Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yark
Participle: yarked
Gerund: yarking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yark |
| you | yark |
| he;she;it | yarks |
| we | yark |
| you | yark |
| they | yark |
Perfect
| I | have yarked |
| you | have yarked |
| he;she;it | has yarked |
| we | have yarked |
| you | have yarked |
| they | have yarked |
Past
| I | yarked |
| you | yarked |
| he;she;it | yarked |
| we | yarked |
| you | yarked |
| they | yarked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yarked |
| you | had yarked |
| he;she;it | had yarked |
| we | had yarked |
| you | had yarked |
| they | had yarked |
Future
| I | will yark |
| you | will yark |
| he;she;it | will yark |
| we | will yark |
| you | will yark |
| they | will yark |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yarked |
| you | will have yarked |
| he;she;it | will have yarked |
| we | will have yarked |
| you | will have yarked |
| they | will have yarked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yark |
| you | yark |
| he;she;it | yark |
| we | yark |
| you | yark |
| they | yark |
Perfect
| I | have yarked |
| you | have yarked |
| he;she;it | have yarked |
| we | have yarked |
| you | have yarked |
| they | have yarked |
Imperfect
| I | yarked |
| you | yarked |
| he;she;it | yarked |
| we | yarked |
| you | yarked |
| they | yarked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yarked |
| you | had yarked |
| he;she;it | had yarked |
| we | had yarked |
| you | had yarked |
| they | had yarked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yark |
| you | would yark |
| he;she;it | would yark |
| we | would yark |
| you | would yark |
| they | would yark |
Perfect
| I | would have yarked |
| you | would have yarked |
| he;she;it | would have yarked |
| we | would have yarked |
| you | would have yarked |
| they | would have yarked |
Imperative
| you | yark |
| we | Let's yark |
| you | yark |
Verbs conjugated like 'yark'
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 'yark'
bark,
cark,
dark,
fark,
hark,
jark,
lark,
mark,
nark,
park,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- beating the human body with special implements
- cut, feague, flagellate, flog, knout, lash, lather, quirt, scourge, scutch, slash, strap, stripe, whip, thresh, whoop
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English ȝarken, ȝerken, from Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”), Proto-West Germanic *garwakōn, equivalent to yare + -k. Related to Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”), ġearu (“prepared, ready, equipped, complete, finished, yare”). More at yare.
Sample Sentences
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[...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...] [1881, Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland:]
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he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter], as cunningly as any Carter in France. [, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96]