Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to beach
Participle: beached
Gerund: beaching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | beach |
| you | beach |
| he;she;it | beaches |
| we | beach |
| you | beach |
| they | beach |
Perfect
| I | have beached |
| you | have beached |
| he;she;it | has beached |
| we | have beached |
| you | have beached |
| they | have beached |
Past
| I | beached |
| you | beached |
| he;she;it | beached |
| we | beached |
| you | beached |
| they | beached |
Pluperfect
| I | had beached |
| you | had beached |
| he;she;it | had beached |
| we | had beached |
| you | had beached |
| they | had beached |
Future
| I | will beach |
| you | will beach |
| he;she;it | will beach |
| we | will beach |
| you | will beach |
| they | will beach |
Future Perfect
| I | will have beached |
| you | will have beached |
| he;she;it | will have beached |
| we | will have beached |
| you | will have beached |
| they | will have beached |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | beach |
| you | beach |
| he;she;it | beach |
| we | beach |
| you | beach |
| they | beach |
Perfect
| I | have beached |
| you | have beached |
| he;she;it | have beached |
| we | have beached |
| you | have beached |
| they | have beached |
Imperfect
| I | beached |
| you | beached |
| he;she;it | beached |
| we | beached |
| you | beached |
| they | beached |
Pluperfect
| I | had beached |
| you | had beached |
| he;she;it | had beached |
| we | had beached |
| you | had beached |
| they | had beached |
Conditional
Present
| I | would beach |
| you | would beach |
| he;she;it | would beach |
| we | would beach |
| you | would beach |
| they | would beach |
Perfect
| I | would have beached |
| you | would have beached |
| he;she;it | would have beached |
| we | would have beached |
| you | would have beached |
| they | would have beached |
Imperative
| you | beach |
| we | Let's beach |
| you | beach |
Verbs conjugated like 'beach'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'beach'
bach,
beath,
belch,
bench,
bleach,
breach,
geach,
leach,
meach,
peach,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1535, probably from O.E. bæce, bece "stream," from P.Gmc. *bakiz. The initial extension was to loose, pebbly shores (1596), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves." Fr. grève shows the same evolution. The verb "to haul or run up on a beach" is first attested 1840. Beach bum first recorded 1962. Beachhead (1940) is on the model of bridgehead.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *bakiz
5. Proto-West Germanic *baki
6. Old English bæċ
7. Middle English bache
8. English beach
9. From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”).
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Cimbrian pach (“brook, creek, stream”), Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), German Low German Beek (“brook, stream”), Luxembourgish Baach (“brook, stream”), Mòcheno pòch (“brook, creek, stream”), Vilamovian bāh, baoch (“brook, stream”), Danish bæk (“brook”), Icelandic bekkur (“creek, spring, stream”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bekk (“brook, creek, stream”), Swedish bäck (“brook, creek, stream”); also Lithuanian banga (“billow, wave”). More at batch, beck.
Sample Sentences
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When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea. [1941, Emily Carr, “Salt Water”, in Klee Wyck:]
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It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 90”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
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Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis
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and beached them where Athenians formed for battle. [1974, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Iliad, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53:]