Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to forgather
Participle: forgathered
Gerund: forgathering
Indicative
Present
| I | forgather |
| you | forgather |
| he;she;it | forgathers |
| we | forgather |
| you | forgather |
| they | forgather |
Perfect
| I | have forgathered |
| you | have forgathered |
| he;she;it | has forgathered |
| we | have forgathered |
| you | have forgathered |
| they | have forgathered |
Past
| I | forgathered |
| you | forgathered |
| he;she;it | forgathered |
| we | forgathered |
| you | forgathered |
| they | forgathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had forgathered |
| you | had forgathered |
| he;she;it | had forgathered |
| we | had forgathered |
| you | had forgathered |
| they | had forgathered |
Future
| I | will forgather |
| you | will forgather |
| he;she;it | will forgather |
| we | will forgather |
| you | will forgather |
| they | will forgather |
Future Perfect
| I | will have forgathered |
| you | will have forgathered |
| he;she;it | will have forgathered |
| we | will have forgathered |
| you | will have forgathered |
| they | will have forgathered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | forgather |
| you | forgather |
| he;she;it | forgather |
| we | forgather |
| you | forgather |
| they | forgather |
Perfect
| I | have forgathered |
| you | have forgathered |
| he;she;it | have forgathered |
| we | have forgathered |
| you | have forgathered |
| they | have forgathered |
Imperfect
| I | forgathered |
| you | forgathered |
| he;she;it | forgathered |
| we | forgathered |
| you | forgathered |
| they | forgathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had forgathered |
| you | had forgathered |
| he;she;it | had forgathered |
| we | had forgathered |
| you | had forgathered |
| they | had forgathered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would forgather |
| you | would forgather |
| he;she;it | would forgather |
| we | would forgather |
| you | would forgather |
| they | would forgather |
Perfect
| I | would have forgathered |
| you | would have forgathered |
| he;she;it | would have forgathered |
| we | would have forgathered |
| you | would have forgathered |
| they | would have forgathered |
Imperative
| you | forgather |
| we | Let's forgather |
| you | forgather |
Verbs conjugated like 'forgather'
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 'forgather'
foregather,
forbathe,
fortatter,
forwither,
begather,
farther,
father,
feather,
formate,
forwander,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to come together as a group
- assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, fall in with, flock, gather, gather up, group, herd, league, mass, meet, meet up, pack, team, team up, throng
- congregate
- aggregate, assemble, collect, gather, marshal
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Scots forgather, foregather (“to gather up, assemble”), equivalent to for- + gather. Cognate with Dutch vergaderen (“to assemble”), German vergattern (“to assemble; to assign duty”). See: Dutch '
vergaderen', German, old spelling '
vergattern'.
Verbs referencing "forgather"
Dutch
vergaderen, German, old spelling
vergattern.
Sample Sentences
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Dean’s California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 9, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:]
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“And she caught you?” “Not once, but twice.” [...] “Half-way under the dressing-table, were you?” “The second time. When we first forgathered, I was sitting on the floor with a chair round my neck.” [1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]
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“I can tell you where to find them,’ she said, ‘with a fair degree of certainty; they foregather almost every evening about this time at a rather disreputable old pub.’ [1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725:]
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They found themselves obliged to forgather in Perugia, where few of them wished to be – least of all the French cardinals who would have preferred not to be in Italy at all. [2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 8:]