infaran – Old English verb conjugation

Old English verb forms of infaran

Infinitive

infaran
infarenne

Participles

Presentinfarende
Pastinfæren; infaren

Indicative

Present

1st sing.infare
2nd sing.infærest; infærst
3rd sing.infæreþ; infærþ
1st plur.infaraþ
2nd plur.infaraþ
3rd plur.infaraþ

Past

1st sing.infōr
2nd sing.infōre
3rd sing.infōr
1st plur.infōron
2nd plur.infōron
3rd plur.infōron

Subjunctive

Present

1st sing.infare
2nd sing.infare
3rd sing.infare
1st plur.infaren
2nd plur.infaren
3rd plur.infaren

Past

1st sing.infōre
2nd sing.infōre
3rd sing.infōre
1st plur.infōren
2nd plur.infōren
3rd plur.infōren

Imperative

Singularinfar
Pluralinfaraþ

Verbs conjugated like 'infaran'

misfaran, wiþfaran, oferfaran, þurhfaran, ymbfaran, forþfaran, infaran, forfaran,

Verbs similar to 'infaran'

inferan, afaran, faran, gefaran, misfaran, tofaran, wiþfaran, afæran, anwadan, cnawan,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *infaran, equivalent to in- + faran. Compare Old High German infaran. See: Old High German 'infaran'.

Sample Sentences

  • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
  • ...þā læġ þǣr sum creopere lama fram cildhāde sē wæs dæġhwāmlīce ġeboren tō þām beorhtan ġete þæt hē ælmessan underfencge æt þām infarendum... (Then lay there a cripple, lame from childhood, who was daily carried to the 'Beautiful' Gate, that he might receive alms from those entering.)
  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Woruldcara, and welan, and flǣsċlīċe lustas forsmoriað ðǣs mōdes ðrotan, and ne geðafiað gōdne willan infaran tō his heortan, swilċe hī ðone līflīċan blǣd forðrǣstne ācwellon. Twā wiðerrǣde ðing geðēodde Drihten on ðisum cwyde, þæt sind ymhīdiġnyssa and lustas. (Concern about worldly things, and wealth, and carnal lusts choke the throat of the mind, and do not allow good will to enter the heart, as if they killed it by crushing the living fruit. The Lord connected two contrary things in this saying, which are cares and lusts.)

Cognates

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