deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youdeal sb out
weLet's deal sb out
youdeal sb out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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)