Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to alternate
Participle: alternated
Gerund: alternating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | alternate |
| you | alternate |
| he;she;it | alternates |
| we | alternate |
| you | alternate |
| they | alternate |
Perfect
| I | have alternated |
| you | have alternated |
| he;she;it | has alternated |
| we | have alternated |
| you | have alternated |
| they | have alternated |
Past
| I | alternated |
| you | alternated |
| he;she;it | alternated |
| we | alternated |
| you | alternated |
| they | alternated |
Pluperfect
| I | had alternated |
| you | had alternated |
| he;she;it | had alternated |
| we | had alternated |
| you | had alternated |
| they | had alternated |
Future
| I | will alternate |
| you | will alternate |
| he;she;it | will alternate |
| we | will alternate |
| you | will alternate |
| they | will alternate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have alternated |
| you | will have alternated |
| he;she;it | will have alternated |
| we | will have alternated |
| you | will have alternated |
| they | will have alternated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | alternate |
| you | alternate |
| he;she;it | alternate |
| we | alternate |
| you | alternate |
| they | alternate |
Perfect
| I | have alternated |
| you | have alternated |
| he;she;it | have alternated |
| we | have alternated |
| you | have alternated |
| they | have alternated |
Imperfect
| I | alternated |
| you | alternated |
| he;she;it | alternated |
| we | alternated |
| you | alternated |
| they | alternated |
Pluperfect
| I | had alternated |
| you | had alternated |
| he;she;it | had alternated |
| we | had alternated |
| you | had alternated |
| they | had alternated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would alternate |
| you | would alternate |
| he;she;it | would alternate |
| we | would alternate |
| you | would alternate |
| they | would alternate |
Perfect
| I | would have alternated |
| you | would have alternated |
| he;she;it | would have alternated |
| we | would have alternated |
| you | would have alternated |
| they | would have alternated |
Imperative
| you | alternate |
| we | Let's alternate |
| you | alternate |
Verbs conjugated like 'alternate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'alternate'
altercate,
alienate,
antennate,
atterrate,
aberrate,
acerbate,
acervate,
acierate,
adulterate,
aerate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to alternate
- interchange, mix
- to vary by turns
- interchange
- interchange
- rotate, stagger, substitute, change, exchange
- waver
- vary, fluctuate, vacillate, oscillate, teeter, shift, seesaw
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1513, from L.
alternus "one after the other," pp. of
alternare "to do first one thing, then the other," from
alternus "every other," from
alter "the other" (see alter). The verb is recorded from 1599; the noun meaning "a substitute" is first attested 1848.
Alternative with the counter-culture sense of "better than the establishment" is attested from 1970, originally with reference to the press.
Alternate means "by turns;"
alternative (1590) means "offering a choice." Both imply two kinds or things.
2. Borrowed from Latin alternātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin alternō (“to take turns”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from alternus (“one after another, by turns”), from alter (“other”) + -nus. Doublet of altern; see also alter. See: Latin '
alternō'.
Verbs referencing "alternate"
Finnish with old forms
alternoida.
Sample Sentences
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The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. [1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra:]
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The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
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The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
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This case suggests that the alternation of a polyhedron should be bounded by actual vertex figures and alternated faces. The case of the cube is in agreement with this notion, since the alternated square is nothing. [1932, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, The densities of the regular polytopes, part 2, reprinted in 1995, F. Arthur Sherk, Peter Mcmullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivić Weiss (editors), Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, page 54:]