Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dodder
Participle: doddered
Gerund: doddering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dodder |
| you | dodder |
| he;she;it | dodders |
| we | dodder |
| you | dodder |
| they | dodder |
Perfect
| I | have doddered |
| you | have doddered |
| he;she;it | has doddered |
| we | have doddered |
| you | have doddered |
| they | have doddered |
Past
| I | doddered |
| you | doddered |
| he;she;it | doddered |
| we | doddered |
| you | doddered |
| they | doddered |
Pluperfect
| I | had doddered |
| you | had doddered |
| he;she;it | had doddered |
| we | had doddered |
| you | had doddered |
| they | had doddered |
Future
| I | will dodder |
| you | will dodder |
| he;she;it | will dodder |
| we | will dodder |
| you | will dodder |
| they | will dodder |
Future Perfect
| I | will have doddered |
| you | will have doddered |
| he;she;it | will have doddered |
| we | will have doddered |
| you | will have doddered |
| they | will have doddered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dodder |
| you | dodder |
| he;she;it | dodder |
| we | dodder |
| you | dodder |
| they | dodder |
Perfect
| I | have doddered |
| you | have doddered |
| he;she;it | have doddered |
| we | have doddered |
| you | have doddered |
| they | have doddered |
Imperfect
| I | doddered |
| you | doddered |
| he;she;it | doddered |
| we | doddered |
| you | doddered |
| they | doddered |
Pluperfect
| I | had doddered |
| you | had doddered |
| he;she;it | had doddered |
| we | had doddered |
| you | had doddered |
| they | had doddered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dodder |
| you | would dodder |
| he;she;it | would dodder |
| we | would dodder |
| you | would dodder |
| they | would dodder |
Perfect
| I | would have doddered |
| you | would have doddered |
| he;she;it | would have doddered |
| we | would have doddered |
| you | would have doddered |
| they | would have doddered |
Imperative
| you | dodder |
| we | Let's dodder |
| you | dodder |
Verbs conjugated like 'dodder'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dodder'
bodder,
didder,
dudder,
fodder,
sodder,
border,
dander,
dodd,
dodge,
doer,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1617, from M.E.
daderen "to quake, tremble" (1483), apparently frequentative of dialectal
dade, on a form similar to
totter, patter.
2. From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”). Compare Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Verbs referencing "dodder"
English
dodge, German, old spelling
tattern.
Sample Sentences
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Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit. [1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 432:]
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Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks. [2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pages 59–60:]