Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to length
Participle: lengthed
Gerund: lengthing
Indicative
Present
| I | length |
| you | length |
| he;she;it | lengths |
| we | length |
| you | length |
| they | length |
Perfect
| I | have lengthed |
| you | have lengthed |
| he;she;it | has lengthed |
| we | have lengthed |
| you | have lengthed |
| they | have lengthed |
Past
| I | lengthed |
| you | lengthed |
| he;she;it | lengthed |
| we | lengthed |
| you | lengthed |
| they | lengthed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lengthed |
| you | had lengthed |
| he;she;it | had lengthed |
| we | had lengthed |
| you | had lengthed |
| they | had lengthed |
Future
| I | will length |
| you | will length |
| he;she;it | will length |
| we | will length |
| you | will length |
| they | will length |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lengthed |
| you | will have lengthed |
| he;she;it | will have lengthed |
| we | will have lengthed |
| you | will have lengthed |
| they | will have lengthed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | length |
| you | length |
| he;she;it | length |
| we | length |
| you | length |
| they | length |
Perfect
| I | have lengthed |
| you | have lengthed |
| he;she;it | have lengthed |
| we | have lengthed |
| you | have lengthed |
| they | have lengthed |
Imperfect
| I | lengthed |
| you | lengthed |
| he;she;it | lengthed |
| we | lengthed |
| you | lengthed |
| they | lengthed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lengthed |
| you | had lengthed |
| he;she;it | had lengthed |
| we | had lengthed |
| you | had lengthed |
| they | had lengthed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would length |
| you | would length |
| he;she;it | would length |
| we | would length |
| you | would length |
| they | would length |
Perfect
| I | would have lengthed |
| you | would have lengthed |
| he;she;it | would have lengthed |
| we | would have lengthed |
| you | would have lengthed |
| they | would have lengthed |
Imperative
| you | length |
| we | Let's length |
| you | length |
Verbs conjugated like 'length'
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 'length'
lengthen,
lenite,
tenth,
beath,
bench,
benet,
benote,
bentch,
bentsh,
bergh,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
lengðu "length," from P.Gmc.
*langitho, noun of quality from
*langgaz (root of O.E.
lang "long") +
-itho, abstract noun suffix. Cognate with O.N.
lengd, O.Fris.
lengethe, Du.
lengte. Fig. sense of "the distance one goes, extremity to which something is carried" is from 1697. Phrase
at length "to full extent" is attested from c.1500.
Lengthy is first recorded 1759 in Amer.Eng., and until c.1840 always was characterized in British Eng. as an Americanism.
2. From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Loangte', Danish '
længde'.
Sample Sentences
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Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
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Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde. [1552, Richard Huloet, “Ladies of Destinie”, in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum:]
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[He] knows full well life doth but length his pain. [a. 1608, Thomas Sackville, Allegorical Personages described in Hell:]