Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to young
Participle: younged
Gerund: younging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | young |
| you | young |
| he;she;it | youngs |
| we | young |
| you | young |
| they | young |
Perfect
| I | have younged |
| you | have younged |
| he;she;it | has younged |
| we | have younged |
| you | have younged |
| they | have younged |
Past
| I | younged |
| you | younged |
| he;she;it | younged |
| we | younged |
| you | younged |
| they | younged |
Pluperfect
| I | had younged |
| you | had younged |
| he;she;it | had younged |
| we | had younged |
| you | had younged |
| they | had younged |
Future
| I | will young |
| you | will young |
| he;she;it | will young |
| we | will young |
| you | will young |
| they | will young |
Future Perfect
| I | will have younged |
| you | will have younged |
| he;she;it | will have younged |
| we | will have younged |
| you | will have younged |
| they | will have younged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | young |
| you | young |
| he;she;it | young |
| we | young |
| you | young |
| they | young |
Perfect
| I | have younged |
| you | have younged |
| he;she;it | have younged |
| we | have younged |
| you | have younged |
| they | have younged |
Imperfect
| I | younged |
| you | younged |
| he;she;it | younged |
| we | younged |
| you | younged |
| they | younged |
Pluperfect
| I | had younged |
| you | had younged |
| he;she;it | had younged |
| we | had younged |
| you | had younged |
| they | had younged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would young |
| you | would young |
| he;she;it | would young |
| we | would young |
| you | would young |
| they | would young |
Perfect
| I | would have younged |
| you | would have younged |
| he;she;it | would have younged |
| we | would have younged |
| you | would have younged |
| they | would have younged |
Imperative
| you | young |
| we | Let's young |
| you | young |
Verbs conjugated like 'young'
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 'young'
boing,
bong,
boun,
bound,
bung,
count,
dong,
dung,
found,
gong,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
Sample Sentences
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The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger). [1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:]
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Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census. [1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, page 74:]
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Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces. [1994, R. Kerrich, D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI:]
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The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas. [2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671–1677:]