talk – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to talk sb up
Participle: talked sb up
Gerund: talking sb up

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

I	talk sb up
you	talk sb up
he;she;it	talks sb up
we	talk sb up
you	talk sb up
they	talk sb up

Perfect

I	have talked sb up
you	have talked sb up
he;she;it	has talked sb up
we	have talked sb up
you	have talked sb up
they	have talked sb up

Past

I	talked sb up
you	talked sb up
he;she;it	talked sb up
we	talked sb up
you	talked sb up
they	talked sb up

Pluperfect

I	had talked sb up
you	had talked sb up
he;she;it	had talked sb up
we	had talked sb up
you	had talked sb up
they	had talked sb up

Future

I	will talk sb up
you	will talk sb up
he;she;it	will talk sb up
we	will talk sb up
you	will talk sb up
they	will talk sb up

Future Perfect

I	will have talked sb up
you	will have talked sb up
he;she;it	will have talked sb up
we	will have talked sb up
you	will have talked sb up
they	will have talked sb up

Subjunctive

Present

I	talk sb up
you	talk sb up
he;she;it	talk sb up
we	talk sb up
you	talk sb up
they	talk sb up

Perfect

I	have talked sb up
you	have talked sb up
he;she;it	have talked sb up
we	have talked sb up
you	have talked sb up
they	have talked sb up

Imperfect

I	talked sb up
you	talked sb up
he;she;it	talked sb up
we	talked sb up
you	talked sb up
they	talked sb up

Pluperfect

I	had talked sb up
you	had talked sb up
he;she;it	had talked sb up
we	had talked sb up
you	had talked sb up
they	had talked sb up

Conditional

Present

I	would talk sb up
you	would talk sb up
he;she;it	would talk sb up
we	would talk sb up
you	would talk sb up
they	would talk sb up

Perfect

I	would have talked sb up
you	would have talked sb up
he;she;it	would have talked sb up
we	would have talked sb up
you	would have talked sb up
they	would have talked sb up

Imperative

you	talk sb up
we	Let's talk sb up
you	talk sb up

Indicative

Present

I	am talking sb up
you	are talking sb up
he;she;it	is talking sb up
we	are talking sb up
you	are talking sb up
they	are talking sb up

Perfect

I	have been talking sb up
you	have been talking sb up
he;she;it	has been talking sb up
we	have been talking sb up
you	have been talking sb up
they	have been talking sb up

Past

I	was talking sb up
you	were talking sb up
he;she;it	was talking sb up
we	were talking sb up
you	were talking sb up
they	were talking sb up

Pluperfect

I	had been talking sb up
you	had been talking sb up
he;she;it	had been talking sb up
we	had been talking sb up
you	had been talking sb up
they	had been talking sb up

Future

I	will be talking sb up
you	will be talking sb up
he;she;it	will be talking sb up
we	will be talking sb up
you	will be talking sb up
they	will be talking sb up

Future Perfect

I	will have been talking sb up
you	will have been talking sb up
he;she;it	will have been talking sb up
we	will have been talking sb up
you	will have been talking sb up
they	will have been talking sb up

Conditional

Present

I	would be talking sb up
you	would be talking sb up
he;she;it	would be talking sb up
we	would be talking sb up
you	would be talking sb up
they	would be talking sb up

Perfect

I	would have been talking sb up
you	would have been talking sb up
he;she;it	would have been talking sb up
we	would have been talking sb up
you	would have been talking sb up
they	would have been talking sb up

Verbs conjugated like 'talk'

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 'talk'

balk, calk, stalk, tack, talc, tale, talke, tank, task, tawk,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to communicate to someone else by means of speech: articulate, babble, blab, chat, chatter, converse, discuss, jabber, quethe, say, speak, verbalize, yammer
To create scandal: gossip
to admit to the truth: acknowledge, admit, assent, avow, beknow, come clean, concede, confess, fess, fess up, front up, make a clean breast, own, own up, shrive, sing, spill one's guts, spill the beans, step forward, tell all, unbosom
communicate: converse, speak, confer, discuss, pronounce, chatter, gossip, harangue

