Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to small
Participle: smalled
Gerund: smalling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | small |
| you | small |
| he;she;it | smalls |
| we | small |
| you | small |
| they | small |
Perfect
| I | have smalled |
| you | have smalled |
| he;she;it | has smalled |
| we | have smalled |
| you | have smalled |
| they | have smalled |
Past
| I | smalled |
| you | smalled |
| he;she;it | smalled |
| we | smalled |
| you | smalled |
| they | smalled |
Pluperfect
| I | had smalled |
| you | had smalled |
| he;she;it | had smalled |
| we | had smalled |
| you | had smalled |
| they | had smalled |
Future
| I | will small |
| you | will small |
| he;she;it | will small |
| we | will small |
| you | will small |
| they | will small |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smalled |
| you | will have smalled |
| he;she;it | will have smalled |
| we | will have smalled |
| you | will have smalled |
| they | will have smalled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | small |
| you | small |
| he;she;it | small |
| we | small |
| you | small |
| they | small |
Perfect
| I | have smalled |
| you | have smalled |
| he;she;it | have smalled |
| we | have smalled |
| you | have smalled |
| they | have smalled |
Imperfect
| I | smalled |
| you | smalled |
| he;she;it | smalled |
| we | smalled |
| you | smalled |
| they | smalled |
Pluperfect
| I | had smalled |
| you | had smalled |
| he;she;it | had smalled |
| we | had smalled |
| you | had smalled |
| they | had smalled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would small |
| you | would small |
| he;she;it | would small |
| we | would small |
| you | would small |
| they | would small |
Perfect
| I | would have smalled |
| you | would have smalled |
| he;she;it | would have smalled |
| we | would have smalled |
| you | would have smalled |
| they | would have smalled |
Imperative
| you | small |
| we | Let's small |
| you | small |
Verbs conjugated like 'small'
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 'small'
mall,
shall,
skall,
smail,
smell,
spall,
stall,
ball,
besmall,
call,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English smal, smale, small, smalle, smel, smæl, from Old English smæl (“narrow, slim; slender; fine; small; quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *smal, from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal- (“small; little”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots smaw (“small; minor”), Yola smaale, small (“small”), North Frisian smaal, smeel, smääl (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian smäl (“narrow”), West Frisian smel (“narrow”), Alemannic German schmaal (“narrow”), Bavarian schmoi (“narrow; slender”), Dutch smal (“narrow; small”), German schmal (“narrow; slender”), Low German small (“narrow; slender, small”), Luxembourgish schmuel (“narrow”), Vilamovian śmoł, šmoł (“narrow”), Yiddish שמאָל (shmol, “narrow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish smal (“narrow; slim”), Gothic 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (smalists, “smallest”); also Latin malus (“bad, distressing, nasty; evil, mischievous, wicked; destructive, hurtful, noxious; abusive, hostile, unkind”), Belarusian малы́ (malý, “small”), Bulgarian and Macedonian мал (mal, “small; minor”), Czech and Slovak malý (“small”), Polish mały (“small; little; humble; short”), Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small; short”), Serbo-Croatian ма̑л, mȃl (“small”), Ukrainian мали́й (malýj, “small”).
Sample Sentences
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And smalled till she was nought at all. [1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years:]