deal – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of deal

Nominal Forms

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

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of deal

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperfect

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

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youdeal with sb
weLet's deal with sb
youdeal with sb

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

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)