Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quern
Participle: querned
Gerund: querning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | quern |
| you | quern |
| he;she;it | querns |
| we | quern |
| you | quern |
| they | quern |
Perfect
| I | have querned |
| you | have querned |
| he;she;it | has querned |
| we | have querned |
| you | have querned |
| they | have querned |
Past
| I | querned |
| you | querned |
| he;she;it | querned |
| we | querned |
| you | querned |
| they | querned |
Pluperfect
| I | had querned |
| you | had querned |
| he;she;it | had querned |
| we | had querned |
| you | had querned |
| they | had querned |
Future
| I | will quern |
| you | will quern |
| he;she;it | will quern |
| we | will quern |
| you | will quern |
| they | will quern |
Future Perfect
| I | will have querned |
| you | will have querned |
| he;she;it | will have querned |
| we | will have querned |
| you | will have querned |
| they | will have querned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quern |
| you | quern |
| he;she;it | quern |
| we | quern |
| you | quern |
| they | quern |
Perfect
| I | have querned |
| you | have querned |
| he;she;it | have querned |
| we | have querned |
| you | have querned |
| they | have querned |
Imperfect
| I | querned |
| you | querned |
| he;she;it | querned |
| we | querned |
| you | querned |
| they | querned |
Pluperfect
| I | had querned |
| you | had querned |
| he;she;it | had querned |
| we | had querned |
| you | had querned |
| they | had querned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quern |
| you | would quern |
| he;she;it | would quern |
| we | would quern |
| you | would quern |
| they | would quern |
Perfect
| I | would have querned |
| you | would have querned |
| he;she;it | would have querned |
| we | would have querned |
| you | would have querned |
| they | would have querned |
Imperative
| you | quern |
| we | Let's quern |
| you | quern |
Verbs conjugated like 'quern'
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 'quern'
queen,
querk,
querl,
query,
burn,
dern,
ern,
gern,
gurn,
kern,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Swedish kvarn, Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).
Sample Sentences
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He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers. [1979, Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, published 2011, unnumbered page:]
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For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning, leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth. [2000, Tina Tuohy, “9: Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User”, in Moira Donald, Linda Hurcombe, editors, Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, page 141:]
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Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread. [2009, Greer Gilman, Unleaving: Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 262:]
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From the osteology, a supposed link between squatting facets and prehistoric women—and by extension the interpretation that women were engaged in querning activity—is not demonstrated for the Iron Age: of the thirteen with the complaint in Deal, Kent, 62 per cent were male (Anderson 1995: table 29). [2011, Rachel Pope, Ian Ralston, “17: Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent”, in Tom Moore, Thomas Hugh Moore, X. L. Armada, editors, Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide, page 401:]