
| I | would have informed |
| you | would have informed |
| he;she;it | would have informed |
| we | would have informed |
| you | would have informed |
| they | would have informed |
Imperative
| you | inform |
| we | Let's inform |
| you | inform |
Verbs conjugated like 'inform'
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 'inform'
enform,
infirm,
unform,
afform,
conform,
deform,
disform,
efform,
form,
infer,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to instruct or inform
- tell
- to give information or notice
- advise
- to communicate notice to
- acquaint
- act as informer
- rat out
- take form
- come into being
- to communicate knowledge or information
- acquaint, apprise, enlighten, impart, let know, notify, tell
- To give information or notice to.
- advise
- acquaint
- familiarize, notify, tell, clue, warn, advise
- teach
- instruct, inspire, inspirit, enliven, animate, quicken
- snitch
- tattle, squeal, testify
Antonyms
- to communicate knowledge or information
- disinform, encrypt, misguide, misinform, mislead, withhold
- teach
- learn, understand, mislead, withhold
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1320, "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from L.
informare "to shape, form, train, instruct, educate," from
in- "into" +
forma "form." Sense of "report facts or news" first recorded 1386.
Informative "instructive" is from 1655.
Informer "one who gives information against another" (especially in ref. to law-breaking) is from 1503.
2. From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin īnfōrmō (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + fōrma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form. See: Latin '
īnfōrmō'.
Verbs referencing "inform"
Ido informar, Esperanto
informi, Finnish with old forms
informoida.
Sample Sentences
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[...] despite the leathern wallets of news slung about the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comforter informed me ), ‘because they liked the excitement of it. ’ Suffice it in this place to say, that one of these invaders, with a ready courtesy for which I thank him here most gratefully, went on before to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I made acquaintance, on this journey, with a mild and modest young quaker, who opened the discourse by informing me, in a grave whisper, that his grandfather was the inventor of cold-drawn castor oil. I mention the circumstance here, thinking it probable that this is the first occasion on which the valuable [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There are few words which perform such various duties as this word ‘fix. ’ It is the Caleb Quotem of the American vocabulary. You call upon a gentleman in a country town, and his help informs you that he is ‘fixing himself ’ just now, but will be down directly: by which you are to understand that he is dressing. You inquire, on board a steamboat, of a fellow-passenger, whether breakfast [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] with coloured prints of Washington, and President Madison, and of a white-faced young lady (much speckled by the flies ), who held up her gold neck-chain for the admiration of the spectator, and informed all admiring comers that she was ‘Just Seventeen: ’ although I should have thought her older. In the best room were two oil portraits of the kit-cat size, representing the landlord and his infant [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] a newspaper, which was very strong indeed upon the subject of Lord Ashburton 's recent arrival at Washington, to adjust the points in dispute between the United States Government and Great Britain: informing its readers that as America had ‘whipped ’ England in her infancy, and whipped her again in her youth, so it was clearly necessary that she must whip her once again in her maturity; and pledging its [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Presently, there stalked into this apartment, a grim old Shaker, with eyes as hard, and dull, and cold, as the great round metal buttons on his coat and waistcoat; a sort of calm goblin. Being informed of our desire, he produced a newspaper wherein the body of elders, whereof he was a member, had advertised but a few days before, that in consequence of certain unseemly interruptions which their [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘Duel. ‘The clerk of the steamboat Tribune informs us that another duel was fought on Tuesday last, by Mr. Robbins, a bank officer in Vicksburg, and Mr. Fall, the editor of the Vicksburg Sentinel. According to the arrangement, the parties had [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] reader is fully acquainted: stated how Aunt Chloe had been hired out to a confectioner in Louisville, where her skill in the pastry line was gaining wonderful sums of money, all of which, Tom was informed, was to be laid up to go to make up the sum of his redemption money; Mose and Pete were thriving, and the baby was trotting all about the house, under the care of Sally and the family generally.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] hated each other; the plantation hands, one and all, cordially hated them; and, by playing off one against another, he was pretty sure, through one or the other of the three parties, to get informed of whatever was on foot in the place.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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As Tom had informed them that their party would be looked for in Sandusky, it was thought prudent to divide them. Jim, with his old mother, was forwarded separately; and a night or two after, George and Eliza, with [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Always well informed. The Tsar is no longer interested than at the Sochi Olympic Games.
(The Wizard of the Kremlin)