Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fault
Participle: faulted
Gerund: faulting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fault |
| you | fault |
| he;she;it | faults |
| we | fault |
| you | fault |
| they | fault |
Perfect
| I | have faulted |
| you | have faulted |
| he;she;it | has faulted |
| we | have faulted |
| you | have faulted |
| they | have faulted |
Past
| I | faulted |
| you | faulted |
| he;she;it | faulted |
| we | faulted |
| you | faulted |
| they | faulted |
Pluperfect
| I | had faulted |
| you | had faulted |
| he;she;it | had faulted |
| we | had faulted |
| you | had faulted |
| they | had faulted |
Future
| I | will fault |
| you | will fault |
| he;she;it | will fault |
| we | will fault |
| you | will fault |
| they | will fault |
Future Perfect
| I | will have faulted |
| you | will have faulted |
| he;she;it | will have faulted |
| we | will have faulted |
| you | will have faulted |
| they | will have faulted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fault |
| you | fault |
| he;she;it | fault |
| we | fault |
| you | fault |
| they | fault |
Perfect
| I | have faulted |
| you | have faulted |
| he;she;it | have faulted |
| we | have faulted |
| you | have faulted |
| they | have faulted |
Imperfect
| I | faulted |
| you | faulted |
| he;she;it | faulted |
| we | faulted |
| you | faulted |
| they | faulted |
Pluperfect
| I | had faulted |
| you | had faulted |
| he;she;it | had faulted |
| we | had faulted |
| you | had faulted |
| they | had faulted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fault |
| you | would fault |
| he;she;it | would fault |
| we | would fault |
| you | would fault |
| they | would fault |
Perfect
| I | would have faulted |
| you | would have faulted |
| he;she;it | would have faulted |
| we | would have faulted |
| you | would have faulted |
| they | would have faulted |
Imperative
| you | fault |
| we | Let's fault |
| you | fault |
Verbs conjugated like 'fault'
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 'fault'
vault,
adult,
baulk,
boult,
caulk,
daunt,
default,
exult,
fable,
facet,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.
Sample Sentences
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For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee. [a. 1723, unknown author, The Devonshire Nymph:]
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"There will a team over there [he waves towards York's Rail Operating Centre] like flight engineers, maintaining it and faulting it from a ROC rather than a van by the side of the track." [2024 May 29, Philip Haigh, “The digital revolution and the switch to in-cab signalling”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 29:]