Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to surf
Participle: surfed
Gerund: surfing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | surf |
| you | surf |
| he;she;it | surfs |
| we | surf |
| you | surf |
| they | surf |
Perfect
| I | have surfed |
| you | have surfed |
| he;she;it | has surfed |
| we | have surfed |
| you | have surfed |
| they | have surfed |
Past
| I | surfed |
| you | surfed |
| he;she;it | surfed |
| we | surfed |
| you | surfed |
| they | surfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had surfed |
| you | had surfed |
| he;she;it | had surfed |
| we | had surfed |
| you | had surfed |
| they | had surfed |
Future
| I | will surf |
| you | will surf |
| he;she;it | will surf |
| we | will surf |
| you | will surf |
| they | will surf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have surfed |
| you | will have surfed |
| he;she;it | will have surfed |
| we | will have surfed |
| you | will have surfed |
| they | will have surfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | surf |
| you | surf |
| he;she;it | surf |
| we | surf |
| you | surf |
| they | surf |
Perfect
| I | have surfed |
| you | have surfed |
| he;she;it | have surfed |
| we | have surfed |
| you | have surfed |
| they | have surfed |
Imperfect
| I | surfed |
| you | surfed |
| he;she;it | surfed |
| we | surfed |
| you | surfed |
| they | surfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had surfed |
| you | had surfed |
| he;she;it | had surfed |
| we | had surfed |
| you | had surfed |
| they | had surfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would surf |
| you | would surf |
| he;she;it | would surf |
| we | would surf |
| you | would surf |
| they | would surf |
Perfect
| I | would have surfed |
| you | would have surfed |
| he;she;it | would have surfed |
| we | would have surfed |
| you | would have surfed |
| they | would have surfed |
Imperative
| you | surf |
| we | Let's surf |
| you | surf |
Verbs conjugated like 'surf'
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 'surf'
skurf,
smurf,
snurf,
turf,
barf,
buff,
burk,
burl,
burn,
burp,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Probably from earlier suff, suffe (“the inrush of the sea towards the shore”), possibly from Middle English suffe. Compare sough, surf (“a gutter, drain, sewer, trench”) and sough (“a soothing, gentle, murmuring sound of wind or water”). Alternatively, possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India, though this is doubtful as no positive etymon can be identified.
2. The verb is from 1917.
3. The verb referring to "browsing the Internet" was popularized by Jean Armour Polly.
Verbs referencing "surf"
French
surfer, Spanish
surfear, Dutch
surfen, German, old spelling
surfen, Italian
surfare.
Sample Sentences
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Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 90:]