beard – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of beard

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to beard
Participle: bearded
Gerund: bearding

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ibeard
youbeard
he;she;itbeards
webeard
youbeard
theybeard

Perfect

Ihave bearded
youhave bearded
he;she;ithas bearded
wehave bearded
youhave bearded
theyhave bearded

Past

Ibearded
youbearded
he;she;itbearded
webearded
youbearded
theybearded

Pluperfect

Ihad bearded
youhad bearded
he;she;ithad bearded
wehad bearded
youhad bearded
theyhad bearded

Future

Iwill beard
youwill beard
he;she;itwill beard
wewill beard
youwill beard
theywill beard

Future Perfect

Iwill have bearded
youwill have bearded
he;she;itwill have bearded
wewill have bearded
youwill have bearded
theywill have bearded

Subjunctive

Present

Ibeard
youbeard
he;she;itbeard
webeard
youbeard
theybeard

Perfect

Ihave bearded
youhave bearded
he;she;ithave bearded
wehave bearded
youhave bearded
theyhave bearded

Imperfect

Ibearded
youbearded
he;she;itbearded
webearded
youbearded
theybearded

Pluperfect

Ihad bearded
youhad bearded
he;she;ithad bearded
wehad bearded
youhad bearded
theyhad bearded

Conditional

Present

Iwould beard
youwould beard
he;she;itwould beard
wewould beard
youwould beard
theywould beard

Perfect

Iwould have bearded
youwould have bearded
he;she;itwould have bearded
wewould have bearded
youwould have bearded
theywould have bearded

Imperative

youbeard
weLet's beard
youbeard

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam bearding
youare bearding
he;she;itis bearding
weare bearding
youare bearding
theyare bearding

Perfect

Ihave been bearding
youhave been bearding
he;she;ithas been bearding
wehave been bearding
youhave been bearding
theyhave been bearding

Past

Iwas bearding
youwere bearding
he;she;itwas bearding
wewere bearding
youwere bearding
theywere bearding

Pluperfect

Ihad been bearding
youhad been bearding
he;she;ithad been bearding
wehad been bearding
youhad been bearding
theyhad been bearding

Future

Iwill be bearding
youwill be bearding
he;she;itwill be bearding
wewill be bearding
youwill be bearding
theywill be bearding

Future Perfect

Iwill have been bearding
youwill have been bearding
he;she;itwill have been bearding
wewill have been bearding
youwill have been bearding
theywill have been bearding

Conditional

Present

Iwould be bearding
youwould be bearding
he;she;itwould be bearding
wewould be bearding
youwould be bearding
theywould be bearding

Perfect

Iwould have been bearding
youwould have been bearding
he;she;itwould have been bearding
wewould have been bearding
youwould have been bearding
theywould have been bearding

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'beard'

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 'beard'

bard, bead, bear, beward, board, abear, award, bad, bald, band,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *bʰardʰéh₂
3. From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂.
4. Cognates
5. Cognate with Scots beird (“beard”), Yola bearde (“beard”), North Frisian biard (“beard”), Saterland Frisian Boart (“beard”), West Frisian burd (“beard”), Bavarian Bårt (“beard”), Dutch baard (“beard”), German Bart (“beard”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Baart (“beard”), Vilamovian biöt (“beard”), Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), Icelandic barð (“brim; edge, ridge”), Norwegian Bokmål bart (“moustache”), Norwegian Nynorsk bard, barde (“edge, rim”), bart (“moustache”), Crimean Gothic bars (“beard”); also Latin barba (“beard”), Latvian bārda (“beard”), Lithuanian barzda (“beard”), Belarusian барада́ (baradá, “beard”), Bulgarian and Macedonian брада́ (bradá, “beard; chin”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene brada (“beard”), Russian and Ukrainian борода́ (borodá, “beard”), Serbo-Croatian бра́да, bráda (“beard”). Doublet of barb.

Verbs referencing "beard"

English border.

Sample Sentences

  • Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
  • Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk? [1765, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:]
  • No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face. [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
  • We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den... [1943 December 6, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby:]
  • . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed. [1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92:]
  • Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […] [1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit, page 39:]
  • Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it. [2017, Hildred Billings, Blown By An Inconvenient Wind:]