chop – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to chop off
Participle: chopped off
Gerund: chopping off

Cognates

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Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	chop off
we	Let's chop off
you	chop off

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to exchange goods or services without involving money

barter, dicker, exchange, swap, swop

cut

hack, fell, whack, hew, axe, saw, rend

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "to cut," 1362, perhaps from O.Fr. (Picard) choper, from O.Fr. coper "to cut off," from V.L. *cuppare "to decapitate," infl. by couper "to strike." Meaning "slice of meat" is c.1640; hence, chop-house (1690). Chopper, slang for "helicopter," dates from 1951, Korean War military slang. Meaning "stripped-down modified motorcycle" is from 1965.
2. From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic (cf. Swedish tjoff), or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
3. Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
4. Compare French couper (“to chop”), Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, cut”), Swedish and Norwegian kapa, kappa, kabba (“to chop/cut (off)”). See: Middle English 'choppen', Frisian, Saterlandic 'kappe', Dutch 'kappen', German, old spelling 'kappen'.

Verbs referencing "chop"

English chump, Dutch tjappen.

Sample Sentences