Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to phone
Participle: phoned
Gerund: phoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | phone |
| you | phone |
| he;she;it | phones |
| we | phone |
| you | phone |
| they | phone |
Perfect
| I | have phoned |
| you | have phoned |
| he;she;it | has phoned |
| we | have phoned |
| you | have phoned |
| they | have phoned |
Past
| I | phoned |
| you | phoned |
| he;she;it | phoned |
| we | phoned |
| you | phoned |
| they | phoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had phoned |
| you | had phoned |
| he;she;it | had phoned |
| we | had phoned |
| you | had phoned |
| they | had phoned |
Future
| I | will phone |
| you | will phone |
| he;she;it | will phone |
| we | will phone |
| you | will phone |
| they | will phone |
Future Perfect
| I | will have phoned |
| you | will have phoned |
| he;she;it | will have phoned |
| we | will have phoned |
| you | will have phoned |
| they | will have phoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | phone |
| you | phone |
| he;she;it | phone |
| we | phone |
| you | phone |
| they | phone |
Perfect
| I | have phoned |
| you | have phoned |
| he;she;it | have phoned |
| we | have phoned |
| you | have phoned |
| they | have phoned |
Imperfect
| I | phoned |
| you | phoned |
| he;she;it | phoned |
| we | phoned |
| you | phoned |
| they | phoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had phoned |
| you | had phoned |
| he;she;it | had phoned |
| we | had phoned |
| you | had phoned |
| they | had phoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would phone |
| you | would phone |
| he;she;it | would phone |
| we | would phone |
| you | would phone |
| they | would phone |
Perfect
| I | would have phoned |
| you | would have phoned |
| he;she;it | would have phoned |
| we | would have phoned |
| you | would have phoned |
| they | would have phoned |
Imperative
| you | phone |
| we | Let's phone |
| you | phone |
Verbs conjugated like 'phone'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'phone'
hone,
atone,
bone,
chine,
choke,
chope,
chore,
clone,
cone,
drone,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
3. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
4. French télé-
5. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
6. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
7. Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
8. French -phone
9. French téléphonebor.
10. English telephone
11. English phone
12. Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.
Verbs referencing "phone"
Scots Gaelic
fòn, French
phoner, Xhosa
fowuna, Zulu
fowuna, Hindi
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Sample Sentences
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Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
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Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
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"You bloody fools!" shrieked Nickle, stung by a sudden dreadful inspiration, "we've let him phone. He has got through!" [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
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It wasn’t like he was dying to get it off his chest. I think he only phoned because he knew how excited I’d be to hear about it. [2010, Tyler Keevil, chapter 32, in Fireball, Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, page 148:]
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[…] “You’d better get here within half an hour, or I’m phoning the police.” [2026 July 25, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Last Call of Jo-Anne Pedersen, the Girl Who Vanished From a Payphone”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026:]
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Well, the first I knew, Mr. Cooney phoned he had a buyer for my farm, and wanted to know if he could come down. [1905, Patrick Woodard, quotee, “Woodard vs. Cooney”, in The South Western Reporter, volume 85:]
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After I wrote the 23ⁿᵈ bout midnite Charles phoned he got my note + could I come over then? [1973 November 23, Lou Sullivan, Diary:]