thin – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to thin
Participle: thinned
Gerund: thinning

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

I	thin
you	thin
he;she;it	thins
we	thin
you	thin
they	thin

Perfect

I	have thinned
you	have thinned
he;she;it	has thinned
we	have thinned
you	have thinned
they	have thinned

Past

I	thinned
you	thinned
he;she;it	thinned
we	thinned
you	thinned
they	thinned

Pluperfect

I	had thinned
you	had thinned
he;she;it	had thinned
we	had thinned
you	had thinned
they	had thinned

Future

I	will thin
you	will thin
he;she;it	will thin
we	will thin
you	will thin
they	will thin

Future Perfect

I	will have thinned
you	will have thinned
he;she;it	will have thinned
we	will have thinned
you	will have thinned
they	will have thinned

Subjunctive

Present

I	thin
you	thin
he;she;it	thin
we	thin
you	thin
they	thin

Perfect

I	have thinned
you	have thinned
he;she;it	have thinned
we	have thinned
you	have thinned
they	have thinned

Imperfect

I	thinned
you	thinned
he;she;it	thinned
we	thinned
you	thinned
they	thinned

Pluperfect

I	had thinned
you	had thinned
he;she;it	had thinned
we	had thinned
you	had thinned
they	had thinned

Conditional

Present

I	would thin
you	would thin
he;she;it	would thin
we	would thin
you	would thin
they	would thin

Perfect

I	would have thinned
you	would have thinned
he;she;it	would have thinned
we	would have thinned
you	would have thinned
they	would have thinned

Imperative

you	thin
we	Let's thin
you	thin

Indicative

Present

I	am thinning
you	are thinning
he;she;it	is thinning
we	are thinning
you	are thinning
they	are thinning

Perfect

I	have been thinning
you	have been thinning
he;she;it	has been thinning
we	have been thinning
you	have been thinning
they	have been thinning

Past

I	was thinning
you	were thinning
he;she;it	was thinning
we	were thinning
you	were thinning
they	were thinning

Pluperfect

I	had been thinning
you	had been thinning
he;she;it	had been thinning
we	had been thinning
you	had been thinning
they	had been thinning

Future

I	will be thinning
you	will be thinning
he;she;it	will be thinning
we	will be thinning
you	will be thinning
they	will be thinning

Future Perfect

I	will have been thinning
you	will have been thinning
he;she;it	will have been thinning
we	will have been thinning
you	will have been thinning
they	will have been thinning

Conditional

Present

I	would be thinning
you	would be thinning
he;she;it	would be thinning
we	would be thinning
you	would be thinning
they	would be thinning

Perfect

I	would have been thinning
you	would have been thinning
he;she;it	would have been thinning
we	would have been thinning
you	would have been thinning
they	would have been thinning

Verbs conjugated like 'thin'

abet, abhor, abut, acquit, admit, affrap, allot, alum, amel, amit, anagram, anvil, apparel, aret, arret, assot, astun, attrap, augur, avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'thin'

chin, shin, thig, thing, think, tin, twin, athink, bein, bin,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

dilute: weaken, diminish, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, expand

Antonyms

to make something more viscous: dilute, thicken, water down

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

~ down something, ~ something down, ~ down, ~ out, ~ out something, ~ something out,

Etymology

1. O.E. þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from P.Gmc. *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. W.Fris. ten, M.L.G. dunne, Du. dun, O.H.G. dunni, Ger. dünn, O.N. þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of base *ten- "stretch" (cf. L. tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).

"These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre." [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]

The verb is from O.E. þynnian "to make thin" (cf. Ger. dünnen, Du. dunnen); intrans. sense of "to become less numerous" is attested from 1743; that of "to become thinner" is recorded from 1804. Thin-skinned is attested from 1598; the fig. sense of "touchy" is from 1680.
2. From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
3. Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous. See: Welsh 'tenau'.

Sample Sentences

Exhausted fathers thinned the blood,
You curse the legacy of pain;
Darling of an infected brood,
You feel disaster climb the vein. [1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:]
The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal. [2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, page 3:]

thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

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 'thin'

Verbs similar to 'thin'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Sample Sentences