Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tweet
Participle: tweeted
Gerund: tweeting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tweet |
| you | tweet |
| he;she;it | tweets |
| we | tweet |
| you | tweet |
| they | tweet |
Perfect
| I | have tweeted |
| you | have tweeted |
| he;she;it | has tweeted |
| we | have tweeted |
| you | have tweeted |
| they | have tweeted |
Past
| I | tweeted |
| you | tweeted |
| he;she;it | tweeted |
| we | tweeted |
| you | tweeted |
| they | tweeted |
Pluperfect
| I | had tweeted |
| you | had tweeted |
| he;she;it | had tweeted |
| we | had tweeted |
| you | had tweeted |
| they | had tweeted |
Future
| I | will tweet |
| you | will tweet |
| he;she;it | will tweet |
| we | will tweet |
| you | will tweet |
| they | will tweet |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tweeted |
| you | will have tweeted |
| he;she;it | will have tweeted |
| we | will have tweeted |
| you | will have tweeted |
| they | will have tweeted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tweet |
| you | tweet |
| he;she;it | tweet |
| we | tweet |
| you | tweet |
| they | tweet |
Perfect
| I | have tweeted |
| you | have tweeted |
| he;she;it | have tweeted |
| we | have tweeted |
| you | have tweeted |
| they | have tweeted |
Imperfect
| I | tweeted |
| you | tweeted |
| he;she;it | tweeted |
| we | tweeted |
| you | tweeted |
| they | tweeted |
Pluperfect
| I | had tweeted |
| you | had tweeted |
| he;she;it | had tweeted |
| we | had tweeted |
| you | had tweeted |
| they | had tweeted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tweet |
| you | would tweet |
| he;she;it | would tweet |
| we | would tweet |
| you | would tweet |
| they | would tweet |
Perfect
| I | would have tweeted |
| you | would have tweeted |
| he;she;it | would have tweeted |
| we | would have tweeted |
| you | would have tweeted |
| they | would have tweeted |
Imperative
| you | tweet |
| we | Let's tweet |
| you | tweet |
Verbs conjugated like 'tweet'
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 'tweet'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Verbs referencing "tweet"
French
gazouiller, Danish
tweete, Finnish with old forms
tviitata, Dutch
tweeten, German, old spelling
tweeten.
Sample Sentences
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[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it. [1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:]
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In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family. [2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:]
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=Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!" [2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service, retrieved 25 Jan 2017:]
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First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator. [2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:]
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In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social [2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist:]
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As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.” [2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette:]