Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ripen
Participle: ripened
Gerund: ripening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ripen |
| you | ripen |
| he;she;it | ripens |
| we | ripen |
| you | ripen |
| they | ripen |
Perfect
| I | have ripened |
| you | have ripened |
| he;she;it | has ripened |
| we | have ripened |
| you | have ripened |
| they | have ripened |
Past
| I | ripened |
| you | ripened |
| he;she;it | ripened |
| we | ripened |
| you | ripened |
| they | ripened |
Pluperfect
| I | had ripened |
| you | had ripened |
| he;she;it | had ripened |
| we | had ripened |
| you | had ripened |
| they | had ripened |
Future
| I | will ripen |
| you | will ripen |
| he;she;it | will ripen |
| we | will ripen |
| you | will ripen |
| they | will ripen |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ripened |
| you | will have ripened |
| he;she;it | will have ripened |
| we | will have ripened |
| you | will have ripened |
| they | will have ripened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ripen |
| you | ripen |
| he;she;it | ripen |
| we | ripen |
| you | ripen |
| they | ripen |
Perfect
| I | have ripened |
| you | have ripened |
| he;she;it | have ripened |
| we | have ripened |
| you | have ripened |
| they | have ripened |
Imperfect
| I | ripened |
| you | ripened |
| he;she;it | ripened |
| we | ripened |
| you | ripened |
| they | ripened |
Pluperfect
| I | had ripened |
| you | had ripened |
| he;she;it | had ripened |
| we | had ripened |
| you | had ripened |
| they | had ripened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ripen |
| you | would ripen |
| he;she;it | would ripen |
| we | would ripen |
| you | would ripen |
| they | would ripen |
Perfect
| I | would have ripened |
| you | would have ripened |
| he;she;it | would have ripened |
| we | would have ripened |
| you | would have ripened |
| they | would have ripened |
Imperative
| you | ripen |
| we | Let's ripen |
| you | ripen |
Verbs conjugated like 'ripen'
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 'ripen'
ripe,
crispen,
dizen,
enripen,
gripe,
hipe,
icen,
impen,
kipe,
lifen,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen, from Old English rīpian. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).
Sample Sentences
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Grapes ripen in the sun.
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[…] the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union. [1918, John Muir, chapter XII, in Steep Trails:]
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The acquaintance soon ripened into a warm attachment. [1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 7:]
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The warm sun ripened the corn.
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ripen the judgment
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When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
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Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God [1673, John Milton, When Faith and Love which parted from thee never:]
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But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatneſs. Proſperity ripened the principle of decay; the cauſes of deſtruction multiplied with the extent of conqueſt; and as ſoon as time or accident had removed the artificial ſupports, the ſtupendous fabric yielded to the preſſure of its own weight. The ſtory of its ruin is ſimple and obvious; and instead of enquiring why the Roman empire was deſtroyed, we ſhould rather be ſurprised that it had ſubſiſted ſo long. [1781, Edward Gibbon, “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 631:]