Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to suck
Participle: sucked
Gerund: sucking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | suck |
| you | suck |
| he;she;it | sucks |
| we | suck |
| you | suck |
| they | suck |
Perfect
| I | have sucked |
| you | have sucked |
| he;she;it | has sucked |
| we | have sucked |
| you | have sucked |
| they | have sucked |
Past
| I | sucked |
| you | sucked |
| he;she;it | sucked |
| we | sucked |
| you | sucked |
| they | sucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had sucked |
| you | had sucked |
| he;she;it | had sucked |
| we | had sucked |
| you | had sucked |
| they | had sucked |
Future
| I | will suck |
| you | will suck |
| he;she;it | will suck |
| we | will suck |
| you | will suck |
| they | will suck |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sucked |
| you | will have sucked |
| he;she;it | will have sucked |
| we | will have sucked |
| you | will have sucked |
| they | will have sucked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | suck |
| you | suck |
| he;she;it | suck |
| we | suck |
| you | suck |
| they | suck |
Perfect
| I | have sucked |
| you | have sucked |
| he;she;it | have sucked |
| we | have sucked |
| you | have sucked |
| they | have sucked |
Imperfect
| I | sucked |
| you | sucked |
| he;she;it | sucked |
| we | sucked |
| you | sucked |
| they | sucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had sucked |
| you | had sucked |
| he;she;it | had sucked |
| we | had sucked |
| you | had sucked |
| they | had sucked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would suck |
| you | would suck |
| he;she;it | would suck |
| we | would suck |
| you | would suck |
| they | would suck |
Perfect
| I | would have sucked |
| you | would have sucked |
| he;she;it | would have sucked |
| we | would have sucked |
| you | would have sucked |
| they | would have sucked |
Imperative
| you | suck |
| we | Let's suck |
| you | suck |
Verbs conjugated like 'suck'
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 'suck'
buck,
cuck,
duck,
fuck,
huck,
luck,
muck,
puck,
ruck,
sack,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Antonyms
- to bring something into the mouth by inhaling
- blow
- to be poor at
- rock, rule
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *sūkaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *sūkan
4. Old English sūcan
5. Middle English souken
6. English suck
7. From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak. See: Middle English '
souken', Proto-Germanic '
*sūkaną', Dutch '
zuiken', Dutch '
zuigen', Icelandic '
sjúga', Latin '
sūgō', Welsh '
sugno'.
Verbs referencing "suck"
Ido sugar, Latin
sugo, Cornish
sugna, Irish
súigh, Icelandic
sökka, Welsh
sugno, Proto-Slavic
sъsati, Sicilian sucari.
Sample Sentences
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[...] 's head under his shoe, and were literally ‘ killing ’ him. A third, an oval-faced, bilious-looking man, with sleek black hair cropped close, and whiskers and beard shaved down to blue dots, who sucked the head of a thick stick, and from time to time took it out of his mouth, to see how it was getting on. A fourth did nothing but whistle. A fifth did nothing but spit. And indeed all these [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] corn bread (almost as good for the digestion as a kneaded pin-cushion ), for breakfast, and for supper. Those who do not observe this custom, and who help themselves several times instead, usually suck their knives and forks meditatively, until they have decided what to take next: then pull them out of their mouths: put them in the dish; help themselves; and fall to work again. At dinner, there [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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♪ You fold up all over town ♪ Stereo-mindset sucking you down ♪
(Mile End Kicks)