deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to deal out sth
Participle: dealt out sth
Gerund: dealing out sth

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

Ideal out sth
youdeal out sth
he;she;itdeals out sth
wedeal out sth
youdeal out sth
theydeal out sth

Perfect

Ihave dealt out sth
youhave dealt out sth
he;she;ithas dealt out sth
wehave dealt out sth
youhave dealt out sth
theyhave dealt out sth

Past

Idealt out sth
youdealt out sth
he;she;itdealt out sth
wedealt out sth
youdealt out sth
theydealt out sth

Pluperfect

Ihad dealt out sth
youhad dealt out sth
he;she;ithad dealt out sth
wehad dealt out sth
youhad dealt out sth
theyhad dealt out sth

Future

Iwill deal out sth
youwill deal out sth
he;she;itwill deal out sth
wewill deal out sth
youwill deal out sth
theywill deal out sth

Future Perfect

Iwill have dealt out sth
youwill have dealt out sth
he;she;itwill have dealt out sth
wewill have dealt out sth
youwill have dealt out sth
theywill have dealt out sth

Subjunctive

Present

Ideal out sth
youdeal out sth
he;she;itdeal out sth
wedeal out sth
youdeal out sth
theydeal out sth

Perfect

Ihave dealt out sth
youhave dealt out sth
he;she;ithave dealt out sth
wehave dealt out sth
youhave dealt out sth
theyhave dealt out sth

Imperfect

Idealt out sth
youdealt out sth
he;she;itdealt out sth
wedealt out sth
youdealt out sth
theydealt out sth

Pluperfect

Ihad dealt out sth
youhad dealt out sth
he;she;ithad dealt out sth
wehad dealt out sth
youhad dealt out sth
theyhad dealt out sth

Conditional

Present

Iwould deal out sth
youwould deal out sth
he;she;itwould deal out sth
wewould deal out sth
youwould deal out sth
theywould deal out sth

Perfect

Iwould have dealt out sth
youwould have dealt out sth
he;she;itwould have dealt out sth
wewould have dealt out sth
youwould have dealt out sth
theywould have dealt out sth

Imperative

youdeal out sth
weLet's deal out sth
youdeal out sth

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam dealing out sth
youare dealing out sth
he;she;itis dealing out sth
weare dealing out sth
youare dealing out sth
theyare dealing out sth

Perfect

Ihave been dealing out sth
youhave been dealing out sth
he;she;ithas been dealing out sth
wehave been dealing out sth
youhave been dealing out sth
theyhave been dealing out sth

Past

Iwas dealing out sth
youwere dealing out sth
he;she;itwas dealing out sth
wewere dealing out sth
youwere dealing out sth
theywere dealing out sth

Pluperfect

Ihad been dealing out sth
youhad been dealing out sth
he;she;ithad been dealing out sth
wehad been dealing out sth
youhad been dealing out sth
theyhad been dealing out sth

Future

Iwill be dealing out sth
youwill be dealing out sth
he;she;itwill be dealing out sth
wewill be dealing out sth
youwill be dealing out sth
theywill be dealing out sth

Future Perfect

Iwill have been dealing out sth
youwill have been dealing out sth
he;she;itwill have been dealing out sth
wewill have been dealing out sth
youwill have been dealing out sth
theywill have been dealing out sth

Conditional

Present

Iwould be dealing out sth
youwould be dealing out sth
he;she;itwould be dealing out sth
wewould be dealing out sth
youwould be dealing out sth
theywould be dealing out sth

Perfect

Iwould have been dealing out sth
youwould have been dealing out sth
he;she;itwould have been dealing out sth
wewould have been dealing out sth
youwould have been dealing out sth
theywould have been dealing out sth

Other

Verbs similar to 'deal'

beal, dead, deaf, dean, dear, decal, dial, feal, geal, heal,

Additional Information

Cf. Old English weak verbs dǣlan (deal), lǣfan (leave) and mǣnan (mean).

Etymology

1. from O.E. dæl "part, share, quantity," and its verbal derivative dælan "to divide," from P.Gmc. *dailaz; also found in Balto-Slavic (cf. O.C.S. delu "part," Lith. dalis). Meaning "to distribute cards before a game" is from 1529; business sense is 1837, originally slang. Meaning "an amount" is from 1562. New Deal is from F.D. Roosevelt speech of July 1932. Big deal is 1928; ironic use first recorded 1951 in "Catcher in the Rye." To deal with "handle" is attested from 1469. Dealership is from 1916.
2. From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoh₁-i-l- (“part, watershed”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ). See: Middle English 'delen', Proto-Germanic '*dailijaną', Dutch 'delen', German, old spelling 'teilen', Swedish 'dela', Lithuanian 'dalinti', Russian 'дели́ть'.

Verbs referencing "deal"

French dealer, Dutch dealen, German, old spelling dealen, Icelandic deila, Dutch delen, German, old spelling teilen, Danish dele, Russian делить, Scots Gaelic dèilig, Luxembourgish deelen, Welsh delio.

Sample Sentences

  • Every patient in this asylum sits down to dinner every day with a knife and fork; and in the midst of them sits the gentleman, whose manner of dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but amusements ? Not vapid, waterish amusements, but good strong stuff; dealing in round abuse and blackguard names; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain; pimping and pandering for all degrees of vicious taste, and gorging with coined lies [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] there six years, and was to remain, I think, three more. He had been convicted as a receiver of stolen goods, but even after his long imprisonment, denied his guilt, and said he had been hardly dealt by. It was his second offence. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats; of words and blows such as coalheavers deal upon each other, when they forget their breeding ? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [ 1 ] Gen. 16. The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • I saw in this place the whole process of picking, rolling, pressing, drying, packing in casks, and branding. All the tobacco thus dealt with, was in course of manufacture for chewing; and one would have supposed there was enough in that one storehouse to have filled even the comprehensive jaws of America. In this form, the weed [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] beforehand or avoid. All that night, the bell was never silent for five minutes at a time; and after every ring the vessel reeled again, sometimes beneath a single blow, sometimes beneath a dozen dealt in quick succession, the lightest of which seemed more than enough to beat in her frail keel, as though it had been pie-crust. Looking down upon the filthy river after dark, it seemed to be alive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] who wanted the appointment to vest in his own brother. In the course of debate, the deceased made some statements which Vinyard pronounced false, and made use of violent and insulting language, dealing largely in personalities, to which Mr. A. made no reply. After the adjournment, Mr. A. stepped up to Vinyard, and requested him to retract, which he refused to do, repeating the offensive [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Dear papa ! ” said Eva. “ _I cannot_, ” said St. Clare, rising, “ I _cannot_ have it so ! The Almighty hath dealt _very bitterly_ with me ! ” and St. Clare pronounced these words with a bitter emphasis, indeed. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ Never fear that ! ” said the first. “ If I get ’ em, I'll soon have their airs out of them; they'll soon find that they 've another kind of master to deal with than Monsieur St. Clare. ’ Pon my word, I'll buy that fellow. I like the shape of him. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)