play – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to play up to sth
Participle: played up to sth
Gerund: playing up to sth

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

I	play up to sth
you	play up to sth
he;she;it	plays up to sth
we	play up to sth
you	play up to sth
they	play up to sth

Perfect

I	have played up to sth
you	have played up to sth
he;she;it	has played up to sth
we	have played up to sth
you	have played up to sth
they	have played up to sth

Past

I	played up to sth
you	played up to sth
he;she;it	played up to sth
we	played up to sth
you	played up to sth
they	played up to sth

Pluperfect

I	had played up to sth
you	had played up to sth
he;she;it	had played up to sth
we	had played up to sth
you	had played up to sth
they	had played up to sth

Future

I	will play up to sth
you	will play up to sth
he;she;it	will play up to sth
we	will play up to sth
you	will play up to sth
they	will play up to sth

Future Perfect

I	will have played up to sth
you	will have played up to sth
he;she;it	will have played up to sth
we	will have played up to sth
you	will have played up to sth
they	will have played up to sth

Subjunctive

Present

I	play up to sth
you	play up to sth
he;she;it	play up to sth
we	play up to sth
you	play up to sth
they	play up to sth

Perfect

I	have played up to sth
you	have played up to sth
he;she;it	have played up to sth
we	have played up to sth
you	have played up to sth
they	have played up to sth

Imperfect

I	played up to sth
you	played up to sth
he;she;it	played up to sth
we	played up to sth
you	played up to sth
they	played up to sth

Pluperfect

I	had played up to sth
you	had played up to sth
he;she;it	had played up to sth
we	had played up to sth
you	had played up to sth
they	had played up to sth

Conditional

Present

I	would play up to sth
you	would play up to sth
he;she;it	would play up to sth
we	would play up to sth
you	would play up to sth
they	would play up to sth

Perfect

I	would have played up to sth
you	would have played up to sth
he;she;it	would have played up to sth
we	would have played up to sth
you	would have played up to sth
they	would have played up to sth

Imperative

you	play up to sth
we	Let's play up to sth
you	play up to sth

Indicative

Present

I	am playing up to sth
you	are playing up to sth
he;she;it	is playing up to sth
we	are playing up to sth
you	are playing up to sth
they	are playing up to sth

Perfect

I	have been playing up to sth
you	have been playing up to sth
he;she;it	has been playing up to sth
we	have been playing up to sth
you	have been playing up to sth
they	have been playing up to sth

Past

I	was playing up to sth
you	were playing up to sth
he;she;it	was playing up to sth
we	were playing up to sth
you	were playing up to sth
they	were playing up to sth

Pluperfect

I	had been playing up to sth
you	had been playing up to sth
he;she;it	had been playing up to sth
we	had been playing up to sth
you	had been playing up to sth
they	had been playing up to sth

Future

I	will be playing up to sth
you	will be playing up to sth
he;she;it	will be playing up to sth
we	will be playing up to sth
you	will be playing up to sth
they	will be playing up to sth

Future Perfect

I	will have been playing up to sth
you	will have been playing up to sth
he;she;it	will have been playing up to sth
we	will have been playing up to sth
you	will have been playing up to sth
they	will have been playing up to sth

Conditional

Present

I	would be playing up to sth
you	would be playing up to sth
he;she;it	would be playing up to sth
we	would be playing up to sth
you	would be playing up to sth
they	would be playing up to sth

Perfect

I	would have been playing up to sth
you	would have been playing up to sth
he;she;it	would have been playing up to sth
we	would have been playing up to sth
you	would have been playing up to sth
they	would have been playing up to sth

Verbs conjugated like 'play'

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 'play'

clay, flay, lay, pay, plan, plap, plat, plaw, pley, ploy,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to engage in sexual intercourse: bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, stick, tumble, wango tango
act: characterize, enact, impersonate, perform, personate, emulate, imitate, mimic
compete: engage

