Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to savvy
Participle: savvied
Gerund: savvying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | savvy |
| you | savvy |
| he;she;it | savvies |
| we | savvy |
| you | savvy |
| they | savvy |
Perfect
| I | have savvied |
| you | have savvied |
| he;she;it | has savvied |
| we | have savvied |
| you | have savvied |
| they | have savvied |
Past
| I | savvied |
| you | savvied |
| he;she;it | savvied |
| we | savvied |
| you | savvied |
| they | savvied |
Pluperfect
| I | had savvied |
| you | had savvied |
| he;she;it | had savvied |
| we | had savvied |
| you | had savvied |
| they | had savvied |
Future
| I | will savvy |
| you | will savvy |
| he;she;it | will savvy |
| we | will savvy |
| you | will savvy |
| they | will savvy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have savvied |
| you | will have savvied |
| he;she;it | will have savvied |
| we | will have savvied |
| you | will have savvied |
| they | will have savvied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | savvy |
| you | savvy |
| he;she;it | savvy |
| we | savvy |
| you | savvy |
| they | savvy |
Perfect
| I | have savvied |
| you | have savvied |
| he;she;it | have savvied |
| we | have savvied |
| you | have savvied |
| they | have savvied |
Imperfect
| I | savvied |
| you | savvied |
| he;she;it | savvied |
| we | savvied |
| you | savvied |
| they | savvied |
Pluperfect
| I | had savvied |
| you | had savvied |
| he;she;it | had savvied |
| we | had savvied |
| you | had savvied |
| they | had savvied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would savvy |
| you | would savvy |
| he;she;it | would savvy |
| we | would savvy |
| you | would savvy |
| they | would savvy |
Perfect
| I | would have savvied |
| you | would have savvied |
| he;she;it | would have savvied |
| we | would have savvied |
| you | would have savvied |
| they | would have savvied |
Imperative
| you | savvy |
| we | Let's savvy |
| you | savvy |
Verbs conjugated like 'savvy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'savvy'
navvy,
bevvy,
bivvy,
divvy,
sally,
salve,
salvo,
sammy,
sarve,
save,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun. See: Latin '
sapiō'.
Verbs referencing "savvy"
Bislama save, Spanish
saber, Ladino saver, Krio sabi.
Sample Sentences
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He's probably a perfect technician as a surgeon, but he knows you get only what you grab. Think of the years it's taken me to learn what he savvied all the time! [1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIV, in Arrowsmith, Harcourt Brace & Co., page 280:]