culminate – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of culminate

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to culminate
Participle: culminated
Gerund: culminating

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iculminate
youculminate
he;she;itculminates
weculminate
youculminate
theyculminate

Perfect

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

Past

Iculminated
youculminated
he;she;itculminated
weculminated
youculminated
theyculminated

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Iculminate
youculminate
he;she;itculminate
weculminate
youculminate
theyculminate

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Iculminated
youculminated
he;she;itculminated
weculminated
youculminated
theyculminated

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youculminate
weLet's culminate
youculminate

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

cap
top, crown, climax, consummate, perfect

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1647, from L.L. culminatus, pp. of culminare "to crown," from L. culmen (gen. culminis) "peak, summit," contraction of columen (see column).
2. First attested in 1647; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, perfect passive participle of culminō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin culmen (“peak, highest point”, oblique stem culmin-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), older form columen (“top, summit”), from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.

Verbs referencing "culminate"

Finnish with old forms kulminoida.

Sample Sentences

  • As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator. [1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The type of Cycads culminated in the Mesozoic [1875, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology:]
  • The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating. [1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
  • This culminates in a timetable change in December 2020, at which point EMR will introduce a sixth train each hour out of St Pancras. [2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:]
  • Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
  • The class will culminate with a rigorous examination.
  • Mr. Bush has been marking the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 with a series of speeches about terrorism that culminated with his televised address last night. [2006 September 12, “President Bush’s Reality”, in New York Times:]
  • Born in 1866 in Pingdong County in the south of the island, Lin became an outlaw after a brief stint as a Qing dynasty official, but after the Japanese invasion in 1895 he used his bandit experience to organize guerrilla resistance. This culminated in successful attacks on Donggang in 1897, and Chaojhou in 1898 with an army of two thousand that included Paiwan and Hakka troops as well as Taiwanese. [2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 510:]
  • Approaching from the south on foot, elements of the CG battalion were first to come into contact and their attack culminated because the rate and accuracy of the VC small arms fire. The CG battalions attempted two assaults to penetrate[…] [2014 August 15, Major Kevin R. Kilbride, Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam (1954-1963): The Battle Of Ap Bac, Pickle Partners Publishing, →ISBN:]
  • As a result, the attack culminated the first day without additional artillery support. The towns of Eclisfontaine and Epinonville were not held on the first day as originally directed in the Corps plan. [2014 August 15, Major Bryan L. Woodcock, 91st Infantry In World War I--Analysis Of An AEF Division's Efforts To Achieve Battlefield Success [Illustrated Edition], Pickle Partners Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:]
  • I would like to know if there are any true moralists who would like to correspond with someone who just instinctively feels there's something wrong somewhere in this unbenevolent world and wants to save it by culminating love and eradicating the captive emotions of the self (Ego). [1986 April 26, Tony Marcus Antuan Haywood, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:]
  • The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading. [2010 September 7, “By the skin of her teeth”, in The Economist:]