Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unpen
Participle: unpenned
Gerund: unpenning
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | unpen |
| you | unpen |
| he;she;it | unpens |
| we | unpen |
| you | unpen |
| they | unpen |
Perfect
| I | have unpenned |
| you | have unpenned |
| he;she;it | has unpenned |
| we | have unpenned |
| you | have unpenned |
| they | have unpenned |
Past
| I | unpenned |
| you | unpenned |
| he;she;it | unpenned |
| we | unpenned |
| you | unpenned |
| they | unpenned |
Pluperfect
| I | had unpenned |
| you | had unpenned |
| he;she;it | had unpenned |
| we | had unpenned |
| you | had unpenned |
| they | had unpenned |
Future
| I | will unpen |
| you | will unpen |
| he;she;it | will unpen |
| we | will unpen |
| you | will unpen |
| they | will unpen |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unpenned |
| you | will have unpenned |
| he;she;it | will have unpenned |
| we | will have unpenned |
| you | will have unpenned |
| they | will have unpenned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unpen |
| you | unpen |
| he;she;it | unpen |
| we | unpen |
| you | unpen |
| they | unpen |
Perfect
| I | have unpenned |
| you | have unpenned |
| he;she;it | have unpenned |
| we | have unpenned |
| you | have unpenned |
| they | have unpenned |
Imperfect
| I | unpenned |
| you | unpenned |
| he;she;it | unpenned |
| we | unpenned |
| you | unpenned |
| they | unpenned |
Pluperfect
| I | had unpenned |
| you | had unpenned |
| he;she;it | had unpenned |
| we | had unpenned |
| you | had unpenned |
| they | had unpenned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unpen |
| you | would unpen |
| he;she;it | would unpen |
| we | would unpen |
| you | would unpen |
| they | would unpen |
Perfect
| I | would have unpenned |
| you | would have unpenned |
| he;she;it | would have unpenned |
| we | would have unpenned |
| you | would have unpenned |
| they | would have unpenned |
Imperative
| you | unpen |
| we | Let's unpen |
| you | unpen |
Verbs conjugated like 'unpen'
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 'unpen'
unpeg,
unpin,
impen,
lumpen,
open,
pen,
ripen,
unban,
unbe,
unbed,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + pen.
Sample Sentences
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Her supplies, a billy of tea and scraps of salt beef and damper (her dog got the beef), gave out the first day, though that was as nothing to her compared with the bleat of the penned sheep, for it was summer and droughty, and her dog could not unpen them. [1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16:]
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“What does a girl need college for?” my father’s words come rippling to me, from way back when he sorted mail, in the wave from my maillady, as I wave back with spring in my lungs, out jogging, unpenned from writing my reviews of Molly Peacock’s Original Love and Private I for the Y […] [2010, Gayl Teller, “Note Carriers”, in Inside the Embrace: Poems, Cincinnati, Oh.: Cherry Grove, →ISBN, page 80:]