Antonyms

act: rest, repose, refrain, cease

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. plegian "to exercise, frolic, perform music," from W.Gmc. *plegan (cf. M.Du. pleyen "to rejoice, be glad"), of uncertain origin. Opposed to work (v.) since 1377. Playground is attested from 1780. Playmate is from 1642 in the innocent sense, from 1954 in the sexual sense; playboy "wealthy bon vivant" is from 1829; fem. equivalent playgirl is first recorded 1934. Plaything is from 1675. To play up "emphasize" is from 1909; to play down "minimize" is from 1930. To play with oneself "masturbate" is from 1896; play for keeps is from 1861, originally of marbles or other children's games with tokens. To play the (something) card is attested from 1886; to play fair is from c.1440. Play-dough is first recorded 1959. To play (something) safe is from 1911; to play favorites is attested from 1902. For play the field see field.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-West Germanic *plehan
4. Old English pleġan
5. Proto-West Germanic *plegō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
7. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
9. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
11. Proto-Germanic *-ōną
12. Proto-West Germanic *-ōn
13. Proto-West Germanic *plegōn
14. Old English plegian
15. Middle English pleyen
16. Proto-West Germanic *plegō
17. Old English plega
18. Middle English pleye
19. English play
20. From Middle English pleyen (verb) and Middle English pleye (noun), from Old English plegian and plegan, plagian (“to play, exercise, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *plehan (“to care about, be concerned with”) and Proto-West Germanic *plegōn (“to engage, move”), of uncertain origin.
21. cognates and related terms
22. Cognate with Scots play (“to act or move briskly, cause to move, stir”), Saterland Frisian pleegje (“to look after, care for, maintain”), West Frisian pleegje, pliigje (“to commit, perform, bedrive”), Middle Dutch pleyen ("to dance, leap for joy, rejoice, be glad"; compare Modern Dutch pleien (“to play a particular children's game”)), Dutch plegen (“to commit, bedrive, practice”), German pflegen (“to care for, be concerned with, attend to, tend”). Related also to Old English plēon (“to risk, endanger”). More at plight, pledge.
23. The noun is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, plega, plæġa (“play, quick motion, movement, exercise; (athletic) sport, game; festivity, drama; battle; gear for games, an implement for a game; clapping with the hands, applause”), deverbative of plegian (“to play”); see above. See: Middle English 'pleyen', Old English 'plegian', Frisian, Saterlandic 'pleegje', Dutch 'pleien', Dutch 'plegen', German, old spelling 'pflegen'.

Verbs referencing "play"

Ido plear, English placard, Sranan prei, Tok Pisin pilai.

Sample Sentences

[...] hands are ill, and have given in, dead beat. Several berths are full of water, and all the cabins are leaky. The ship 's cook, secretly swigging damaged whiskey, has been found drunk; and has been played upon by the fire-engine until quite sober. All the stewards have fallen down-stairs at various dinner-times, and go about with plasters in various places. The baker is ill, and so is the [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] repaired, without any guide or leader, to a spacious music-hall, where they took their seats in an orchestra erected for that purpose, and listened with manifest delight to a voluntary on the organ, played by one of themselves. At its conclusion, the performer, a boy of nineteen or twenty, gave place to a girl; and to her accompaniment they all sang a hymn, and afterwards a sort of chorus. It was [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] gives her a vivid pleasure, which is plainly marked in her expressive features. She never seems to repine, but has all the buoyancy and gaiety of childhood. She is fond of fun and frolic, and when playing with the rest of the children, her shrill laugh sounds loudest of the group. (American Notes for General Circulation)
‘The mother stood some time, gazing with overflowing eyes upon her unfortunate child, who, all unconscious of her presence, was playing about the room. Presently Laura ran against her, and at once began feeling her hands, examining her dress, and trying to find out if she knew her; but not succeeding in this, she turned away as [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
‘He learned more than a half-dozen letters in half an hour, and seemed delighted with his success, at least in gaining approbation. His attention then began to flag, and I commenced playing with him. It was evident that in all this he had merely been imitating the motions of my fingers, and placing his hand upon the key, cup, &c., as part of the process, without any perception of the [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
Each ward in this institution is shaped like a long gallery or hall, with the dormitories of the patients opening from it on either hand. Here they work, read, play at skittles, and other games; and when the weather does not admit of their taking exercise out of doors, pass the day together. In one of these rooms, seated, calmly, and quite as a matter of [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] on haphazard, pell-mell, neck-or-nothing, down the middle of the road. There—with mechanics working at their trades, and people leaning from their doors and windows, and boys flying kites and playing marbles, and men smoking, and women talking, and children crawling, and pigs burrowing, and unaccustomed horses plunging and rearing, close to the very rails—there—on, on, on—tears the mad dragon of [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] and cutting loose from the protection of a friend whom she loved and revered. Then there was the parting from every familiar object,—the place where she had grown up, the trees under which she had played, the groves where she had walked many an evening in happier days, by the side of her young husband,—everything, as it lay in the clear, frosty starlight, seemed to speak reproachfully to her, and [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
There was another: a young man, whose madness was love and music. After playing on the accordion a march he had composed, he was very anxious that I should walk into his chamber, which I immediately did. (American Notes for General Circulation)
[...] yard; female slaves, with cotton handkerchiefs twisted round their heads are running to and fro on the hotel business; black waiters cross and recross with dishes in their hands; two great dogs are playing upon a mound of loose bricks in the centre of the little square; a pig is turning up his stomach to the sun, and grunting ‘that 's comfortable ! ’; and neither the men, nor the women, nor the dogs, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
[tense music playing] Sit. Sit. Stay there. [ breathing heavily ] [ pop music playing faintly ] (iHostage)
Come on. Luis, there. [ sighs ] We'll never make it. Yes, you will. -[♪ Heroic music plays ] -Go ! (Descendants: Wicked Wonderland)
sitting at home, and I was playing around with, (The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist)
Playing with that fuel, with that in your heart, doesn't work. (Saquon)
Go straight to the feed and leave it open. Director, no cuts. This plays itself. (Disclosure Day)

play – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of play

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'play'

Verbs similar to 'play'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "play"

Sample Sentences