change – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of change

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to change sth round
Participle: changed sth round
Gerund: changing sth round

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ichange sth round
youchange sth round
he;she;itchanges sth round
wechange sth round
youchange sth round
theychange sth round

Perfect

Ihave changed sth round
youhave changed sth round
he;she;ithas changed sth round
wehave changed sth round
youhave changed sth round
theyhave changed sth round

Past

Ichanged sth round
youchanged sth round
he;she;itchanged sth round
wechanged sth round
youchanged sth round
theychanged sth round

Pluperfect

Ihad changed sth round
youhad changed sth round
he;she;ithad changed sth round
wehad changed sth round
youhad changed sth round
theyhad changed sth round

Future

Iwill change sth round
youwill change sth round
he;she;itwill change sth round
wewill change sth round
youwill change sth round
theywill change sth round

Future Perfect

Iwill have changed sth round
youwill have changed sth round
he;she;itwill have changed sth round
wewill have changed sth round
youwill have changed sth round
theywill have changed sth round

Subjunctive

Present

Ichange sth round
youchange sth round
he;she;itchange sth round
wechange sth round
youchange sth round
theychange sth round

Perfect

Ihave changed sth round
youhave changed sth round
he;she;ithave changed sth round
wehave changed sth round
youhave changed sth round
theyhave changed sth round

Imperfect

Ichanged sth round
youchanged sth round
he;she;itchanged sth round
wechanged sth round
youchanged sth round
theychanged sth round

Pluperfect

Ihad changed sth round
youhad changed sth round
he;she;ithad changed sth round
wehad changed sth round
youhad changed sth round
theyhad changed sth round

Conditional

Present

Iwould change sth round
youwould change sth round
he;she;itwould change sth round
wewould change sth round
youwould change sth round
theywould change sth round

Perfect

Iwould have changed sth round
youwould have changed sth round
he;she;itwould have changed sth round
wewould have changed sth round
youwould have changed sth round
theywould have changed sth round

Imperative

youchange sth round
weLet's change sth round
youchange sth round

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam changing sth round
youare changing sth round
he;she;itis changing sth round
weare changing sth round
youare changing sth round
theyare changing sth round

Perfect

Ihave been changing sth round
youhave been changing sth round
he;she;ithas been changing sth round
wehave been changing sth round
youhave been changing sth round
theyhave been changing sth round

Past

Iwas changing sth round
youwere changing sth round
he;she;itwas changing sth round
wewere changing sth round
youwere changing sth round
theywere changing sth round

Pluperfect

Ihad been changing sth round
youhad been changing sth round
he;she;ithad been changing sth round
wehad been changing sth round
youhad been changing sth round
theyhad been changing sth round

Future

Iwill be changing sth round
youwill be changing sth round
he;she;itwill be changing sth round
wewill be changing sth round
youwill be changing sth round
theywill be changing sth round

Future Perfect

Iwill have been changing sth round
youwill have been changing sth round
he;she;itwill have been changing sth round
wewill have been changing sth round
youwill have been changing sth round
theywill have been changing sth round

Conditional

Present

Iwould be changing sth round
youwould be changing sth round
he;she;itwould be changing sth round
wewould be changing sth round
youwould be changing sth round
theywould be changing sth round

Perfect

Iwould have been changing sth round
youwould have been changing sth round
he;she;itwould have been changing sth round
wewould have been changing sth round
youwould have been changing sth round
theywould have been changing sth round

Other

Verbs similar to 'change'

chance, charge, chaunge, cadge, cage, cane, canoe, chace, chafe, chank,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

nautical: to turn the bow through the wind
tack
to change the form or structure of
adapt, alter, amend, convert, differentiate, innovate, metamorphose, modify, revamp, rework, transform, transmogrify, transume, variate, vary
modify
modulate, regulate, alter, vary, convert, turn, mutate, transform
shift
fluctuate, transform, vacillate, resolve
substitute
commute, invert, replace, exchange, swap, switch, alternate, transpose

