Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to task
Participle: tasked
Gerund: tasking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | task |
| you | task |
| he;she;it | tasks |
| we | task |
| you | task |
| they | task |
Perfect
| I | have tasked |
| you | have tasked |
| he;she;it | has tasked |
| we | have tasked |
| you | have tasked |
| they | have tasked |
Past
| I | tasked |
| you | tasked |
| he;she;it | tasked |
| we | tasked |
| you | tasked |
| they | tasked |
Pluperfect
| I | had tasked |
| you | had tasked |
| he;she;it | had tasked |
| we | had tasked |
| you | had tasked |
| they | had tasked |
Future
| I | will task |
| you | will task |
| he;she;it | will task |
| we | will task |
| you | will task |
| they | will task |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tasked |
| you | will have tasked |
| he;she;it | will have tasked |
| we | will have tasked |
| you | will have tasked |
| they | will have tasked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | task |
| you | task |
| he;she;it | task |
| we | task |
| you | task |
| they | task |
Perfect
| I | have tasked |
| you | have tasked |
| he;she;it | have tasked |
| we | have tasked |
| you | have tasked |
| they | have tasked |
Imperfect
| I | tasked |
| you | tasked |
| he;she;it | tasked |
| we | tasked |
| you | tasked |
| they | tasked |
Pluperfect
| I | had tasked |
| you | had tasked |
| he;she;it | had tasked |
| we | had tasked |
| you | had tasked |
| they | had tasked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would task |
| you | would task |
| he;she;it | would task |
| we | would task |
| you | would task |
| they | would task |
Perfect
| I | would have tasked |
| you | would have tasked |
| he;she;it | would have tasked |
| we | would have tasked |
| you | would have tasked |
| they | would have tasked |
Imperative
| you | task |
| we | Let's task |
| you | task |
Verbs conjugated like 'task'
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 'task'
ask,
bask,
cask,
mask,
tack,
talk,
tank,
tas,
tase,
tawk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax. See: Latin '
taxō'.
Sample Sentences
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On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
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All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
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There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. [a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:]
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By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers were tasked with demolishing it. [2021 May 19, “Network News: HS2 unearths 900 years of history in Buckinghamshire”, in RAIL, number 931, page 23:]
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He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
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Too impudent to task me with those errors. [c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii:]