Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to brown
Participle: browned
Gerund: browning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | brown |
| you | brown |
| he;she;it | browns |
| we | brown |
| you | brown |
| they | brown |
Perfect
| I | have browned |
| you | have browned |
| he;she;it | has browned |
| we | have browned |
| you | have browned |
| they | have browned |
Past
| I | browned |
| you | browned |
| he;she;it | browned |
| we | browned |
| you | browned |
| they | browned |
Pluperfect
| I | had browned |
| you | had browned |
| he;she;it | had browned |
| we | had browned |
| you | had browned |
| they | had browned |
Future
| I | will brown |
| you | will brown |
| he;she;it | will brown |
| we | will brown |
| you | will brown |
| they | will brown |
Future Perfect
| I | will have browned |
| you | will have browned |
| he;she;it | will have browned |
| we | will have browned |
| you | will have browned |
| they | will have browned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | brown |
| you | brown |
| he;she;it | brown |
| we | brown |
| you | brown |
| they | brown |
Perfect
| I | have browned |
| you | have browned |
| he;she;it | have browned |
| we | have browned |
| you | have browned |
| they | have browned |
Imperfect
| I | browned |
| you | browned |
| he;she;it | browned |
| we | browned |
| you | browned |
| they | browned |
Pluperfect
| I | had browned |
| you | had browned |
| he;she;it | had browned |
| we | had browned |
| you | had browned |
| they | had browned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would brown |
| you | would brown |
| he;she;it | would brown |
| we | would brown |
| you | would brown |
| they | would brown |
Perfect
| I | would have browned |
| you | would have browned |
| he;she;it | would have browned |
| we | would have browned |
| you | would have browned |
| they | would have browned |
Imperative
| you | brown |
| we | Let's brown |
| you | brown |
Verbs conjugated like 'brown'
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 'brown'
brawn,
brow,
crown,
drown,
frown,
rown,
becrown,
begown,
blow,
blowe,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-?
3. Proto-Germanic *brūnaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *brūn
5. Old English brūn
6. Middle English broun
7. English brown
8. Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
9. Cognates
10. * Dutch bruin
11. * German braun
12. * Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
13. * Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
14. * Latin brunneus (“brown”)
15. * Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
16. * Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
17. * West Frisian brún
Sample Sentences
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Fry the onions until they brown.
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The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood. [2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 269:]
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Don't microwave your milk too long
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It browns and bubbles over [2019, Patricia Taxxon, “Cold Water”, in Doraemon:]
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i've just browned myself.
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Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […] [1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67:]
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Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
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A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. [1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:]
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It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced. [1860, Andrew Ure, Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 463:]
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the browning of America