hit – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to hit sb up
Participle: hit sb up
Gerund: hitting sb up

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of hit

Indicative

Present

I	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
he;she;it	hits sb up
we	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
they	hit sb up

Perfect

I	have hit sb up
you	have hit sb up
he;she;it	has hit sb up
we	have hit sb up
you	have hit sb up
they	have hit sb up

Past

I	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
he;she;it	hit sb up
we	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
they	hit sb up

Pluperfect

I	had hit sb up
you	had hit sb up
he;she;it	had hit sb up
we	had hit sb up
you	had hit sb up
they	had hit sb up

Future

I	will hit sb up
you	will hit sb up
he;she;it	will hit sb up
we	will hit sb up
you	will hit sb up
they	will hit sb up

Future Perfect

I	will have hit sb up
you	will have hit sb up
he;she;it	will have hit sb up
we	will have hit sb up
you	will have hit sb up
they	will have hit sb up

Subjunctive

Present

I	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
he;she;it	hit sb up
we	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
they	hit sb up

Perfect

I	have hit sb up
you	have hit sb up
he;she;it	have hit sb up
we	have hit sb up
you	have hit sb up
they	have hit sb up

Imperfect

I	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
he;she;it	hit sb up
we	hit sb up
you	hit sb up
they	hit sb up

Pluperfect

I	had hit sb up
you	had hit sb up
he;she;it	had hit sb up
we	had hit sb up
you	had hit sb up
they	had hit sb up

Conditional

Present

I	would hit sb up
you	would hit sb up
he;she;it	would hit sb up
we	would hit sb up
you	would hit sb up
they	would hit sb up

Perfect

I	would have hit sb up
you	would have hit sb up
he;she;it	would have hit sb up
we	would have hit sb up
you	would have hit sb up
they	would have hit sb up

Imperative

you	hit sb up
we	Let's hit sb up
you	hit sb up

Indicative

Present

I	am hitting sb up
you	are hitting sb up
he;she;it	is hitting sb up
we	are hitting sb up
you	are hitting sb up
they	are hitting sb up

Perfect

I	have been hitting sb up
you	have been hitting sb up
he;she;it	has been hitting sb up
we	have been hitting sb up
you	have been hitting sb up
they	have been hitting sb up

Past

I	was hitting sb up
you	were hitting sb up
he;she;it	was hitting sb up
we	were hitting sb up
you	were hitting sb up
they	were hitting sb up

Pluperfect

I	had been hitting sb up
you	had been hitting sb up
he;she;it	had been hitting sb up
we	had been hitting sb up
you	had been hitting sb up
they	had been hitting sb up

Future

I	will be hitting sb up
you	will be hitting sb up
he;she;it	will be hitting sb up
we	will be hitting sb up
you	will be hitting sb up
they	will be hitting sb up

Future Perfect

I	will have been hitting sb up
you	will have been hitting sb up
he;she;it	will have been hitting sb up
we	will have been hitting sb up
you	will have been hitting sb up
they	will have been hitting sb up

Conditional

Present

I	would be hitting sb up
you	would be hitting sb up
he;she;it	would be hitting sb up
we	would be hitting sb up
you	would be hitting sb up
they	would be hitting sb up

Perfect

I	would have been hitting sb up
you	would have been hitting sb up
he;she;it	would have been hitting sb up
we	would have been hitting sb up
you	would have been hitting sb up
they	would have been hitting sb up

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

Phrasal Verbs

~ back, ~ somebody for something, ~ it off, ~ on somebody, ~ on something, ~ upon something, ~ out, ~ up, ~ up somebody, ~ somebody up, ~ somebody with something,

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)

hit – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of hit

Nominal Forms

Cognates

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Imperative

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Perfect

Past

Pluperfect

Future

Future Perfect

Conditional

Present

Perfect

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'hit'

Verbs similar to 'hit'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Verbs referencing "hit"

Sample Sentences