hit – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of hit

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to hit out
Participle: hit out
Gerund: hitting out

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of hit

Indicative

Present

Ihit out
youhit out
he;she;ithits out
wehit out
youhit out
theyhit out

Perfect

Ihave hit out
youhave hit out
he;she;ithas hit out
wehave hit out
youhave hit out
theyhave hit out

Past

Ihit out
youhit out
he;she;ithit out
wehit out
youhit out
theyhit out

Pluperfect

Ihad hit out
youhad hit out
he;she;ithad hit out
wehad hit out
youhad hit out
theyhad hit out

Future

Iwill hit out
youwill hit out
he;she;itwill hit out
wewill hit out
youwill hit out
theywill hit out

Future Perfect

Iwill have hit out
youwill have hit out
he;she;itwill have hit out
wewill have hit out
youwill have hit out
theywill have hit out

Subjunctive

Present

Ihit out
youhit out
he;she;ithit out
wehit out
youhit out
theyhit out

Perfect

Ihave hit out
youhave hit out
he;she;ithave hit out
wehave hit out
youhave hit out
theyhave hit out

Imperfect

Ihit out
youhit out
he;she;ithit out
wehit out
youhit out
theyhit out

Pluperfect

Ihad hit out
youhad hit out
he;she;ithad hit out
wehad hit out
youhad hit out
theyhad hit out

Conditional

Present

Iwould hit out
youwould hit out
he;she;itwould hit out
wewould hit out
youwould hit out
theywould hit out

Perfect

Iwould have hit out
youwould have hit out
he;she;itwould have hit out
wewould have hit out
youwould have hit out
theywould have hit out

Imperative

youhit out
weLet's hit out
youhit out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam hitting out
youare hitting out
he;she;itis hitting out
weare hitting out
youare hitting out
theyare hitting out

Perfect

Ihave been hitting out
youhave been hitting out
he;she;ithas been hitting out
wehave been hitting out
youhave been hitting out
theyhave been hitting out

Past

Iwas hitting out
youwere hitting out
he;she;itwas hitting out
wewere hitting out
youwere hitting out
theywere hitting out

Pluperfect

Ihad been hitting out
youhad been hitting out
he;she;ithad been hitting out
wehad been hitting out
youhad been hitting out
theyhad been hitting out

Future

Iwill be hitting out
youwill be hitting out
he;she;itwill be hitting out
wewill be hitting out
youwill be hitting out
theywill be hitting out

Future Perfect

Iwill have been hitting out
youwill have been hitting out
he;she;itwill have been hitting out
wewill have been hitting out
youwill have been hitting out
theywill have been hitting out

Conditional

Present

Iwould be hitting out
youwould be hitting out
he;she;itwould be hitting out
wewould be hitting out
youwould be hitting out
theywould be hitting out

Perfect

Iwould have been hitting out
youwould have been hitting out
he;she;itwould have been hitting out
wewould have been hitting out
youwould have been hitting out
theywould have been hitting out

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'hit'

beset, broadcast, burst, bust, cost, crosscut, cut, forecast, hit, hurt, inset, let, misread, overset, overspread, put, read, rebroadcast, recut, relet, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'hit'

bit, chit, dit, fit, hat, hie, hilt, hint, hip, hist,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

strike hard
pound
hit, strike
swap
kill a person
kill
attack
attack
have sex with
diddle, plough, plug, rock, shelve, slay, copulate with
hit extremely hard
smash
to apply violent force to a person or object
abuse, aggress, assault, attack, beat, beleaguer, bepommel, beset, besiege, bombard, charge, dust up, fall on, fall upon, impugn, invade, lay into, lay siege, let someone have it, light into, onfall, onset, overrun, pommel, pound, rush, set the dogs upon, set upon, storm, strike, strike at, wap, whap
strike|beat
boom-boom
to administer a physical blow
bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, dab, dash, dowse, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, hammer, kick, knock, lunge, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pound, pummel, punch, rap, slam, slap, strike, swap, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, whack, whip, yerk
kick
calcitrate
strike
punch, bash, whack, thrash, flail, kick, buffet, smack
achieve
accomplish, attain, reach, gain, win
affect
fit, befit, suit, touch
find
discover
crash
clash, collide, strike, knock, bump, butt, jostle

Antonyms

to administer a physical blow
block
achieve
relinquish, forsake, retreat
affect
eschew, shun, repel, repudiate
find
lose, misplace, mislay, miss
crash
whisper, reverberation, murmur, din

