Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lag
Participle: lagged
Gerund: lagging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lag |
| you | lag |
| he;she;it | lags |
| we | lag |
| you | lag |
| they | lag |
Perfect
| I | have lagged |
| you | have lagged |
| he;she;it | has lagged |
| we | have lagged |
| you | have lagged |
| they | have lagged |
Past
| I | lagged |
| you | lagged |
| he;she;it | lagged |
| we | lagged |
| you | lagged |
| they | lagged |
Pluperfect
| I | had lagged |
| you | had lagged |
| he;she;it | had lagged |
| we | had lagged |
| you | had lagged |
| they | had lagged |
Future
| I | will lag |
| you | will lag |
| he;she;it | will lag |
| we | will lag |
| you | will lag |
| they | will lag |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lagged |
| you | will have lagged |
| he;she;it | will have lagged |
| we | will have lagged |
| you | will have lagged |
| they | will have lagged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lag |
| you | lag |
| he;she;it | lag |
| we | lag |
| you | lag |
| they | lag |
Perfect
| I | have lagged |
| you | have lagged |
| he;she;it | have lagged |
| we | have lagged |
| you | have lagged |
| they | have lagged |
Imperfect
| I | lagged |
| you | lagged |
| he;she;it | lagged |
| we | lagged |
| you | lagged |
| they | lagged |
Pluperfect
| I | had lagged |
| you | had lagged |
| he;she;it | had lagged |
| we | had lagged |
| you | had lagged |
| they | had lagged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lag |
| you | would lag |
| he;she;it | would lag |
| we | would lag |
| you | would lag |
| they | would lag |
Perfect
| I | would have lagged |
| you | would have lagged |
| he;she;it | would have lagged |
| we | would have lagged |
| you | would have lagged |
| they | would have lagged |
Imperative
| you | lag |
| we | Let's lag |
| you | lag |
Verbs conjugated like 'lag'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lag'
bag,
blag,
clag,
dag,
fag,
flag,
gag,
hag,
jag,
lab,
Additional Information
Etymology
Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.
Verbs referencing "lag"
Icelandic
lagga, Swedish
lagga, German, old spelling
laggen, Finnish with old forms
lagata, Spanish
lagear.
Sample Sentences
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Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost [1616, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer:]
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1717, The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands
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While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.
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Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along [1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts:]
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Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan. [2004 April 5, The New Yorker,:]
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Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring. [1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 173:]
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Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free. [c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building:]
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My phone is starting to lag.
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She lags us if we poach. [1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies":]
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"We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it." [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
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Interest in the scandal will never lag.
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The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye. [1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age:]