pancake – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of pancake

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to pancake
Participle: pancaked
Gerund: pancaking

Cognates

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Indicative

Present

Ipancake
youpancake
he;she;itpancakes
wepancake
youpancake
theypancake

Perfect

Ihave pancaked
youhave pancaked
he;she;ithas pancaked
wehave pancaked
youhave pancaked
theyhave pancaked

Past

Ipancaked
youpancaked
he;she;itpancaked
wepancaked
youpancaked
theypancaked

Pluperfect

Ihad pancaked
youhad pancaked
he;she;ithad pancaked
wehad pancaked
youhad pancaked
theyhad pancaked

Future

Iwill pancake
youwill pancake
he;she;itwill pancake
wewill pancake
youwill pancake
theywill pancake

Future Perfect

Iwill have pancaked
youwill have pancaked
he;she;itwill have pancaked
wewill have pancaked
youwill have pancaked
theywill have pancaked

Subjunctive

Present

Ipancake
youpancake
he;she;itpancake
wepancake
youpancake
theypancake

Perfect

Ihave pancaked
youhave pancaked
he;she;ithave pancaked
wehave pancaked
youhave pancaked
theyhave pancaked

Imperfect

Ipancaked
youpancaked
he;she;itpancaked
wepancaked
youpancaked
theypancaked

Pluperfect

Ihad pancaked
youhad pancaked
he;she;ithad pancaked
wehad pancaked
youhad pancaked
theyhad pancaked

Conditional

Present

Iwould pancake
youwould pancake
he;she;itwould pancake
wewould pancake
youwould pancake
theywould pancake

Perfect

Iwould have pancaked
youwould have pancaked
he;she;itwould have pancaked
wewould have pancaked
youwould have pancaked
theywould have pancaked

Imperative

youpancake
weLet's pancake
youpancake

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam pancaking
youare pancaking
he;she;itis pancaking
weare pancaking
youare pancaking
theyare pancaking

Perfect

Ihave been pancaking
youhave been pancaking
he;she;ithas been pancaking
wehave been pancaking
youhave been pancaking
theyhave been pancaking

Past

Iwas pancaking
youwere pancaking
he;she;itwas pancaking
wewere pancaking
youwere pancaking
theywere pancaking

Pluperfect

Ihad been pancaking
youhad been pancaking
he;she;ithad been pancaking
wehad been pancaking
youhad been pancaking
theyhad been pancaking

Future

Iwill be pancaking
youwill be pancaking
he;she;itwill be pancaking
wewill be pancaking
youwill be pancaking
theywill be pancaking

Future Perfect

Iwill have been pancaking
youwill have been pancaking
he;she;itwill have been pancaking
wewill have been pancaking
youwill have been pancaking
theywill have been pancaking

Conditional

Present

Iwould be pancaking
youwould be pancaking
he;she;itwould be pancaking
wewould be pancaking
youwould be pancaking
theywould be pancaking

Perfect

Iwould have been pancaking
youwould have been pancaking
he;she;itwould have been pancaking
wewould have been pancaking
youwould have been pancaking
theywould have been pancaking

Other

Verbs similar to 'pancake'

parbake, partake, uncake, apanage, aslake, atake, awake, bandage, cake, cancan,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Pre-Greekder.?
4. Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor.
5. Latin patina?
6. Latin pannabor.?
7. Proto-Germanic *pannǭ
8. Proto-West Germanic *pannā
9. Old English panne
10. Middle English panne
11. Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
12. Old Norse kakabor.
13. Middle English cake
14. Middle English panne cake
15. English pancake
16. Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake.
17. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
18. Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
19. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan. See: German, old spelling 'Pfannkuchen', Frisian, Saterlandic 'Ponkouke'.

Sample Sentences

  • Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters[…] [2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters:]