duet – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of duet

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to duet
Participle: dueted
Gerund: dueting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iduet
youduet
he;she;itduets
weduet
youduet
theyduet

Perfect

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

Past

Idueted
youdueted
he;she;itdueted
wedueted
youdueted
theydueted

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Subjunctive

Present

Iduet
youduet
he;she;itduet
weduet
youduet
theyduet

Perfect

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

Imperfect

Idueted
youdueted
he;she;itdueted
wedueted
youdueted
theydueted

Pluperfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Imperative

youduet
weLet's duet
youduet

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

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

Perfect

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

Past

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

Pluperfect

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

Future

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

Future Perfect

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

Conditional

Present

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

Perfect

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

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'duet'

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 'duet'

diet, duct, due, duel, dunt, dust, abet, adult, aret, bet,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *dwóh₁
3. From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).

Sample Sentences

  • 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
  • He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […] [1879, George Meredith, chapter 20, in The Egoist:]
  • ‘Ti-yi-yi-yime is on my side, yes it is,’ I used to yodel, duetting with Mick Jagger as I gyrated alone in my student room. [2011, Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending, Random House Canada, page 45:]
  • 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223,
  • Duetting species are typically monogamous.
  • In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part. [1986, Thomas A. Sebeok, chapter 7, in I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs, New York: Springer Science+Business, published 2013, page 87:]
  • Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […] [1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:]
  • After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me. [1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:]
  • “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present. [1864, Charles Whitehead, “The Stock-Broker”, in Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English, volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, page 23:]
  • 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward.
  • “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.