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1225, talken, probably a dim. or frequentative form related to M.E. tale "story," ultimately from the same source as tale (cf. hark from hear, stalk from steal) and replacing that word as a verb. E.Fris. has talken "to talk, chatter, whisper." To talk shop is from 1854. To talk turkey is from 1824, supposedly from an elaborate joke about a swindled Indian. Talking head is from 1968. Talkative is first recorded 1432. To talk back "answer impudently or rudely" is from 1869.
2. From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English *tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-West Germanic *talkōn, from Proto-Germanic *talkōną (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell + -k.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Low German taalken (“to chatter, gossip, talk”). Related also to Bavarian zoin (“to pay”), Cimbrian zaln (“to pay”), Dutch talen (“to care, long; to speak; to say”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Mòcheno zoln (“to pay”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tale (“to talk, speak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Norwegian Nynorsk tala (“to speak, talk”); also Latin dolus (“deceit, deception, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery; malice; artifice, device, stratagem”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “deceit, trick; wiles; bait”), Armenian տող (toġ, “line (in a text)”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- (“to talk”) (due to Grimm's law), which is the source of loquacious. See: Proto-Germanic '*talōną', Low Saxon 'taalken', Dutch 'talen', German, old spelling 'zahlen', Norwegian, nynorsk 'tala'.

Verbs referencing "talk"

Hawai'i Creole English talk, Tok Pisin tok, Sranan taki, Low Saxon taalken.

Sample Sentences

[...] sort o ’ handling. The fellow that was trading for her didn't want her baby; and she was one of your real high sort, when her blood was up. I tell you, she squeezed up her child in her arms, and talked, and went on real awful. It kinder makes my blood run cold to think of ’ t; and when they carried off the child, and locked her up, she jest went ravin ’ mad, and died in a week. Clear waste, sir, [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
The captain being gone, we compose ourselves to read, if the place be light enough; and if not, we doze and talk alternately. At one, a bell rings, and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes, and another of roasted apples; and plates of pig 's face, cold ham, salt beef; or perhaps a [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
“ O ! missis, missis, ” said Eliza, “ there's been a trader talking with master in the parlor ! I heard him. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
“ Well, but, missis, _you_ never would give your consent—to—to — ” “ Nonsense, child ! to be sure, I should n't. What do you talk so for ? I would as soon have one of my own children sold. But really, Eliza, you are getting altogether too proud of that little fellow. A man can't put his nose into the door, but you think he [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
He was waited upon over the factory, shown the machinery by George, who, in high spirits, talked so fluently, held himself so erect, looked so handsome and manly, that his master began to feel an uneasy consciousness of inferiority. What business had his slave to be marching round the country, [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
“ O, George ! George ! you frighten me ! Why, I never heard you talk so; I 'm afraid you'll do something dreadful. I don't wonder at your feelings, at all; but oh, do be careful—do, do—for my sake—for Harry's ! ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
[...] fever; in four weeks became deaf; in a few weeks more, blind; in six months, dumb. He showed his anxious sense of this last deprivation, by often feeling the lips of other persons when they were talking, and then putting his hand upon his own, as if to assure himself that he had them in the right position. (American Notes for General Circulation)
“ Wife, you talk like a fool ! Really, it will be something pretty awkward for me, if she is. Haley saw that I hesitated about selling this child, and he'll think I connived at it, to get him out of the way. It [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
[...] She sent me to see why Lizy didn't come to dress her; and when I telled her she was off, she jest ris up, and ses she, ‘The Lord be praised; ’ and Mas’r, he seemed rael mad, and ses he, ‘Wife, you talk like a fool. ’ But Lor ! she'll bring him to ! I knows well enough how that'll be,—it's allers best to stand Missis ’ side the fence, now I tell yer. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
[...] pockets and stares at you, if you chance to be a stranger; or enters into conversation with the passengers about him. A great many newspapers are pulled out, and a few of them are read. Everybody talks to you, or to anybody else who hits his fancy. If you are an Englishman, he expects that that railroad is pretty much like an English railroad. If you say ‘No, ’ he says ‘Yes ? ’ (interrogatively [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
-Let's have this talk once and for all. -Can you go out ? -We have talked about this a thousand times. -Please. (Another End)
What are you talking about ? How dare you ? (Gladiator Underground)
[ footsteps thudding ] [intercom ringing] -Can I talk to you ? -Of course. (Stalker Jane)
Hard not having anyone to talk to. I miss talking to you too. (Sweet Dreams)
Oh, you wanted to keep talking about it ? Yeah. The-the game right? (Tomorrow, You Pretty Ghost)

talk – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of talk

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'talk'

Verbs similar to 'talk'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "talk"

Sample Sentences