rear – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of rear

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to rear
Participle: reared
Gerund: rearing

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of rear

Indicative

Present

Irear
yourear
he;she;itrears
werear
yourear
theyrear

Perfect

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

Past

Ireared
youreared
he;she;itreared
wereared
youreared
theyreared

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Irear
yourear
he;she;itrear
werear
yourear
theyrear

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Ireared
youreared
he;she;itreared
wereared
youreared
theyreared

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

yourear
weLet's rear
yourear

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'rear'

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 'rear'

arear, bear, dear, ear, fear, gear, hear, lear, near, read,

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English reren (“to raise”), from Old English rǣran (“to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up”), from Proto-West Germanic *raiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *raizijaną, *raisijaną (“to cause to rise, raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to lift oneself, rise”).
2. Cognate with Scots rere (“to construct, build, rear”), Icelandic reisa (“to raise”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (raisjan, “to cause to rise, lift up, establish”), German reisen (“to travel”, literally “to rear up and depart”); and a doublet of raise. More at rise.
3. Related to rise and raise, which is used for several of its now archaic or obsolete senses and for some of its senses that are currently more common in other dialects of English. See: Middle English 'reren', Proto-Germanic '*raizijaną', Icelandic 'reisa', German, old spelling 'reisen'.

Verbs referencing "rear"

German, old spelling rühren, Danish røre, Danish rejse, Alemannic German rüere.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] 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 an engine with its train of cars; scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood fire; screeching, hissing, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] vigorous intellect, where its effect has not become apparent, in some disordered train of thought, or some gloomy hallucination. What monstrous phantoms, bred of despondency and doubt, and born and reared in solitude, have stalked upon the earth, making creation ugly, and darkening the face of Heaven ! (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • The long-legged veteran, who had been besieging the fire-iron, as before related, now took down his cumbrous length, and rearing aloft his tall form, walked up to the advertisement and very deliberately spit a full discharge of tobacco-juice on it. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] upon great tracts where settlers had been burning down the trees, and where their wounded bodies lay about, like those of murdered creatures, while here and there some charred and blackened giant reared aloft two withered arms, and seemed to call down curses on his foes. Sometimes, at night, the way wound through some lonely gorge, like a mountain pass in Scotland, shining and coldly glittering in [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers; and now it was rearing up in the air, in a frantic state, with all four horses standing on the top of an insurmountable eminence, looking coolly back at it, as though they would say ‘Unharness us. It ca n't be done. ’ [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] breast, will shoot men down and stab them when he quarrels ? And if our reason did not teach us this and much beyond; if we were such idiots as to close our eyes to that fine mode of training which rears up such men; should we not know that they who among their equals stab and pistol in the legislative halls, and in the counting-house, and on the marketplace, and in all the elsewhere peaceful [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Schools may be erected, East, West, North, and South; pupils be taught, and masters reared, by scores upon scores of thousands; colleges may thrive, churches may be crammed, temperance may be diffused, and advancing knowledge in all other forms walk through the land with giant strides: [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] resort thither in great numbers, as other people do, simply because it is a land of resort; and great settlements of them are founded, because ground can be purchased, and towns and villages reared, where there were none of the human creation before. But even the Shakers emigrated from England; our country is not unknown to Mr. Joseph Smith, the apostle of Mormonism, or to his benighted [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] support, which had been pushed to one side by being used as a horse-post. What once was a large garden was now all grown over with weeds, through which, here and there, some solitary exotic reared its forsaken head. What had been a conservatory had now no window-shades, and on the mouldering shelves stood some dry, forsaken flower-pots, with sticks in them, whose dried leaves showed they had [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)