Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hop the twig
Participle: hopped the twig
Gerund: hopping the twig
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hop the twig |
| you | hop the twig |
| he;she;it | hops the twig |
| we | hop the twig |
| you | hop the twig |
| they | hop the twig |
Perfect
| I | have hopped the twig |
| you | have hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | has hopped the twig |
| we | have hopped the twig |
| you | have hopped the twig |
| they | have hopped the twig |
Past
| I | hopped the twig |
| you | hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | hopped the twig |
| we | hopped the twig |
| you | hopped the twig |
| they | hopped the twig |
Pluperfect
| I | had hopped the twig |
| you | had hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | had hopped the twig |
| we | had hopped the twig |
| you | had hopped the twig |
| they | had hopped the twig |
Future
| I | will hop the twig |
| you | will hop the twig |
| he;she;it | will hop the twig |
| we | will hop the twig |
| you | will hop the twig |
| they | will hop the twig |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hopped the twig |
| you | will have hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | will have hopped the twig |
| we | will have hopped the twig |
| you | will have hopped the twig |
| they | will have hopped the twig |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hop the twig |
| you | hop the twig |
| he;she;it | hop the twig |
| we | hop the twig |
| you | hop the twig |
| they | hop the twig |
Perfect
| I | have hopped the twig |
| you | have hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | have hopped the twig |
| we | have hopped the twig |
| you | have hopped the twig |
| they | have hopped the twig |
Imperfect
| I | hopped the twig |
| you | hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | hopped the twig |
| we | hopped the twig |
| you | hopped the twig |
| they | hopped the twig |
Pluperfect
| I | had hopped the twig |
| you | had hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | had hopped the twig |
| we | had hopped the twig |
| you | had hopped the twig |
| they | had hopped the twig |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hop the twig |
| you | would hop the twig |
| he;she;it | would hop the twig |
| we | would hop the twig |
| you | would hop the twig |
| they | would hop the twig |
Perfect
| I | would have hopped the twig |
| you | would have hopped the twig |
| he;she;it | would have hopped the twig |
| we | would have hopped the twig |
| you | would have hopped the twig |
| they | would have hopped the twig |
Imperative
| you | hop the twig |
| we | Let's hop the twig |
| you | hop the twig |
Verbs conjugated like 'hop'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hop'
bop,
chop,
cop,
dop,
hap,
hep,
hip,
hob,
hod,
hoe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
hoppian "to spring, dance," from P.Gmc.
*khupnojanan (cf. O.N.
hoppa, Du.
huppen, Ger.
hüpfen "to hop"). Slang noun sense of "informal dancing party" is from 1731 (defined by Johnson as "a place where meaner people dance").
2. From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”).
3. Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”). See: Old English '
hoppian', Proto-Germanic '
*huppōną', Dutch '
hoppen', German, old spelling '
hopfen', Danish '
hoppe', Swedish '
hoppa', Icelandic '
hoppa'.
Verbs referencing "hop"
German, old spelling
hüpfen, Danish
hoppe, Dutch
hoppen, Dutch
huppen, German, old spelling
humpeln, Dutch
hippen, Bavarian hupfa.
Sample Sentences
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When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail. [1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:]
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Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
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The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
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I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
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He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
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He hopped a train to California.
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They hop the curb and cut their engines. [2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:]
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As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it. [2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:]
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We were party-hopping all weekend.
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bar-hopping
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We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
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We hopped on the freeway heading to LA and I looked over at the dashboard and saw the needle back on “E” and I told the guy, “Hey! You going to make it with the gas you got?" [2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285:]
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Juliet shook her head as she hopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails. [2016, A.P. Jensen, Closure:]
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Spangler hopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back. [2018, Sean Grigsby, Daughters of Forgotten Light:]
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She hopped on the computer and typed away, going back and forth between Mark's fake I.D., the deposit slip and the computer screen. [2020, Michael Hewes, The Milk Wagon:]
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The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…] [a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “(please specify the title)”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:]