Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to short
Participle: shorted
Gerund: shorting
Indicative
Present
| I | short |
| you | short |
| he;she;it | shorts |
| we | short |
| you | short |
| they | short |
Perfect
| I | have shorted |
| you | have shorted |
| he;she;it | has shorted |
| we | have shorted |
| you | have shorted |
| they | have shorted |
Past
| I | shorted |
| you | shorted |
| he;she;it | shorted |
| we | shorted |
| you | shorted |
| they | shorted |
Pluperfect
| I | had shorted |
| you | had shorted |
| he;she;it | had shorted |
| we | had shorted |
| you | had shorted |
| they | had shorted |
Future
| I | will short |
| you | will short |
| he;she;it | will short |
| we | will short |
| you | will short |
| they | will short |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shorted |
| you | will have shorted |
| he;she;it | will have shorted |
| we | will have shorted |
| you | will have shorted |
| they | will have shorted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | short |
| you | short |
| he;she;it | short |
| we | short |
| you | short |
| they | short |
Perfect
| I | have shorted |
| you | have shorted |
| he;she;it | have shorted |
| we | have shorted |
| you | have shorted |
| they | have shorted |
Imperfect
| I | shorted |
| you | shorted |
| he;she;it | shorted |
| we | shorted |
| you | shorted |
| they | shorted |
Pluperfect
| I | had shorted |
| you | had shorted |
| he;she;it | had shorted |
| we | had shorted |
| you | had shorted |
| they | had shorted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would short |
| you | would short |
| he;she;it | would short |
| we | would short |
| you | would short |
| they | would short |
Perfect
| I | would have shorted |
| you | would have shorted |
| he;she;it | would have shorted |
| we | would have shorted |
| you | would have shorted |
| they | would have shorted |
Imperative
| you | short |
| we | Let's short |
| you | short |
Verbs conjugated like 'short'
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 'short'
shart,
shirt,
shoot,
shore,
shot,
shout,
snort,
sort,
sport,
abort,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *skertaną
4. Proto-Germanic *skurtaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *skurt
6. Old English sċort
7. Middle English schort
8. English short
9. From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Doublet of shirt, skirt, and curt.
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. See more at shirt. See: Scots '
short', Old Norse '
skorta', Danish '
skorte'.
Verbs referencing "short"
Finnish with old forms
shortata, Chinese, Mandarin
秀逗, Maltese
xxortja, Sranan
syatu, Danish
skorte.
Sample Sentences
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You should short the poles of the capacitor to discharge it before you work on it.
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This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
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It's hard now. The NEA, state and city budgets are messed up and it's the small artists like us that are the ones getting shorted. [1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, quoting Brian Freeman, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 9:]