Antonyms

shift
permanence, steadiness, retention, location

Additional Information

Etymology

1. c.1225, from O.Fr. changier, from L.L. cambiare, from L. cambire "to exchange, barter," of Celtic origin, from PIE base *kamb- "to bend, crook." The financial sense of "balance returned when something is paid for" is first recorded 1622. Phrase change of heart is from 1828. Changeling "child substituted for another in infancy" is from 1584.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂embos
5. Proto-Celtic *kambosder.
6. Gaulish cambionbor.
7. Latin cambium
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Late Latin cambiō
17. Late Latin cambiāreder.
18. Old French changierder.
19. Anglo-Norman chaungerbor.
20. Middle English chaungen
21. English change
22. From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“to exchange, barter”), derived from the noun cambium (“change”) (whence was loaned the English doublet cambium), from Gaulish cambion, earlier *kambyom (“change”), related to Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂(e)mbos, *(s)kh₂(e)mbos (“crooked”). More at skimp, scam; see also Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-.
23. Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced Middle English wenden, from wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence wend).
24. The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe. See: Old French 'changier', Latin 'cambio', Italian 'cambiare', Portuguese 'cambiar', Romanian 'schimba', Sicilian 'canciari', Spanish 'cambiar'.

Verbs referencing "change"

Ido chanjar, Esperanto ŝanĝi, Italian cangiare, Sicilian canciari, Tok Pisin senisim, Zulu shintsha, Krio chenj, Cornish chanj.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] and ruin. At first, too, and even when the hour, and all the objects it exalts, have come to be familiar, it is difficult, alone and thoughtful, to hold them to their proper shapes and forms. They change with the wandering fancy; assume the semblance of things left far away; put on the well-remembered aspect of favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] and miserable, about an hour before noon, and lay down on the sofas to recover; during which interval, the captain would look in to communicate the state of the wind, the moral certainty of its changing to-morrow (the weather is always going to improve to-morrow, at sea ), the vessel 's rate of sailing, and so forth. Observations there were none to tell us of, for there was no sun to take them by. [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] letters are formed; she turns her head a little on one side like a person listening closely; her lips are apart; she seems scarcely to breathe; and her countenance, at first anxious, gradually changes to a smile, as she comprehends the lesson. She then holds up her tiny fingers, and spells the word in the manual alphabet; next, she takes her types and arranges her letters; and last, to make sure [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] to which our nature is exposed has fallen, must wear the glasses of some wretched side in Politics ? Will it be believed that the governor of such a house as this, is appointed, and deposed, and changed perpetually, as Parties fluctuate and vary, and as their despicable weathercocks are blown this way or that ? A hundred times in every week, some new most paltry exhibition of that narrow-minded [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] day, his bedstead turns up against the wall, and leaves more space for him to work in. His loom, or bench, or wheel, is there; and there he labours, sleeps and wakes, and counts the seasons as they change, and grows old. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] he puts another figure, whose face is hidden from him also. Day after day, and often when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he thinks of these two men until he is almost distracted. He never changes them. There they are always as he first imagined them—an old man on the right; a younger man upon the left—whose hidden features torture him to death, and have a mystery that makes him tremble. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] he has gone, perhaps, into the opposite extreme. ’ Poor Justice ! she has been made to wear much stranger garments in America than those she pines in, in the Capitol. Let us hope that she has changed her dress-maker since they were fashioned, and that the public sentiment of the country did not cut out the clothes she hides her lovely figure in, just now. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • The coachmen always change with the horses, and are usually as dirty as the coach. The first was dressed like a very shabby English baker; the second like a Russian peasant: for he wore a loose purple camlet robe, with a fur [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • All this I see as I sit in the little stern-gallery mentioned just now. Evening slowly steals upon the landscape and changes it before me, when we stop to set some emigrants ashore. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] away so awfully, alone; and to think how many years must come and go before the magic that created them will rear their like upon this ground again. But the time will come; and when, in their changed ashes, the growth of centuries unborn has struck its roots, the restless men of distant ages will repair to these again unpeopled solitudes; and their fellows, in cities far away, that slumber now, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Okay. Captain Lin, the condition of Professor Yan has changed. (Lie Zhan)
  • You 're getting changed ! We don't have much time. (Hoy Maharaja)