Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to raft
Participle: rafted
Gerund: rafting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | raft |
| you | raft |
| he;she;it | rafts |
| we | raft |
| you | raft |
| they | raft |
Perfect
| I | have rafted |
| you | have rafted |
| he;she;it | has rafted |
| we | have rafted |
| you | have rafted |
| they | have rafted |
Past
| I | rafted |
| you | rafted |
| he;she;it | rafted |
| we | rafted |
| you | rafted |
| they | rafted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rafted |
| you | had rafted |
| he;she;it | had rafted |
| we | had rafted |
| you | had rafted |
| they | had rafted |
Future
| I | will raft |
| you | will raft |
| he;she;it | will raft |
| we | will raft |
| you | will raft |
| they | will raft |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rafted |
| you | will have rafted |
| he;she;it | will have rafted |
| we | will have rafted |
| you | will have rafted |
| they | will have rafted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | raft |
| you | raft |
| he;she;it | raft |
| we | raft |
| you | raft |
| they | raft |
Perfect
| I | have rafted |
| you | have rafted |
| he;she;it | have rafted |
| we | have rafted |
| you | have rafted |
| they | have rafted |
Imperfect
| I | rafted |
| you | rafted |
| he;she;it | rafted |
| we | rafted |
| you | rafted |
| they | rafted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rafted |
| you | had rafted |
| he;she;it | had rafted |
| we | had rafted |
| you | had rafted |
| they | had rafted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would raft |
| you | would raft |
| he;she;it | would raft |
| we | would raft |
| you | would raft |
| they | would raft |
Perfect
| I | would have rafted |
| you | would have rafted |
| he;she;it | would have rafted |
| we | would have rafted |
| you | would have rafted |
| they | would have rafted |
Imperative
| you | raft |
| we | Let's raft |
| you | raft |
Verbs conjugated like 'raft'
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 'raft'
craft,
draft,
graft,
haft,
maft,
raff,
rant,
rapt,
rat,
rift,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Sample Sentences
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For timber I imported pine logs from Manchuria, rafted them two hundred miles down the Yalu River, three hundred miles over the Yellow Sea, and twenty miles up the Tatung River, where a thirty-five-foot tide lifted the consignment to Pyongyang. [1969, Stella Parker Peterson, “Growing Pains”, in It Came in Handy, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 83:]
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The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls. [2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005, page 11:]