Additional Information

Etymology

1. O.E. hyttan "come upon, meet with," from O.N. hitta "to light upon, meet with," from P.Gmc. *khitjanan. Meaning shifted in late O.E. period to "strike," via "to reach with a blow or missile," and replaced O.E. slean in this sense. Noun meaning "successful play, song, person," etc. first recorded 1811, from verb meaning "to hit the mark, succeed" (c.1400). Underworld slang meaning "to kill by plan" is 1955 (n. is from 1970). Meaning "dose of narcotic" is 1951, from phrases like hit the bottle "drink alcohol" (1889). Original sense survives in phrases such as hit it off (1780) and hit on (1970s). To hit the nail on the head (1574) is from archery. Hit the road "leave" is from 1873; to hit (someone) up "request something" is from 1917. Hit and run is 1899 as a baseball play, 1924 as a driver failing to stop at a crash he caused. To not know what hit (one) is from 1923.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti
5. Proto-Germanic *hittijaną
6. Old Norse hittader.
7. Old English hyttan
8. Middle English hitten
9. English hit
10. Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit, encounter”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”). Probably also related to Dutch hei (“mallet”), German Heie (“wooden hammer, mallet”).
13. (something very successful): Compare typologically striking, Russian порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) (<~ порази́ть (porazítʹ) <~ рази́ть (razítʹ)). See: Middle English 'hitten', Middle English 'hitten', Proto-Germanic '*hittijaną', Dutch 'hitten', Danish 'hitte', Swedish 'hitta', Norwegian, nynorsk 'hitta', Latin 'caedō'.

Verbs referencing "hit"

Danish hitte, Thai ฮิต, Finnish with old forms hitata.

Sample Sentences

  • A head-wind! Imagine a human face upon the vessel 's prow, with fifteen thousand Samsons in one bent upon driving her back, and hitting her exactly between the eyes whenever she attempts to advance an inch. Imagine the ship herself, with every pulse and artery of her huge body swollen and bursting under this maltreatment, sworn to [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] to be a stranger; or enters into conversation with the passengers about him. A great many newspapers are pulled out, and a few of them are read. Everybody talks to you, or to anybody else who hits his fancy. If you are an Englishman, he expects that that railroad is pretty much like an English railroad. If you say ‘No, ’ he says ‘Yes ? ’ (interrogatively ), and asks in what respect they [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Sartin, ” said Sam, “ dat's de idee. Mas’r Haley hits de thing right in de middle. Now, der's two roads to de river,—de dirt road and der pike,—which Mas’r mean to take ? ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection. When poured out, he took it and looked at it with a sharp, complacent air, like a man who thinks he has done about the right thing, and hit the nail on the head, and proceeded to dispose of it in short and well-advised sips. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • Topsy was soon a noted character in the establishment. Her talent for every species of drollery, grimace, and mimicry,—for dancing, tumbling, climbing, singing, whistling, imitating every sound that hit her fancy,—seemed inexhaustible. In her play-hours, she invariably had every child in the establishment at her heels, open-mouthed with admiration and wonder,—not excepting Miss Eva, who appeared to [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • The singer appeared to make up the song to his own pleasure, generally hitting on rhyme, without much attempt at reason; and the party took up the chorus, at intervals, (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [ 1 ] _Hamlet_, Act I, scene 1, lines 115-116 And, therefore, their all hitting upon this is a striking fact in pneumatology, which we recommend to the attention of spiritual media generally. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • Woo. Oh! Tequila. That hits different. It's nice, right? Yeah. So Julia, what do you do for work ? (The Compatriots)
  • - All right, hit me. - Condition one: you have to think (The Million Dollar Bet)
  • Sometimes it just hits you when you 're hopeless. [sobbing] (Turtle Tale)
  • Does he hit you ? Just that one time. They say if a man hits you once, there's always another time. (Sweet Dreams)
  • Now she regrets her rude behavior Let's go before the storm hits (Magudam)
  • - Hey, Karthik, she's hitting us ! - Idiots, stop. - Hey, wait ! Wait ! - Why are you hitting ? (#AAY)
  • Does it hurt, Chetta ? Oh, like she cares. He got hit with a laptop. It will surely hurt, right ? (Nunakuzhi)
  • the kid had hit written all over him. (Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties)